Emrakeb Assefa, An African Guide to Creative Commons, Africa.com, May 27, 2005. Excerpt: 'The "Digital Information Commons: An African Participant's Guide" was launched yesterday at LINKS Centre here in Johannesburg in a bid to popularise the Creative Common (cc) movement on the African continent....The final version is expected to be published at the end of June 2005. The Guide is a collaboratively-authored document developed to stimulate inputs and during and after the "Commons-sense: Towards and African Digital Information Commons" set up as a living document....The basic conditions for "Digital information commons" include: the notion that it should be 'free' in so far as you don't have to be rich to have access to it; it is built and maintained by the community acting for the benefit of all, i.e. not for the private interests'. Moreover, it needs to be of significant depth, breadth and variety if it is to have any value for the community as a whole; that it needs to be accessible - people need to know where to find it - in order for it to be constructive. It should also allow reuse and adaptation either commercially or non-commercially in order to advance the flow of knowledge and information.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/28/2005 03:06:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
