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| Grants/2lifeCast + | 2lifeCast has been created with the intent to be a protected environment where authors, of any kind, can share their works under the Creative Commons framework. 2lifeCast's goal is to constitute a Syndication, defined as a system where any member becomes a broadcaster of all the works produced by other members, in order to gain, with pervasive use of the Internet and 3D worlds (i.e. SecondLife, OpenSim, etc.), wider visibility to all authors involved into the project, while ensuring the high quality of distributed works. 2lifeCast believes that Creative Commons license framework is the best way to share author contents ensuring the widest circulation and the growth of additional works around them, causing more authors' involvement and 2lifeCast to act as the perfect partner for creating cultural works and innovative formats in both education and entertainment. |
| Grants/A journey on foot--Chekhov in sounds project + | We want to make a free sound drama and affiliated music materials database website of below characteristics : 1. Break the space and time limits – people can listen to the drama anytime anyplace by downloading the track from website. 2. Remake for free- people can use all sound materials in the website to in their works, we expect to see more creative feedback, maybe our drama will be sampled into a techno song! |
| Grants/Access to Knowledge and Alternatives to Copyright in El Salvador + | This project aims to be a previous step to the Creative Commons (CC) Licenses porting process in El Salvador. In order to start the localization process, first is needed to sensitize civil organizations and government entities about the importance of balancing copyright and Access to Knowledge as a public policy to enhance higher standards in education, culture and technology. Free software and CC Licenses, as alternatives to copyright, facilitate and enable these development objectives. For this reason it is important to spread the understanding of its benefits. This project also looks up to generate an alliance of institutions interested to lead the porting process of CC Licenses. |
| Grants/Adopting Highly-Reconfigurable, Networked Cameras for Live-Streamed Meetings + | Elphel, Inc. "provide[s] high performance cameras based on free software and hardware designs." These cameras are more akin to miniaturized computer devices, complete with Ethernet and USB connectivity, than traditional cinematic cameras. The purpose of this project is to investigate adoption of these cameras as a "go-to" solution for live-streaming meetings using entirely free-and-open-source software and hardware. A network of such cameras could be preset to not only live-stream video released under a Creative Commons license, but would also facilitate a standardized citation framework for furthering discussions contained within the meetings across a broad range of important topics (including Creative Commons). |
| Grants/Applying Creative Commons to rural development in China. + | The project will begin to develop a knowledge base addressing needs of communities as they undergo rapid environmental and social change. The initial target communities will be two villages in the rural north of China, as they face severe, extended, drought as well as depopulation due to the adult population either migrating to find work, or suffering from HIV/AIDS. The project will involve training farmers to identify develop pattern-based permaculture best practice; village children will record community memories from their grandparents; phone-based surveys will evaluate how climate- and social change have led to divergence from traditional Chinese calendars of agricultural and health patterns. Two villages will be involved in this pilot, in order to test how the knowledge base enables different communities to compare experiences and share solutions. The knowledge base, patterns and procedures developed in the project will be designed to scale to be used internationally wherever communities have internet access and/or widespread mobile phone ownership. |
| Grants/Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students + | The proyect "Approach for a Working Emerging Field Through Scratch for Secondary Students" raises the realization of a workshop from October to November 2010, in an introductory level, where one hundred children will learn and develop knowledge and basic skills in computer applications programming, in a educational and meaningful way through the Scratch programming environment (http://www.scratch.mit.edu) at the Cultural Centre Matucana 100. |
| Grants/Arabic Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform + | Arabic countries lack of an organized repository for open education resources that allows interoperability between educational organizations and focuses on open access and open content for instructors and students. The project tends to solve the problem by building a fully functional online educational system that provides free sharing of educational resources. It will also encourage the creation of Arabic learning materials by instructors, the re-use and the remix of these. On- the-ground implementation of the system will be initiated in different educational institutions in Jordan. |
| Grants/Assessing the effect of license choice on the use of lexical resources + | WordNets (Semantic net works similar to enhanced thesauruses) have been built for over 50 languages, based on the design of the original, freely released English WordNet and are widely used in research and text processing applications. However, not all WordNets have been released under an open license. We will measure the correlation of the openness of the license with the use of the WordNet in subsequent applications and research, based on metrics such as the number of citations for each WordNet. We hyothesize that open WordNets are used more foten in subsequent research and development. Finally, we will create a server that will offer a unified, online interface to all open WordNets, and encourage other projects to also make their WordNets available. |
