The CC Algeria Chapter's activities presented at CC Global Summit in Libson - Portugal 9th of May 2019

1. Kamel Belhamel
CC Algeria Chapter Lead
@kamelbelhamel
kamelbelhamel@gmail.com
The CC Algeria
Chapter’s Story
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2. The State of
Things
● The CC Algeria Chapter
Activities
● Agenda CC Algeria Chapter
● CC Algeria Chapter members
Participation to CC Global
Summit Lisbon
● Challenges
● Upcoming CC Algeria Chapter
Conference

3. The CC Algeria Chapter :
Date Founded: September 5th, 2018
Representative to the Global Network Council:
Kamel Belhamel
Chapter Lead: Kamel Belhamel
Algeria is the African's biggest country,
and is the world's 10th largest

4. The CC Algeria
Chapter Activities

5. The CC Algeria Activities
● The website of CC Algeria chapter : https://oaalgeria.wordpress.com/
● Conference on Open Access and CC licenses, University of Bejaia, Algeria,
September 2018 : https://www.slideshare.net/KamelBelhamel/creative-commons-conference-algeria-chapter
● 3rd International Colloquium on Open Access, Rabat, Morocco, November
28-30, 2018 : https://www.slideshare.net/KamelBelhamel/cration-des-revues-electroniques-en-oa-et-leur-
indexation-par-le-doaj-126312897
● OpenCon Algeria, Pan African University (PAU), December 2018
https://www.slideshare.net/KamelBelhamel/open-access-open-educational-resources-open-educational-practices-
open-data-uses-in-africa
● 2nd Global Open Education Web Conference : OEWeek 24-Hour Web-a-thon:
5th of March, 2019.
https://www.slideshare.net/KamelBelhamel/open-education-initiatives-in-north-african-countries
https://creativecommons.org/2019/02/28/open-education-week-webathon
● The Sixth “Smart Education” Webinar centered on the domain of Open
Educational Resources (OER), April 12th, 2019
https://www.slideshare.net/KamelBelhamel/case-study-of-using-open-education-resources-oer-in-northern-
african-universities

6. ● Official CC Chapter in Algeria ( since September 2018 )
● Promote the culture of sharing and openness
● Promote the use of the freedom CC licenses
● Increase the visibility of Algerian research publications
● Ambassador for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
● Conduct systematic & evidence-based studies on issues of
national importance:
○ Open Access (OA) , Open Educational Resources ( OER )…
Agenda

7. CC Algeria Chapter members
Participation to CC Global Summit Lisbon,
9-11 May, 2019
Sessions:
• Opening Africa : Kamel Belhamel, CC Algeria Chapter lead,
Thursday, May 9, 9:00am - 9:55am, https://sched.co/MgMA
• Ethics of Openness Lightning Talks: Nour El Houda Belhamel,
Sonia Azri , Thursday, May 9, 11:00am - 11:25am, https://sched.co/MgQe
• Open Access Scholarly Publication in Algeria:
Kamel Belhamel, CC Algeria Chapter lead, Friday, May 10, 9:45am - 10:25am,
https://sched.co/MiXL

8. CC Algeria Chapter members participation to CC Global Summit Lisbon
Nour El Houda ( left), Sonia (right)

9. Challenges
• Visa issue for the CC Algeria member to Participate to CC Global
• Summit Lisbon ( the DOORS are closed for CC Algerian
members!).
• wire Transfer to Algeria.
• Fees issue to take the online course of CC Certificate ( a lot of CC
members can't afford that).

10. Upcoming CC Algeria Chapter Conference
The Culture of Openness and the Use of the Freedom CC
Licenses
University of Bejaia – Algeria, October 24, 2019
- Call for paper ( will be launched by the end of June)
- CC support ( for 50 participants )

11. Algerian protests wrote in French : LIBERTY

12. Thank you
Kamel Belhamel
Faculty of Technology, University
of Bejaia, Algeria
Twitter: @kamelbelhamel
E-mail: kamelbelhamel@gmail.com
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