The Tactical Technology Collective has launched the next edition in its NGO-in-a-box series, the Open Publishing Box. The Open Publishing edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of free and open source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing, and distributing content. The edition, produced by Tactical Tech in collaboration with iCommons, is aimed at small to medium sized non-profits, independent media organisations, free culture creators, and grassroots journalists with a particular emphasis on those in developing and transition countries.
The Open Publishing Box covers the following areas:
- Desktop publishing
- Graphic design, fonts, and image manipulation
- Web publishing including wikis, content management systems and blogging
- Citizen journalism and participatory media
- Open content licensing and the commons
The primary aims of the Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box are to:
- Provide a selection of tools and materials for NGOs, activists and journalists for the purposes of open publishing, open content licensing and participatory media making.
- Create a toolkit that brings together a cross-section of approaches to the broad area of publishing for the non-profit sector.
- Encourage and promote the growth and use of free and open source tools for these activities; assisting with choice, testing, and access barriers.
- Promote the ethics and potential of free culture and the development of the commons.
Tactical Tech is a non-profit organisation that aims to assist NGOs and activists working for social change harness new technologies. iCommons is an organisation incubated by Creative Commons with the broad goal of connecting open content, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.
The Open Publishing Box toolkit is available online at <http://openpublishing.ngoinabox.org> or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request for the physical set of CDs.