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Dr. Suma Parahakaran is one of our presenters at the 2021 CC Global Summit, taking place 20-24 September. In advance of her session at Summit, we caught up with her for a quick Q&A. Suma is currently pursuing her second PhD in Bioethics and Environmental Education at the American University of Sovereign Nations. Suma has a Doctorate in Education in Human Values-based water education from the University of Sydney, Australia. She also holds a Masters in Education from Assumption International University, Thailand. As a curriculum developer, she has conducted training workshops on integration of values and ethics into the curriculum with teachers from Southeast Asia. She is also a module writer (both for blended, online and offline learning). The school under her leadership was nominated for the Japan Education for Sustainable Development (2014 SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award) under the theme of “Fostering Global Citizenship for Sustainable Future”. She was also the resource lead and evaluated the Human values based water, sanitation and hygiene program, UNHABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements) (Regional Training of Trainers (TOT) course on Integration of Human Values-based Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education (HVWSHE).

Based in:

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Summit Session:

Sustainable Environmental Education and Best Practices Integrating Human Values and Ethics

How did you get involved with Creative Commons? 

I heard about it when I was lecturing at the open university.

How many times have you been to CC Global Summit?

Once

In the future, what is something you would like to see at the CC Summit?

Global participation—as it is for the common good.

Why are you an advocate for Open?

Education and medical research must be free for any country to be successful without politicking. 

“I want CC to be the new crest jewel for making a better world!”

What is your proudest achievement?

I specialized in Curriculum Integration of Values and Ethics. 

What is the best part of what you do? What is the most difficult part of what you do?

Research on improving education is the best part. Most difficult is to get schools to take up Values and Ethics as an agenda by policymakers. 

What tool/platform/app are you loving right now?

Taxila Education where I am opening up for Educators (working on it).

What’s one new trend that you think the CC community should look out for?

Profiles of CC members, like me, being advertised, so that we can collaborate on our important work, on many platforms. 

What is the biggest setback you have experienced? How did you overcome it?

So far the going has been good! 

If you could only leave people with one message from your summit presentation, what would it be?

LET’S HAVE A BETTER WORLD…. One where love, peace, and sustainable education become the new NORM! 

What was the best career advice you ever received? What was the worst career advice you ever received?

I have followed my own intuition. Worst is people trying to get what they want you to do to achieve their purpose, and not for the common good. 

What would you like to say to Creative Commons on our 20th anniversary?

I want CC to be the new crest jewel for making a better world!

What does ‘Better Sharing, Brighter Future’ mean to you?

Education for All, People are FOR and by the PEOPLE

 Join us from wherever you are for the 2021 CC Global Summit, which takes place 20-24 September!  Register here >>

 

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We launched the ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series to introduce the CC community to our fantastic presenters at this year’s CC Global Summit, taking place September 20-24. Next up, we sit down with Arturo Sánchez Pineda. Arturo is a Venezuelan researcher (PhD) in physics, computer science and education. He lives in Europe and develops his professional and outreach activities at CERN, LAPP, and ICTP in Switzerland, France, and Italy. Some of the relevant activities in the OER area are the management of the ATLAS Open Data project for Education at CERN, the coordination of the CEVALE2VE, being a member of the EU Horizon 2020 project called ESCAPE, and the EU ERASMUS+ project LA-CoNGA physics. He is also the co-founder and GNC representative of the Creative Commons Venezuela Chapter. In general, he always tries to teach and outreach what he learns. In his opinion, the best way to contribute to the Creative Commons objectives and society has been through education. Find out more at https://www.youtube.com/c/ArturoSanchezArtara.

Based in: Geneva, Switzerland

Summit Session: Open Source & Open Access: from United Nations Agencies to Open Educational Programs in the Americas

How did you get involved with Creative Commons?

I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Creative Commons about our Open Access program for ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (read it here), and from there, I started to interact with CC constantly!

How many times have you been to CC Global Summit?

Four times (since 2017).

What was your favorite CC Global Summit? (if applicable)

Lisbon 2019

In the future, what is something you would like to see at the CC Summit?

