Platoniq

Open learning advocacy group based in Barcelona, Spain

URL = http://www.platoniq.net/

Description

Platoniq = "a group of cultural producers, software developers and social researchers who from the mix of their computer-technical knowledge and social interests have set up a number of independant community media projects such as http://www.platoniq.net/ burnstation , http://openserver.cccb.org/ , http://www.platoniq.net/bck

The Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a kind of laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how to share it.

BCK is organized as an opensource model of knowledge transfer, a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and distribution, involving new roles for producers and receivers, experts and amateurs, teachers and students…"

For more details, check the videodocumentation on-line: http://openserver.cccb.org/bcc/capsulas/49/