This post summarizes a webinar organized in response to two open books, one on distributing (and distributed) knowledge (212 page PDF), and the other on the politics of open infrastructures (388 page PDF) (which include the challenging argument that the internet infrastructure has never been open). Both take an explicitly international perspective, and the webinar reflects this, looking at conditions of access in war-torn regions like Ukraine and systematically underserved regions in Africa. The different cases return to a common theme: "openness is not enough" (which is fair enough, but I hearken to my own principle that nothing is ever 'enough'). That said, as noted here, "the Distributed University invites us to see higher education not as a collection of autonomous campuses, but as a network of interconnected educational, research, and infrastructural capacities in which equity and openness become foundational principles." The recording is available to view online, and the slides are available to download.
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