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

Wed Aug 24 13:50:52 UTC 2016

Dear all

As we are updating our around the world series for the OKI blog http://education.okfn.org/world/ and the global south is quite under-represented, I would like to invite you to send us your posts about the current situation of open education in your countries (about 800 words). Of course, our friend for the global north, west, east and not-yet-so-independent ones are also invited, we would love to add the missing countries to the list, and update the ones already listed.

If you are interested into publishing a post with us, have a look to the ones listed, and send us a doc. - odt with some (Creative Commons licensed) images to okfn.edu at gmail.com

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We are publishing a series of blog posts looking at open education initiatives in different countries. If you would like to contribute a post offering a view on your ...

Kind regards from sunny London

Javiera

Dr. Javiera Atenas
SHEA Fellow
UCL School of Management
Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT
London
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Sent: 23 August 2016 15:26:39
To: Werner Westermann
Cc: OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams; Open Educaton @ OKFN; OER-DISCUSS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; OER Forum; International OER Advocacy; Mikhail Volchek; Open Policy Network
Subject: Re: [Open-education] right to education in the global south: meet Mikhail Volchak

and here my report from a couple of years ago.
the copyright part is still valid, and most of the rest is http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1549922

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Werner Westermann <wernerwestermannj at gmail.com<mailto:wernerwestermannj at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto:cable at creativecommons.org>>:
Greetings Open Education Friends:

I’d like to introduce Mikhail Volchak. He is a researcher at Essex University (UK) and is a member of Creative Commons Belarus.

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.

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.

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<http://go-gn.net/>

<http://go-gn.net/>
... and connect with the researchers at: http://roer.cemca.org.in/

Thank you for connecting with Mikhail at: fannrm at gmail.com<mailto:fannrm at gmail.com>

Warmest regards,

Cable

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