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From: Imelda Brazal <ibrazal-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:03 PM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Campaigns Product Team Office Hour - March
31, 2022
To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello African Wikimedians!
The *Campaigns Product Team *will be hosting the next office hour to share
exciting updates on the Registration Tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registrat…>
and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community
updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile
and desktop wireframes.
Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!
Date: *March 31, 2022*
Time: 15:00 UTC
Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320
You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product
Team <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jT8fRUWjfI> to learn more about the
Team and the previous wireframes.
Feel free to send us a message if you want to receive a reminder for this
meeting.
Thank you.
Best,
Imelda
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*Imelda Brazal*
Senior Content Campaign Fellow
Campaign Product Team, Wikimedia Foundation
ibrazal-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
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Dear community member,
As you may be aware, the ratification vote for the Universal Code of
Conduct(UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines is starting next week, from March
7-21, 2022. As valued members of the Wikimedia movement, your voice and
views matter, and thus your representation in the upcoming vote is
necessary.
We are reaching out to check if you have any questions or need any
additional information ahead of the vote. You can also read more about the
UCoC <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>, the
Enforcement
Guidelines,
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_guide…>and
the voting process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_guide…>
to be empowered to vote.
Finally, we recently organized a panel discussion on the UCoC Enforcement
Guidelines and the need to vote, particularly for small and medium-sized
communities, you can find the recording here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C2PuAcyzb4>.
Kind regards,
Eugene Masiku
Communications Officer
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From: Klara Sielicka-Baryłka <klara.sielicka(a)wikimedia.pl>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 9:25 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Welcome to the EduWiki Week - Day 2
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikimedia-aff-education-cont <wikimedia-aff-education-cont(a)googlegroups.com>
Dear All
#EduWikiWeek2022 - Day 2 is on!
Check our website:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022
We are waiting for you on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/events/300517815451912?active_tab=about>`s event,
on YT
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovn1h9ZmEnY&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>
and
other social media like Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikimediaEdu>.
*Theme of the Day:* the effort you and your community members have put to
make such successful programs and your learnings.
🔔🔔🔔We want to highlight you and your community members for creating
impact in Wikimedia & Education work. The work you do in your local
communities is so important- and so are the people you work with. Let’s
celebrate them today! Reply here with links to blogs, newsletter articles,
your project page or write a newsletter article!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
Today at #EduWikiWeek2022, Join us for a coffee with the Education team at
13:30 UTC. Ask us anything!
🔔🔔🔔Join us next, for #EduWikiWeek2022, we are talking to Caroline Grant
and Chikodi Onyemerela from British Council. Join us live on Facebook at
15:00 UTC, and learn about their work and how their mission aligns with the
Wikimedia movement.
And there is no good day without a Trivia challenge:
🔔🔔🔔Ready for #EduWikiWeek Trivia? This team in Ghana leads an
organization focused on ”enhancing student participation in open resources
and open projects through education and training”. Contests, edit-a-thons,
open days, photo trips - they do it all! What’s the name of the
organization?
Have a good EduWiki Tuesday vibes today -
Klara on behalf of the organizing commitee.
Z poważaniem / Sincerely
Klara Sielicka-Baryłka
Specjalistka ds. edukacji / Education Specialist
tel: +48 790 290 924
e-mail: klara.sielicka(a)wikimedia.pl
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Informacje na temat przetwarzania znajdują się w Polityce Prywatności
<https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polityka_prywatno%C5%9Bci>. Kontakt:
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Hello everyone,
This is a friendly reminder that The Community Development team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Calls> at the Wikimedia
Foundation is hosting our first ever community call on Wednesday, February
23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758?pwd=b1ZFNTMyaFdJRCtxbzIyaU13OWlmUT09>
[meeting link]
We want to thank those who have expressed interest in speaking during this
call, we had an overwhelming response. Unfortunately we were only able to
choose 3 speakers from the community. We will be sending invitations to
those who have been selected to participate in the meeting shortly. At this
time sign ups for speaking during the call have closed.
To join in the community call:
-
To attend the call, please find the link here
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758?pwd=b1ZFNTMyaFdJRCtxbzIyaU13OWlmUT09>
.
-
Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal device prior to
the call.
We are excited to see and hear from you in our first ever Community
Development community call!
