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Subject: Creative Commons Jurisdiction Teams in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • From: Simeon Oriko <simeon AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: CC Affiliates <cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org>, CC Europe List <CC-Europe AT lists.ibiblio.org>, CC Africa mailing list <ccAfrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>, cc-asia-pacific AT googlegroups.com, latin-america AT creativecommons.email, arab-world AT creativecommons.email
  • Subject: [ccAfrica] Global Network Weekly #17
  • Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 00:01:55 +0300

Hello CC friends! 👋🏽 

This week we announced the first round of grants for the Community Activities Fund! I wanted to share some thoughts that may help those of you considering applying for the fund.

You might have noticed that we❤ applications aimed at bringing people together to form CC Chapters where they do not exist, or to collaborate on a project. Many of the first round grantee projects are doing this which we think is awesome!

Advocacy for CC tools and licenses also features prominently in a lot of applications. Many of you are advocating for Copyright Reform, OER adoption among other causes.

Lastly, it's very exciting to see a number of you who are very determined to train and nurture a new generation of Creative Commoners by reaching out to other communities such as startups. Even more of you are designing new and exciting programs aimed at recruiting and on-boarding people to the Open movement

Some things don't get funded though. I think it may be useful to mention some of those things: Top of the list is Capital Expenditure - fixed assets such as cameras, computers etc that we're not at this moment able to keep track of after the project is done. Second on the list are projects and ideas that make no effort in advancing the mission and vision of Creative Commons. In some cases, projects that reserve a huge part of their budget for personal emoluments don't get funded as well.

One thing I've been keen to do is to provide support - either by discussing your ideas or by connecting you with individuals and teams across the network who may be in a position to help.

I'm always very excited to read your applications and discuss your ideas for projects. Please reach out if you're considering applying for the fund and need some guidance.

'Til next Friday y'all!

Simeon Oriko

Simeon Oriko 
Network Manager, Creative Commons

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  • [ccAfrica] Global Network Weekly #17, Simeon Oriko, 08/04/2017

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