Creative Commons South Africa

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Here are some links to notable African Creative Commons-licenced content. Find more on the international website here and tell us about your Creative Commons licenced project!

Architecture


Siyathembe: Field of Hope

Architecture for Humanity: Design like you give a damn This innovative website is licenced under the Creative Commons Developing Nations licence. Designs include entrants to the ìSiyathembaî design competition to design and build a sports and HIV/AIDS outreach center in KwaZulu-Natal, an area with one of the one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world. Launched in 2004, the ‘Siyathemba’ competition challenged the world’s designers to create the ‘perfect pitch’, for the youth of Somkhele, South Africa, who are three times more likely to become HIV positive than youth in other parts of the world. Siyathemba is the Zulu word for ìhope.î In addition to serving as a gathering place for youth between the ages of 9-14 and health education/training centre, the pitch will also be home to the area’s first girls’ football league.

Art and culture


By Victor Geere

Laugh It Off’’s 2005 Annual Independent voices of youth around South Africa

Netanya Naude Poet, artist and creator, living in Potchefstroom

Roy Blumenthal Artist-at-large, coffeshop-schmuck and throat-for-hire, living in Johannesburg

Victor Geere Artist living in Cape Town

Authors and books

AJ Venter ‘Batteries not included’ - see a preview here
Netanya Naude ‘Beneath the Masks of Love’ - download it here

Community projects


www.opencafe.co.za

OpenCafe, Potchefstroom

Donors

The Shuttleworth Foundation: TSF has specified that all grantees use Creative Commons to licence their information.

Education


www.thutong.org.za

The Shuttleworth Foundation: TSF uses Creative Commons to licence many of their open content projects

Thutong.org: The South African national education department’s portal allows authors to choose the licencing conditions of their work using cc licences.

UWC’s Kewl Project T he KEWL open source on-line learning management system is currently used at UWC for about 40 courses in law, social work and biology, and has been adopted by several other in st itutions and e-learning projects, including the University of Ghana Legon and the Nettel@Africa project.

Media


Highway Africa News Agency

The Rhodes University New Media Lab in association with Highway Africa are set to publish a book entitled “Absent Voices, Missed Opportunity: The Media’s Silence on ICT Policy Issues in Six African Countries” under a Creative Commons licence. More >>

Highway Africa News Agency published both the ‘WSIS Africa Agenda‘ and ‘open commons’ under Creative Commons licences.

 

Music


Mr Gelatine

Johannesburg Philharmonic

Indidginus

Mr Gelatine

Skyscraper A Johannesburg-based band

Research and training


www.itrainonline.org

Bridges.org

Link Centre

iTrainOnline

WomensNet’s Gender Stats

Technology projects

Swahili ICT glossary (Tanzania)

Haiti! (Namibia) SchoolNet Namibia has teamed up with Direq International , Strika Entertainment and The Namibian Youth Paper to produce and distribute Hai Ti!, a comic strip that spreads the word about the ways that computers and the internet can transform learners’ and teachers’ lives.

Webloggers and blog tools


From Nathaniel Stern’s website

AJ Venter

Brad Whittington

Fodder: a blog from the heart of zaland

The Mail & Guardian Online’s Blogspot for bloggers

Nathaniel Stern

Jo’Blog