Name of presentation Month 2009

Open Education?

Tim KastelleUQ Business School

Panel on Open Educational Content & Open Source Models

4 November 2009

Information wants to be free.-Stewart Brand

Record Label Revenues in Yellow

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061124155840.html

But aren’t we in theinformation business too?

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand,

information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

-Stewart Brand

AggregateFilter

Connect

We are not just pushinginformation – we are trying

to get ideas to spread

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

-Tim O’Reilly

People pay for this – WHY?

Ideas

• Our task is to get our ideas to spread

• Open access to our ideas is a core component of this strategy

• The way to make this strategy work is to focus on the three key activities: aggregate, filter and connect

Thank you!

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