Juan de Vojníkov, 14/07/2014 19:42:
Unfortunately for Wikipedia, this strategy and the
previous ones are
based on decentralization of digital education resources.
Doesn't sound such a horrible thing. :-)
So WMF
projects, could not be the only one digital resources for Czech
students. This push as to the open market, where we are disadvantaged,
because corporate and maybe some other entities could get the best
marketers/sellers of their products and be more succesfull in getting
more students for their digital products.
Responsable people understand that NGOes might be handicapped in such
markets as they are usually good in what they do, but they are not good
in marketing. Here we are looking for a functional system, which would
place equality between corporate and NNO sector. And thats why, I am
writing to you. Any idea, how the "offical recommendation" could support
NNO projects such as Wikipedia?
WMIT has worked with a major textbooks publisher of Italy (Garamond) in
a similar Italian initiative, with mixed success. If you have a problem
of competition you can
a) carve a niche for yourself e.g. pointing out the infinite degrees at
which the wiki approach can be used (workshops on Wikipedia for a class
from 2 to 200 hours per year, use Wikisource to get literature, edit
Wikibooks to write their own textbooks, make their own school's wiki);
b) join your enemies ;) usually not the first and perhaps not the
second, but the third most important market player will have an interest
in trying something new and here's where you can embed some wikiness.
Nemo