Dear all for those of you who havent heard about this yet, Creative Commons will co-host with ICT Qatar two important events in Doha, Qatar, on 23-24 Oct. On the 23rd, "Digitally Open" http://www.ictqatar.qa/output/Page1988.asp is a forum about creativity, openness and innovation featuring keynote speakers as our CC CEO Joichi Ito, Mozilla Foundation Chairperson Mitchell Baker and the Google "open source man", Chris di Bona. The forum is the first one ever in the Arab region addressing how innovation can thrive in the digital age through sharing and openness. It will highlight "best practises" of the use of CC licenses within governments like India (Sunil Abhraham) and the Netherlands (Paul Keller) and in fields like art and education (Eric Steur, Creative director at CC) and science and technology (John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at CC). Many local speakers from Qatar, like Dr. Hessa Al Jaber, Secretary General, ictQATAR, will talk about the digital and open framework which is being built by Qatar. Speakers like Roger Mandle, Director, Qatar Museum Authority, will discuss potential applications of open licensing to art and heritage, as others will be doing for science and technology, etc. An "hands on" workshop on open source development will be lead by Bassel Safadi and the fabricatorz team with the kind support of Mahmoud Abu Wardeh and Issa Mashaneh from the Jordan Open Source Association.
Thanks to the great support of ICT Qatar, Doha will also host the Second Creative Commons Regional Arab meeting. Official CC affiliates from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon will be joining, together with many supportive lawyers and community people from Jordan, the UAE and Qatar. Many issues will be discussed concerning the future development of CC communities in the Arab world. We`ll post about the outcomes once the meeting is over so everybody in our regional community can be aware of the steps undertaken. Next year we hope to have more countries joining, but so far we have been receiving enquiries from countries like Iraq and Palestine to be involved more into regional activities, I hope that soon we`ll have more Northern African countries joining ,too inshallah I`d like to thank ICT Qatar for the wonderful support, openness, bright thoughts, and friendship that they have shown in organising these events. Stay tuned for more updates and for those of you who are in Qatar see you on 23 rd inshallah salam d. -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar.
