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Contents 1 Lab details 2 Session 1: Introductions and goal-setting 3 Session 2: Publishing on the commons 4 Session 3:Open Content, Open Translation: Multilingual Solutions 5 Session 4: Community-centric publishing successes and challenges 6 Session 5: Developing a 'How to' on opening public sector and cultural heritage information 7 Session 6: An Action Agenda for Open Publishing

[edit] Lab details

Facilitator: Rebecca Kahn

Room Allocation: Room 206

Media Allocation: LCD projector, Screen, podium, sound adjustment table, 2 wireless mics (handheld), 2 wired mic, 2 mic stand (floor), 2 mic stand (table), 2 tables, 2 white boards, 2 presentation panels (to hang stuff). Click here to see a picture of the floor plan and tech equipment in the room.

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TAG: iSummit08 LCGC

[edit] Session 1: Introductions and goal-setting

This session will introduce track participants to the current Local Context Global Commons project, a project by writers and activists in South Africa, Brazil and India to highlight local commons initiatives and trends. Participants will then have the opportunity to present their own local or comparative work and insights that they have had into how the commons relates in particular local contexts.

[edit] Session 2: Publishing on the commons

This session looks at what information and research is being currently produced on the commons, what standards are being developed for wide-scale production of research (LCGC, ccWiki, Overmundo, Global Voices, KEI Online, Open Democracy), how community-centric these models are and where the gaps are.

[edit] Session 3:Open Content, Open Translation: Multilingual Solutions

Using the experiences of the Global Voices team as case studies, this session will look at the challenges of working in the multi-lingual Internet both in terms of content and language. Session will also use time to work on creating useful tools and strategies for orgs who wish to translate or use translated content, and pair projects who have expertise and experience with those who need them.

[edit] Session 4: Community-centric publishing successes and challenges

This session will inspire participants about successes and challenges in community-centric publishing using a variety of case studies (including 5 Minutes to Midnight, the Pattern Wiki, Connexions, Pratham Books, First Mondays and CABACA) and examining what the commons success factors and points of failure were and how the gaps from the previous session can be related.

[edit] Session 5: Developing a 'How to' on opening public sector and cultural heritage information

An examination of several case-studies from Amsterdam, Australia and Europe where State-Owned Memory Institutions and government have opened up access to PSI. Short presentations on the strategies employed in case-studies will lead into a discussion on what key policies and partnerships were in place (nationally/locally) that made this process possible. Participants will then look at these policies and partnerships and work towards developing strategies and plans for countries where this process of opening up and unlocking needs to take place, bearing in mind the unique local barriers and local contexts.

[edit] Session 6: An Action Agenda for Open Publishing

Developing the Checklist on Open Publishing