Thank you,
The Community Development team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
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From: Brian Choo <bchoo(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 1:31 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Call for applicants: Interim Trust & Safety Case
Review Committee
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
In a nutshell: This is the second call for applications to volunteer for
the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee (hereafter Case Review
Committee, or CRC). The CRC will stand until the Universal Code of Conduct
escalation process pathways are defined and established. Text below
explains what the committee does and what is required of applicants. If it
resonates with you, please apply. Please forward this to any groups you
think appropriate! This call for applicants will be open until February 25. (A
translatable version of this announcement is on Meta at [1].)
*
In 2020, the Board of Trustees asked the Wikimedia Foundation to put
together an interim volunteer community review process to help support
Trust & Safety behavioral investigations by ensuring that there is a
functionary appeal process available for borderline cases.[2] For clarity,
this is to appeal cases handled by the Foundation’s professional Trust &
Safety staff. It is not to appeal governance decisions by community
administrators or governance bodies.
A permanent review process for Trust & Safety team cases will be created
later as part of the final stages of the Universal Code of Conduct, but
this quickly constituted interim Case Review Committee will be asked to
serve until it is functional. As of February 2022, the interim Case Review
Committee will serve until the end of the calendar year 2022, or when a
permanent process is ready to supersede it. This is a critical layer of
oversight to ensure that Foundation actions are fair and unbiased and that
the Foundation doesn’t step in where it is not necessary to do so.
We are looking for functionaries and experienced volunteers with an
interest in joining this group. If the work resonates and you qualify,
please apply.
There is a page on Meta with more information about how the CRC works.[3]
In brief, it reviews the case files of qualifying Trust & Safety
investigations that are appealed either by the person who requested the T&S
investigation or by a person sanctioned as a result of one. We anticipate
that, during active appeals, members may need to dedicate about 5 hours of
work a week reviewing case files. Since it began accepting appeals in
September 2021, however, the CRC has had a light workload.[4]
You will be asked to meet with the rest of the group on a quarterly basis
to discuss the committee itself and how it might be improved. In its first
year of operation, the CRC has provided feedback to Wikimedia Foundation
Trust & Safety on how it could improve some of its processes.
There are a few very specific requirements for those who are accepted. If
you are interested in applying, we ask that you first read the Committee
charter and decide if you are willing and able to abide by the conditions
of membership and if you meet the criteria outlined there.[3] If you then
want to apply, please write to legal(a)wikimedia.org using “Case Review
Committee” in your subject line. Please include your username, your
credentials, and a statement of what you hope to bring to the role.
Credentials in this case refers to community background - have you been an
administrator? A member of an arbitration committee? Where or when? What
experiences do you think have prepared you to do this well? Reference to
professional credentials will also be taken into account, but does require
legal identification so that it may be confirmed. Otherwise, we will only
be asking for legal identification from applicants who are finalists.
Unfortunately, English language fluency is a must. While we hope to get as
much linguistic diversity as possible, Trust & Safety’s case files are
lengthy documents written in complex English, and expedience and current
availability of resourcing does not make it possible to provide
translations for the interim process.
The CRC serves an important role in collaborations between Trust & Safety
staff and volunteers to help make sure we get the balance right in
protecting communities - both in supporting community members and
recognizing community autonomy.
*Please submit your application by the end of February 25, 2022.*
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee/Call…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/May_…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee/Char…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee/Mont…
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear Wikimedians,
After an impactful maiden edition of the Africa Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2022> last year, we
are elated to announce the second (2nd) edition of the campaign. The
contest calls on all African Wikimedians (individuals, organizers,
affiliates, etc.) in and out of the African continent (including diaspora)
to contribute to this year’s Africa Wiki Challenge. Interested persons
should kindly fill out this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sx0PPWr05wDuKBmTPozJJzQE9qCKdy20_0oBAEe9OR…>
for regular updates about the campaign.
The contest is themed under different concepts annually. We kicked off the
campaign with the theme “landmarks in Africa ''. This year with suggestions
from our community members, and participants of the maiden edition, “African
Culture” was selected as the theme for the contest.
Description of the theme:
Africa is undoubtedly bestowed with a tremendous and beautiful culture.
Despite the fact that every country has its unique way of living, we are
consolidated by our poetic culture and driven by inspirations from each
other.
Are you content with how Africa’s culture is being represented on the web??
How do you feel when you surf the internet to look for information on
certain elements of our culture and find close to nothing?? This is the
perfect opportunity to help bridge the content gap about Africa on the web,
specifically Wikipedia.
