This article cross-posted from the Creative Commons blog, link here An Education Sprint The future of Open is a dynamic landscape, ripe with opportunities to increase civic engagement, literacy, and innovation. Towards this goal, the Science Program at Creative Commons is teaming up with the Open Knowledge Foundation and members of the Open Science Community … Continue reading »
Peer to Peer University (P2PU) and Crowdcrafting are both ways in which we can better leverage the potential of our numbers and make a difference in the world. I’ve been known to evangelize a tool or idea before, but these two are different: they’re as open as it gets. P2PU Last March at the Digital … Continue reading »
It’s been just over two months since I began an internship in the Science Program at Creative Commons. CC was definitely on my radar as I sought to become more involved in the open access movement, and I’m really grateful for the opportunity to bump shoulders with such driven and dedicated people. But the Science Program? … Continue reading »
…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. -Mark Twain, 1867 Recap The last three months have gone by so quickly, I’ve barely had the chance to stop and breathe. This is not to say that the next few … Continue reading »
No Surprise The world is getting younger, in terms of young people that make up our 6.9 billion-person population. I’ve seen figures estimating that nearly 1/3 of the world’s population is under the age of 15. The number of youth who will be entering college or skills-training courses, and inherently producing the very content that … Continue reading »
