Tag Archives: open source

Lebanon Launches Creative Commons Chapter

Written by jessica. Posted on November 1, 2010. Filed under For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Slide of the CC logo that says some rights reserved
Since 2003, the international nonprofit Creative Commons (known as CC) has endeavored to “save the world from failed sharing.” CC, as it’s called, aims to address the lag of copyright law in keeping pace with changes in digital technology b facilitating sharing. The organization, founded by law professor and author Lawrence Lessig, has created six [...]

Getting Everybody Talking in a Multilingual Crowd

Written by jessica. Posted on May 26, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Translation of the web is all the rage these days. When you think about it, it’s kind of strange that the rage didn’t happen sooner, but that probably has lots to do with technical aspects of machine translation that I can’t begin to imagine. The fact remains that, over the past year or so, all [...]