right to education in the global south: meet Mikhail Volchak

[Cable Green]

Greetings Open Education Friends:

I’d like to introduce Mikhail Volchak. He is a researcher at Essex University (UK) and is a member of Creative Commons Belarus.

 

Mikhail is working on his masters dissertation re: the right to education in the Global South and how traditional copyright is inhibiting access. He is trying to connect with people working on similar topics.

Mikhail asked that I forward this note:

 

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I make research about right to education in the global South. The main points it will reveal: (1) what barriers are created by copyright on access to learning material; (2) what tools from international Human Right law can be used for protecting the access and (3) what are pluses and minuses of existing solutions.

I would like to communicate with researchers, activists, teachers, librarians from or who works with the issue in developing countries.

 

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I also suggested, to Mikhail, that he might join: http://go-gn.net

... and connect with the researchers at: http://roer.cemca.org.in/

Thank you for connecting with Mikhail at: fannrm@gmail.com

Warmest regards,

 

Cable

 

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[Werner Westermann]

Hello Mikhail, regards from Chile.

Although not directly related to inhibited access to education due to copyrght constraint, I urge you to review and take contact with ROER4D (http://roer4d.org/) coordinators at the University of Cape Town, an extensive research agenda (more than 25 projects in the same amount of countries in SouthEast and Central Asia, Africa and Latin America) of adoption and impact of OER use in the Global South (http://roer4d.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ROER4D-Infographic-23.3.2015.jpg).  Its been a long work of "open research" which it should have outcomes soon, not only reports but open data published, for example. It will be a main contribution to OER and Open Education research.  The main ROER4D coordinator is Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, whom I copy.

Best wishes on your work, hopefully it will diminish the existing asymmetry of knowledge between developed/underserved countries.

Werner

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