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BoaF 'Asia Commons', iSummit 2007 CC BY 3.0
BoaF 'Asia Commons', iSummit 2007 CC BY 3.0
BoaF 'Asia Commons', iSummit 2007 CC BY 3.0
The Creative Commons movement, after 5 years since its birth, seems to undergo an important period of transition. As CC has matured as an universal concept shareable and discussable with anyone, each node of CC seems to be stepping into a re-modeling process of this same idea of Free Culture within more local cultural and social contexts. iCommons is an initiative that represents and supports this transition. After having ported CC's legal infrastructure to different localities of the world, we now need to think how to act in order to achieve free cultures within a more granular and modular scope of each region's vernacular values.
Asia Commons is a new initiative that is trying to respond to such shift. Jessica Coates (CC Australia), the leader of this year's Birds of a Feather session, explains briefly its initial principle: "Asia Commons is a group that has grown out to bring together the various Commons groups that admittedly have strong focus on Creative Commons within the Asian region".
At the iSummit 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Yonnie Kim (CC Korea), Hempal Shrestha (Bellanet Asia) and Alina Ng (CC Malaysia) hosted a BoaF to start a basic discussion over this idea. This year, CC activists from Philippine, Egypt, India and Syria joined the mix, and now the vision of 'Asia' seems to comprise almost the totality of the 'Orient', from the Arabic world to the Pacific Ocean. This time, the goal was set to determine few concrete milestones to start building this project. Indeed, the next iSummit being held in Sapporo, Japan, it seems to be the most adequate moment for this endeavor to start germinating.
At this BoaF, a tentative schedule was set in order to realize a first public Asia Commons meeting sometime this coming December, probably in Taiwan, just half a year before the iSummit 2008. Ideas were exchanged over the goal of this project as well as different issues to solve: what kind of cultural collaboration this project can achieve? what are the values it can propel? how can it gain autonomy e.g. inviting sponsors and collaborators? which approach can it take i.e. academic, business or cultural? how can the participating nodes build and share common resources, and contact each other on a more regular basis?
This long process has just started now, but it would see its first fructification as early as at the next iSummit 2008. Meanwhile, more information on the progress of Asia Commons would appear on iCommons.org.
tags: taipei taiwan culture asia icommons vernacular local collaboration egypt india syria philippine japan australia taiwan china malaysia jordan korea summit07
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