Commons-sense conference updates

From May 25 to 27, 2005, 150 delegates from 20 African countries, the US, UK, India and Brazil gathered in Johannesburg for the “Commons-sense” conference, hosted by the LINK Centre at Wits University’s Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM).

Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the full title of the conference was “Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons,” and it brought together people and projects from varying disciplines, all committed to a strong African role in regeneration of the public domain.

The key aim was to figure out how electronic networks and digital applications can be harnessed by Africans and African institutions in ways that will improve knowledge dissemination, creativity, innovation and economic development.

Read more about this landmark conference to launch Creative Commons South Africa and to map Africa’s role in the African Digital Information Commons >>