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[[Earth Treasury]] has initiated a project to create interactive digital textbooks with the following potential partners. We have top level agreement in principle from the organizations marked ''agreed'', and are waiting to hear from the others at the official level | [[Earth Treasury]] has initiated a project to create interactive digital textbooks with the following potential partners. We have top level agreement in principle from the organizations marked ''agreed'', and are waiting to hear from the others at the official level | ||
* Sugar Labs ''waiting'' Sugar | * Sugar Labs ''waiting'' Walter Bender; Sugar | ||
* [http://laptop.org/ OLPC] ''waiting'' | * [http://laptop.org/ OLPC] ''waiting'' Nicholas Negroponte; XO | ||
* [[Alan Kay | * [http://ole.org/ Open Learning Exchange] ''waiting'' Richard Rowe; business plan for education support in every developing country | ||
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* [http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] [ | * [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Alan_Kay Alan Kay]'s [http://www.vpri.org/ Viewpoints Research Institute] ''agreed'' Smalltalk/Squeak/Etoys, teaching methods | ||
* [ | * The [http://dougengelbart.org/ Doug Engelbart Institute] at [http://www.sri.com/ SRI] ''agreed'' Augmenting Collective Intelligence | ||
* [ | * [http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] [http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn] program ''agreed'' Ahrash Bissell; Licensing, content | ||
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ FLOSS Manuals] ''agreed'' Adam Hyde; book sprint methodology | |||
* [ | * [http://www.thetech.org/ The Tech Museum of Innovation] ''agreed'' Peter Friess; Model classroom exhibit for the public and visiting school classes to try out. | ||
* [ | * [http://fantsuam.org/ Fantsuam Foundation] ''agreed'' John Dada; various educational and economic initiatives in Nigeria | ||
* [http://www.onevillagefoundation.org/ OneVillage Foundation] '' | * [http://www.uew.edu.gh/ University of Education, Winneba], Ghana ''agreed by faculty member; waiting'' Kafui Prebbie; Partner with Ghanaian government on XO project | ||
* [ | * [http://www.onevillagefoundation.org/ OneVillage Foundation] ''waiting'' Joy Tang; Open Digital Village | ||
* [http://www.ms.lt/ Minciu Sodas] ''agreed'' Andrius Kulikauskus; Laboratory for Independent Thinkers | |||
We have many more potential partners in mind, but we have to get organized a bit first. | We have many more potential partners in mind, but we have to get organized a bit first. | ||