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Economics Nobel goes to commons research

I'm loving the recent selection in the Nobel prizes. No, not that one, this one: the Nobel Prize for Economics, for research into the in formation commons. How good is it? It's an explicit recognition that "Information that used to be 'free' is now increasingly being privatized, monitored, encrypted, and restricted... Multiple forces are vying for capture and restriction of traditionally available knowledge." And it looks at the governance of this resource as a commons. The dominant "tragedy of the commons" is a special case, they argue, and a wider understanding of the commons reveals different types of goods, which are best managed differently. This sort of management is exemplified by projects such as the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). "Their multiple goals include not only sustaining the resource (the intellectual public domain) but building equity of information access and provision, and creating more efficient methods of dissemination through informal, shared protocols, standards, and rules among the local and global scholarly community." Gavin Baker, Open Access News, October 14, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Information, Patents, Content Syndication, Research, Project Based Learning] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Economics Nobel goes to commons research

Carsten, October 14, 2009

Recently I learned (and found it very interesting) that there actually is no "Nobel Prize for Economics". Translated from Swedish, the title of that prize is "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". It was established by the Sweden's central bank in 1968. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Economics Nobel goes to commons research

Carsten, October 14, 2009

Stephen, the "preview" function does not work. It give the following error: "Error
This script only accepts post comments, not post." [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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