Schon zu Beginn der warmen Jahreszeit kommt es in Zentral- und Südasien zu Hitzerekorden. In Indien wurden die extremen Temperaturen der Hitzewelle im vergangenen Frühjahr noch nicht erreicht, die zu forderte aber schon wieder Todesopfer.

• Differences between Global North and Global south perspectives on earth system justice:
• Some scholars argue that in the Global North, the view tends to be ‘no humanity without nature’,
• while in the Global South, the focus is on ‘no nature without social justice’.

!- Title : Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

Knowledge Translation in the Global South

A bottom up approach can be tried instead in which trust bonds are automatically stronger - form citizen sister city groups between the global north and the global south of each state as well as local north and local south within each city

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Survey, assessment, data and research analysis of OER use and impact in the global south

Effects and Use of OER in the global south. Survey, Statistics and data analysis presentation

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I remember the term "Public Software" used several years ago from the Lula's initiative to migrate Brasil public software infrastructure to Free Software.

Now there is, again, and effort to discuss the term, this time from a Anglo-centric perspective. Native English speaking people, particularly in US have the trouble with free as in freedom and as in "gratis", meanings and being immersed in a "market first" mentality, usually they think first in price and markets instead of rights.

Dmitry Kleiner has addressed the problem of software as a commons and its sustainability with an alternative license (p2p license), that is not as restrictive as the Fair Software one, but it repolitize the capitalist friendly Open Source gentrification of the original Free Software movement, involving also a core concern of sustainability.

Would be nice to see a dialogue between Nadia's and Dmitry's perspectives and questions about software as a commons.