Aristarik

Creative Commons Tanzania

In Tanzania Creative Commons (CC) is hosted by the Open University of Tanzania (OUT); the only Open & Distance Learning (ODL) University in East and Central Africa. This came into being in 2006 when CC Headquarters (CC HQ) and OUT signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

CC Tanzania has implemented a number of activities that were both funded by the university and CC HQ. CC Tanzania affiliate team is comprised of volunteers who work and some of the are students of different universities and colleges in the country. To date there are more than 100 volunteers who participate in different CC-Tanzania activities.

Our key goals are as stipulated in our CC Tanzania Road map; “To promote access to knowledge and free sharing of resources, educational content and free culture” which we have engaged a number of stakeholders to achieve its set goals.

Some of the planned activities are implemented through CC Tanzania School of Open Programme launched in 2014. Through this programme, CC Tanzania introduced the idea of knowledge sharing to a number of stakeholders to smoothly make the understanding of Creative Common Licensing in the country ease; it works with Copyright Society of Tanzania (COSOTA) as the key target, universities, media industries, designers, musicians, innovators, development partners and among others.

Funding remains to be the major challenge in implementing the planned activities, staff’s time to carryout regular activities, and educating the community on the benefits of creative commons licensing. Support is still required to sensitize CC licensing to educators, artists, librarians, IT experts, innovators, researchers, students, kids, and many others to understand the benefits accrued for their creativity and sharing.

Gallery moved to your userspace

I've moved the gallery you created to User:Aristarik/Creative commons tanzania, as galleries are for collections of images rather than text. INeverCry 06:14, 22 July 2016 (UTC)