Jane Park

Jane leads the strategy, design, and implementation of CC’s product vision for CC Search and other products. She has ten years of organizational experience in the design, strategy, and execution of socially innovative programs in education, communications, and global network growth. As a founding volunteer of the Peer 2 Peer University, she has designed and taught a variety of courses and workshops, including Open Creative Nonfiction and Creative Commons for Educators. She has a BA in Philosophy and minor in creative writing from the University of California at Berkeley.

Posts by Jane Park

We are entering the Discovery phase of CC Usability

by Jane Park Events, Licenses & Tools, Open Culture, Technology

Over the next few months, we will be talking to users and creators of CC images, text, and data as part of updating the usability of CC tools in 2018. For our purposes, we are defining CC usability as both enhancing the experience of sharing and collaborating with CC’s current toolset, and conceiving of new…

“No tool is better than the people”: CC artists in conversation on Collaboration, Community, and the Commons

by Jane Park Events, Open Culture

We’ve been thinking about the role of Creative Commons in 2017, an era where much of digital sharing culture exists within walled garden platforms, with liking and commenting on insta-photos and sharing playlists that can only be streamed. In other words, the web has changed since CC initially launched in 2001, and we are grappling…

Our Proposal to add CC Symbols to Unicode, Round 2

by Jane Park Technology, Uncategorized

Last October we submitted an initial proposal to get CC license symbols into Unicode. Since then we’ve gotten some feedback from them, incorporated that into our thinking, and submitted an updated application. Here is the new proposal. (The old one for reference here.) The new proposal presents the CC license icons as graphic symbols. We’ve…

We want your story ideas about collaboration in the commons

by Jane Park Open Culture, Uncategorized

We need your help! Over the next year, we will be investigating and reporting on 2-3 of the most compelling stories about collaboration in the commons. We want to tell the story of when and why a creator first decides to use CC, the kinds of connections they make online, how they invite and encourage…

A Conversation about Making the Web More Human: kickoff event for CC’s prosocial work

by Jane Park, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Events

As part of our effort to build a more vibrant and usable commons, CC is trying to hone in on what makes sharing truly meaningful.