The Importance of Open Sharing

Creative Commons (CC) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to helping build and sustain a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture. Together with an extensive member network and multiple partners, we build capacity, we develop practical solutions, and we advocate for better open sharing of knowledge and culture that serves the public interest. As part of this work, we help overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

• 196 nations + EU with increased access to climate data

• 288 research papers shared on UNCCD’s updated reporting system in 6 months

• 98% program participants reported easier use of UNCCD’s system.

Creative Commons (CC) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to helping build and sustain a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture. Together with an extensive member network and multiple partners, we build capacity, we develop practical solutions, and we advocate for better open sharing of knowledge and culture that serves the public interest. As part of this work, we help overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

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In order to achieve our mission, we:

• Offer the CC Certificate, an in-depth course for people interested in becoming experts in creating and engaging with openly licensed works
• Run the CC Open Culture Program, to support the development of a thriving open culture ecosystem among cultural heritage institutions and their users
• Run the CC Open Education Program, to ensure publicly funded knowledge (educational resources, research and data) is open and freely available for everyone to learn, discover and contribute
• Run the Openly Licensed Preprint project to increase the adoption of CC-BY on preprints to facilitate greater dissemination and reuse of research.
• Lead the Open Climate Data project to facilitate the opening and sharing of climate datasets and data models as a step toward addressing climate change