Hi concerns2me,
It’s our 25th Anniversary!
We’re continuing our push toward our goal of raising $5M this year in celebration of our 25th anniversary Keep the Internet Human campaign.
This week, we want to talk to you about how our work to Keep the Internet Human, and defend open knowledge, enables us to build a better world.
In Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary (now a major motion picture!) humanity faces an existential crisis. We won’t spoil it for you, but the catastrophe facing the planet is so immense that nations agree to make all knowledge open, and pool their scientific resources to embark on a project to save humanity.
We’ve seen this play out in real life.
When COVID-19 swept the world, scientists didn't wait. They shared and collaborated, across borders. Over three quarters of the approximately 75,000 scientific papers published on COVID-19 in 2020 were open access and made freely available to researchers around the world. In collaboration with an international group of researchers, scientists, academics, and lawyers, Creative Commons led the Open COVID Pledge, offering a simple way for universities, companies, and others to make their patents and copyrights available to the public. Unprecedented global collaboration between scientists greatly accelerated understanding of the virus, the infection it causes, and the development of therapies and vaccines.
More recently, we’ve worked to open knowledge that could help us solve other pressing issues, like the climate crisis. For the last few years, CC has worked with some of the world's largest climate data producers to create and implement recommendations for the open sharing of climate data. Read more about it on our website here.
When knowledge is truly open, we have the tools available to combat the world’s most critical issues. Imagine what more we could achieve for the benefit of all humanity.
At CC, we believe that human knowledge should be shared for the benefit of all, and we want to continue to build an ecosystem that makes this possible. To do that, we have to Keep the Internet Human.
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