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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…
This week the Creative Commons Global Summit takes place in Toronto, Canada. Eight students from the University of Sheffield are working as policy analysts with Sheffield’s…
Written in the early 1970s by renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, the manuscript for Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life has remained in storage…
The issue, as always, is where to draw the line between public safety and public knowledge. A new book argues that it’s the job of journalists and intelligence agencies to…