This theme is targeted at not just projecting Africa’s culture as a whole,
but also to serve as an inspiration to write our own story. Submissions
will range from individuals, structures, activities, stories, and other
elements that make up the culture of Africa. Just to mention a few;
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Tribes: Traditional groups or societies like Ga Adangbe tribe of Ghana,
Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, and more. Their political systems and kinship
systems
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Festivals: Festival celebrations like the Homowo festival in Ghana, the
Sango Fire festival in Nigeria and Umkhosi Mhlanga in South Africa and
more.
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Food: Elements of African food like recipes, foodstuffs, origin of food,
traditional food, and more.
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Marriages: Components of African marriage like marriage ceremonies,
marriage process, traditional marriages, marriage rites, and more.
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Rites of passage: Diverse African rites like birth rites, puberty rites,
funeral rites, and more.
The aim of this challenge is to document virtually everything culturally
significant about Africa.
We, by this email, invite you to participate in this contest!
As a community organizer, we encourage you to lead your community to
organize/participate and share more about the campaign in your country or
region. Help us in organizing this project in your respective
communities/countries by performing any of the following activities;
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SignUp via this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sx0PPWr05wDuKBmTPozJJzQE9qCKdy20_0oBAEe9OR…>
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Hosting virtual/in-person edit-a-thons (taking into consideration the
Covid-19 guidelines)
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Hosting virtual office hours to provide support before/during and after
the campaign
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Organizing volunteers to translate communication materials
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Creating localized campaign pages on meta for local coordination
(coordination in your country)
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Designing communication materials and promoting them on social media to
encourage participation.
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Organizing media drives and participation for the campaign
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Share, share and share the campaign flyers and other materials!
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Individuals can also participate in the general AWC writing contest.
For Help & Support join our AWC telegram page
<https://t.me/+uQcspw2vuqczOGM0>
Moreover, Community Organizers who are interested in holding an activity
that requires support in terms of funding can request a Rapid grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Apply> between Now
and March 2022.
Kindly visit and keep an eye on the campaign meta page for more information
(page still under construction) and sign up your community if you intend to
participate. Join us to create or improve articles or add photos to
illustrate articles about African Culture!
Kindly note that we are still in the early preparatory stages of the
campaign. You will be updated with further details in due course.
Kind regards,
Eugene Masiku <emasiku(a)ofwafrica.org>
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
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From: Jennryn Wetzler <jennryn(a)creativecommons.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 3:40 PM
Subject: Invitation: Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and
Training, 20 January --23 March
To:
Cc: Dee Harris <dee(a)creativecommons.org>, Ony Anukem <
ony(a)creativecommons.org>
Dear all,
Creative Commons is delighted to invite you and your networks to Ground
Truth in Open Internet, our free upcoming webinar series and training,
running from 20 January --23 March. *Register here.*
<https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons…>
Please share this invitation and information below with your networks--all
are welcome to join.
In the meantime, we hope to see you for the kick-off webinar next week,
when Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler and Google News US
Partnerships Manager, Ashley Edwards, reflect on the challenges and
opportunities journalists face in our tumultuous digital landscape.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jennryn
Jennryn Wetzler
Director of Learning and Training
Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/>
CC is celebrating 20 years of sharing creativity and knowledge
<https://creativecommons.org/20-years/>
Show your gratitude by supporting our 20th Anniversary Campaign
<https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-better-sharing-campaign/c3…>
Ground truth in Open Internet
Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training:
January through March 2022
Journalism provides a crucial public service. Access to verifiable
information and stories that question the underlying terrain of power is
critical to democratic societies. Yet, journalism as we know it faces
existential new challenges. Increasingly, journalists face work-halting
financial, and ethical challenges as well as threats to their physical and
digital safety, when sharing information online. Misinformation and
disinformation campaigns in the media challenge collective notions of
ground truth. They challenge the bedrock and meaning of an open internet.
Journalism also faces newfound opportunities, as the tectonic plates of
power shift in our shared digital landscape. We witness the rising role of
nonprofit media sources, filling gaps where traditional media organizations
have shuttered; the rising power of crowdsourcing information and fact
checking, and a powerful new role open internet can play in knowledge
sharing.
