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* [[Julio Lambing]], Germany, is a social activist and Managing Director of the [[European Business Council for Sustainable Energy]] (e5).
* [[Julio Lambing]], Germany, is a social activist and Managing Director of the [[European Business Council for Sustainable Energy]] (e5).
* [[Silke Helfrich]], Germany, Commons Strategies Group
* [[Silke Helfrich]], Germany, Commons Strategies Group
 
* [[Beatriz Busaniche]], Board member of Fundación Vía libre, Founding member of Wikimedia Argentina.  Commons Strategies Group.


Support:
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Revision as of 09:11, 28 October 2010

Status

This is a working document to prepare a conference in Berlin, that will take place November 1 and 2, 2010.

For basic general info, see here: Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform


Introduction

Press Coverage

  • Richard Poynder has done a profile with extended interview with Silke Helfrich on her understanding of the commons and the purpose of the conference, via

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/10/silke-helfrich-on-commons-and-upcoming.html

- Excerpt: Silke Helfrich on the International Commons Conference in Berlin


Steering Committee

Support:

  • Annette v. Schönfeld, Head of Latin America Department, Heinrich Böll Foundation

Participating Individuals

Austria

See Brigitte's listing of: Commons-Oriented Websites in Austria


  • Franz Nahrada; Knowledge Commons, P2P Cooperation for liveable habitat - Global Villages - part of the ICC support team with focus on content and consensus

Argentina

Australia

Brazil



  • Jose Murilo, Digital Culture Coordinator at Brazil's Ministry of Culture


  • Miguel Said Vieira; Brazilian researcher and activist in the field of free knowledge and culture; member of Epidemia, a Brazilian collective which advocates for free knowledge and culture

- Articles in Portuguese on collaborative production, commodification and the commons, available at http://impropriedades.wordpress.com/artigos


Canada

Colombia

Some texts on her works // Algunos textos sobre su trabajo

  1. http://www.karisma.org.co/carobotero/index.php/2009/12/02/pensando-en-procomun/ (castellano)
  2. http://www.revistaacontratiempo.com/?ediciones/revista-13/articulos/pensar-los-generos-musicales-desde-las-nuevas-prcticas-de-intercambio-sonoro.html (castellano)
  3. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a912824972~fulltext=713240928 (english)
  4. http://www.karisma.org.co/carobotero/index.php/2009/08/04/%C2%BFdesde-cuando-el-dominio-publico-es-un-robo/ (castellano)

other texts in // mas textos en

  1. http://www.karisma.org.co/carobotero/index.php/sobre-mi/publicaciones/ (castellano)

You will find more about her (spanish) // puede explorar mas sobre ella en (castellano)

  1. http://www,karisma.org.co/carobotero/
  2. http://www.twitter.com/carobotero
  3. http://www.equinoxio.org.co
  4. http://www.slideshare,com/carobotero


  • Diego Leal, oriented to the design of learning experiences that make visible educational commons and their possibilities


Chile


Costa Rica

  • Santiago Hoerth, social movement and free software/free culture activist; founder and coordinator of the latinamerican collective Código Sur [1].


Ecuador


The Yasuni Amazon Commons

English introduction via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOX9rGaNpec&feature=youtube_gdata

Dr. Acosta recommends the two following websites regarding the protection of biodiversity and the rights of indigenous peoples:

  1. http://www.amazoniaporlavida.org/es/
  2. http://yasuni-itt.gob.ec/

Two documents, available from the author:

  1. A modo de prólogo del libro. ITT-Yasuní Entre el petróleo y la vida ¡Basta a la explotación de petróleo en la Amazonía! Alberto Acosta
  2. El Buen (con) Vivir, una utopía por (re)construir. Alcances de la Constitución de Montecristi. Alberto Acosta1


Egypt


Finland

  • Jiri Rasanan (jiri.rasanen@iki.fi), eCars Now


France



- Forthcoming: Krikorian G. & Kapczynski, A. (2010 forthcoming), Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property. (Zone Books Eds., New York), 652 p.








Germany

Documentation:

- Mies, Maria/ Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika, Defending, Reclaiming and Reinventing the Commons, in: Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. XXII, Special Issue, 2001, S. 997 – 1023



Proposed short introduction: Open Access

- Die Digitale Chance nutzen. Neue Herausforderung für Verlage und Wissenschaftsbetrieb [3]


Documentation:

- The Göttingen Declaration on Copyright for Education and Research





  • Volker Ralf Grassmuck, media sociologist and author; currently he is a visiting reasearcher at the Research Group on Public Policy for Access to Information (GPOPAI) at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH) of the University of São Paulo (USP).

