Jure Cuhalev

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21 Jul, 2008

Wikimania 2008 wrap-up notes

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: conferences

Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts.
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PediaPress is a project that allows you to turn Wikipedia pages into actual books. They have an open-source MediaWiki extension, so you can run this on your own wiki. The coolest [...]

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Traditional approaches to solving global problems:
 

Treaties and conventions (Kyoto)
Intergovernmental conferences (World Summit on the Information Society)
Global multilateral institutions (World bank)

 
At the moment, traditional approaches to solving complex world problems, are incapable.
 
We new solutions, new approaches and new forum to solve global challenges. We need to translate what we learned from the [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).