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From: Paolo Pumilia <xsocialsciences@yahoo.it> Date: February 21, 2007 3:48:10 AM EST To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net Subject: [school-discuss] an association for the open content Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net

Hi all,

I am glad to inform you that the group of university teachers and IT scholars is forging ahead with establishing an international non-profit association aimed at fostering proper use of information technologies in education and academic research, especially focusing on open access and open content.

While mid-term projects will be publishing a monthly newsletter and organizing an annual conference (as you can read in the statute), our first immediate objective is to foster 'open communities' of teachers and researchers forging their own digital tools and to provide them the opportunity to meet and grow.

It is up to us to establish the exec committee duties, at this stage, to pursue those objectives. Our first task will be just to discuss how the association could be instrumental in bringing such 'open content' communities to light. Maintaining connections with educational and research institutions and international institutions will probably be among our committments.

I would appreciate your suggestions about people who could contribute in some way to set up and lead the association projects and available to be part of the Executive Committee.

Here you can find the statutes draft: http://www.eexplor.org/

Your comments and help are very welcome

Thank you -- Paolo Pumilia-Gnarini

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