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."
- Openness and business. Includes license options for authors and commercial enterprises.
- Web-based platforms for knowledge management
Knowledge management is also a theme of all the topics below.
Business
- Commercial enterprises and non-profits - options and practice in collaboration
- Open development - knowledge sharing and effectiveness in international development
- The role of knowledge management, esp a wiki and open licenses, in disaster management and preparedness
- Open sustainability - knowledge sharing and effectiveness in sustainability, green design and behavioral change
Education
- Service learning as an educational method - motivation, impact and the nature of learning.
- Open education - a changing mindset. Major successes in sharing, major hurdles in collaboration.
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
- Open design and open hardware - the challenges of "open" in the design of physical things.
- ICT4D - Information and communication technology for development - successes, areas of need, ways forward.