| Grants/AudioImager + | AudioImager is a simple video editor software for making videos from audio files and photos. The software enables users to combine the audio to relevant photos to users own photos or CC-licensed photos. The 7000-dollar grant enables the project team to author and present an academic paper, which analyzes the project software. |
| Grants/Avbi personal : budget tax advisor web tool for Guatemala + | a financial planning tool (balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, tax reporting, advisor) to facilitate today's problem of tax reporting and stimulate proper use of credit, spending and saving future income through a open source web application for individuals. |
| Grants/BatasPinoy Project + | Philippine laws are complex and many times complicated for the understanding of ordinary Filipinos and non-lawyers. Most available legal references are obviously under the strict application of copyright, expensive because they are proprietary, and couched in legalese. The idea of BatasPinoy is to commission 5 to 10 legal scholars to write basic legal information and materials that affect the Filipino day to day life ranging from laws governing the family, marriage, labor, human rights, crimes, taxation, property ownership, business transactions, intellectual property, and litigation properly organized expressed in layman's terms like an FAQ and make them accessible to Filipino end-users, here and abroad. |
| Grants/Beirut Metblogs + | Metblogs is the oldest and largest network of local media blogs. Over the last 7 years our volunteer driven blogs have proven to be powerful forces for their communities. We currently have blogs in close to 60 cities around the world but have not had much luck reaching the middle east. We'd like to use a CC catalyst grant to reach out and jump start a blog in a single key middle eastern city and try to use that as both a prototype and a spark to expand to the others. |
| Grants/Best Practices for Startups: Leveraging CC to Optimize Resources + | This project, designed to last three months, is divided in three phases. The first is the research and development phase, during which the organization will research best practices in entrepreneurship using CC and also determine new ways in which its entrepreneurs can leverage CC. The second phase consists on coaching coaches and entrepreneurs on these best practices and their advantages for bootstrapped (and funded) startups. The third phase will be completed by documenting a Case Study on the application of these best practices. |
| Grants/BiDi en Iberoamèrica + | Considering the growing role of digital libraries in the dissemination of knowledge, it is important to support them by increasing their access to knowledge and thus facilitate the construction of a more equitative society within a legal framework. Those interested in creating digital libraries would find support materials on copyright issues for the digital environment, especially regarding Creative Commons licenses. The site will host successful case studies of similar projects within the concept of open access. |
| Grants/CC Asia Pacific Conference 2010 + | CC Asia Pacific Conference 2010 is a two-day international conference to be organized by CC Korea where CC communities in Asia and the Pacific will gather together to share experience and discuss common issues and potential projects. This will be a valuable occasion for CC jurisdictions in the region to enhance ties of friendship and cooperation while providing a venue for individuals and organizations from various fields including business, government, and academia to build networks at both the international and local level, which will in turn facilitate collaboration within and across CC communities in the region. |
| Grants/CC Commentary + | Legal commentaries, as a format dating back to justinian roman law, are a key asset for legal work when both statutes and case law have to be considered. Just as they make statutory law workable for legal practice, legal commentaries can support working with private order standard systems and thus have developed for instance around the GPL license. For the six core licenses of Creative Commons, however, they don't yet exist in any comprehensive, let alone open and collaborative form. Thus, proposed here is to establish a collaborative, database-driven online commentary of worldwide scope for the six CC core licenses. To make it a sustainable up-to-date resource requires an intuitive web platform for collaboration and a group of international curators with clear rules and responsibilities. |
| Grants/CC Full-dome + | We want to build a platform for full-dome film projection and production, making it possible for artists, film-makers and students to freely access a dome and create content for this medium that is currently in its infancy. This project will serve to acquire the technology and materials to build the dome, port VJ software (MX-Wendler) to the Linux platform, create the technical infrastructure and make the handbook so that others can also fashion their own domes for similar projects. We see this work as the beginning of a long-term project that will create an infrastructure that, in the words of Prof. Ben Sassen, will "be made freely available for local Creative Commons licensed projects" and make "media available to a broad cross-section of society ranging from school-age to retirement-age". |
| Grants/CC Latin Policy + | The adoption of Creative Commons licenses by governments and universities to share public sector information as well as educational and scientific material is triggered by policy, administrative decisions, and legal context. The definition of public licenses and the implementation of early Open Access policies started in Anglo-Saxon countries. Latin countries (in Europe and America) are also adopting the model, however their political structure and legal culture differ from the Anglo-Saxon countries (centralized governments and research institutions, pyramidal organizations, resistance to American initiatives, differences between copyright law and droit d'auteur...). Therefore, argumentation and strategies towards CC licensing, Open Access and Open Data policies require a culturally different approach. This project proposes to study local approaches and experiences of implementation of CC licenses and CC0 by governments, universities and public institutions by the means of desk research, interviews and workshops in Argentina, Peru and Mexico, as well as in France, Italy and Spain. |
