Software Freedom Day in Pretoria was attended by a variety of characters, from geeks, to students, to government officials and non-profit organization representatives, to open content advocates like Kerryn McKay and Andrew Rens from the African Commons Project, and myself.
The event was held at the high-tech Department of Science and Technology building. The morning’s […]

On day 1 of the Highway Africa conference, which celebrated its 10th anniversary, a discussion about the ‘commons’ was held which looked at intellectual property rights, access to knowledge, alternative licensing and FLOSS.
The panel that presented the above concepts consisted of Vera Franz from OSI, Tutwane Letshwiti from the University of Botswana, Kerryn McKay representing […]

The first ccSalon in South Africa proved to be less of a techno chat-fest and more of a learning experience for all involved.

You never really know what kind of people are going to turn up for a Creative Commons shindig.
It could be a collection of techno-experts (we don’t call them geeks in this community, […]