Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 23, 2008 1:18 PM EDT
ZDNet Asia; By Andrew Donoghue
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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the Internet. The backers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, announced on Tuesday, said the initiative is designed to echo the disruptive effect that open source had on the proprietary software world by opening up the development and distribution of educational materials.

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