Last week, we released the five keynotes from CC Summit 2021. This week, we’re back with seven panel presentations from the event. Our Summit panels this year featured thought leaders, pioneers and community members who shared their insights on emerging trends and innovations in Open. Whether you missed them live or want to replay them to soak up all the knowledge shared — there is something for everyone!

Empowering Digital Creators

In ‘Empowering Digital Creators’ our panel has a dynamic conversation celebrating paths to supporting creativity and innovation online. There are so many resources available for digital creators to thrive. Hear directly from creators and those steering the platforms that support them.

The New Palmyra Project

New Palmyra Project (aka #NEWPALMYRA) is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra, one of the most significant heritage sites in the world, as an immersive virtual environment, based on archaeological and other clues. This panel reflected on the project’s history from 2005 to the present, including founder Bassel Khartabil’s vision, the open community’s efforts since, and the importance of openly and digitally preserving these sites.

Link Rot

Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. This panel had an informative discussion around the Internet’s ability to preserve information and knowledge.

Women in Open

In this panel, four amazing women at the forefront of open have an insightful discussion on the contributions women have made to the open movement and how to inspire future generations. The panel are past CC employees, board members and current community members—each share their journey in open, speak about their work and talk about what excites them most about the future of open. 

The Future of the Internet: A Digital Rights Approach

In this panel, digital rights experts examined emerging trends shaping our digital world. They addressed issues around open access to information, privacy, data protection, and fundamental freedoms, including free expression. They contemplated the threats and opportunities for the internet to support freedom, justice, democracy and innovation in the digital age. Enjoy insights into what our digital future might look like, as we co-imagine future online spaces based on open and democratic principles.

Edutainment, Open Pedagogy and Empowered Learning

This panel of teachers and students discussed their work with Tract, a peer-to-peer education space where students create media, clubs, and classes in their voices. Legendary educator Esther Wojcicki, Tract CEO Ari Memar, and Tract Creators Carissa Cabrera and Gibran Nassif shared the importance of bringing together student agency, problem based learning, student directed learning, media creation, and CC licensed open educational resources into student created learning pathways. Empowering students to think critically and independently, and openly sharing their creative expressions, is the key to solving the world’s biggest challenges.

Open Innovation – Covid & Beyond

The past year has brought home just how much health, the environment, and other concerns are intertwined with technology. Urgent crises depend on our ability to access information, share ideas, and scale innovations. In this recording, our panelists reflect on how the open movement has revolutionized accessible knowledge to empower communities worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as longer-term issues.

What’s next?

We have two more panel presentations to release—they will be available next week, keep an eye on the CC blog & Youtube channel. Between now and the end of the year, we will be sharing many of the other session recordings that took place during the 2021 CC Global Summit. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this process! 

Missed the CC Global Summit? Take a look at our wrap-up!

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I wanted to welcome and introduce some new team members to our broader community, as well as publicly thank those for their service who have recently moved on to new and exciting opportunities. 

We are delighted to announce our new Director of Communications, Dee Harris, has joined the CC team today. Dee has a wealth of experience covering strategic communication, media relations and campaign management. She has a keen background in creating content too, and has taught students how to apply CC licenses to their creative works. Dee has been a fan of CC for many years, and it is wonderful to harness her talent, enthusiasm and commitment for our cause. She will be joining Ony Anukem, CC’s Campaigns Manager, who joined the team in July as we develop and progress our 20th anniversary capital campaign.

On the GLAM front, we were excited that just before our Summit, we welcomed our new GLAM Manager, Camille Françoise, who is working with Brigitte to develop our new CC Open GLAM Program. Camille brings a wealth of experience after working as a policy and research officer on copyright and open access at the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA) and in various museums and libraries in Europe.

And as people begin their journey with CC, others are embarking on new and exciting opportunities. Jami Vass, our former Director of Development, is now with World Pulse whilst Eric Steuer, long term CCer, is now the new Head of Content and Creative at Kickstarter. The team and I want to wish them both well in their new and exciting roles.

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CC Policy Working Groups

In May this year, we announced that four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem. For the past five months, they have worked vigorously to provide clearer articulation of the issues and consider possible solutions in four areas: 

Working Group 1 — Artificial Intelligence and Open Content 
Lead: Max Mahmoud Wardeh 

Working Group 2 — Internet Platform Liability
Lead: Emine Yildirim 

Working Group 3 — Exceptions and Limitations to address Global Challenges
Lead: André Houang 

Working Group 4 — Beyond Copyright: the Ethics of Open Sharing
Lead: Josie Fraser

Each working group will be publishing an article encapsulating their outcomes in the CC Medium Publication in the first week of November. Keep an eye out for their release!

Future of Open Webinar

On Tuesday 9 November, you will have the chance to hear from each of the working groups’ leads, delving into questions like: 

• What are the implications of artificial intelligence for copyright law?
• How does copyright law over platform liability affect our freedom to share content online?
• What role do exceptions and limitations play in supporting the human rights to access to information, culture and knowledge?
• What ethical considerations might we need to take into account in the open environment?

Register for your ticket today!

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Interested in joining the Creative Commons Copyright Platform? You can: 

• Join the #cc-copyrightreform Slack channel; and/or
• Join the Copyright platform mailing list.

