Cape Town Open Education Declaration

{{Short description|2007 international statement on education}}

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is a major international statement on open access, open education and open educational resources. It emerged from a conference on open education hosted in Cape Town on 14 and 15 September 2007 by the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute.{{cite web|title=OLCOS and the Cape Town Open Education Declaration|url=http://www.olcos.org/english/news-archive/cape-town-declaration.htm|work=OLCOS|accessdate=30 January 2014}} The aim of this meeting [being] to "accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology, and teaching practices in education". Individuals and organizations that sign the Declaration share its "statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment".[http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration]

The declaration was released officially{{cite news

| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/22/EDRTUJ346.DTL

| title = Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching

| date = 22 January 2008

| work = The San Francisco Chronicle

| first1 = Jimmy

| last1 = Wales

| first2 = Rich

| last2 = Baraniuk

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170404163636/https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Bringing-open-resources-to-textbooks-and-teaching-3230246.php

| archivedate= April 4, 2017

|url-status=live

| quote = Late last year in Cape Town, we joined delegates from around the world as we reached a consensus on both the ideals and approaches to Open Education and committed them in the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, which was released officially today.

}} on January 22, 2008.

As of January 2014, over 2,400 individuals and 250 organisations (including the Wikimedia Foundationwmf:Minutes/2007-12-11) have signed the declaration.{{cite web|title=View Signatures|url=http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/list_signatures|work=The Cape Town Open Education Declaration|accessdate=30 January 2014}}