Draft strategy and roadmap for Creative Commons in the Asia Pacific, 2013

CC people in the Asia Pacific - help us create a strategy and roadmap for next year! This is what we have drafted so far, but we need your ideas...

Four key priorities: Expanding our region; increasing cooperation through translation; promoting openness in government and educational; and creating mentoring relationships in the network.

1. Expanding our region [Affiliates, this part involves work Soohyun and Jane would like to put into helping colleagues in Mongolia and India establish CC project. More details to come]

2. Cooperation through translation The need for cooperation regionally has been widely recognized and agreed on among the affiliates in the Asia Pacific, especially since the last regional meeting in 2010 and the global summit in the following year. Language barriers have posed challenges to this, so weve identified translation as one of the key areas to begin cross regional projects. Coordinate a targeted course translation project (with P2PUs School of Open?) Propose an additional translation project for public domain & cc licensed works; (traditional folk tales and children's books? Materials on the ethos of sharing?) Offer to work with Europeana ( www.europeana.eu ) to assist with translation (Pindar) Translate the HQ site / provide language options (including for disabilities) (Pindar)

3. Promoting openness in publicly funded research, data and educational resources. Creative Commons provides the legal infrastructure that underpins movements toward open government and open educational resources (OER). These movements were identified as focus areas by our region at the 2011 Global Summit, and we can continue to prioritize them. Develop strategies for communicating the benefits of sharing to discrete audiences in open government and OER (at a government, institution and individual tier level). Create a snapshot of open Galleries, Libraries Archives and Museums (GLAMS) practice in the region. Create asia-wide open culture building on Europeana Data Model (http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation ) (Pindar)

Identify and partner with two global or regional open government or OER challenges, and run a cross regional campaign for participation at each tier (Government, institutional, individual).

4. Creating mentoring relationships in the network. There many key skill sets to be celebrated and shared in the network. Document and share (in the form regular of interview pieces) the local context of each affiliate team, and why certain activities have been successful. Arrange virtual or face-to-face workshops by mentors on open government, OER, etc.

5) CC Plus Registry (Pindar) Help Solve the Identity/Orphan Works Issue for Photographs and Images 1. Deploy optional Photographic copyright registration i.e. a network aware, automated photographic copyright registry that becomes part of asian cultural archive 2. See PLUS registry model http://plusregistry.org

6) CC Plus Payment (Pindar) Understand the strategic significance of W3C Webpayments Group to address issue of sustainability and scaling of web business model 1. http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/ 2. Encourage Deployment of eventual Asia-wide Beta Test (e.g. payswarm Alpha 4 codebase) - avoid retrofitting double-byte/i8n issues into production platforms 3. See payswarm example: http://payswarm.com/ 7) CC Plus 3D (Pindar) Understand strategic significance and new IP issues and opportunities arising from desktop manufacturing (a.k.a. 3D Printing/Additive Technologies). Here's a great little video http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20137791 8) CC Plus Plus (Pindar) Based on 5&6&7 Above - Update RDFa ccREL or better define technical roadmap and CCs own IP Strategy (2013-2015)