Press Releases
- September 2009: The Shuttleworth Foundation launches Africa’s first m-novel, Kontax, in English and isiXhosa.
- 10 November 2008: Houston-based Rice University & South Africa-based Shuttleworth Foundation announce plans to jointly develop one of the world's largest, most comprehensive sets of free online teaching materials for school children.
- 24 October 2008: The Shuttleworth Foundation will keep a close eye on the decisions of publishing giant, Pearson PLC, as it restructures its Maskew Miller Longman Holdings publishing house in South Africa.
- September 2008: The Shuttleworth Foundation is investigating the potential that digital game-based learning holds for education and in informal learning contexts outside of the classroom.
- 16 July 2008: Practical considerations in implementing the objectives of the project have led the Foundation to halt all work on the initiative.
- 28 May 2008: The South African Bureau of Standards is leading an international appeal against the ratification of Microsoft Office Open XML as an ISO standard.
- 26 April 2008: Open Knowledge and free information infrastructure remain key to South Africa's participation in the global knowledge economy.
- 28 February 2008: By removing barriers and accelerating great ideas, the Shuttleworth Foundation hopes to drive educational and technological innovation in South Africa.
- 22 January 2008: Teachers, students, web gurus and foundations launch Cape Town Open Education Declaration to transform education. They call for free, adaptable learning materials online.
- 07 September 2007: The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has rejected Microsoft’s bid to have OOXML as a second open document standard for the meantime.
- 23 August 2007: The Shuttleworth Foundation has expressed its satisfaction at the decisions taken by the competition commission in possible merger of publishing companies.
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