A group of Filipino professionals and social entrepreneurs are collaborating on promoting alternative licensing, free and open source software, open education, and free culture to benefit public school children in the country. As the Internet continues to revolutionize information in astounding ways, the group initiated by Greg Moreno seeks to benefit from the deluge of human expressions propagated by cyberspace — music, video, photographs, blogs, online journals, books, presentations, documents, artistic, literary, educational, technical, and scientific creations. Backed up by the Philippine Commons, there is hope to bridge the great divide when it comes to sharing of ideas and information that would eventually be beneficial to the Philippine public school system.
It is a known fact that while the rest of the world is making headway to ensure their young people are able to utilize the benefits of the new global media, impoverished school children in the Philippines share taterred text books year after year after year, in a seeming perpetual state of backwardness.
Check out Bayanihan books google groups or log on to Greg Moreno’s site for more updates. This idea is fast catching up and getting the support it needs from Filipinos in PI and abroad.
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