The goals of this meeting/informal discussion are: (a) To deliver a short presentation of the green-paper focused on the Brazilian OER Project. Abstract: " The State and Challenges of OER in Brazil. by, Carolina Rossini The paper map the Open Educational Resources efforts in Brazil, understanding the role they play in the educational context and if they are developed under a consistent educational policy. Questions of how educational policy is favorable to OER, and how much public funding flows into educational materials (mainly textbooks) are discussed. The paper starts with a brief introduction of how the concept of Open Educational Resources dialogues with the concept of development. The second portion explores the state of education in Brazil, its policy governance, structures and institutions. The third section is focused on an analysis of Brazilian educational projects as fulfilling or not the concept of Open Educational Resources as understood by UNESCO and under the principles of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education. The fourth section is focused on the issue of textbooks in Brazil, analyzing public policies and governmental purchase programs, and also the challenges faced for the equivalent to the K-12 level and to the college level, also touching on the flow of public investments into the production and distribution of textbooks. Finally, a series of policy recommendations is drawn for further discussion." (b) To develop discussion around the validity of the green-paper recommendations as recommendations that are horizontal to different countries, building upon the Cape Town Declaration; (c) To discuss the role played by copyright and open licensing; (d) Open X Free: strategies and benefits in diferent national contexts; (e) To build collaboration among country projects.

4. Participation and Innovation Learning continuity Accumulation Experimentation Reflection Built of Concepts Practice It is not automatic – one has to learn how to learn Nets of learning Interconnection Collaboration Inductor Environment Inductor agents

7. Open source GNU General Public License Use IPRs to create “freedom”

8. Open culture

13. Why is important for developing countries?

19. Implementation Resources Learning Content Tools Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content. Full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, journals Software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and on-line learning communities. Text on OER slides are licensed GNU FDL v1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html

22. Environmentalism for OER

29. Implementation needs to be relevant nation-to-nation

30. Implementation needs to be relevant to diferent institutional cultures

31. We need to build capacity inside the institutions;

39. Text Text b CC Li c enses support Interoperability bn bd ba bnd bna OER wants education to be here: “ All rights reserved” Publi c Domain Attribution Only are clear, comprehensible and compatible b CC BY

40. Emerging projects in Brazil

42. BIS - Map of Digital exclusion The low PIB per capita , ally to existing social and regional inequalities, explains the fact that Brazilian users belong, in the great majority, to the higher classes. Source: IBGE - 2003 “ In terms of computer access rates, 12,42% of the population living in urbanized areas are included; while the rate is only 0,98% in rural areas” Source: CPS/FGV (using micro data from PNAD/IBGE)

49. Scielo Books

50. Public Domain Portal

51. Projeto Folhas