[Open-education] US: [OER-advocacy] OER Congressional Briefing - similar event in Brazil, and its history

Wed Mar 2 13:48:50 UTC 2016

Nicole – this is very interesting! In fact Brazil has a track record of this sort. 
I dug out from my files some information on what happened at their Congress in 2008 – in those days it was distance education and e-learning

Loosely translated from an email archive at https://www.listas.unicamp.br/pipermail/ead-l/2008-June/072447.html it states:House Committee on Education and Culture of  promotes International Seminars

With the theme "Education in the XXI Century: Success Models" this event 
will take place on June 16 2008 with the presence of international authorities
 Sponsored by the Committee on Education and Culture of the House of Representatives, 
in partnership with the National Confederation of Commerce System-SESC-SENAC, 
with the support of the Brazilian Association of Distance Education (ABED) and Parliamentary Front of Distance Education, the International Seminar on Distance Education will be held on June 16, from 9 am to 18:30 in the Auditorium Nereu Ramos, the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia.I know, since I was there! The seminar timetable is attached.

I am sure some Brazilian experts can shed more light on this such as Professor Litto who was the organiser.

Paul

From: Nicole Allen 
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 12:47 PM
To: Paul Bacsich Sero 
Cc: Open Education WG List 
Subject: Re: [Open-education] US: [OER-advocacy] OER Congressional Briefing - overview

Hi Paul, thanks for forwarding. I actually know of an example: Last August, the OER community in Brazil organized an excellent day-long symposium for their Congress in Brasilia. It was a bit different than our US event yesterday: it was much larger and higher profile, and included a series of panels and speakers with many politicians from across government. They brought in several speakers from abroad, including myself, Hal Plotkin (former Obama Administration official), and Jan Gondol (at the time worked with the Slovak government). 

Here’s an English translation of the letter sent out to members of the Brazilian Congress after the event. There’s not a lot else in English, but there was great press coverage in Portuguese. Here’s one of the best articles, which has a couple video interviews in English: http://www.ebc.com.br/educacao/2015/09/rea-entenda-o-que-sao-os-recursos-educacionais-abertos

Nicole

Nicole Allen
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  On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:30 AM, Paul Bacsich Sero <paul.bacsich at sero.co.uk> wrote:

  Overview of the OER briefing for staff of the US congress.

  We see very little sign of this in other countries.  Unless our readership knows better?

  Paul

  Paul Bacsich
  Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/ 
  Senior Consultant, SeroHE - http://www.serohe.co.uk 

  From: Nicole Allen 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 4:07 AM
  To: OER Advocacy Coalition 
  Subject: [OER-advocacy] OER Congressional Briefing

  Hi all,

  Reporting back on today's highly successful OER briefing on Capitol Hill for Congressional staff. The event was sponsored by SPARC, CCSSO, SETDA, CoSN and the Congressional E-Learning and Open Source Caucuses, and featured remarks from Congressman Jared Polis, Mike Carroll from Creative Commons US, Ethan Senack from USPIRG and Val Emerich from the Maryland State Department of Education. The room was packed with staff from several dozen Congressional offices, industry and non profit groups, and several staff from the Obama Administration.

  SPARC post here: http://sparcopen.org/news/2016/oer-briefing-2016/
  CCUS post here: http://us.creativecommons.org/archives/1134
  Please help share!

  Briefings are a highly effective tactic for building visibility for an issue in DC, educating a large number of offices at once, and giving supportive offices a chance to self-identify. However briefings can only happen when sponsored by a member of Congress, so we are fortunate to have a number of champions who made this event possible. 

  Finally I want to give a shout out to Reg, whose team did all of the heavy lifting to plan the event. 

  Best,
  Nicole 

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