[p2p-research] P2PU: Sharing Nicely

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Paul, I will look into it,

Michel

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul D. Fernhout <
pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

> From a blog run by (Jan) Philipp Schmidt:
>  http://bokaap.net/about/
> """
> Very Short Bio
>  (Jan) Philipp Schmidt is Director and co-founder of the Peer 2 Peer
> University, the original free and open online university and based in Cape
> Town. He is a board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, and holds a
> Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship. He has implemented OpenCourseWare
> projects at the University of the Western Cape and the United Nations
> University MERIT. He is an open education activist and researcher and
> doesn’t like writing about himself in the third person.
> ...
> In June 2009, I received a Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship to get the
> Peer 2 Peer University up and running. The fellowship is structured in an
> unusual and very clever way that encourages (social) entrepreneurship.
> Fellows are able to reinvest some of their grant money (which they could
> also pay themselves as salary) to get access to additional funds. This
> investment is then multiplied by the foundation if the project is approved.
> It’s a great way to bootstrap new projects and I wrote a blog post about it.
>  P2PU is taking up most of my time and I created a separate page (P2PU 360
> Degrees) that gives more background and highlights some of my thinking
> around turning a “dangerous idea” into a paradigm shifting initiative.
>  Besides P2PU, I am involved in a number of things that broadly fall into
> the area of open collaborative resources. I have a position at the
> University of the Western Cape - where I do research and run projects in the
> area of open education; and work with the United Nations University MERIT
> where I am involved in research on Wikipedia as part of the Collaborative
> Creativity Group. I am also a board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium,
> occasionally collaborate with the Mozilla Education team, and co-organised
> the Open Everything Cape Town event.
> """
>
> Anyway, maybe someone Michel might want to talk to?
>
> (Antoine van Gelder, who has done OLPC things in South Africa, and who is
> now working on "afrimesh", mentioned Philipp's site to me when I mentioned
> this P2P list to him. I'll post a separate note on afrimesh.)
>
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
>
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