Rebecca Ross
Rebecca is the Communications Manager for the Open Climate Campaign, a campaign that aims to increase equitable collaboration in finding faster solutions to the climate crisis through open access.
Prior to joining Creative Commons, Rebecca led the strategy and engagement portfolios at a national academic library association. She has also held executive communication roles within the academic publishing and open infrastructure sectors. Rebecca has been leading open access initiatives for over ten years and has had the opportunity to contribute to the growth of open access not-for-profit publishing and library strategic investments in open. Rebecca is a trained librarian with a MIS from the University of Ottawa.
Rebecca lives in the forest in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada with her partner and two dogs, Henry and Daphne, and is an avid hiker, reader, and meditator.
Sessions
Join this session to hear from organizations who are collaborating on projects and initiatives to profile the role of open in addressing the climate crisis. We will profile successes to date, highlight upcoming projects, and invite participation in our community-driven Open Goes COP movement.
We believe that open access to climate change research will enable faster and more equitable solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Our panel will provide a case study of enabling global open access policies and highlight our experimentations in making seminal climate research open access.
Our session would be a panel discussion highlighting the learnings from a side event on "Shared Advocacy for the Knowledge Commons" organized by Creative Commons, Open Future, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia Europe Wikimania’s day zero. This event will bring together 50-60 activists and experts with an interest in broadly understood advocacy work (including communication and technology experts). During the panel session the organizers, together with participants, will be able to report back the outcomes of the side event back to the Wikimania community.