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Creative Commons wins the 2008 Free Software Foundation Award for Project of Social Benefit!

Saturday at Libre Planet, the Free Software Foundation’s annual conference, Creative Commons was honored to receive the FSF’s Award for Projects of Social Benefit: The FSF Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented annually to a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society by applying free software, or the ideas of the free software … Read More “Creative Commons wins the 2008 Free Software Foundation Award for Project of Social Benefit!”

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CC recognized "For Raising Collective Intelligence"

At the Program for the Future conference, Creative Commons received the first Collective Intelligence Recognition Award for an organization. Tim O’Reilly received the first individual award. From the press release (pdf): The awards were presented by renowned computer visionary and inventor Douglas Engelbart and Robert Stephenson, curator at The Tech Museum of Innovation. Said Engelbart: … Read More “CC recognized "For Raising Collective Intelligence"”

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Creative Commons and Collective Intelligence / Program for the Future

Monday and Tuesday next week the Program for the Future Conference celebrates the 40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s famous Demo, which presaged much of modern computing, in 1968 (related in some ways, see Creative Commons 1967). From the conference website: Engelbart dreamed of technology and tools that increased our Collective Intelligence and a stunning example … Read More “Creative Commons and Collective Intelligence / Program for the Future”

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