On October 23 in Guatemala City, the UFM‘s New Media Centre will host an event to celebrate the localized Guatemalan licenses, available soon online. Jimmy Wales, Creative Commons Board member, will hold the keynote address Free to choose, to create, to innovate, to learn, to imagine.

CC Guatemala’s institutional host, UFM and its New Media Center, will be releasing a vast amount of material and education resources under the Guatemalan licenses. The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: A Chronicle of Conquest will be available under a localized CC license as well.

In other exciting news, the region’s first orphan works rescue program will be initiated by the University’s Ludwig von Mises Library. The program will scan twentieth-century Central American works in cooperation with the Internet Archive. More open content and open education programs in Latin America will be discussed this November 19-21 at the Latam Commons 2008 conference in Santiago, Chile.

Congratulations to CC Guatemala and Project Lead Renata Avila!

Press Release (English and Spanish).