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At an unusually divisive time for politics in the West, there’s one thing most people can agree on: the economy is not working well enough, for enough people.
Right now,…
At the core of the Creative Commons are the CC licenses. The Creative Commons approach addresses important issues for copyright and intellectual property, but the CC is more than…
Many of the different ‘open’ agendas have a great deal in common and can benefit from a more open conversation rather than working in silos.
From the summit so far, it…
On the first morning of the summit, local Canadian government official Deb Matthews explored issues around access to education.
Several hundred delegates descended upon the Delta…
Balancing the mission to provide access to knowledge and to share and collaborate in the creation of knowledge is sometimes hard to reconcile with the fundamental need to ‘…
Early Years Literacy Educators in the African Context take the platform to talk about how open publishing and multi-lingualism opens out opportunities for young readers.…
Alicja Perkowska (10Cloud, SMK Open) led a discussion on how the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector can measure its social impact; delegates agreed that…
The much anticipated first day of the Creative Commons summit finally arrived, with the CEO proud to announce not just a new report but a new emphasis and focus for the…
In the day before the start of Summit, the GLOSS team are meeting the conference organisers in order to hear more about plans for the meeting and to coordinate communications.…
Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres recall that the Eurozone risked seeing its legitimate efforts to strengthen the EMU vetoed by the UK, a country with a derogation from…