| Grants/CC Policy Makers and Industry Leaders Arab World Forum + | The aim of the forum is to invite senior policy makers (judges, government officials, ministers and academics) and industry leaders for a two day meeting in Amman, Jordan (possibly at the Columbia University Middle East Research Centre) to discuss the use of CC in the Arab world in government, academia and business. The forum will also invite legal scholars and copyright experts from the region and abroad to assess to what extent CC legal framework can fit with the civil legal system and copyright law of Jordan and other Arab countries. This forum will be the first in a series of initiatives that CC Jordan will be conducting to raise public awareness of CC and how it could act as a path for development in the Arab region. This forum will bring together people from different disciplines to examine the importance of open content licensing (including CC) and will contribute to the discussion around increasing the amount of Arabic content online through the initiatives of the public, private and educational sectors. |
| Grants/CC Uploader for Drupal + | The Creative Commons Video Uploader for Drupal will allow organizations with basic broadband connections (cable modem or DSL) and thousands of hours of video in large archives to share this content with the rest of the world by pushing the video to Creative Commons friendly Content Distribution Networks (CDN) including Archive.org and Blip.tv. This project builds on existing work done for the Drupal Content Management System (CMS) as part of the Knight funded Open Media Project and Google Summer of Code funded Creative Commons module as well as APIs developed by Archive.org and Blip.tv. Building on Drupal gives the Uploader support for internationalization and all Creative Commons jurisdictions. This project will essentially fund the development of an updated server-side CC Publisher that will queue a large number of videos and transfer them to the CDN during an organization's off hours. |
| Grants/CDLD Editions + | CDLD Editions plans to be a free online library of culture and art related publications. These publications will be made, edited and published by us using ISSUU and posted on our Weebly website. CDLD is Laboratorio Dzityá Documentation Center, part of La Periferia Gallery, where we have documented the artistic panorama in the Yucatan peninsula and Mexico since 2005. CDLD Editions will be a new extension to our Documentation Center where we will publish results from the previous 5 years of work in the gallery as well as what we have documented elsewhere (performance art, installation art, interventions, street art, ephemeral art as well as traditional artistic media). |
| Grants/CDLD.ORG / Virtual Documentation Center of the Arts + | CDLD.ORG is an free and unlimited online virtual documentation center for the arts. It´s main purpose is to be the largest artistic site in Latin America, archiving thousands of audio, video and image files. It´s content is user generated and artists, curators, musicians and so forth will be able to upload their files without space limits, censor and it will be totally free of cost. The most important part is the internal browser, which can find art works through many different criteria. Since images, texts, audios and videos can be uploaded, this will be an important platform for visual artists, musicians, writers, live performers, curators and cultural promoters. |
| Grants/Cacao, Commons’ Central American Observatory + | Cacao beans were highly appreciated by the Mayas in Mesoamerica (Southern Mexico and Central America). It had several uses, one of them was as currency and therefore it represents trade and exchange. Cacao Commons’, Central American Observatory, seeks to register the licenses of Creative Commons in the use of information in Central America, It will emphasis in Guatemala and Costa Rica because they are the, countries with the highest Internet usage and where the CC chapters are growing the most in the region. Twelve posts of critic analysis written by different Central American writers about publishers, written media, audiovisual projects, cultural magazine and educative material of their countries will be published. Two monthly texts will be published in the web site of the project and in magazines of the region, mainly in Guatemala. After the 12 posts have been published, they will be compiled in an electronic edition in the website of the project that will be under a CC license. |
| Grants/Catalyst Languages + | Create a repository of CC language teaching resources. Remix and create brand new resources suitable for use within the UK curriculum. Host on our public Virtual Learning Environment. Deliver training in CC licensing and using open source technology to our network of partner schools, encouraging them to further develop and contribute new resources to the repository. Write up the project and submit to academic journals. |
| Grants/Central and Eastern European Free Culture Policy Workshop + | We want to organize in Warsaw (or in its vicinity), in the first half of 2011, a two-day regional meeting of free culture activists (and in particular Creative Commons leads) from Central and Eastern Europe. It's a first of its kind opportunity to meet at regional level, recognize the region's specificity with respect to free culture growth – but also due to common economic and developmental conditions, and discuss strategies suited for our local contexts. The focus of the meeting will be free culture as a policy matter - in the context of both the recently adopted Digital Agenda for Europe; and the upcoming EU Presidencies led by Hungary (January – June 2011) and Poland (July-December 2011), which has declared intellectual capital as one of its priority area. The workshop will start with a collective analysis of national and international contexts and experiences, and then move on to formulate two sets of policy documents: an external one, to be presented to the Polish presidency, and an internal one, to be used by free culture activists. The workshop will focus upon two key areas: culture and heritage, and public / government information and data. |
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