OpenContent. Open Food Facts. Open Source Guide to Catalyzing 21st Century Movements. Open Culture. Open Access Knowledge. Open Source Pharma - Home. An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web. The inventor of the world wide web believes an online "Magna Carta" is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new rules were needed to protect the "open, neutral" system. Speaking exactly 25 years after he wrote the first draft of the first proposal for what would become the world wide web, the computer scientist said: "We need a global constitution – a bill of rights.
" Berners-Lee's Magna Carta plan is to be taken up as part of an initiative called "the web we want", which calls on people to generate a digital bill of rights in each country – a statement of principles he hopes will be supported by public institutions, government officials and corporations. Principles of privacy, free speech and responsible anonymity would be explored in the Magna Carta scheme. Safecast. Space for transparency. Free public domain audiobooks.
Open Access Publishing: Predatory Publishers. The LINGUIST List hosts over 10,000 books and almost 900 publishers from around the world.
Linguistic Analyst and Publications Editor, Justin Petro, has been with the Publications team here at ILIT for three years, and is a pedestal of academic integrity for The LINGUIST List. On August 29th 2013, Justin gave a spirited talk about Open Access publishing models and some of the pitfalls and abuses the modern world has imposed on them. Modern academic culture is faced with the dilemma of an enduring need for information constrained by business models. Legitimate scientific research articles are typically shrouded in access fees, which can hinder other researchers from disseminating the work through citation while expanding their own body of work.
A major downside to this system is also the lack of substance in abstracts, requiring researchers to pay access fees just to ascertain the articles relevance. The premise of Open Access has two crucial components: Open Access_Predatory Publishers. OpenWatch. Openmedia.ca - Engage, Educate, Empower. Global Voices · Citizen media stories from Technology for Transparency Network. First-ever web page reactivated on 20th anniversary of open World Wide Web.
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has republished the world’s first web page to celebrate the 20th anniversary of free public access to the World Wide Web. The page is online here. A CERN employee, Tim Berners-Lee, created the first website in 1989 as part of an effort to facilitate information-sharing between physicists at institutions around the world.
On April 30, 1993, CERN made the World Wide Web available to the public on a royalty-free basis.
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