since i understand open-source as “the” state of mind as the way to go, i’m very interested in what richard baraniuk told about open source education on ted. he is the founder of connexions, which i understand as an education material framework that contains purely creative commons licensed material.

so you’re allowed to “rip, mix and burn” the materials to your needs. this is the thing! open education. free information for all. cc even has a special deed for those open educational resources.

open access to information for everyone is a bit like what hans rosling asks for with his gapminder project that aims for removing old installed mindsets in our heads (i.e. developing and industrialized countries): (full) open access to the public funded information. it’s of course not so good for those who make much money with unbalanced information. with the numbers and with good produced and explained charts, all people can reduce the amount of intended (and unintended) misinformation and form a better educated society. mr. rosling keeps repeating the very positive words: the seemingly impossible is possible! we can have a good world!

going the global scope, there’s another page i recently found and that could be interconnected right here: worldchanging. good information compiled there. i heard about the earth whitness project from the founder of wc and i think it is a great idea.

and the last interconnection for today would be the ushahidi project, which is an open source reporting project that enables everyone to report. in times of unrealiable mass media reporting that could become a way to go. ushahidi is like the basic framework for a thing like the earth whitness project.

way to go. more to come. have a look at clay shirky´s talk about the impact that hits the “news” by twitter and co.