During its blackout Wednesday Wikipedia asked users to imagine a world without free knowledge and then call their representatives in congress.
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"We are doing the bidding for open and free knowledge, " he says.
Now Terry has written a book that compiles all of the plastic-free living knowledge she has amassed over the years: Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too.
That mission is to pick my brain to gather as much free intel and knowledge they need to make their jobs easier.
The free flow of such knowledge and data could be critical in reducing the tens of thousands of medically related accidental deaths each year.
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One of UNESCO's main mandates is to promote the free flow of all forms of knowledge in education, science, culture and communication.
Compton-Rock is talking about access to free public education, food, knowledge and social mobility -- elusive things for South Africa's impoverished and particularly so for the country's AIDS orphans.
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Compton-Rock is talking about access to free public education, food, knowledge and social mobility -- elusive things for South Africa's impoverished and particularly so for 1.4 million AIDS orphans there.
Of course the NCAA, Auburn, another member institution, a real and sober journalist, or some hearsay-free person of first-hand knowledge may still reveal facts of serious NCAA violations by Cam alone.
Exchange in a free market is an information- and knowledge-generating process.
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The project , which is described as "experimental" by Google , could be seen as good news for wiki-heads hoping to make money from the same specialized knowledge they give to Wikipedia for free.
These workers need to have knowledge of their rights, and feel free to express them.
However, their in-depth product and company knowledge is unnerving and their expectation of free stuff before buying can rule a vendor in or out of a deal.
Schultz will buy Django, unchain him and eventually set him free if Django, using his hard-won knowledge of the countryside and its denizens, will become Schultz's deputy and help him find three particularly murderous, and potentially lucrative, brothers.
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He calls out plays and defensive schemes to the players, but they are then free to implement those plays (using their skills and knowledge of the game) as they see fit.
"We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the National Curriculum to set out the essential knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it, " he said.
The foundation would also like to see improved access to free English language lessons so migrant workers can improve their knowledge of their rights and ask for help, and easier access to legal redress and compensation.
Last November, it was embroiled in the so-called "ScamVille" controversy, in which critics accused the publishers of allowing in their games misleading advertisements that purported to offer free virtual currency, but subscribed players to services without their knowledge.
In Dr Djerassi's future world, men and women will have their sperm and eggs frozen in their 20s and then undergo sterilisation, free to pursue their professional and sexual interests content in the knowledge that their cells can be safely resurrected and reliably made to unite in a test-tube whenever they want a child.
Finally, there are startups like Blackboard.com and Kiko (Knowledge In, Knowledge Out) that dabble with both ad-supported free content and for-profit courseware.
By providing free access to anyone with an Internet connection, MOOCs facilitate the dissemination of knowledge to unprecedented numbers of people.
This dramatically expands the possibilities associated with free online courses because distance and language will no longer be obstacles in testing for knowledge accrued in massive open online courses (or MOOCs).
She recalled that 65 years ago in the same Great Hall in London, UNESCO was established as an organisation to enable free and mutually enriching exchange of ideas and achievements and sharing of creative skills and knowledge among peoples of the world.
Staff needed to be convinced that this accorded with the school's philosophy of open dissemination of knowledge and information, and the local education authority's historic reluctance to endorse free software had to be overcome.
"We hope to support millions of teachers around the world in expanding their skills, networks and knowledge, by opening up access to some of the best resources out there, free of cost, " said co-founder Daphne Koller.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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Genomic knowledge, of humans and other species, will transform medicine by introducing side-effect-free drugs that work first time, expanding the range of diseases that are treatable and refining diagnosis.
Prezi is a free and easy to use presentation tool that enables you to create visually engaging and unique presentations with little technical knowledge.
Company-wide knowledge grew exponentially through the creation of wikipages, employee blogs, open discussions forums to exchange ideas and free-flowing best practice information exchanges between workers located in different countries.
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