Bookbox, a project that plans to use Creative Commons-licensed works to build multimedia children’s storybooks in many global languages, won the Stanford Social Entrepreneur’s Challenge Award on Tuesday. The Social E-Challenge is a competition that judges ideas and business plans for social ventures initiated by Stanford students. Bookbox plans to initially focus its activities in […]

Creative Commons South Africa is embarking on a project to translate the Creative Commons licenses into Zulu, Southern Sotho and Afrikaans to reflect the diversity of languages that we enjoy in South Africa. Contact us if you’d like to volunteer and make the Creative Commons licenses more widely accessible.

Bridges.org is an organisation based in Cape Town that has made a number of their research reports on the use of technology in developing countries available under Creative Commons licenses.

These reports include a template for case studies on ICT-enabled development; an explanation of ‘real access‘ to ICTs that extend beyond just computers and connections; and […]

I’ve just come back from iLaw at the Berkman Center, Harvard University, where I held a ‘Food for thought’ dinner on Creative Commons in Africa. It was great fun to meet people from Brazil, Peru and the US who are working on Creative Commons-related activities and to talk about how the iCommons system works. Larry […]