2024:Program/Shared Advocacy for the Knowledge Commons

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Session title: Shared Advocacy for the Knowledge Commons

Session type: Panel

Track: Legal & Advocacy

Language: en

Our session would be a panel discussion highlighting the learnings from a side event on "Shared Advocacy for the Knowledge Commons" organized by Creative Commons, Open Future, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia Europe Wikimania’s day zero. This event will bring together 50-60 activists and experts with an interest in broadly understood advocacy work (including communication and technology experts). During the panel session the organizers, together with participants, will be able to report back the outcomes of the side event back to the Wikimania community.

Description

The session will focus on open movement’s community support for Knowledge Commons advocacy efforts. It will highlight several initiatives spearheaded by civil society within this realm. The session will kick-start as a panel discussion between Rebecca Ross from Creative Commons, Patricio Del Boca from the Open Knowledge Foundation, Alek Tarkowski from Open Future, and Anna Mazgal from Wikimedia Europe — all of them organizers of Common(s) Cause, Towards a Shared Advocacy Strategy of the Knowledge Commons, a side event to Wikimania that took place last Monday. The conversation will also feature voices from some of the 50+ participants of the event, including Poncelet Ileleji from the Open Knowledge Foundation Network and Iglika Ivanowa, a Wikimedian and researcher. The session will be moderated by Alicja Peszkowska, Open Future’s Engagement Lead.

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedziGgRqZU&t=24616

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

Our side-event on advocacy for knowledge commons is collaborative by design. We are intentionally organizing it as a collaboration between key organizations involved in such advocacy, from the Wikimedia Movement and its partner ecosystem. We want the panel to demonstrate the value of such collaboration.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

This session is for an experienced audience

Speakers

• Jocelyn Miyara

Jocelyn manages projects and programs related to the CC Global Community & License Stewardship. Prior to this role, she worked for over a year as CC’s Open Culture Manager.

Before CC, Jocelyn worked at The New York Public Library for over five years, first as a Special Projects Manager in the President’s Office, and later as a Program Manager for their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access team. This work helped her cultivate a passion for furthering equitable policies and practices, collaborative project management, and supporting the free exchange of knowledge and culture.

When not she’s not working, Jocelyn can be found in yoga class, reading about history, or dancing at one of her favorite concert venues. Jocelyn is based in Brooklyn, New York.

• Alek Tarkowski

Alek Tarkowski is the Director of Strategy at Open Future. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons. He has 20 years of experience with public interest advocacy and movement building. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Science. Previously, he was part of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy process as a member of the Partnerships working group.

• Alicja Peszkowska

Alicja is the Engagement Lead at Open Future. She has over a decade of experience in communication and community building, and specializes in working at the intersection of technology, digital culture, and social change. Her track record includes setting up participation and storytelling for top companies (such as the LEGO Group and Unilever), social organizations (including TechSoup, Outriders, Creative Commons, and the Engine Room), and cultural institutions (Statens Museum for Kunst and Vi lever på Polsk gallery in Denmark among others).

Alicja holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw, where she specialized in audiovisual culture. She lived in Colombia and Spain and speaks Polish, English, Spanish, and Danish. If you ever want to hear her sing, you can check out her old band’s album (Niskie Ciśnienie), which was crowdfunded and released under CC BY license.

• Rebecca Ross

Rebecca is the Communications Manager for the Open Climate Campaign, a campaign that aims to increase equitable collaboration in finding faster solutions to the climate crisis through open access.

Prior to joining Creative Commons, Rebecca led the strategy and engagement portfolios at a national academic library association. She has also held executive communication roles within the academic publishing and open infrastructure sectors. Rebecca has been leading open access initiatives for over ten years and has had the opportunity to contribute to the growth of open access not-for-profit publishing and library strategic investments in open. Rebecca is a trained librarian with a MIS from the University of Ottawa.

Rebecca lives in the forest in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada with her partner and two dogs, Henry and Daphne, and is an avid hiker, reader, and meditator.

• Patricio Del Boca

I'm an Information Systems Engineer with more than 10 years of experience both in the private sector and NGOs. I have also been an activist of the open movement since a young age. I love programming and is always exploring new projects and tools.