Directory of OCC

In this section will be available the list of online creation communities with the basic information of each of them. At the moment you could consult it here.

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  • SELF - Science Education and Learning in Freedom - Platform

    The aims to be the central platform with high quality educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards. It is based on world-class Free Software technologies that permit both reading and publishing free materials, and is driven by a worldwide community.

  • Free/Open Source Research Community

    “In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. We invite researchers to post their papers on open source and […]

  • Connexions

    Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
    Anyone may view or contribute:

    authors create and collaborate
    instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
    learners find and explore content

    (13 Feb 2008)

  • World Social Forum 2008 Map of actions

    The Global Call for Action is asking social movements and civil society worldwide to mobilize together in the week culminating on January 26, 2008.
    The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any […]

  • Interaction Design

    Beginnings of a free, open-content, peer-reviwed Encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields.


  • Beppegrillo.it aims at providing a free platform for all citizens who are willing to communicate and share information, regardless of their political views. Facilitated by a direct link with the online social networking portal Meetup.com3, the blog aims at being the first point of call for people who are looking to engage both online and […]

  • Del.icio.us/

    Social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Now it has more than three million users and 100 million bookmarked URLs.

  • Facebook

    Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

  • Flickr

  • YouTube

    Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
    Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People […]

  • My Space

    MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends’ friends.
    Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!
    See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon.
    MySpace is for everyone:

    Friends who […]

  • Open ESF

    “OpenESF is a platform for social activism provided by the European Social Forum.
    OpenESF is the simple way to bring groups together, promote your cause, make plans, get things done and make another world possible”.

  • Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management

    Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

    Plone is easy to install. You can install […]

  • Biotech Indymedia

    Biotech Independent Media Centre is an issue based Indymedia site dedicated to biotechnology and genetic engineering in agriculture, food, medicine as well as its relevance to globalisation. It is about struggles everywhere against the commodification of life, and about alternatives.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is one of the most outstanding examples of online creation communities. The Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of free contents created in 2001. It is developed in a collaborative manner with the use of Wiki technology by tens of thousands of volunteers around the world. In May 2005, Wikipedia (in its English version) contained more […]

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