People * Networks * Power: Communications Technology and the New International Politics (2004)
When Push Comes to Pull: The New Economy and Culture of Networking Technology (2006)
The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation
The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation
Remarks by David Bollier
“Economies of the Commons:
Strategies for Sustainable Access and
Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online”
De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 12, 2008
The Macro-economic Challenges of Building a New Commons-Based Economy
As commercial interests try to convert what has essentially been a commons into a total market order, the Internet is experiencing a mid-life crisis. The open Internet is in the process of being enclosed by a variety of commercial forces. The struggle for political and creative freedom is getting more urgent and complicated as commercial forces try to “develop” the Internet.
The challenge for people who believe in free culture is to reinterpret the core values of the Internet and somehow develop new ways to protect them in today’s more complicated environment.
FLOSS Roadmap 2010
FLOSS as Commons: What is the way, what are the actions for having FLOSS acknowledged globally as a strategic and crucial common for knowledge society? Is FLOSS paving the way for bigger initiatives and larger variety of commons?
Scenarios for a National Broadband Policy (2010)
Why Software = Politics
As more of daily life moves to the Internet, the political implications of software design become more apparent. A case is point: the Russian government's practice of seizing computers from various citizen advocacy groups because they allegedly contain "pirated" Microsoft software.
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?
The weekend news showed exultant customers hoisting their newly purchased iPads over the heads in stunning images of triumph, transcendence and rapture. You gotta hand it to Steve Jobs. He knows how to stage a PR coup.
Too bad that the iPad is hardly a paragon of "freedom." It is actually a "tethered appliance," as tech guru Jonathan Zittrain puts it — a closed, proprietary system that enables Apple to control what we may do with the iPad and which new applications may run on it.
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The International Amateur Scanning League
Sometimes it just takes a determined set of commoners to get the job done. Impatient with the lethargy of the federal government in making its own films and videos available online, info-activist Carl Malamud has launched the International Amateur Scanning League. Dozens of volunteers are digitizing government-produced DVDs on everything from agricultural advice to presidential addresses, and putting them on the Internet.
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