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Set up by Free Press Unlimited.

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Lots of talk of 'UGC' ...

Focus here on quality and values, resources and practicalities.  

Jan Schaffer, executive director, J-Lab




Adrian Van Klaveren, controller, BBC Radio 5 Live




Jon Kingsbury, programme director, NESTA




Garrett Goodman, Citizenside




Ade Oshineye, Google+




Mark Rock, founder, Audioboo




Paul Egglestone, University of Central Lancashire




Puruesh Chaudhary and Amir Jahingar, Mishal, Pakistan




Henry Peirse, founder, GRNLive.

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Could Mozilla badges unlock learning, civility and reputation management online? Some early examples.

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"What are the benefits of badges?
Badges can:

Signal achievement. Badges signal skills and achievements to peers, potential employers, educational institutions and others.
Recognize informal learning. Get credit and recognition for learning that happens outside of school. e.g., in after-school programs, work experience or online.
Transfer learning across spaces and contexts. Make skills more portable across jobs, learning environments and places.
Capture more specific skills than traditional degrees. Badges allow a more granular recognition of specific skills than a traditional degree.
Support greater specialization and innovation. Move faster to support and recognize new skills than traditional degree or certificate programs.
Allow greater diversity. With specific recognition for "soft skills," social habits, ability to collaborate, etc. than traditional programs measure or recognize.
Motivate participation and learning outcomes. Badges provide feedback, milestones and rewards throughout a course or learning experience, encouraging engagement and retention.
Allow multiple pathways to learning. Encourage learners to take new paths or spend more time developing specific skills.
Unlock privileges. For example, students at a school computer lab might be required to earn a "Digital Safety" badge before being allowed to surf the web.
Enhance your identity and reputation. Badges raise your profile with the learning community and peers. And allow you to aggregate identities from across other communities.
Build community and social capital. Help learners find peers or mentors with similar interests. Community badges help formalize camaraderie, team synthesis and communities of practice.
Capture the learning path and history. With degrees or cumulative grades, much of the learning path -- the set of steps and milestones that led to the degree -- is lost or hard to see. Badges can capture a more specific set of skills and qualities dates as they occur along the way, along with issue dates for each. This means we can track the set of steps the most successful learners take to gain their skills -- and replicate that experience for others.
Recognize new skills and literacies. New literacies that are critical to success in today's digital world -- like appropriating information, judging its quality, multitasking and networking -- are not typically taught in schools and don't show up on a transcript. Badges can recognize these new skills and literacies.
Provide a more complete picture of the learner. Give a more complete skills and learning history and overview for potential employers, schools, peer groups and others. "

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Former editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm set this up.

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"There are some interesting opportunities to pursue for media-savvy teams in the Arab world to give it a shot, and I would be very happy to discuss with anyone who is serious. Given that we have the technical knowhow to implement the solution (and it is not as easy as it seems), watwet could partner effectively with such a party. Similarly, we think there are interesting corporate or white-labelled deployments of watwet technology that corporates in the Arab world should pursue."

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"Storify has recently announced that it will be working in cooperation with Taghreedat to translate its interface into Arabic."

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The problem with this article is it shows how inequality is linked to low social mobility, but it doesn't show how the uk's brand of austerity is linked to inequality.

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