More hands-on workshops for those new in Open Access tools and resources.

Why are you an advocate for Open?

Open has been the only way I know that education and science are done, so I keep doing it for the global community, or at least I try.

“International cooperation is possible and necessary for equity and progress in education around the world. And Open Access is real.”

What is your proudest achievement?

Being part of truly global communities where I am never the smartest guy in the room.

What is the best part of what you do? What is the most difficult part of what you do?

The best part is reaching so many people, and the most difficult part is figuring out how to reach more people.

What tool/platform/app are you loving right now?

Discord. It allows me to organize engaging events and fully operational teams.

What is the biggest setback you have experienced? How did you overcome it?

The usage and outreach of the Open Software, less on the technical side, but as a tool for economic and social development in the global south.

If you could only leave people with one message from your summit presentation, what would it be?

International cooperation is possible and necessary for equity and progress in education around the world. And Open Access is real.

What was the best career advice you ever received? What was the worst career advice you ever received?

My best career advice was from one of my grandma’s in Spanish dele, which translates as “continue with what you are doing, it remains less than when you started.” And the worst… I do not remember it.

What would you like to say to Creative Commons on our 20th anniversary?

You are truly global, let’s embrace that.

What does ‘Better Sharing, Brighter Future’ mean to you?

 Sharing without documentation — on-boarding and outreach is not really sharing.

Haven’t had a chance to register for the 2021 Global Summit yet? Register here >>

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The countdown to the 2021 CC Global Summit (September 20-24) continues, and next up in our ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series, we have Leo Cunha, CTO of Curriki.org. In his role, Leo architected and managed the development of the first Open Educational Resources (OER) enterprise-level, standards-compliant, authoring and distribution platform for interactive learning resources. The success and innovation of Curriki’s open architecture resulted in its selection as a finalist in the Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution category for the Codie Awards in 2021. The technology spearheaded by Leo also resulted in Curriki being chosen, alongside the World Health Organization, as one of two non-profit organizations sponsored to participate in the Red Hat Innovation Labs in 2020.

Leo is a seasoned systems architect and education technology executive with over 30 years of progressively challenging experience in management, leadership, and the design and development of mission critical software systems for education.

Based in: Cupertino, United States

Summit Session: Project #OPENEDUCATION – Teaching and Learning in Perfect Harmony

How did you get involved with Creative Commons?

Through my work in Open Educational Resources (OER), and the opportunity to be on a call with Dr. Cable Green.

How many times have you been to CC Global Summit?

First time ever.

Why are you an advocate for Open?

I have actively participated in the Open movement since its inception, and have been a proponent and contributor ever since.

“The spirit of sharing is progressive. The better we get at it, the better it will become.”

What is your proudest achievement?

Releasing the CurrikiStudio, the OPEN authoring platform for OPEN educational content.

What is the best part of what you do? What is the most difficult part of what you do?

Making a measurable impact in the state of education and equity is the best part of what I do. The most difficult part is ensuring that the spirit of open is not lost among the users of open technologies and creators of open content.

What is your favorite GIF?

Ooga-chaka

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What tool/platform/app are you loving right now?

CurrikiStudio – I am amazed at the adoption and imaginative ways our open technologies are being put to use!

What’s one new trend that you think the CC community should look out for?

Keeping an eye on the hype around NFTs

What is the biggest setback you have experienced? How did you overcome it?

There are no major setbacks, once you set your mind to overcome whatever life throws in your path.

If you could only leave people with one message from your summit presentation, what would it be?

Share. And Share Alike!

What was the best career advice you ever received? What was the worst career advice you ever received?

I wish I had received career advice much earlier in my life – like as early as middle school!

What would you like to say to Creative Commons on our 20th anniversary?

Don’t stop, and don’t look back.

What does ‘Better Sharing, Brighter Future’ mean to you?

The spirit of sharing is progressive. The better we get at it, the better it will become.

