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Latam Commons 2008 - Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Open Education

  • Latam Commons 2008 is the first conference to combine focused work on open education and freely licensed educational materials with presentations and discussion about the public domain in Latin America.
  • The conference, sponsored by Derechos Digitales and ccLearn, aims to take advantage of the natural synergy between open education and the public domain to explore ways to strengthen access to culture and promote a vibrant and diverse knowledge community in the region.
Date: 20-21 November, 2008
Location: Santiago, Chile - DUOC Sede Alonso Ovalle
Organizers: NGO Derechos Digitales, Creative Commons/ccLearn
Sponsors: NGO Derechos Digitales, Ford Foundation, Creative Commons/ccLearn

About the organizers

  • ccLearn is the education division of Creative Commons, and applies the work of Creative Commons to the educational sector by promoting open licensing of and access to educational materials as a way to empower both teachers and learners.
  • ONG Derechos Digitales is a non-profit organization based in Chile that works to develop, defend, and promote human rights in the digital environment.

ccLearn working meeting on Open Education in Latin America: 20 November

  • ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons that was created to support worldwide access to open learning by reducing the legal, technological, and social barriers to the sharing and re-use of educational materials.
  • The ccLearn working meeting will include Creative Commons participants from countries around Latin America, as well as representatives of organizations and projects in the Chilean and regional open education movements. The meeting will be participatory and dynamic, and all attendees will be able to discuss a range of issues relevant to open education in Latin America. The goal of the gathering is to develop both a broad understanding of major education issues in the region and a focused vision of how open education and educational resources can address these needs.
  • The workshop will be interactive and discussion-based, and will focus on laying the groundwork for concrete projects that local Creative Commons and open education organizations can carry out in the following months. Some of the goals of the meeting include:
    • Mapping open education trends in Latin America, including relevant projects and resources, including open educational resources, free textbooks, and OpenCourseWare and similar regional initiatives.
    • Identifying the pressing issues and obstacles to the implementation of open education in the region, including legal and licensing issues that impact open education.
    • Identifying achievable goals, possible partners, and ways to move forward after the conference, and exploring methods to promote sustainable open education projects in Latin America and to foster relationships with projects around the world.

Seminar on the Public Domain sponsored by Derechos Digitales: 21 November

  • The growing importance of intellectual property laws threatens to place unexpected limits on our daily activities, constraining the free exercise of the right to participate in the progress of the sciences, arts, literature, and technology. Since 2005, NGO Derechos Digitales has focused on protecting human rights in the digital environment, promoting civic participation through technology, and supporting the balanced intellectual property policies that will incentivize creative works while also enabling access to knowledge and culture.
  • Among other questions, this seminar will consider how to establish a balanced regulatory system that guarantees access to culture without sacrificing the protection of creativity; what options are presented by the national legislative panorama and what alternatives are open at the regional level; and the emerging issues of the regulatory dynamic of intellectual property, with special emphasis on the public domain.
  • The seminar on the public domain aims to:
    • Promote a critical consideration of the current regulation of intellectual property rights, particularly in relation to public domain works and their impact on access to culture and knowledge.
    • Explore the regulation of copyright and related rights at the national, regional, and international level and the influence of this regulation on the composition and management of the public domain
    • Identify the best practices associated with the public domain and how these practices influence the ability to access culture and knowledge.

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