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Derek Keats
Executive Director, Information and Communication Services, The University of the Western Cape

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Derek Keats is Executive Director of Information & Communication Services at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, and has a mandate to use information and communications technologies to strengthen UWC as a national institution of higher education in a global context. He is a biologist with strong interests in using technology to improve teaching and learning, to enable higher education in the developing world to respond to the challenges of globalization, and to promote sustainable development while maintaining the quality of the environment.

Sessions

10:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Changing Education... Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Curricula

Emerging Topics
Location: Portland 252

Cliff Schmidt (Literacy Bridge), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.), Derek Keats (The University of the Western Cape), Bobbi Kurshan (Curriki), David Wiley (Brigham Young University), Brian Behlendorf (CollabNet, Mozilla Foundation)

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In the wake of the "Cape Town Declaration," more and more open source people are thinking about applying open source principles to Education. This panel discussion will introduce exciting concepts and some of the thought leaders in the Open Educational Content movement. There will be opportunities to learn about getting involved. Come get inspired!! Read more.

1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Creating & Supporting Free Software in Africa: the African Virtual Open Initiatives & Resources (AVOIR) experience

Emerging Topics
Location: D137

Derek Keats (The University of the Western Cape)

Free and Open Source software is often seen as a largely Western and predominantly male phenomenon. This talk explores experiences of FOSS development in an Africa-led project to build capacity, and extends our understanding of FOSS to other cultures and societies, and shows how collaboration around FOSS can foster innovation and contribute to development in Africa. Read more.