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The Open Copyright Review
Throughout 2008, The African Commons Project has been working in conjunction with the Shuttleworth Foundation in Cape Town, on the Open Copyright Review. The review was a project that aimed to engage...
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Social media that help grow communities from the inside out
Back to the basics. Photo by fadderuri on Flickr. CC BY NC SA In the last month, the team at African Commons has developed two proposals for innovative use of new media tools to serve different...
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Our heritage online
The seeds of inspiration around creating a heritage project were sewn just over a year ago when The African Commons Project held an iHeritage event at a local shopping mall in Jozi on Heritage Day,...
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Announcing the first iHeritage seminar for 2009 on digitisation and access
iHeritage and the African Commons Project are inviting all museum, archive, library and heritage fundis to a seminar on digitisation and access to South African heritage in Rosebank, Johannesburg.The...
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Sharing our heritage online with OpenSA!
OpenSA! launches in Johannesburg today with a pilot project to make South African heritage more accessible for remixing and re-publishing by online creators. In collaboration with SA Rocks and the...
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The African Commons Project is blacked out
There’s a political campaign spreading across the internet, one that is ‘turning out the lights‘ on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter profile pictures, and throwing a dark shadow on blogs around the world....
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October, the event coverage month of 2009!
Daniela and Kerryn from TACP with Francophone blogger team at the IDRC's Acacia Research and Learning Forum, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The month of October was a busy one for The African Commons Project team...
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Sign the petition for a consultative, development-focused Copyright Review
As part of the ‘1978…What were you doing?’ campaign, The African Commons Project along with the National Consumers Forum, have launched a petition, to be sent to the Department of Trade and Industry,...
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Whatever have we been doing?
A screenshot of the SAFIPA website Well, this blogpost comes rather late in the day and the team – much reduced in numbers – at The African Commons Project had better have a good excuse for not...
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