13 Our Collaborations An important part of our work is collaborating with other organizations on initiatives and projects that support the open movement. At the beginning of 2019, we welcomed the first Bassel Khartabil Fellowship recipient, Majd Al- shihabi, a Palestinian-Syrian engineer and urban planning graduate based in Lebanon. During the course of the year and with the support of the fellowship grant, Majd developed the Palestine Open Maps initiative and the Masrad platform for archiving oral history. For the 2020 year, we transferred the Fellowship to the Fabricatorz Foundation, led by Bassel’s friends Barry Threw and Jon Phillips. In March 2019, we were selected as part of the 2018-2019 cohort of Mozilla Fellows host institutions, and aſter a call for applications, we selected New Zealand-based open source activist and artist Sam Muirhead. During the fellowship, Muirhead examined the possibilities of utilizing open source practices in the design and animation process by sharing project files under CC licenses. He hosted “Cut, Copy & Paste” remix workshops at a range of events, from the Mozilla Festival to the CC Global Summit. Finally, in September we announced our collaboration with Coil and Mozilla on a $100 million fund to benefit creators and promote innovation in web monetization, called Grant for the Web. As a part of this collaboration, we serve on the Advisory Council and Technical Advisory Group which help review incoming grant applications. We also participated in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to promote broad exceptions and limitations for museums and other guardians of cultural heritage, and limiting the scope of any new broadcasting rights. Finally, we ended the year preparing for the Smithsonian Open Access Initiative (officially launched in February 2020) releasing 2.8 million images and data into the public domain using CC0. This project is the culmination of years of collaborative work with the Smithsonian on its open access policy by members of the Creative Commons team, including our General Counsel Diane Peters, Director of Open Education Cable Green, and CC GLAM platform lead Evelin Heidel. The image on the right is a snapshot from the Palestine Open Maps initiative developed by Bassel Khartabil Fellowship recipient Majd Al-shihabi. Creative Commons 2019 Annual Report