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Science For All: Free Text Books

WorldChanging Team

This article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Five years ago, Mark Horner had just finished giving a talk on wave phenomena at a South African science fair when a group of young scholars from a poor rural high school came up to him, asking him to proof the notes they'd taken by hand in a notebook. Mark was stunned by the comprehensive diligence reflected in the notes, and asked why the students were so...

Brazil's Free Software Project and the Politics of Technology

WorldChanging Team

News of Brazil’s Free Software Project and national IT policy sparked thoughts about the future of open-access, open-source and the politics of technology in general, which Alex argues in his article The Brasilia Consensus, Free Software and Gilberto Gil's Dreadlocks, are inextricably linked: The idea that you can "take the politics" out of subjects like technology, development, trade regimes and intellectual property systems is, of course, patently absurd. There's practically nothing...

South Africa's Free High School Science Texts

Alex Steffen

Five years ago, Mark Horner had just finished giving a talk on wave phenomena at a South African science fair when a group of young scholars from a poor rural high school came up to him, asking him to proof the notes they'd taken by hand in a notebook. Mark was stunned by the comprehensive diligence reflected in the notes, and asked why the students were so attentive. They explained that they had no science texts in their school and that this notebook would be the textbook for the rest of...

"We Are Winning!"

Alex Steffen

Bruce's latest Viridian note is too good not to republish in its entirety. I think we still have a ways to go before we can confidently declare victory (it is one thing to get people to agree that there's a problem, and quite another to get them to agree to tackle that problem with solutions of the proper magnitude), but nonetheless, it's sweet to see such a sea change in public opinion well under way. Here's Bruce: Viridian Note 00487: We Are Winning by Bruce Sterling Key concepts:...

Gilberto Gil

Jamais Cascio

We have a great deal of interest in Brazil around these parts, in part because of the approach the current leadership has taken to issues around economic development (c.f., "the Brasilia Consensus"), and in part because of the innovative approach the nation has adopted regarding FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software). While President Luiz Inacio da Silva, or "Lula", is rightly given credit for the former, his Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, has been a profound influence on the latter. Gil...

Retro: The Brasilia Consensus, Free Software and Gilberto Gil's Dreadlocks

Jamais Cascio

Of all of the Brazil-related issues we discuss, probably the one we get the most excited about is their strong and growing emphasis on the adoption of free -- as in libre -- software. There's a bit of standing up to the superpower in their love of the penguin (as shown by Lula's notorious snubbing of Bill Gates at the recent World Economic Forum), but also a recognition (especially shown by Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil) that the ability to see and change the source code for...

The Beijing Consensus

Alex Steffen

China's future is one of the big worldchanging wildcards, and so, not suprisingly, we've talked a lot about it. We've also written our share of posts about the Brasilia Consensus, the new model of development which emphasizes collaborative technologies, fair trade and South-South collaboration. So I'm not quite sure how we let the buzz-phrase the Beijing Consensus slip by us unnoticed, but we did. The phrase is Joshua Cooper Ramo's, coined to describe what he believes is yet a third model...

Is the Future Getting Better Fast Enough? (SxSW Footnotes)

Alex Steffen

Bruce Sterling and I will be having a keynote conversation tomorrow at South by Southwest. In preparation, we've been trading some email about the subjects most on our minds, touching base on how we each see the world unfolding these days. If you're looking for footnotes to our discussion, the list of topics and links I fired off (below) may at least provide an interesting introduction.

The Brasilia Consensus, Free Software and Gilberto Gil's Dreadlocks

Alex Steffen

We've written a ton about Brazil, and for good reason: while still dragging behind it dire legacies of poverty, violence and corruption, Lula's Brazil is plotting out what looks like the first genuinely 21st Century course for the developing world. And more and more people are noticing; most recently, Wired. In a new piece We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin, they discuss the explosion of open-source, open-access, copyleft approaches in Brazil: "Every license for Office plus Windows in...

Lula: Still Rocking?

Alex Steffen

We've written a lot about Lula and Brazil, and for good reason: Brazil is fast becoming a (if not the) center of innovation in the developing world. But how is Lula doing? The doctrinaire Left is calling him a sell-out, the fascistic Right is foaming at the mouth over his recent meeting with Fidel Castro, his alleged drinking problem has watered a thousand gossip columns, but the Guardian -- reflecting the global consensus -- says he's kicking butt: "When Brazilian president Luiz Ignacio...

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