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Yoe Francis Santos

Yoe Francis Santos, in addition to being a journalist and a teacher, serves as the executive director of the Arts Centre of Audio-visual Exchange Inc [www.cciav.org] (CCIAV in Spanish). Santos is currently working on various projects and uses dgCommunities for both his personal and professional research. According to Santos, “dgCommunities helps to empower people and organizations to understand opportunities.” He continues by noting that this understanding is “linked to the promotion of the best communications practices and rules generated by ordinary people resulting in synergistic approaches.”

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Free Web-Based Learning Resources Advanced by Cape Town Declaration

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, launched in January 2008 in South Africa, calls for universal access to free web-based learning materials to transform education through the use of the Internet. Translated into more than 15 languages, the Declaration grew out of a meeting of educators, foundations and internet pioneers in Cape Town in fall 2007 organized by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation. More ››