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"Please help make Ecuador a haven for open knowledge"

"Help transition this country to a commons-based economy"

"Change is happening - in Ecuador"

"Work on ..."

...etc (ingresad sus sugerencias, ó voten con un "+1" para apoyar uno de los existentes)

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This is an important opportunity. An entire country, Ecuador, is committing itself to creating within its borders a society based on open knowledge, but it needs help from the international community to make this happen. Many have dedicated their lives to sharing knowledge in different fields. We want to further these efforts, build on top of them, and give them a friendly country in which they can thrive.

FLOK Society is organizing a research process, culminating in a March summit, that will pull together all the threads of the global movements towards free knowledge, and relate them to the Ecuador context.

With this email, we are asking your organization to participate in the process.

There are many ways to contribute knowledge and effort to this project.

You can join our [dev] mailing list to join the team. The [dev] list is a high-traffic mailing list, in Spanish.(instructions)

You can join our announcements mailing list to recieve our periodic, bilingual, news bulletins. This is a low traffic list, and does not include the ability to reply to the group. (instructions)

You can edit our wiki

You can follow us on identi.ca or Twitter

The FLOK Society is carrying out this project from within Ecuador's post-graduate public university, the IAEN (The National Institute for Higher Studies). Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation is leading the research team, and you can see more of his team here (link). This research work is being funded by Ecuador’s National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science and Tecnology (SENESCYT) and by the Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent.

If you would like to get involved in a way that is not described in this email, please get in touch with us directly.