Creative Commons Global Summit 2017 - Toronto, Canada

The World Bank Open Access Policy and Open Knowledge Repository were launched in April 2012. At that time, the World Bank was the first major Inter-Governmental Organization to adopt Creative Commons licenses as a tool for sharing its knowledge globally. The World Bank incorporated CC BY into its Open Access Policy as a default license for Bank-produced research and knowledge products to be distributed via its Open Knowledge Repository. The aim of this session is to summarize the five years of World Bank experience in open knowledge sharing and to consider how the knowledge sharing process can be improved to benefit users globally in the years ahead.