What this section is

The scope of this section is to offer divulging material regarding the open and free resources the digital revolution is bringing to everybody. I'ts addressed to a non specialized public and to those who want to get to know this topics or deepen. There are already too many articles arround, written by experts for people who already know about all this, even though there are still many people not informed. Yaop! works to inform about the opportunities we have today through the open & free projects and organizations. Unfortunately there is an overwhelming disinformation about the importance of this fact and its meaning for the whole planet's societies. What you find here (though the menus at left) is a brief and introductory description of some of these projects, with links, in case you want to go deeper. Mainly, these descriptions are quoted text taken from their respective sites. Far from being complete, this reference will grow in time. Feel free to e-mail us if there's a project you think it should be published in this page.

NEWS

About Wikipedia accurancy - it has been demonstrated that Wikipedia content is very accurate. It arrives to be almost like the Encyclopedia Britannica, in the field of sciences, for example. This was demonstrated by the journal Nautre, by taking randomly tens of science entries and comparing them with other sources. This test were done in 2005 but lately, many journalists and academics have said they use it regulary in they work. This is very interesting, specially for those who tend to think that volunteer steered projects are not good enough to rely on.

educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world - there is a section below, created to inform you about where to find free and open educational material like texts, books, free services to search for specific topics on specialized libraries, course materials, etc.

life beyond Google Earth - people normally tend to think that the only 3D earth viewer system they have at their reach is Google Earth. Well, this famous system is not the only one -and there's still more : there is an open source alternative. We're talking about World Wind, coming directly from the NASA's laboratories. But there is still more : images produced by World wind are free (free as in "freedom" and as in "no cost") because they come from The Landsat Global Mosaic, Blue Marble, and the USGS and this means they are in the Public Domain (with the exception of those produced by 3rd-party add-ons, if any) -For more information and to go to the downloads click on this link ---> www.WorldWind.arc.nasa.gov/. See also : NASA Learning Technologies.