The Unfolding of the Knowledge Commons
Citation: Charlotte Hess (2012/05/01) The Unfolding of the Knowledge Commons. St Antony's International Review (RSS)
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Tagged: commons (RSS), knowledge commons (RSS)
Summary
Report on knowledge commons research since Understanding Knowledge as a Commons book published in 2007.
Book defined commons as "a resource shared by a group of people that is subject to social dilemmas" and knowledge as "all useful ideas, information, and data in whatever form in which it is expressed or obtained."
Briefly notes a number of knowledge commons publications and events 2007-2012.
Notes knowledge commons is a global commons, but no types of global commons well understood or researched. Research on commons and common-pool resources concentrates on micro-level analysis of local resources.
We don't know how much 8 design principles identified by Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework apply to constructed knowledge commons.