Mt. Kenya / Chris 73 / CC BY-SA Guest post by Elizabeth Kiragu Wanjugu and Tobias Schonwetter As we were busy getting ready for our community Global Summit a few weeks ago, we nearly missed the announcement of another very important addition to that community – our new CC Kenya affiliate. Our new Kenyan team…
In case you missed it, be sure to read Jessica’s recap from the Creative Commons Global Summit a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires. One of the most fun parts of an event like this is watching the ongoing commentary on Twitter and the stream of photos on Flickr. Below, we’ve compiled ten of our…
International arrivals / James Cridland / CC BY We are delighted to finally publish the fourth and final draft of the 4.0 license suite for public comment. We are publishing draft 4 of BY-NC-SA today, and will publish the other five licenses over the course of the next few days. The prior public comment period…
GS2013 Final Day in Hall (Ibtihel Zaatouri /
Creative Commons Global Summit 2013 (cckorea / CC BY) You might remember a few months ago when CC announced the start of an affiliate project grant program to support and expand the work of CC’s global volunteer network. Today, we are thrilled to announce the recipients of those grants. With a pool of over 70…
SXSW / nickmickolas / CC BY-NC-SA Are you planning to go to South by Southwest next year? CC has two pending sessions at SXSW Interactive and one at SXSWedu. If you’d like to see these sessions happen next year, then please cast your vote. Voting ends this week, so please show your support now! Open…
Finish Line / jayneandd / CC BY When we published Draft 3 of Version 4.0 of the CC license suite in February, we reminded our community that the ensuing consultation period would be its final chance to comment on the licenses before publication. The publication of that draft and reminder caused some stakeholders and others…
The Creative Commons Global Summit is almost here! If you’re not joining us in Buenos Aires, there are several ways you can follow the summit this week: Visit the Summit portal Follow the #ccsum hashtag on Twitter and the Summit group on Flickr. Read updates in English here on the CC blog and in Spanish…
Earlier this year, CC China Mainland volunteers helped organize an educational event to promote open licensing. The CC China Mainland team recaps the event in this guest blog post, which originally appeared on the CC China Mainland blog. CC China Mainland volunteers recently helped organize the Trans-disciplinary System Integration Design Challenge, a program of the…
India has launched a new learning repository for open educational resources (OER). India’s Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, and the Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training have collaboratively developed the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER). Dr. Pallam Raju,…