[wos] open source contents - milan, december 9

[Pol]

Press release. 


'Open Source Contents'
'Academic and educational materials on the internet
 according to new methodologies'

december 9 2003 

Sala Napoleonica di Palazzo Greppi
Milan State University - via S. Antonio 12, Milano , Italy 

Free access 
Registration recommended

Organized by the AICA OpenSource working group - http://linfe.it
on occasion of 

- World Summit on the information Society
  ONU ITU, Géneve, december 10-12, 2003 http://www.itu.int/wsis/

- World Forum on Communication Rights, 
  Géneve, december 11, 2003 - http://www.communicationrights.org


The growing interest in the open source ideation, production and
distribution of content-rich objects shows that such methodologies could
play a relevant role to increase quality and to spur rearrangement of
ICT based educational activities and to foster sharing in the world of
scientific research at broad.

It is noteworthly that, while reproduction and modification of objects
are 'as free and open as possible', authorship can be preserved and
reliability of sources can be checked in the open source environment, as
effectively as in the traditional commercial custom.

Prominent structural features underlying the open source phenomenon will
be stressed at the conference and a few important projects currently
underway, where professional skills and expertise are conveyed across
geographical and institutional borders, will be described.

The conference is aimed both at scholars in ICT-based didactics and at
teachers and students, as producers and users of digital contents.


Please download the preliminary programme:
http://linfe.it/AICA-OpenSource/localdocs/opencontents-dec2003/brochure-en.pdf

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