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Essay: Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, Introduction: An Overview of the Knowledge Commons
URL = http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262083574intro1.pdf
(Their introduction to the 2006 MIT book below.)
Excerpt
An excerpt from the introduction:
"First, open access to information is a horse of a much different color than open access to land or water. In the latter case, open access can mean a free-for-all, as in Hardin’s grazing lands, leading to overconsumption and depletion. With distributed knowledge and information the resource is usually nonrivalrous….In this instance, instead of having negative effects, open access of information provides a universal public good: the more quality information, the greater the public good."
Source
Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, 2006. [1]
More Information
- Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess, A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons [2]
(Their contribution, as opposed to their introduction, to the 2006 MIT book above.)