Open Licensing and Publishing in Africa: What is open licensing and why is it topical to authors, publishers and illustrators?
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Open Licensing and Publishing in Africa: What is open licensing and why is it topical to authors, publishers and illustrators?
Pragmatic Approaches to Open Licensing: Is revenue generation possible? This presentation was created for the Association for the Development in Africa (ADEA) and Global Book Alliance Seminar on Open Licensing in Accra, Ghana on 2 September, 2018.
With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and as part of its work on the early literacy ecosystem and open licensing, Neil Butcher & Associates (NBA) convened a small workshop, which brought together key players in early literacy in Africa.
Openly licensed resources are ‘free’ to access, but there are significant creation, adaptation, production, and use costs.
In 2015, NBA received a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to explore the potential for open licensing in enhancing the availability of mother-tongue early-literacy reading resources in the developing world.