Fellows
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Steve Vosloo
Steve Vosloo is 21st Century Learning Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. He believes mobile phones, games and digital media are the future of Africa's education.
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Philipp Schmidt
Philipp Schmidt focuses on the future of higher education. He is co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University, using open educational resources to create communities for self learners.
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Mark Horner
Mark Horner works in the area of Open and Collaborative Resources and believes in the liberation of information and supporting education in South Africa.
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Steve Song
Steve Song works in the area of telecommunications. He provides thought leadership on access to communications infrastructure and its impact on innovation and growth.
Projects
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Village Telco
The ‘Village Telco’ project is developing a low-cost, scalable, standards-based WiFi telephone company toolkit using open source software and...
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P2PU
Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls & gives learners recognition for their achievements.
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OpenPress
Our vision for OpenPress is to provide a web-service for the aggregation & dissemination of open educational resources.
Project Fellow: Mark Horner -
m4Lit
If mobile phones are a legitimate alternative and compliment to printed literature then their potential for increasing youth literacy practices of reading and...
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FullMarks
FullMarks is a project designed to complement Mark Horner's other Fellowship projects, the suite of which are aimed at providing tools...
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Open Spectrum
Access to spectrum in South Africa now represents the single biggest obstacle to competitive participation in the telecoms marketplace.
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Siyavula
Siyavula is a project to support teachers to work collaboratively to share and develop openly licensed resources under...
Project Fellow: Mark Horner
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Smack into the middle of summer break in the global North (and beautiful sunny winter days in Cape Town) comes the P2PU Call for Courses. We already asked for your ideas on Webdeveloper courses for…
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m4Lit on the BBC (again!) and at the World Bank
July 19, 2010
June was a good month for m4Lit. It were featured on the BBC for the second time: I was interviewed on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet (listen live). The episode featured other…
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