Board member Professor Steve Garlick was in Sweden last week to disseminate the PURE report for Värmland (see below) at the cluster conference organised by Staffan Bjurulf, Project Manager for the region. Anders Olsson, Enterprise and Innovation Manager for Värmland,  reports that the region has continued the discussion on how to tackle work on a strategy to develop the region's human capabilities.

1. Raffi, Canadian Children's Troubadour's comments on the re-birth Egypt, his home in a very moving piece (see below);

2. Budd Hall blog on knowledge democracy movement to be found here;

3. Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement--  A new synthesis paper done by Canadian digital democracy scholars and KM specialists (see below);