Creative Commons Global Summit 2017 - Toronto, Canada

Reading builds better brains, yet there is a dearth of high-quality early reading material globally. Challenges of affordability and access persist. Though it has been continually proven that children benefit hugely from reading stories about characters they recognise, in their home languages, relevant and appropriate storybooks just don’t exist. 

This session includes the incredible stories of collaboration from Saide’s African Storybook initiative, Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver and Book Dash and how they have created a large community of invested users to address the book scarcity in Africa and India.
Managing and maintaining this community is of tantamount importance for the success of our projects. Given the nature of an open organisation, fostering collaboration among these volunteers extends to our networks of partnered organisations and beneficiaries. 

Join us as we explore some of the successes that have led to the scaling of these initiatives to build large repositories of early reading material. The speakers will explore how they’ve built a community on the foundation of open-licensing.