Chris Armstrong has left the LINK Centre and the Commons-sense project for the London School of Economics where he and his wife will be studying for the next two years. Chris has worked as the head researcher on the Commons-sense project and been an incredible support to ccSA in our first year.
Although Chris was […]

Kerryn McKay will be speaking about Creative Commons and education at Hilton College in the KZN Midlands tomorrow morning. Hilton College is hosting the ‘Intel Innovation in Education‘ conference. From the looks of the conference program, this is a great set of practical workshops and inspiring projects to learn from!

There is a great debate going on at the NewMedian blog around why noncommercial licences aren’t good for online media.

Creative Commons SA was invited to address Highway Africa 2005 conference-goers on the second day of the conference at a seminar entitled Online Publishing Business Models. Other speakers included Elan Lohmann from News24 and Herman Manson from media.toolbox
The seminar offered audience members different viewpoints regarding sustainable online publishing models. Creative […]

Reinhart Buys has written a nice piece in Media Toolbox’s latest newsletter summarising recent technology judgements and what they mean for freedom of expression on the internet in South Africa.

Kerryn and I are in Grahamstown this week for the annual Highway Africa conference. We’ll be presenting tomorrow on our open business model project along with Elan Lohman (News24), Herman Mansen (Media Toolbox), Matthew Buckland (M&G Online) and other major media organisations from around South Africa. Check out the latest news from the event […]

As expected, ‘Telkom has dropped its threatened R5 million lawsuit against Hellkom.co.za with costs and without conditions, allowing the satirical site to continue its basting of the telecommunications giant’ reports ITWeb. The reasons given? ‘Strategic reasons’ according to a Telkom spokesman. More likely the victory by Laugh It Off case in the Constitutional Court […]

I’m very pleased to announce that Kerryn McKay has joined the team at Creative Commons South Africa. Kerryn is employed as a researcher on the Commons-sense project here at the Wits University Link Centre and now also volunteers for ccSA. Kerryn holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University (seeing a pattern here, anyone? […]

ICDL in Africa (International Computer Driving License) has offiically licensed their training material under the Creative Commons license.
The non-profit organisation, which was established in South Africa by the Computer Society of South Africa, has the objective to promote and administer the license in sub-saharan Africa. More than 4 million people worldwide, […]

If you’ve been listening to Yfm this week, this will be only the second time that you’re hearing it. ccMixter, the awesome music sharing software developed by Creative Commons in the US, has just been developed for South African musicians. The site is being launched on the back of a Yfm competition sponsored by the […]