I think that it is time we started looking at this more seriously. Why is it that knowledge has become a money maker, why is it that people wanting to teach 4th grade math, or university biology have to pay for the knowledge. I completely agree with paying for the courses, and degree, as teachers have to be paid, but the actual knowledge should be freely available. In Brazil, Free Knowledge has become a really big political issue, and I think it makes sense that we reconsider it. Why should children in richer countries have an educational advantage, I’m considering helping out on some of the projects already doing this, as it would also be a good platform to have a single repository for case studies, slides, how to public speak ad all the advocacy tools we need to make a difference. Each package (such as the case study package) could have a maintainer and then everyone has someone central to commit their information tob.
I have a lot of thoughts on this, but right now I’m going to travel from Christchurch to Dunedin in NZ with Glynn for some sightseeing, before catching up with the NZ crew (Mike Beattie and that) before I go home to Aus.