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Open Source Translation - The Manual

Open source translation tools will allow translators to share work with collaborators around the world. This manual was designed and written by a community of Open Translation innovators using the FLOSSManuals platform to collaboratively author the content.

The field of translation is in a state of transition, and software tools to support language translation are evolving with corresponding rapidity. Open Translation describes a nascent field of practice emerging at the crossroads of three dynamic movements: Open Content, The Free/Libre/Open Source Software and Open production. It is the set of practices and work processes for translating and maintaining open content using FLOSS tools, and leveraging the open nature of the internet to make that content and those tools and processes available to the largest number of contributors and consumers. It promises to profoundly broaden access to knowledge across language barriers.

Knowledge Sharing Toolkit

The Institutional Knowledge Sharing (KS) Project together with CGIAR Center partners has been experimenting with a range of KS tools and methods over the past five years and has recently been assembling these and many others into this toolkit.
http://www.kstoolkit.org

Twitter for Activism

Twitter as a tool for digital activism. Download guide here: http://www.digiactive.org/2009/04/13/twitter_guide/

World Digital Library

UNESCO and 32 partner institutions launched the World Digital Library, a web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world. The site – located at www.wdl.org – includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs.

Wikipedia and Physics

Wikipedia needs more physicists
Seth Zenz
Symmetry, August 2008

Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, has often been criticized as having misinformation and inadequate references. By allowing any user to edit, it runs the risk of having “truth” defined by majority vote or a persistent vocal minority; it has the potential to deliver the public’s perception of science into the hands of fringe groups with an ax to grind.

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Green DB

Softchoice, EPEAT, and CNET recently announced the launch of a new, searchable online database that allows you to sort through hundreds of thousands of IT products to find those with the highest 'green' rankings.

Progress out of Poverty

Progress out of Poverty, is a website that demonstrates how microfinance institutions (MFIs) can understand and improve their social performance. The website features information and resources about the Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™), a poverty assessment tool that helps MFIs measure the poverty levels of their clients. The PPI was commissioned by Grameen Foundation in collaboration with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and the Ford Foundation.

SearchMonkey Developer Challenge

To foster innovation and creativity on the SearchMonkey platform, Yahoo is hosting a good old-fashioned competition. The SearchMonkey Developer Challenge will recognize innovative applications within four categories: Best Enhanced Result, Best Infobar, Most Innovative Use of Structured Data, Best Data Service, and Grand Prize (best over all categories). You have until June 14th to submit your applications for a chance to win up to $10,000.

Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

Science Commons announces the Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data. The Protocol is a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with one another. The Protocol is built on the public domain status of data in many countries and provides legal certainty to both data deposit and data use. The protocol is not a license or legal tool in itself, but instead a methodology for a) creating such legal tools and b) marking data already in the public domain for machine-assisted discovery.

Open training Platform (OTP) powered by UNESCO

The OTP ( www.opentrainingplatform.org ) is a UNESCO powered hub to free training resources on a variety of development topics. It fosters cooperation around this goal of providing free and open content for development, regrouping multiple partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNV, WHO and UNEP being UN partners), development practitioners and agencies worldwide, regional and local NGOs.

MapEcos

MapEcos.org provides information on the environmental performance of more than 20,000 industrial sites in the United States along with pictures of facilities. Users of the website can pan and zoom a map of the U.S. and click on individual sites to pull up information about specific facilities. The map includes government data on toxic pollution, data from facilities about their efforts to protect the environment, and information on emissions and trends.

The Wage Guide - Fair Trade Calculator

The Wage Guide is an artisan wage calculation tool that guides decisions about how to calculate “a fair wage in a local context.” At the click of a button, the Wage Guide converts ‘artisan per piece payment’ to a ‘daily wage’ and then compares the daily wage to international economic indicators providing advice on how to increase wages to meet these standards.

The Wage Guide helps to ensure that artisans are fairly compensated in the fair trade craft market. Many buyers and artisans in the current fair trade market are looking for guidance on how to pay fair wages. As fair trade gains popularity and more organizations want to be involved, it is essential that we create a standardized methodology around fair wages to protect the good work of people who have been building the fair trade movement over the last 50 years.

Peer to Patent

Peer-to-Patent opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time. Become part of this historic pilot program. Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications. Become a community reviewer and improve the quality of patents.