Bring a girl child to Creative Commons!

Filed under: Featured Content — kerryn @ 3:31 pm

We are Mpumi, Sibulele, and Zimi. We are visiting the iCommons offices for a day. We are here for the Cell C bring a girl child to work, which parents are allowed to bring their daughters to work for a day so they can see and learn about the work their parents do. (note from iCommons:  Uhuru, little girl in striped shirt, is Wendy’s – admin assistant at iCommons – daughter. Left is Sibulele, middle, Zimi and right, Mpumi).
iCommons is an organisation that brings projects together that use CC licences which state ‘some rights reserved’ rather than all rights reserved. CC licences are licences that grant permission for other people all around the world to be able to use in different ways books, songs, and poems without having to ask permission from the writers.

We have learnt about websites and the internet. We also learnt about blogger. Blogger enables you to have your own website where you can publish articles, your stories and many more. The exciting thing about blogger is you get to chat to people all around the world and you get to express yourself.

The Cell C bring a girl to work is a great initiative that empowers girls and educate them to be women who lead by example and, women that will be able to empower themselves someday.

We had a great time and we wouldn’t mind doing it again. Thank you to the staff members of iCommons for making this possible and fun including the “treats”.

A beguiling African voice

Filed under: Featured Content, General — kerryn @ 1:50 pm

Makh's book cover Makhago Peter is a young Ugandan who writes in his spare time and has published through lulu.com. It is possible to hear Peter’s enchantingly simple voice and others like his through the initiative artmarketonline (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence) which was started by the Open Cafe in Potchefstroom.
Artmarketonline is a cyber-market-place where creators can come to find resources that will enable them to share and market their creative wares, from crafts to poems. The site assists artists in setting up blogs and creating awareness around their material. The site promotes open source and encourages creators to ‘open up’ their content to others, by providing info and links to the Creative Commons licences.
Creators such as Makhogo, known as Makh, are overcoming north/south borders by harnessing the power of the internet to spread their work. It is high time that some of these beautiful African voices are given a platform from which to speak to the world.

Makh says, “I read anything that crosses my eyes. Then, my legs don’t like me to do it a lot but walking is still a good part time job for me. You see, when the legs become hot, the head cools immensely. Finally, dreaming. I can’t get enough of this one. Whether it is with closed or open eyes I don’t mind.”