Open Sourcing Education - Learning and wisdom from iSummit 2007
This paper provides an overview of the current landscape in open education, and outlines challenges and opportunities for the future. It is based on discussions during the iSummit 2007 open education track, which took place in Dubrovnik in June 2007. Sep 07 2007 - Mark Surman » Download 145k PDF

From the Ground Up - The evolution of the telecentre movement
Print and electronic book on the future of the telecentre movement. Written by Andy Carvin and Mark Surman. Published by IDRC. Aug 19 2007 - Mark Surman » Click here to see ebook.

The Evolution of Learning - Taking open educational resources to the next level
Article on the current status of open (source) education. Written by Lisa Petrides, President, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and Mark Surman, Open Philanthropy Fellow, Shuttleworth Foundation for the iCommons Annual 2007. Jul 29 2007 - Mark Surman

Making the Connection - Scaling telecentres for development
Book of practical advice on how to build and scale telecentre programs. Written primarily by Barbara Fillip. Mark Surman wrote the chapter on networks and provided overall advice. Published by the Academy for Education Development. Jul 24 2007 - Mark Surman » Click here to see ebook.

Building Constellation-Based Partnerships
The Constellation model is a complexity-inspired governance framework for multi-organizational collaboration. It is a way of organizing a group of interested parties to meet a need without having to create a new organization to ‘hold’ the issue. It is a tool to help us recognize and become conscious designers in a complex ecosystem of organizational collaboration. This article describes the model in greater detail, however, it is still a work in progress and new versions of this document will be forthcoming. Jun 20 2006 - Tonya Surman » View PDF

From VTR to Cyberspace
This is a paper that Mark Surman wrote in 1994 on the links between the public access TV movement and nascent efforts to use the Internet for activism. A great deal has changed since then, including the fact that things like YouTube basically make public access TV irrelevant. However, many of the observations in the paper remain valid today, including the fact that we actively need to actively carve out a commons where we can speak about, play with and reinvent the future. Nov 20 2003 - Mark Surman » 1.2MB PDF