Late 2008 a sensational homage to Creative Commons (CC) usage within Australasia was published. Edited by Rachel Cobcroft and produced in collaboration with the team at the Australian Creative Commons Clinic, Building an Australasian Commons features a vast repertoire of projects and initiatives that have employed Creative Commons licenses.
We are very proud and honoured to have been invited to have some of our projects represented here. Such a work has been a long-time coming.
Creative Commons is calling for more case studies to their wiki, also initiated by the energetic and inspired Rachel Cobcroft. Write up a story of your experiences with CC licenses or learn how others are using them.
Go CC wiki – Case Studies.
It’s been near on two years since we re-traced our steps, down-scaled and re-emerged with our skills, intuative knowledge and passion for a secure and fun future. With that in mind Grant and I have taken the bold step towards a strategic plan, drawing on our dreams and aspirations and 20 years in the IT and social media / computer communications business.
In the spirit of openness, we share with you the bare bones of our vision, mission and objectives… keeping in mind there is still much work to be done. But we are stoked with having come up with a description of what it is we do, where we came from, and amazingly, vision and mission statements in a single sitting!
Thanks to Ian for a sensational massage this afternoon, which we were both treated to, that set the mood for clarity, focus and diligence… the pizza and beers helped to!
Home Lands is a recipient of an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant. apc.au will be involved in a component of the research being one of the partners of the application to the ARC. We are very proud to be involved in this project and to have been part of a successful ARC process.
What is Home Lands?
Home Lands is an internet television project made with entry level technical resources that connects refugee young people living in separated communities. Home Lands is underpinned by the premise that refugee youth resettlement is more successful if identification, communication and engagement is maintained with home communities.
Many young refugees struggle to develop positive cultural identities. The Home Lands project will explore the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in connecting young refugees to their diasporic communities and demonstrate how this can assist them in developing positive social and cultural identities.
How will it work?
Separated production teams collaborate towards the creation of regular internet television programs that are then broadcast to communities at either end of this production spectrum and to other community members around the world. Preliminary stages of the project will see the use of Engage Media’s video distribution software and Creative Commons licensing, which may well form the basis of a dedicated media delivery platform in the future.
What has Home Lands done?
Over 2008, the Home Lands project has been in a research and development phase, through funding from the City of Melbourne’s Community Cultural Development Program and VicHealth (Victoria’s peak health promotion body). The Home Lands project has recently been funded over three years by the Australian Research Council and will continue to receive funding from the City of Melbourne throughout this time. Substantial research on the impact of ICTs on refugee/transnational identities will be undertaken by Dr Sandy Gifford at the Refugee Health Research Centre, La Trobe University, as part of the project.
A Home Lands future and partnerships
So far, work has been undertaken with Karen (Burmese) and Sudanese young people in Melbourne and Karen young people on the Thai-Burma border. We are seeking additional funding to support the on-going activities and are looking for international partnerships to support the international aspects of the project’s development over the next three years – 2009-2011 – in Thailand, Southern Sudan, Egypt and other Diaspora locations which could include Europe/USA/UK. Future phases of the project will see the introduction of other communities including Iraqi and Somali.
It is the intention of the Home Lands project that it becomes a sustainable resource to provide for on-going connection between separated communities around the world.
The Graz commons with farms either side
It was a brisk, crisp walk to the Schloss Berg in Graz where the last in a series of public discussions on the commons was being held. The venue, Dom in Berg, a theatre carved out of a mountain (the Schloss Berg itself), actually in the mountain, provided an inspired setting for what turned out to be a pivotal, necessary and invaluable exchange of ideas and debate.
The focus of these discussions were towards Reclaiming the Commons – struggles, strategies, visions. David Bollier wrote about the first session, which I had regrettably missed, but captured the tone of it through David’s article. The panel was comprised of farmer and winner of the Right Livelihood Award 2007 Percy Schmeiser (CA); leader of Creative Commons Brazil, author and professor of law, Ronaldo Lemo (BR); author and Commons expert, David Bollier (US); founder of the Free Knowledge Network, Petra Buhr (DE); Commons activist and blogger Silke Helfrich (DE); political scientist and economist Massimo De Angelis (UK); and, Stefan Meretz (DE), who studies the political economy of the free software movement.
The following is based on notes I had taken during the discussions and as such, are not indicative of the depth and extent of the forum that took place. At the outset of the discussion, the moderator Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, keynote presenter, it set out two primary objectives, 1) Reclaiming the commons, 2) Building the commons.
Read more…
That I would blog, or prepare a report at this time, when there are several people dedicated to recording the iSummit is likely an exhausting prospect. Thus, this article, a sampling of articles and reports on the sessions I’d been involved with. Three for now… let’s see how many more turn up before the close of the summit.
Fair and legal reuse of video
Composed by Simon Dingle covering the DIY video session, 31 July, this was a kind of roundtable sharing experiences in the use of CC rights management in various film / screen initiatives.
Grokking the Asia Commons
Simon covers the Asia Commons session, 30 July, that resulted in the following:
- developing case models/studies on the commons
- building a distribution network for asia (e.g. for multimedia contents)
- how to share presentations
- sharing strategies on advocacy
Live Blog: Asia Commons Meeting
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