Dear all,

Peter suggested that I might email you all about an encyclopedia entry on Open content we are trying to pull together. This is for the "International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society" published by Wiley-Blackwell in collaboration with the International Communication Association.

The article will be freely available and also openly licensed after an embargo period - that's the best agreement I was able to negotiate, and it's an interesting story in itself. It also means we can't re-use Wikipedia (under CC-By-SA), which is a real shame, although we are drawing on some CC-By materials.

Unfortunately there is not a lot of time, and we're in a real rush now. So it's turning into an experiment in "speed crowd sourcing". I had originally hoped that the entry would be written in a highly collaborative way, with lots of diverse contributions and discussion, and I do hope this will still be possible to a small extent.

Your contributions, thoughts and ideas will be very welcome, and of course we'll acknowledge anybody contributing. The entry itself is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-PjUfUIGGuEo5MQpAHxVoXFnBnnqhfHUx47aqnq... The permissions are such that anybody can view and comment, so please do have a look. It's at an early stage at the moment, but we are working on it this week and weekend, aiming to get it finished (in final form) by the end of the month. You can also have a look at http://bjohas.de/OCEE for further information.

If you want to contribute, please email me as soon as possible to let me know (bjohas(at)gmail.com), and request access to the Google document.

Many thanks and all the best wishes, Bjoern

Faculty of Education University of Cambridge, UK http://www.bjohas.de