Join us as we explore what public, open options our news needs, and how to
take advantage of these options. Through particular cases in Brazil,
Croatia, India, the US, as well as global examples, the webinar series
explores topics of:
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Online narrative power as social power
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Access to information and paywalls in the time of COVID
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How to address mis & disinformation campaigns shifting the focus of
traditional news audiences
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The rising role of nonprofit media and the gap they fill
-
Open licensed media
This webinar series will culminate in a ½ day training providing:
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Copyright basics for journalists
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Tools for open access research
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Access to usable photo and media archives
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How to best use open licensed media
Register here
<https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons…>
Open Internet and Journalism
-
January 20, 7:00 pm UTC/ 2:00 pm EST
-
Speaker: Ashley Edwards <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyaedwards/>, US
Partnerships Manager, Google News Initiative
<https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/>
-
Speaker: Catherine Stihler
<https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/>, CEO of Creative Commons
<https://creativecommons.org/>
-
To kick off the discussion series, Google News Initiative and Creative
Commons will reflect on the challenges and opportunities at the
intersection of technology, journalism, and social power.
Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns: a Community Led
Approach
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January 27, 4:30 pm UTC/ 11:30 am EST
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Speaker: Kate Levan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KLevan_(WMF)>, Disinformation
Specialist - Trust & Safety, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>(WMF)
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Speaker: Diego Saez-Trumper
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/diego-saez-trumper/>, Senior
Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/> (WMF)
-
This conversation will highlight Wikimedia Foundation’s technical
perspective and community lead approach to addressing mis and
disinformation campaigns on Wikipedia, highlighting the Croatian
Disinformation Case
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia_Disinformation_Assessmen…>
and the Biden Campaign Disinformation Retrospective
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biden_Campaign_Disinformation_Retrospe…>
.
Risks with Digital Platforms: Language and Narrative Power
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February 8, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST
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Speaker: PP Sneha
<https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/sneha-pp.pdf/view>,
Program Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society
<https://cis-india.org/>
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Speaker: Torsha Sarkar <https://www.torshasarkar.com/>, Policy Officer
at the Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis-india.org/>
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Speaker: Peter Kaufmann
<https://openlearning.mit.edu/about/our-team/peter-b-kaufman>, MIT Open
Learning <https://openlearning.mit.edu/>, Strategic Initiatives
-
Speakers will explore risks of digital platforms: further marginalizing
languages, spreading disinformation, and perpetuating power structures in
India and globally. Speakers will also describe new ways journalists can
work with digital knowledge institutions. Conversation will draw from the
Centre for Internet and Society’s Global Disinformation Index’s (GDI) study
into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India
<https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gdi-and-cis-torsha-sarkar-pr…>,
a forthcoming report on the State of the Internet’s Languages
<https://whoseknowledge.org/initiatives/state-of-the-internets-languages/>,
and Peter Kaufmann’s recent book, “ The New Enlightenment and the fight
to free knowledge
<https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gdi-and-cis-torsha-sarkar-pr…>
.”
Gunfire and Ground truth: Investigative Journalism Using Creative Commons
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February 15, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST
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Speaker: Cecília Oliviera
<https://shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/cecilia-oliveira/>,
Investigative
Journalist and founder of Fogo Cruzado <https://fogocruzado.org.br/>
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Cecília Oliviera will discuss developing and using crowd-sourcing on an
open platform as an investigative tool in journalism focused on drug and
arms trafficking. In 2016, frustrated with the lack of publicly available
data, she began mapping every shooting in Rio de Janeiro. This effort
turned into Fogo Cruzado, an open data platform on armed violence that is
spreading to every major city in Brazil.
CC licenses and Combatting Disinformation Campaigns
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March 3, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00am
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Speaker: Shalini Joshi, Executive Editor and co-founder of Khabar
Lahariya and Regional Program Officer at Meedan <https://meedan.com/>
(India)
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Speaker: Joel Abrams <joel.abrams(a)theconversation.com>, Director of
Digital Strategy and Outreach at The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/us> (US)
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This discussion will explore how CC licenses increase information
sharing in global journalism. Speakers will share anecdotes from
Meedan’s The
Checklist <https://meedan.com/checklist>, a weekly roundup of global
misinformation news—open-source investigations, industry resources and
event information. Discussion will also target The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/us>, a nonprofit network of 8 international
news sites publishing hundreds of useful articles of news and analysis each
week, all written by experts, in 4 languages, and all available under the
Creative Commons license, CC-BY-ND.
Free Online Training
-
March 23, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm UTC/ 10:00 am-2:00 pm EDT
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Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> staff will provide free
training on the basics of copyright for journalists, how to best find and
reuse openly licensed resources such as research, photos, videos, music and
more! Come away from the training understanding the flexibilities within
copyright law that journalists can harness for better information sharing.
Journalists will also gain the practical tools and resource lists to take
advantage of open licensed content. All are welcome to join.
Register here
<https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons…>
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