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Topics for workshops and talks that I'm happy to lead/co-lead/facilitate:

Knowledge management

• Open licensing:

• Free your content - why open licenses matter. Information silos and leaving room for creative adaptations.
• Creative Commons and more.
• Choosing the right license: Noncommercial, no derivatives and share alike clauses, and what they mean for compatibility, collaboration, "good exploitation" and "bad exploitation."

• Web-based platforms for knowledge management
• Website design and the needs of the user: bandwidth, architecture and ease of sharing. (A mainly non-technical look at the issues.)

Knowledge management is also a theme of all the topics below.

Business

• Commercial enterprises and non-profits - options and practice in collaboration
• Openness and business. Profitability and license options for authors and commercial enterprises.

Sustainability and international development

• Open development:

• knowledge silos, NGOs and other development organizations
• knowledge sharing and effectiveness in international development.
• collaborations
• the role of knowledge management, esp a wiki and open licenses, in disaster management and preparedness

• Open sustainability:

• green commerce - copyright still the status quo
• state of play in the open green movement - Open Sustainability Network, WiserEarth, open sources of information.
• knowledge sharing and effectiveness in sustainability, green design and behavioral change

Food production

• Victory gardens, lazy gardens & resilience.
• Soil as capital in a resilient economy.
• Food security and resilience in a changing climate

• changing knowledge and technology needs as climate changes, especially in the developing world

Education

• Service learning as an educational method:

• motivation - no longer just a drill
• impact - changing the world as a side-benefit
• the nature of learning - value of learning through participatory, real world action.

• Open education - a changing mindset.

• major successes in sharing,
• major hurdles in creating collaboration.
• technological and social solutions

Information technology

• Open source computing for non-geeks
• Knowledge sharing in open source software - fragmentation, the relationship between documentation and usability, and other challenges. forums, open licenses, bug reporting, community involvement, the problem of geek-speak and and support.
• ICT4D - Information and communication technology for development - successes, areas of need, ways forward.

Physical products and "open"

• Open design and open hardware - the challenges of "open" in the design of physical things.
• Open manufacturing:

• high tech and "low tech" in the future of distributed manufacturing.
• the different roles of distributed manufacture and centralized mass production.

• "Open source appropriate technology" - open design for a sustainable and equitable future

• collaboration in the OSAT space - what exists, and what is working.