Govia is Ostensible Video, Imagary and Audio.

There are some great free (as in liberty) resources out there for 
teachers; Project Gutenberg, Nupedia, Wikipedia and many others. 
These are all wonderful because they are free to use, modify, and 
build upon with out having to worry if you are breaking the law by 
making a copy for each of the 30 student in your class.  These are 
all almost entirely text based content, there needs to be similar 
resources for media.  This is where GOVIA fits in

The Idea behind govia is to create a database of free(as in liberty)
media files.  The main purpose of GOVIA is to make pictures videos
and audio available for teachers to use in lesson plans that they 
can share with thier peers.  Most people with some kind of media 
recorder are capable of going and gathering intersting work that 
could be used in classrooms today. For example, I live in the 
Sonoran Desert, It is not hard for me to drive 20 minutes and be 
able to take pictures of the vegetation that could be used by 
geography, biology, or any other teachers.  What would it cost me? 
a roll of film, a little travel expense (<$5 US) and nice walk in 
nature? and what would I get?  A feeling that for 1 hour of time I 
helped an inumerable number of kids learn about where I live, A 
minor workout and some pictures.  Sounds like a great deal to me.

GOVIA itself would be a group of srvers storing data that has been
approved as being free. These servers would be linked with a 
sharing scheme similar to that used by napster and other similar
apps., However only approved servers would contian data.  It is
vatally impratant that the data available from govia be placed
under a license that ensures freedom of use.  Do to this, People 
wishing to submit media files will be required to attach a 
signature to a copy of the free media licence to signify that they
understand the consecuences of offering non-free content.