Promoting openness in the

public sector
The case of the Netherlands

Paul Keller
Digitally Open, Doha, 23 october 2010
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)
Objectives
• Improve adoption of the Creative Commons licenses
through providing information, cooperations with
institutional users and research
• We have five specific traget groups:
• Individual creators in the music sector
• (Public) broadcasting organisations
• Educational institutions and Universities
• Cultural Heritage Institutions and other archives
• The public sector / government
example 1: www.wikiwijs.nl
Wikiwijs
• a platform for open educational ressources developed by
the ministry for education culture and science launched in
late 2010.
• 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 dit preliminary
comparative research, advised during the implementation
and is currently evaluating the license choice
example 2: www.rijksoverheid.nl
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