Introductory slides for the session "Organization of CC jurisdictional projects: Overview, comparisons, challenges, etc.", in "Commons Crossroads: Defining the Roadmap for CC in Asia & the Pacific", Manila, Philippines, 2009-02. (http://www.cc-asiapacific.net/)

1. Organization of
CC jurisdictional projects:
Overview, comparisons,
challenges, etc.
Commons Crossroads: Defining the roadmap for CC in Asia & the Pacific
2009-02-04&05
Manila, Philippines
Tyng-Ruey Chuang
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2. Purpose of Session
• To reflect on the state of CC jurisdiction
projects in Asia and the Pacific
• To learn from one another, so as to better
face common challenges
• To make recommendations to CC HQ on
the direction of the collaboration and
partnership

3. • An overview of your jurisdiction project
– Structure, human resource, funding, etc.
• Focuses of your jurisdiction project
– Such as license porting, outreach,
communicating best practices, advocating
changes to social/legal norms, etc.
• Issues and challenges
– What issues have you been facing? What
challenges do you foresee?
• What do you see in 3 years about your
jurisdiction project?

4. A Small Exercise:
Using CC Taiwan as an Example

5. • CC Taiwan has been hosted in the Institute of
Information Science, Academia Sinica.
– Supports from Academia Sinica: Space, funding,
and legality (e.g., MOU & grants) .
– New host: Research Center for Information
Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica.
• Focuses of CC Taiwan: License porting,
outreach, best practices (especially for
government agency and program).
• Issues: “Social services” in a research
institute; limited on progressive actions;
project organization itself.