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Paul Matthews
Paul Matthews teaches in the information science department at the Bristol Institute of Technology. He is also a topic guide on the ICT community. Matthews uses news and information on the portal for both his work and his personal interests. As a topic guide, he contributes highlights, short articles summarized of featured resources submitted by community users. According to Matthews, “The process of building highlights is very useful, as it helps to bring me up to date with activities in a particular area of ICT for development, and familiarizes me with international debate on key issues."
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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 ››