The growth of the open movement

 

global network for​​and the development of accessible licenses in multiple languages ​​is crucial. It is now present in more than 100 countries and continues to expand its influence through annual events such as global summits. The first Global Summit, originally called the Summit, was held at Harvard Law School in 2008. The Summit was subsequently . Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and attracted more than 100 attendees and high-profile speakers such as Brazilian music icon and Brazil’s then Minister of Music and Culture Gilberto. Jill and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Fast forward to today and the Global Summit is an annual event that brings together educators, artists, technologists, legal experts, and activists from multiple countries to promote the power of open licensing and global access.

 

 

It has been committed to open

 

A education for many years. In 2017, we launched the Open Education Platform to welcome multiple open education advocates and practitioners from multiple countries to collaborate to identify, plan, and coordinate transnational open education . Content practices and policy activities. The Creative Commons Certificate helps educators, librarians, and leaders become experts in creating content that engages in and advocates for open licenses. It provides in-depth courses on open license copyright and sharing. Since its launch we have registered more than 100 graduates from 10 countries. Continue to work with multinational agencies, government foundations, and agencies to develop policies for the adoption and implementation of open licensing.

 

We have cooperated with many

 

A countries and institutions, such as Argentina number data the Smithsonian Institution, UNESCO, U.S. government departments, the World Bank, and the European Union Philanthropic Foundation, and have achieved many successes so far. For example, the Smithsonian recently introduced Smithsonian Open Access to release tens of thousands of images and data into the public domain using Creative Commons Zero. Creative Commons licensed content is available everywhere. Platforms and tools like Wikipedia Search the Free Music Archive use licensing to make hundreds of millions of images, articles, videos, and other content publicly accessible to the world. Many popular educational resources science and research publishers news sources art games and creative projects around the world also use Creative Commons licenses.

 

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