Using the wikemedia software, California Department of Education is saving tons of money by using open knowledge. They provide with opensource textbooks to solve multiple problems they had in the past.
This is a GREAT lesson to Mexican Education Department, which still lack of sustainable...
An assistant state prosecutor in Mexico was detained for questioning in an investigation into the killing of an opposition politician and four others, and the passing of information to drug traffickers.
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The Mexican government will expand its anti-drug raids to two states across the border from Texas, deploying more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors and federal police, officials said Sunday.
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So it is 3.27 am, and i cant get some sleep.
The boys went to akbal lounge and i stay home because i wasn’t feeling that very good. Now that i feel better is a bit late to catch up. So since there is no one to talk to i began to do some research on current social networking...
Experts say a moth whose larvae threaten to decimate Mexico’s emblematic flat-leafed cactus has invaded the country’s mainland for the first time, something authorities have feared for decades.
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This weekedn i started to read two books:
Information Revultion in Developing Countries
Wikinomics
Since I had to study and work on a project, i haven’t finished, but here is what i’ve learned from these books until this poin:
The first one is the best definition of...
Today y learned about the not that new eduCommons platform to implement open course ware at your very own school (hey anyone at ITESM reading this ?)
I’m personally interested in this platform because it can help leverage the development activites around the courseware...
Finally we got out the first presentation of the Ukini Project
For all of you guys that have been wanting to ask about Ukini, but where agraid to get beaten up by a million web coding killer ninja monkeys from outer space !
Now be warned this is a Generic Spanish Version,
English...
So it turns that the french goverment will give 175,000 USB sticks to high schools students in Paris. Such Sticks will be stuffed with Opensource Software. They will invest aprox US$ 3.4 million dollars.
“Its a way to reduce the digital divide” said spokesman Jean-Baptiste...
I’m telling you guys !
Just give those children access to information and they will make magic !
This is the story of how 5 mexican kids took on the best of MIT on a undewater robot competition.
I’m skipping and the lyrics and leave the poetry to the Wire Magazine Article...