[P2P-F] Fwd: FKI Board strengthened with two new members

[Michel Bauwens]

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FKI Board strengthened with two new members

The Free Knowledge Institute is proud to welcome two new members to its
Board: Joe Corneli and Marco Fioretti. Both have been active community
members within the free knowledge - free technology community. Both
bring in new energy, large networks, ideas and initiatives that are
expected to strengthen the Free Knowledge community.

Joe Corneli is finalising his PhD at the Open University UK on the topic
of "Peer Produced Peer Learning", which he calls "paragogy" for short.
The main case study in his thesis deals with rebuilding the free/open
mathematics reference website, PlanetMath.org as a mathematics learning
environment. These ideas have informed his involvement with FKI and are
built upon within the Peeragogy project. Joe is working on new designs
for funding work at the Free Knowledge Institute. Early discussions are
developing into plans for a Free Knowledge Incubator: stay tuned.

Marco Fioretti is an Italian long time activist, freelance writer and
trainer of open standards, Free Software, digital technologies and the
their relation and impact on education, ethics, civil rights and
environmental issues. Marco has been one of the tutors within the Free
Technology Academy and will continue to do so. His first commitment as
Board member is to lead the reform of the FTA course programme. Marco:
"We already have several educational methodologies, from peer learning
to master level courses, and we already started to discuss other course
ideas to propose in the near future. Besides participating to the
definition of those new course types, my first task in the FKI will be
to define the course calendar for the 2013 Fall/Winter period, and to
communicate it to the widest possible community."

Their track record shows a strong commitment to free knowledge and the
values shared at the Free Knowledge Institute. The founding Board
members of the foundation - Hinde ten Berge, David Jacovkis and Wouter
Tebbens - remain active in the FKI Board. The expansion of the Board is
an outcome of the Strategy process started in 2012.

### About the FKI

The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) promotes free knowledge in all its
forms. Its mission is to empower people in the fields of free knowledge
and free technology to help them become effective participants of a free
knowledge society.

The FKI is a hub connecting networks and communities in multiple domains
facilitating and enabling the study, sharing and collaborative
development of free knowledge and free technologies.

The aim is to provide equal access to production and sharing of
knowledge. We work towards this aim together with local and global actors.

One of the core activities of the FKI is the Free Technology Academy, an
online study programme and virtual campus based in free knowledge, free
technology and different educational models, ranging from p2p learning
to master level courses.

### About Marco Fioretti

Marco is a freelance writer, popularizer, activist and teacher
specialised in open digital standards, Free Software, digital
technologies and their impacts on education, ethics, civil rights,
environmental issues and, in general, everyday life. His slogan is "your
civil rights and the quality of your life depend on how software is used
AROUND you". Marco has been using Free Software daily for all his
activities since the mid 90's, when he was an ASIC and FPGA designer.

Full bio and main publications: http://mfioretti.com

### About Joe Corneli

Joseph Corneli is a Ph. D. student at the Knowledge Media Institute of
The Open University, UK, where he does research on how people learn
mathematics. He is also a member of the board of directors of the
US-based nonprofit, PlanetMath.org. link to full bio:
http://wiki.planetmath.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Joseph_A._Corneli

### Further References

    * About the Free Knowledge Institute: http://freeknowledge.eu/about
    * Free Technology Academy: http://ftacademy.org/
    * PlanetMath: http://planetmath.org
    * The Peeragogy project: http://peeragogy.org



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