Language: English (mozilla)
While our collective knowledge and cultures are directly threatened by climate change, they also hold the keys to unlocking fresh solutions through global collaboration. In order to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including addressing the global climate crisis, it is increasingly urgent to grow and improve the commons. We must partake in a concerted effort to open up knowledge and culture so as to make sense of complex problems. We cannot solve the world’s most pressing challenges if the knowledge and culture about them are closed. In this session, through a playful activity remixing public domain cultural heritage, we will engage the audience in understanding the interplay and alignment between open knowledge and open culture and their roles in addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges, in particular climate change, as a social justice imperative.
Brigitte is Director of Policy and Open Culture at CC.
Before joining CC, she worked for a decade as a legal officer at WIPO and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe and others on copyright matters.
Currently located in the Netherlands where she lives with her husband and two kids, Brigitte grew up living in eight different countries across North America, Africa and Europe but Montréal is where she proudly comes from.
Brigitte is a fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Bar of Quebec since 2003.