1. Promoting openness in the
public sector
The case of the Netherlands
Paul Keller
Digitally Open, Doha, 23 october 2010

2. Creative Commons Netherlands
• Supported by the ministry for culture education and
science since 2005.
• Collaboration between Knowledgeland (a think-tank),
Waag Society (a media lab) and the Institute for
information law at the University of Amsterdam with
Creative Commons International.
• Strength: Combination of legal research (IVIR),
experimentation (Waag) & public advocacy
(Knowledgeland)

3. Objectives
• Improve adoption of the Creative Commons licenses
through providing information, cooperations with
institutional users and research
• We have five specific working areas:
• Individual creators in the music sector
• (Public) broadcasting organisations
• Educational institutions and Universities
• Cultural Heritage Institutions and other archives
• The public sector / government

4. example 1: www.wikiwijs.nl

7. Wikiwijs
• a platform for open educational ressources developed
by the ministry for education culture and science
launched in late 2009.
• Offers access to learning materials and collaboration
tools for anyone from primary to higher education.
• All material that is contributed to wikiwijs is being
published under the Creative Commons Attribution
license
• Creative Commons Netherlands did preliminary
comparative research, advised during the
implementation and is currently evaluating the license
choice

8. example 2: www.rijksoverheid.nl

11. Rijksoverheid.nl
• The new uniform web presence of the central
government
• Brings together all information published by the central
government and it’s agencies
• Uses the Creative Commons Zero public domain
dedication in order to indicate that all material available
on the site is free from copyright
• Creative Commons Netherlands advised the
implementation team with implementing the CC0 waiver
and the communication

12. example 3: VPRO broadcasting

16. Lessons learned
• Know what you are advocating: combine advocacy with
research
• Invest time in figuring out how the changes you propose
relate to other policy objectives of your partners
• Talk to the people who are in charge of implementing
first & prepare them to answer questions from the
lawyers.

17. / thanks for your attentionً‫ا‬#$%
paul@creativecommons.org