This is the same problem I am facing.
Even if there is an enthusiastic employer or responsible and so on in a
GLAM or in an administrative department, there are internal oppositions or
policies to face.
In small partners the discussion may be good and can be immediate, in
bigger ones it may take long time.
The best is to find an internal "investigator" who can help to identify the
right approach.
In any kind of projects realized in bigger organizations or companies, the
exact world is to find an "internal sponsor".
For instance an IT department can introduce a new software in a company
realizing a good success only if the same department can find "internal
sponsors" in the companies and the same department has a "good
reputation".
This is a normal approach. These two keys are important for any change
management applied in a good way.
Naturally as much are bigger the oppositions to the changes, as much
important should be the internal sponsors and the reputation.
Reading the previous emails it seems that ICRC has a strong opposition to
the changes.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Frédéric Schütz <schutz(a)mathgen.ch> wrote:
On 04/07/14 00:26, rupert THURNER wrote:
did anybody of you already have contact with the
red cross or the icrc?
concerning wikipedia, offline, commons, maps, wikinews? would there be
any topic interesting for a cooperation?
Yes; one librarian from the ICRC photo department recently visited one
of Wikimedia CH's Wikipermanences (
http://frwp.org/Wikipédia:WikiPermanence/Suisse ).
They are currently at the (very) early stage of developing a policy for
the global diffusion of their images, and are checking all possible
options. They have a large stock of pictures that could potentially be
distributed (meaning: not the ones documenting e.g. recent prisoners of
wars, etc).
Their main worry seems to be "how do we make sure that people do not use
the pictures in a way we're not happy with", so they are not ready (yet)
to go down the free license route... But we had a long discussion about
possible scenarios, describing what other institutions have done, etc.
It seems to be a bit early for a more formal contact, but we're keeping
in touch with them. And the fact that they initiated contact is a good
start.
Frédéric
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