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'umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’ "We believe in Africa 's role in the information society of today and tomorrow, and we see Creative Commons and open content initiatives as one way to give voice to the vast creativity and knowledge that exists in Africa.” Statement read in over 20 languages at the Commons Sense conference, May 2005 Creative Commons in Africa: a glocal approach Heather Ford Creative Commons South Africa iCommons Summit – June, 2005 The spread of cc “The (grey) are countries where the project has launched. The yellow are close. The red is yet to be liberated.” Lessig blog – June 8 + Nigeria + Ghana + Egypt Failure? Nobody came… A phased approach 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Community building Initiating debate Launching a local licence Building partnerships Supporting licence networks Building applications Affecting policy 1. Community building South Africa • 43 million population • 4 million online • 18.7 million mobile users • Educational challenges – 11 official languages – Apartheid legacy – ICTs in schools http://za.creativecommons.org 2. Legal porting Andrew Rens Process “Do you want to port the cc licences to your local jurisdiction? Sign up to volunteer here” Mechanism: (Free) online discussion forum Vehicle: (Free) public interest lawyers who are already aware Incentives: An interested public and media with a stake in the outcomes of the debate Online discussion forum Exactly 3 replies: from Andrew and myself to each other Face-to-face discussions were critical to ensure legitimacy Public interest IP lawyers Virtually no public interest IP lawyers Turn to academics and policy practitioners instead An interested public with a stake in the outcomes of the debate The public’s awareness of IP is limited to issues of “piracy” and the image of the “pirate” has not yet moved from the criminal to the ordinary person legitimacy Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons 2005 A glocal event 1.Map the commons 2.Build community 3.Enable implementation Highway Africa News Agency Rhodes New Media Lab June, 2004 3/4 licensors And now… • Almost every major website involved in educational technology for development • A growing number of ngos and non-profits • University departments, major research • A cartoonist, local artists, musicians and multimedia students • Donors and interest from government cc is critical piece of a puzzle 1. Enlivening and empowering African voices on the internet 2. Improving access to quality materials for effective education The possibilities we want to enable • Students learning about apartheid propaganda by remixing scenes from the SABC in the 1980s • Access to the forgotten black writers of the last century Application development models Partnerships global, regional and local 1. ‘Developing a southern perspective of IP, media and culture in the 21st century’ cc Brazil, Ford – case studies – models 2. Science Commons: End-to-end publishing platforms with partners in the South 3. Regional legal and community-building support 4. Music sharing and the ‘freedom toaster’ Coordinating sector campaigns • • • • • • Development information – the APC Academic publishing – UKZN Patrick Bond Education online – Thutong, Donors – TSF, Osisa, Digital repositories – SASLI, UCT Multimedia archives – SABC, National Film Archives, SAHA • Indigenous knowledge databases Local policy work • Local public domain • Indigenous Knowledge Bill • Access to Information Act The spread of cc “The (grey) are countries where the project has launched. The yellow are close. The red is yet to be liberated.” Lessig blog – June 8 Interoperability 1. Licence development 2. Application development 2. Corporate partnerships ? ?