Philippine Commons

Open Education

The following individuals have signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration:

• Alan Alegre, Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) (Philippines)
• Michael Vernon Guerrero, Arellano University School of Law (Philippines)
• Nathaniel Jayme (Philippines)
• Francisco Sarmiento III, International Open Source Network ASEAN+3 (Philippines)

The following organizations have signified their intent to be active proponents in this movement:

• Bayanihan Books¹

Open Content

The following organizations have signified their intent to be active proponents in this movement:

• Filipiniana.Net²
• WikiPilipinas³

If you are interested in contributing to the movement advocating Open Content, Access to Knowledge, and Open Education, send as a note using the comment form below.

1. Bayanihan Books aims to write textbooks in the open where contents are made available on the Internet from initial outline to final manuscript. This would allow every teacher, parent, student, professional, DepEd official, virtually anyone, to review the textbooks even before they get published. It also aims to release the textbooks under a license that would permit everyone to use and publish the textbooks without paying royalty to anyone. Thus, saving the government of content development costs and allowing more publishers to fulfill the demands of public (and even private) schools. http://blog.bayanihanbooks.org/about. Text licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Philippines license. [↩]
2. Filipiniana.net is a full-featured digital library and research portal. It was conceptualized by Gaspar A. Vibal and Jaime Marco, on December 6, 2005 on the occasion of the first Tribuna España-Filipinas held at Madrid. Filipiniana.net was the first project of Vibal Foundation, as part of its free knowledge sharing initiative. On December 23, the two were joined by young Spanish historian Carlos Madrid, then based in Manila. Together the three would lay the groundwork for the launch of a modern digital Philippine library. Filipiniana.net went online in September 2006 with a modest collection of books and documents in English, Spanish and Filipino. Today, it has of one of the widest and most comprehensive collection of hard-to-find Filipiniana books and documents categorized under history, geography, culture, government, and society. In addition, its growing collection also includes non-textual materials such as photographs, maps, paintings, and illustrations. Some of its flagship projects are: Virtual Philippine Revolutionary Records, 100 Nobelang Tagalog, Virtual Blair and Robertson, and the Master Union Bibliography of the Philippines, 100 Pinoy Komik Serials, Premio Zobel.org, and Archivo General de Filipinas. http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Filipiniana.net; Text licensed under GFDL 1.2 [↩]
3. WikiPilipinas is an online, free content encyclopedia on the Philippines. In addition to encyclopedic entries on history, culture, sports, politics, and other knowledge areas, WikiPilipinas also features the following components: A Who’s Who of prominent Filipinos; a directory of schools, corporations, government institutions, and more; an almanac of useful and interesting records and data on the Philippines; and a community portal for discussing and preserving the heritage of different cultural and social groups in the Philippines. The name WikiPilipinas is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and Pilipinas, the Filipino term for Philippines. The project was conceptualized in February 2007 by the editors of Filipiniana.net. Together, Filipiniana.net and WikiPilipinas.org aim to become the two primary portals to Philippine knowledge. WikiPilipinas is an ongoing project written collaboratively by Philippine volunteers around the world in an effort to build the largest Philippine knowledgebase. With few exceptions, the contents of WikiPilipinas can be edited at any time, by anyone with access to the Internet, but contributions should be guided by the policies and guidelines that WikiPilipinas editors have identified. http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=WikiPilipinas:_The_Hip_%27n_Free_Philippine_Encyclopedia:About Text licensed under GFDL 1.2 [↩]