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Tag: intellectual property

Avoiding AI platform dependency by controlling your context

Jun 3, 2025

in AI

context, context sovereignty, critical thinking, ecosystem, engagement, intellectual property, vendor lockin

Google’s free Gemini Pro access seems valuable, but using these platforms extensively creates AI platform dependency through contextual capture. Your unique thinking patterns, intellectual connections, and research approaches become integrated into their ecosystem. After the 15-month trial period ends, you’re cognitively locked in, trading intellectual independence for convenience, all while the platforms reshape how you…
Health OER Africa

Jul 29, 2009

in Education, Open access

africa, copyright, distance education, health oer, intellectual property, oer, open education resources, saide, South African Institute of Distance Education, workshop

Yesterday I attended the morning of a workshop around a Health OER Network for Africa that’s currently in development. It’s a project that’s sponsored by the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) and includes participants from all over the continent. The objectives of the workshop were to share lessons from the first phase of…