I had a meeting with Heather Ford this morning about the OLP. Heather is the executive director of iCommons and a a big part of the African Commons Project, the parent entity/facilitator of iCommons in South Africa and Creative Commons South Africa.
The outcome of the meeting is that the OLP will be run as an initiative of the African Commons Project going forward. This means the OLP has the support of a major player in the open culture space in South Africa. I think it is a great fit and I am really excited about what we can do together. A big benefit of this development is that the OLP will hopefully be seen as a more credible initiative to facilitate public and free access to good quality legal information.
Going forward one of our challenges is to secure seed funding to get the OLP on to its feet. The funding is intended to develop an initial body of content to get the wiki going and develop it to the point where it tips and the community takes over the content creation. We also need some funding to cover our costs going forward. If you are in a position to help out or know someone who is interested, please give us a shout. My email address is to the right in the sidebar.
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