 

Haven’t had a chance to register for the 2021 Global Summit yet? Register here >>

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With exactly one month to go until the 2021 CC Global Summit (September 20-24), we are launching our ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series to introduce the CC community to some of our amazing presenters from this year’s event. First up, we have Primavera De Filippi. Primavera is a Researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Her research focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, with specific focus on governance and trust. She is the co-author of the book “Blockchain and the Law,” published in 2018 by Harvard University Press, and she was recently awarded a €2M grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate how blockchain technology can help improve institutional governance through greater confidence and trust.

: Paris, France
Summit Session: Creative NFTs: Using Blockchain Technology and NFTs to Support Creative Commons (access the program here).

How did you get involved with Creative Commons?
I joined Creative Commons France in 2010 as a legal expert.

How many times have you been to CC Global Summit?
Three

In the future, what is something you would like to see at the CC Summit?More NFT related stuff .

Why are you an advocate for Open?
I believe that information should remain open and accessible to all, in order to foster creativity through incremental innovation. The model of artificial scarcity established by copyright law is not ideal for all types of works, especially with the Internet, which is characterized by digital abundance.

“Blockchain can be used for creating digital scarcity and exclusivity, but also to foster creativity and promote digital abundance, we just need more commons-oriented people to work on it!”

What is your proudest achievement?
Bringing my Plantoid art project at Burning Man (www.plantoid.org): Plantoids are blockchain-based life-forms, or mechanical plants using cryptocurrency to reproduce themselves by hiring artists to create replicas of themselves. The goal is to eliminate the figure of the author, by enabling people to fund the art-pieces themselves, rather than their creators, to facilitate their reproduction.

What is the best part of what you do? What is the most difficult part of what you do?
The best part of what I do is exploring the new opportunities that blockchain technology provides, and how they can foster new economic models for artists and creators. The most difficult part is actually getting these opportunities to be implemented in the real world, and adopted by creators.

What is your favorite GIF?

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What tool/platform/app are you loving right now?
Notion — a new editor that blends notes, tasks, wikis in one app. 

What is the biggest setback you have experienced? How did you overcome it?
Getting people to understand that not all NFTs are ridiculously energy-consuming, and that different blockchain platforms can be used to provide environmental friendly solutions for NFTs. I am still struggling to overcome it, but it’s all about information and education.

If you could only leave people with one message from your summit presentation, what would it be?
Blockchain can be used for creating digital scarcity and exclusivity, but also to foster creativity and promote digital abundance, we just need more commons-oriented people to work on it!

What was the best career advice you ever received? What was the worst career advice you ever received?
I think the best and worst career advice I ever received were essentially the same: ‘Like what you do, and you’ll never work a day in your life’ — very true and very false at the same time .

What would you like to say to Creative Commons on our 20th anniversary?Thank you for all the work and inspiration you’ve brought to the world .

What does ‘Better Sharing, Brighter Future’ mean to you?
Sharing is a skill set that needs to be learned in order to build a more sustainable and cooperative future.

Haven’t had a chance to register for the 2021 Global Summit yet? Register here >>

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This month, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) shared its new open access policy. This new policy is a welcome initiative that will increase opportunities for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed, shared and reused.

As part of our work supporting efforts in the creation, adoption and implementation of open access policies with various institutions, Creative Commons (CC) was pleased to lend its knowledge to assist UKRI in developing its open access policy as part of the Open Access Review last year. Generally, CC is committed to the goal of ensuring that the public is able to access immediately, free of charge, and without restriction, the peer-reviewed research articles and academic books resulting from publicly funded research. We are pleased to see that the comments we provided back in May 2020 have been taken into account in the review process. We are especially glad to see that key requirements of the new policy include immediate open access for research articles and the release of publications under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY) (CC BY ND by exception only).

CC licenses and tools have become the standard in research publication open licensing. They are free, easy-to-use, simple and standardized licenses that enable researchers to share the articles or monographs they wrote with everyone, worldwide, on the conditions that they determine. In practice, this means research articles and data can be freely reused by others, thereby enhancing collaboration among researchers, accelerating the pace of scientific discovery, and facilitating the dissemination of reliable, practical information to the public.

For guidance on implementing an open access policy or using the CC License Suite, please contact us at info@creativecommons.org—we’re here to help.

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