Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

When I worked for the government I proposed on a number of occasions that we provide national technology support services for various educational functions - everything from collaborative authoring platforms to discussion forms to videoconferencing. These proposals never went anywhere (*sigh*) but we see a version of the same sort of thing in this post focusing on the now-necessary topic of digital sovereignty. "I think our conception of digital sovereignty needs to be broader - taking from the European Union's Berlin Declaration focus on everyone: for individuals, businesses and institutions... The B.C. Open Collection demonstrates a Canadian model for curating, adapting and reusing publicly supported open content, while Germany's openCode provides an operational example of public-sector software discovery, reuse and collaborative development."

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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