CC Open Culture Platform

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What we do

The CC Open Culture Platform is coordinated by the CC Open Culture Program, and provides a space to share resources, enhance collaboration and raise awareness on open access to digital cultural heritage, working with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) professionals and open advocates.

  • Read more about how our members have benefited from the Open Culture Platform.

Moving 25 Institutions to Open — An Open Culture Platform Challenge

  • Over the next two years (2024-2025), the platform plans to work together to help 25 institutions and/or collections holders to adopt open access policies and/or practices for their collections. To learn more please reach out to the Open Culture Team by emailing info@creativecommons.org.

How to engage and join the Platform

Anyone who is interested can engage with the Platform through the following ways:

Recently funded projects

The faces of our seven winners appear in circles: Viviana Rangel, Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, PhD., Seyi Osunade, Bukola James, Francis Quasie, Amber Osman, and Isaac Oloruntimilehin (from top left to bottom right).
Open Culture Platform Activity Fund Winners 2023
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CC’s open culture platform 2022 five working groups share their highlights
An abstract artwork that looks like a system of rivers spread out across orange and yellow land, opening to a bay with the text "OpenGLAM".
Eight case studies show opportunities, challenges, and needs of low-capacity and non-Western cultural heritage institutions

Past funding opportunities