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We have exciting news…we published the keynotes from the 2021 CC Global Summit!

Alongside the 170+ sessions that took place at this year’s virtual event, we hosted five keynotes from global leaders in the open movement, who shared their work in open data, science and health, software and law. We’re excited to share these recordings of the keynotes with you today!

Achal Prabhala

This was our first keynote of the CC Global Summit, entitled “On the Margins of Creative Commons and Open,” by Achal Prabhala, Coordinator of the AccessIBSA project. Achal is a writer, researcher, recent fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, and longtime activist for access to medicines and vaccines. AccessIBSA campaigns to expand access and speed up the discovery of new drugs in India, Brazil and South Africa. In this keynote, Achal challenges the Creative Commons movement to look beyond traditional epistemological frameworks and consider allying with forces that achieve the same goals, but don’t use the same means.

Cecilia Oliveira

This was our second keynote of the CC Global Summit by Cecília Olliveira, an investigative journalist, researcher and Executive Director of Fogo Cruzado. Fogo Cruzado, which translates to cross-fire, is a Brazilian-based community-driven open data platform that collects and cross-checks real-time data on armed violence with a goal of reduce gun crime. In this keynote, Cecília shares her motivation for starting Fogo Cruzado in 2016 and the incredible impact the organisation has had in reducing armed violence in Rio de Janeiro and Recife over the past five years!

Audrey Tang 

This was our third keynote of the CC Global Summit, entitled “Digital Social Innovation,” by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey Tang is one of the world’s leading computer scientists, and among other things, is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In this keynote, Audrey shares how Taiwan has used open data and transparent governance to empower its citizens to code their own way out of a pandemic, and the lessons other nations can adopt from their digital playbook. Check out the slides >> 

Angela Odour Lungati

This was our fourth keynote of the CC Global Summit by Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director at Ushahidi, and recently appointed Board Member of the Creative Commons Board of Directors. Ushahidi is a global non-profit technology company that helps communities quickly collect and share information that enables them to raise voices, inform decisions and influence change. Angela shares her insights as a technologist, community builder, and open-source software advocate who is passionate about building and using appropriate technology tools to create an impact in the lives of marginalized groups. 

Lawrence Lessig

This was our final keynote of the CC Global Summit by Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, law professor, attorney, and political activist. As Creative Commons celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, Lessig reflects on how CC began, what it has accomplished, and what he hopes to see in the next twenty years and beyond. In this keynote, Lessig discusses some of the most pressing issues affecting the open ecosystem and the internet right now, and discusses what lessons can be learned from the prosecution and regulation of Big Tobacco—its media misinformation and disinformation, and its political interference.

What’s next?

Next up, we’ll be sharing the nine panel presentations that took place during the 2021 CC Global Summit—keep an eye on the CC blog & Youtube channel over the next two weeks. Once that is completed, we’ll start releasing as many of the other amazing sessions that took place as possible. We ask for your patience and understanding during this process. Thank you!

Missed the CC Global Summit? Take a look at our wrap-up!

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1600+ attendees | 300+ presenters | 170+ sessions | 90+ countries

The 2021 CC Global Summit (20-24 September) was our biggest and boldest event yet! The CC Global Summit is an annual highlight for the Creative Commons vast global network, this year being CC’s 20th anniversary and a milestone year for the Open movement more broadly—it was even more special.

The week was filled with engaging and thought-provoking sessions on the advances and challenges facing free and open culture today: open vs. privacy, the promotion of open GLAM, the unknowns of artificial intelligence, the climate crisis, developments in OER, the possibilities of NFTs, and so much more. 

This year, we had over 90 countries represented at Summit (50% more than last year!) from every corner of the globe. This means so much to us, as one of the core values of the 2021-2025 Creative Commons strategy is global inclusivity—we were on a mission to make this years summit more inclusive and diverse than ever before. Thanks to our sponsors and generous community donations, we were able to enhance our language supports, including live captioning and interpretation of our major program elements. We also launched our first-ever Summit Access Fund, which provided small dollar grants to help our community members and presenters cover internet and technology-related costs to attend the event. We are committed to building on this for future events, please share your experience in the Post-Summit Survey.  

We’d like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who made this event one of our best yet, keynote speakers, panelists, presenters, sponsors, performers and attendees. A special mention to our volunteers, who again amazed us with their energy, responsiveness, and dedication throughout the event. 

What Next?

We have finally published the keynotes from the 2021 CC Global Summit (watch them here)! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be sharing the nine panel presentations that took place during the Summit—keep an eye on the CC blog & Youtube channel. Once that is completed, we’ll start releasing as many of the other amazing session recordings as possible. We ask for your patience and understanding during this process. Thank you!

We also released a campaign featuring the 2021 CC Global Summit artwork by queer South Asian illustrator, Sonaksha Iyengar. You can now purchase t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and tote bags with this year’s artwork, and support Creative Commons at the same time! Want to make your own CC Summit-inspired pieces? Download the artwork here. 

As a nonprofit, Creative Commons relies on the generosity of the public to make events, like the CC Global Summit, possible. Every dollar helps us continue to unlock and expand the limits of open, driving innovation, collaboration, and creativity. Please join us in pushing the boundaries of open by making a gift to CC today!

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