IMPACT

We reinforce our open knowledge advocacy through partnerships with organisations like the Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons, and local cultural institutions (also called GLAMs - Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). In collaboration with our partners we organise edit-a-thons to improve on a specific topic and workshops to introduce skills in editing on open knowledge platforms.

What Does Open Knowledge Mean?

Open knowledge is knowledge that people are free to read, copy, redistribute without legal, social, or technological restriction. The preceding definition, for example, was adapted from the Wikipedia article on “Open Knowledge”. This is possible because most content hosted on Wikipedia is under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license allowing anyone to copy and “remix” the content on condition of ascribing credit to Wikipedia itself.