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Welcome to the Open Policy Network
Over the last year we’ve been working on developing two new projects: the Open Policy Network and the Institute for Open Leadership. Both of these initiatives arise out of a direct identified need from...
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Launch of the Open Policy Network
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Open Policy Network. The Open Policy Network, or OPN for short, is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to support the creation,...
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Apply now to participate in the Institute for Open Leadership
Earlier this week, we kicked off the Open Policy Network. We announced that the first project within the Network is the Institute for Open Leadership. The Institute for Open Leadership is a training...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Institute for Open Leadership Fellows
It’s our pleasure to announce the first round of fellows for the Institute for Open Leadership. The Institute is a training program to develop new leaders in education, science, public policy, and...
View ArticleIf Open Access was the default, Colombian student Diego Gomez would not be...
The following is a guest post by Pilar Saenz, Project Manager at Fundación Karisma. Diego Gomez is a young Colombian biologist who’s recently become known worldwide because he is facing a criminal...
View ArticleExciting Updates on Open Government and Open Education
There have been several exciting updates recently around the intersection of open education and open government. First, yesterday U.S. President Barack Obama announced a new initiative to promote open...
View ArticleThis Month in Open Policy: October
1. Version 2.0 of the Open Definition has launched. “Open” is intuitively clear, but often hard to define. Open Definition was written by the Open Knowledge Foundation in 2005 to define in precise...
View ArticlePublic access to research language retained in U.S. spending bill
This post was originally published on the Creative Commons blog. Last year, the U.S. Congress included a provision in its appropriations legislation that would ensure that some research conducted...
View ArticleChristina Hendricks on University of British Columbia’s Policy 81
On December 1 of 2014 I had the great pleasure of meeting and interviewing Christina Hendricks, a Senior Instructor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The main topic of our...
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Ford Foundation to require CC BY for all grant-funded projects
Originally posted on the Creative Commons blog. Today the Ford Foundation announced an open licensing policy for all of their grant-funded projects and research. The new arrangement came into effect...
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Report back: Institute for Open Leadership meeting
This post originally appeared on the Creative Commons blog. Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network hosted the first Institute for Open Leadership meeting in San Francisco 12-16 January 2015. The...
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Wikimedia adopts open licensing policy for foundation-funded research
This post initially appeared on the Creative Commons blog, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Last week the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is adopting an open access policy for research works created using...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Open Policy Network grant-funded projects
This post is republished from the Creative Commons blog. Last year Creative Commons and a global coalition of organizations launched the Open Policy Network in order to support the creation, adoption,...
View ArticleWelcome new steering committee members
This week the Open Policy Network elected David Carroll, Meredith Jacob, and Kelsey Wiens to the network’s steering committee. David Carroll is a medical student in Queen’s University Belfast and...
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Institute for Open Leadership 2: Apply now
Cape Town by Kemal Kestelli on Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0. Earlier this year, Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network hosted the first Institute for Open Leadership (IOL). The IOL is a training and...
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New fellows for 2016 Institute for Open Leadership
First published on the Creative Commons blog under CC BY 4.0. cape point (panorama) by André van Rooyen, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In September we announced that Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network are...
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