[Open-education] right to education in the global south: meet Mikhail Volchak

Tue Aug 23 14:18:57 UTC 2016

Hello Mikhail, regards from Chile.

Although not directly related to inhibited access to education due to
copyrght constraint, I urge you to review and take contact with ROER4D (
http://roer4d.org/) coordinators at the University of Cape Town, an
extensive research agenda (more than 25 projects in the same amount of
countries in SouthEast and Central Asia, Africa and Latin America) of
adoption and impact of OER use in the Global South (
http://roer4d.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ROER4D-Infographic-23.3.2015.jpg).
Its been a long work of "open research" which it should have outcomes soon,
not only reports but open data published, for example. It will be a main
contribution to OER and Open Education research.  The main ROER4D
coordinator is Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, whom I copy.

Best wishes on your work, hopefully it will diminish the existing asymmetry
of knowledge between developed/underserved countries.

Werner

2016-08-22 18:50 GMT-03:00 Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>:

> Greetings Open Education Friends:
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> I’d like to introduce Mikhail Volchak. He is a researcher at Essex
> University (UK) and is a member of Creative Commons Belarus.
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> Mikhail is working on his masters dissertation re: the right to education
> in the Global South and how traditional copyright is inhibiting access. He
> is trying to connect with people working on similar topics.
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> Mikhail asked that I forward this note:
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> I make research about right to education in the global South. The main
> points it will reveal: (1) what barriers are created by copyright on access
> to learning material; (2) what tools from international Human Right law can
> be used for protecting the access and (3) what are pluses and minuses of
> existing solutions.
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> I would like to communicate with researchers, activists, teachers,
> librarians from or who works with the issue in developing countries.
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> I also suggested, to Mikhail, that he might join: http://go-gn.net
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> <http://go-gn.net/>
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> ... and connect with the researchers at: http://roer.cemca.org.in/
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> Thank you for connecting with Mikhail at: fannrm at gmail.com
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> Warmest regards,
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> Cable
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