We have been working with international initiatives: Lemelson Foundation RAMP, OLPC, SFD, Google SoC, NESsT, Ashoka, BiD Foundation and with local organizations: NutriProSalud (Health), Quantum Solutions (Business Incubation), CIDE-PUCP (Business Incubation), GRUPO-PUCP (Apropriate Technologies), Telefonica (Rural Telecommunications), CIDESI (Assistive Technologies), CODESI (Digital Agenda)
--- El jue 31-jul-08, Tim Hwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > De: Tim Hwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: [FC-discuss] FC Reaching Out To Development Communities? > A: [email protected] > Fecha: jueves, 31 julio, 2008, 11:55 pm > At least speaking from Harvard FC's experience and some > of the talking > I've been doing with other SFC groups, I've been > thinking lately that, > strategically, one really promising thing to pursue much > more > aggressively in the future is to build up partnerships with > pre-existing communities that are already poised to be part > of Free > Culture without actually being part of it. As a whole, > chapters (not > surprisingly) seem to have created good outreach to the > techie world, > but on a whole we've got less consistent relationships > with the world > outside of that. > > I think that the international development community might > be great > space for this kind of teaming up on projects. They're > plugged in with > a massive ecosystem of organizations who are dealing with a > bunch of > intellectual property issues (pharmaceuticals, technology > transfer, > cultural product distribution) where restrictiveness is > causing real > problems. These are natural allies, and I think Free > Culture can play > a big role A) as a connector to the tech world and B) in > helping these > groups join up with Free Culture more generally. > > In any case, been scheming up some stuff for HFC in the > fall. I know > we already have some existing connects with Gavin and the > UAEM > (http://www.essentialmedicine.org/) folks -- but wanted to > see on the > list if any of the the chapters had any protips/experiences > to impart > or had ideas on FC-friendly orgs worth getting in touch > with/teaming > up with. Alternatively, if you want to join up with us on > projects in > this vein next year -- let me know! > > Best, > Tim > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! MTV Blog & Rock >¡Cuéntanos tu historia, inspira una canción y gánate un viaje a los Premios MTV! Participa aquí http://mtvla.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
