Labs were spaces dedicated to a specific theme, project, or medium, which functioned as an overarching 'track' that ran during the Summit programme. Different session formats such as workshops, panel discussions and speedgeeking took place within the labs.

Open Education Policy and Practice in a New Century: Implementing What Works

This track was dedicated to knowledge-sharing among open education practitioners and the development of new global initiatives to spread open educational tools, policies and practice to countries around the world.

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Open Business

This track was designed to both introduce newcomers to the basic concepts of open business tools and practices such as the newly-launched CC+ protocol, as well as to collaborate on new global initiatives that will further the goals of the open business community.

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Local Context Global Commons: Open Publishing

This track showcased regional and local approaches to the concept of Free Culture around the world - and highlighted initiatives such as Wikipedia and Global Voices that are developing innovative approaches to the localisation of global projects.

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DIY video

This track focused on how to 'do' open video by exploring best practices for producing and distributing open film.

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Frontiers of Openness in Japan

This was a Japanese-language track coordinated by the ccJapan team to debate and discuss the commons in relation to Japan, and to plan how to spread ideas about Free Culture and the Commons.

Parallel Event:

Research Workshop on Free Culture

The First International Research Workshop on Free Culture gathered academics and researchers who are interested in furthering scholarship in the Commons and Free Culture, and provided a space for them to share the results of their work and develop ideas for further collaboration.

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