The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is receiving strong backing through Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth. The goal of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration is to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet.
The backers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, announced on Tuesday, said the initiative is designed to echo the disruptive effect that open source had on the proprietary software world by opening up the development and distribution of educational materials. (ZDnet)
The declaration, and its public support, is an important step in promoting and developing Open Access.