Promoting openness in the public sector, the case of the Netherlands

Promoting openness in the public sector

The case of the Netherlands

Paul Keller Digitally Open, Doha, 23 october 2010

Creative Commons Netherlands

• Supported by the ministry for culture education and science since 2005.

• Collaboration between Knowledgeland (a think-tank), Waag Society (a media lab) and the Institute for information law at the University of Amsterdam with Creative Commons International.

• Strength: Combination of legal research (IVIR), experimentation (Waag) & public advocacy (Knowledgeland)

Objectives

• Improve adoption of the Creative Commons licenses through providing information, cooperations with institutional users and research

• We have five specific working areas:

• Individual creators in the music sector

• (Public) broadcasting organisations

• Educational institutions and Universities

• Cultural Heritage Institutions and other archives

• The public sector / government

example 1: www.wikiwijs.nl

Wikiwijs

• a platform for open educational ressources developed by the ministry for education culture and science launched in late 2009.

• Offers access to learning materials and collaboration tools for anyone from primary to higher education.

• All material that is contributed to wikiwijs is being published under the Creative Commons Attribution license

• Creative Commons Netherlands did preliminary comparative research, advised during the implementation and is currently evaluating the license choice

example 2: www.rijksoverheid.nl

Rijksoverheid.nl

• The new uniform web presence of the central government

• Brings together all information published by the central government and it’s agencies

• Uses the Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication in order to indicate that all material available on the site is free from copyright

• Creative Commons Netherlands advised the implementation team with implementing the CC0 waiver and the communication

example 3: VPRO broadcasting

Lessons learned

• Know what you are advocating: combine advocacy with research

• Invest time in figuring out how the changes you propose relate to other policy objectives of your partners

• Talk to the people who are in charge of implementing first & prepare them to answer questions from the lawyers.

/ thanks for your attention ً شكراpaul@creativecommons.org