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The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first international event which will centre on the production and sharing of educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and Open Standards. With the objective of promoting Free Software and the sharing of free knowledge, the FKFT 2008 Conference will bring together hundreds of people from different continents including government representatives, school and university teachers, IT companies, publishers, and NGO's. By gathering together people from all these groups, the aim is to stimulate both present and future collaboration between diverse disciplines, sectors and countries, through the medium of free software programs and the sharing of successful experiences related to free software and free technologies.

The SELF Project organise the content of the conference and aims to build strong relationships between attendees. The programme consists of an elegant mix between keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel tracks on topics such as Social implications of Free Knowledge and Free Technologies, Technological aspects of e-learning, Learning Standards, Free Software in society, Legal issues of Free Knowledge, Free Knowledge in public bodies, the SELF Platform, and many more.

The FKFT Programme has confirmed important keynote speakers and received a wealth of submissions from international participants.The selected sessions can now be found online at http://FKFT.eu/2008.

The pioneer of the concepts of Free Software and initiator of the GNU project, Richard Stallman will open the FKFT conference at the 15th of July. This session can be attended free of charge, previous registration. Just send an e-mail with the subject "RMS registration" and your name to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

In the educational track, there is a keynote from Stephen Downes, one of the most important thinkers of how technology changes educationthese days. There are presentations, discussion panels and workshops, e.g. from educational software projects, Free Software in schools,Higher Education and training. And of course there will be sessions about various aspects of the SELF Platform and the future of SELF.

In the governmental track, there are two keynotes: Karel de Vriendtfrom the European Commission (IDABC) will talk about open standardsand Free Software at the European level, while Carlos Castro will give the regional perspective of Extremadura, the Spanish region thatkeeps inspiring many governments around the world with their trategic plan on Free Software and Digital Literacy. Besides therewill be presentations from Cenatic, the Spanish national reference centre on Free Software, and various others.

For those who want to know all about the technology behind SELF, the developers team will hold a day-long pre-conference workshop atMonday July 14th.

Source: Free Knowledge Institute