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With an opening theme of '''Discovering and Gathering a Wealth of Knowledge''' and a commitment to the '''United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development''' (2005-2014), the '''International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World''' (2001-2010) and related United Nations Decades, a '''Free Summer School''' will be in session between the 2006 Summer Solstice on '''June 21''' and the Fall Equinox on '''September 22'''. The Free Summer School is being hosted by '''Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles''' [http://www.seasons-of-peace.net] in support of the '''[[NGO Committee on Education]]''' of '''CONGO''' - the '''C'''onference '''O'''f '''N'''on-'''G'''overnmental '''O'''rganizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations [http://www.ngocongo.org]. The NGO Committee on Education has made a decade-long commitment to support the United Nations Decade on Sustainable Development, and is seeking to draw on, and gather together, the vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the hearts and minds of people and organizations that make up the rapidly evolving NGO community / civil society. | With an opening theme of '''Discovering and Gathering a Wealth of Knowledge''' and a commitment to the '''United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development''' (2005-2014), the '''International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World''' (2001-2010) and related United Nations Decades, a '''Free Summer School''' will be in session between the 2006 Summer Solstice on '''June 21''' and the Fall Equinox on '''September 22'''. The Free Summer School is being hosted by '''Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles''' [http://www.seasons-of-peace.net] in support of the '''[[NGO Committee on Education]]''' of '''CONGO''' - the '''C'''onference '''O'''f '''N'''on-'''G'''overnmental '''O'''rganizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations [http://www.ngocongo.org]. The NGO Committee on Education has made a decade-long commitment to support the United Nations Decade on Sustainable Development, and is seeking to draw on, and gather together, the vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the hearts and minds of people and organizations that make up the rapidly evolving NGO community / civil society. | ||
The Free Summer School is being hosted on a holistic evolving information ecology platform that has emerged in the course of the systematic use and promotion of information and communications technology and appreciation of the transformative significance of the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, and virtually zero travel time - that are the "material" basis for the '''zero marginal cost''' of digital goods. | The Free Summer School is being hosted on a holistic evolving information ecology platform that has emerged in the course of the systematic use and promotion of information and communications technology and an appreciation of the transformative significance of the nature of the [[knowledge-based universe]], including the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, and virtually zero travel time - that are the "material" basis for the '''zero marginal cost''' of digital goods and that essentially free wealth in this universe from the constraints of the laws of conservation of mass and energy. | ||
=== Why? === | === Why? === | ||
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=== Who? === | === Who? === | ||
Invitation to participate in a Free Summer School is open to all people who are | Invitation to participate in a Free Summer School is open to all people who are concerned with the fate of the Earth and the community of life on Earth. The very young through the very old, rich and poor, men and women, students, teachers, activists, indigenous people, people of faith, artists, writers, cartographers, wiki workers, bloggers, web-site designers and developers, script writers - in Perl and Java - visionaries, free spirits, gardeners, farmers and more - from all corners of the Earth. | ||
=== How? === | === How? === | ||
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==== Wiki work ==== | ==== Wiki work ==== | ||
The Free Summer School is an invitation to learn about working in '''wiki spaces''' - keeping in mind that the most direct way to lean the ways of | The Free Summer School is an invitation to learn about working in '''wiki spaces''' - keeping in mind that the most direct way to lean the ways of wiki is to contribute - whether it is comments, ideas, observations, wiki links, and external links, images, etc. or to correct spelling & syntax errors, or to enhance. If you are a novice, you might begin simply by clicking on '''Edit page''' and just taking a look at the wiki codes / tags on the page. Or you can take a step further, and ediot the page, at which time you will begin to learn about the simplified formatting codes for this wiki space. You might consider writing a brief description of yourself on your User page once you have registered. Some may prefer to begin by reading through the [[Help:Contents|Help]] pages - it is your choice. You may experience a key breakthough when you follow your first '''red link''' - a link to an as yet non-existent page on this wiki - and take responsibility for articulating the initial definition of the page's title, and perhaps also for the seeding of additional pages for concepts or entities that may also derserve their own page. | ||
* '''Wiki sites of possible interest''' | * '''Wiki sites of possible interest''' | ||
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==== Nonprofit Boot Camps ==== | ==== Nonprofit Boot Camps ==== | ||
For those who have the opportunity, participation in one or both of the full day '''Nonprofit Boot Camps''' being organized by ''' | For those who have the opportunity, participation in one or both of the full day '''Nonprofit Boot Camps''' being organized by '''Craigslist Foundation''' [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org] - on June 10 in New York, and on August 19 in Berkeley, California - is highly recommended at what promises to be wonderful learning and networking opportuntities. The New York City event will be available via podcasting and streaming audio that will be available for download after the event. | ||
* '''Related links''' | * '''Related links''' | ||
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: * References to education and awareness in Agenda 21 http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/eea.htm | : * References to education and awareness in Agenda 21 http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/eea.htm | ||
* The Wealth of Networks | * The Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Benkler. New Haven, CT, 2006. http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks | ||
* ''Please add your recommendations here'' | * ''Please add your recommendations here'' | ||
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* ''Please add your recommendations here'' | * ''Please add your recommendations here'' | ||
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