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  • From: kayode yussuf <kayusyussuf AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Tobias Schonwetter <tobias AT creativecommons.org>, CC Africa mailing list <ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ccAfrica] Updates
  • Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:46:27 +0000 (UTC)

Hello everyone,,

Let me start by congratulating our own Simeon on the new appointment, it was worth it.

I believe we are ripe for a regional meeting and I think East Africa will be most economical and also give easy access (in terms of visas).

Thank you.
 
Kayode Yussuf


On Thursday, August 11, 2016 12:40 PM, Tobias Schonwetter <tobias AT creativecommons.org> wrote:


Dear CC Affiliates and CC friends in Africa:

the last few months were pretty busy and intense on our side (I am sure its the same on your side), and it is definitely time to share a couple of things with you on this list. We hope you find this summary useful - and please feel free to add to or comment on what is summarised below.

Let us perhaps start with an update about an event that already took place in June: this year’s second "In Town Week" of CC staff in Toronto. We have already provided many of you with verbal summaries of what was discussed in Toronto but you may still be interested in this short-ish write-up about the event:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r5FKavx0LaSoy4IIP7jF0bIBNc3bQvYNzIqNtvKlqxI/edit?usp=sharing   Among other things, the doc refers to CC’s 2016-2020 strategy, and this may be a good reason to re-familiarise yourself with CC’s current overarching strategy. It can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hgKxCFVHcV6afAqSWlXBjLdh5nL3PWA7tH1YxSfHSk/edit The next ITW is scheduled for November this year and we will keep you in the loop about what is discussed there. Better even, please let us know between then and now what you want us to bring up with CC staff.

Moreover, it is great to see all the activity and projects faciliated by the Awesome Fund. Some of you on this list have already received funding - and if you haven’t, please watch this space as there may be another round of funding. Please check out this great list of current projects from all over the world: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CCisAwesome And if you are running one of the projects, please consider writing a short piece about this on this list.

Also, as most of you know already, our very own Simeon Oriko from Kenya was appointed by CC’s CEO Ryan Merkley as CC’s new Global Network Strategy Manager with the task to steer a research project suggested by CC’s Steering Committee that aims to improve our affiliate network system. More about the Global Network Strategy Committee can be found here: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Global_Network_Strategy

Now, as for our region, recent meetings of CC Africa affiliates (eg, the one in Seoul) as well as our recent round of affiliate skype calls highlighted once more that there are a great deal of issues that we need to discuss and tackle (incl. growing CC in Africa, our website, social media presence, fund raising, participation in (global) projects, better collaboration among our teams, the role of RCs, stronger relationships with like-minded communities, translations, metrics, policy engagement etc) - but more importantly perhaps is that we collaboratively develop a comprehensive CC strategy for Africa that speaks to these and other issues. Alex and I feel that a regional meeting is crucial to develop such strategy and we are currently crunching the numbers of what is still possible in 2016. We are doing our utmost best to pull off a two day event with participation of at least one delegate from each of our current affiliate countries. It seems that given the strength of CC in East Africa, the most economical option would be to host such an event there, even though the first and only Regional Meeting took also place in East Africa. Any thoughts? Takers? Do you want to help organising it? On a site note, there is some reluctance at CC HQ level to have regional websites, so while we should discuss this further (ideally face-to-face at the aforementioned event), we have for now “parked” the idea. But we do have a template ready and if we agree that we should continue with our website, it will take no time to set one up as we literally only need to populate the content.      

Lastly, while this email does not refer to any survey this time, we are fully aware that we often approach you with surveys and that most of you are pretty survey-fatigued at this point. We really try hard to keep the number of surveys as low as possible. At the same time, however, surveys are a pretty good way of tracking and monitoring and we need our annual surveys to get a baseline feel for what is happening on the ground. And CC is currently trying to understand its affiliate network better to determine what works and what doesn’t, and what could be done to help affiliates and to strengthen our network generally. This is an important initiative but may unfortunately require more requests for filling in additional surveys. Please bear with us :-) 

Best,

Tobias & Alex
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Dr. Tobias Schonwetter
Regional Coordinator: Africa
Creative Commons

twitter: @tobyschonwetter









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