Recommended text:

- A Copyright Exception for Monetizing File-Sharing. A proposal for balancing user freedom and author remuneration in the Brazilian copyright law reform, 19. März 2010, http://www.vgrass.de/?p=193





  • Margrit Kennedy [5], promotes implementation of practical examples of regional and sectoral complementary currencies in Europe; advocate of the concepts of the “Financial Commons” and the “Post-Growth-Economy”

- Intervention by Margrit Kennedy, Ludwig Schuster: Sustainable Financial Markets as a Global Commons


  • Stephan Krall, German Development Cooperation (GTZ), programme on sustainable management of resources in agriculture


  • Rainer Kuhlen University of Konstanz, Information Science (www.kuhlen.name) - An ethical foundation of knowledge as a commons; Representing NETHICS, [www.netethics.net], (Ethics in the Net, mainly A2K topics)

Recommended publications:

- Ethical foundation of knowledge as a common. Preprint Vortrag Seoul 8.10.2010 (text: http://bit.ly/b85rUO) - Towards a commons-based copyright. IFLA World Conference Gothenburg 14.8.2010 (PP: http://bit.ly/9aa3Zg) - Gemeingüter – Wohlstand durch Teilen (with Wolfgang Sachs, Christian Siefkes et al.) Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung 22.10.2010 (http://bit.ly/by8kBR)





Recommended text:

- Commons in a taxonomy of goods http://www.keimform.de/2010/commons-in-a-taxonomy-of-goods/



knowledge about open wireless networks; founder of the Open Hardware Initiative; associated with the Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance [9] ; lobbying for more open licensing models for the radio spectrum via Open Spectrum EU


Proposed text:

- The Case of Basic Income for Third Way Politics after the Global Crisis. Paper presented at the Colloquium of the Center for Social Science together with the Institute of Social Welfare of Seoul National University, May 27, 2010


  • Thorsten Schilling, head of multi media department & IT of the federal agency for civic education



  • Ludwig Schuster, advocate and researcher in energy-backed currencies, applications for financing renewable energies, and currency design in general

- Intervention by Margrit Kennedy, Ludwig Schuster: Sustainable Financial Markets as a Global Commons


- Short text on building blocks of a commons-based society: Christian Siefkes: The Commons of the Future (2009), http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/siefkes_future-commons.pdf



  • Antje Toennis, communications manager at GLS Treuhand, a non profit organisation that can play the role of an intermediary in the personal process of transferring wealth for community oriented benefits


  • Stefan Tuschen, free software inspired commons advocate, ICC support team, recent article (in German) on commons and development policy


Read Mr. von Weizsäcker's contributions to the policy debate:

-- Limits to Privatization



  • Gerd Wessling Co-Founder of Transition Town Bielefeld & Transition D/A/CH, Transition Trainer, Phycisist

More info via International Transition Network

Greece

  • Nikos Salingaros, Gruppo Salingaros: a think tank of architects, urbanists, sociologists and scientists, for the moment mostly active in Italy and Portugal, who are planning a new urban future for Italy and Europe.


Dr. Salingaros has published key articles on Peer-to-peer Urbanism.

Websites:

  1. http://32.hoppakay.com/home.html
  2. http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Salingaros

India



  • Jai Sen, Director of ‘India Institute for Critical Action: Centre In Movement’. i.e. CACIM [12]

Contributions:

- From Open Space to Open Politics: In this essay for Antipode, Vol 42 No 4, 2010 (ISSN 0066-4812), pp 994–1018, In his essay Sen gives further depth to the discussion of the commons, through an exploration of the concept of open space, principally through his direct engagement with the World Social Forum. He explores three key organising principles of open space: self organisation, autonomy and emergence, which together define a powerful new kind of politics. (Full original unedited version available @ http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Publications.)

- ‘Against Ecological and Information Enclosures : Towards a Convergence of “Commons”. A Note on a Workshop in New Delhi, December 13 2007’. Available @ http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Multilogues2Notes (Cacim 2008)

- The Delhi Commons Convergence process, http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/CommonsConvergence/WebHome

Ireland

Italy


Suggested readings:

  • About data commons: Open Data, Open Society: a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations



Kenya


Netherlands

Suggested readings:

- extensive interview Armin Medosh has made me http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/421

- on network collectivism, http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/net_collectivism.html



Nicaragua


Norway

Philippines


South Africa

  • Gino Cocchiaro is a lawyer with a South African based NGO named Natural Justice. Natural Justice works with communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America, to facilitate processes that secure the rights of communities to their resources and knowledge.

Recommende Report:

- Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons. A community approach to sharing traditional knowledge for non-commercial research. IDLO, 2009. By Elan Abrell et al. [15]

- Implementing a Traditional Knowledge Commons. Opportunities and Challenges. Developments following the Traditional Knowledge Commons Workshop, December 2009, Cape Town, South Africa. Natural Justice, 2010. [16]

Spain

Texts on her research work on digital commons:

  1. Fuster Morell, M. (Ed.) (2009). Online creation communities for the building of digital commons: Participation as an eco-system?. In M. Fuster Morell (Ed.) (2009). Organizational principles and political implications of free culture: A reader. International forum on free culture – Barcelona October 30 2009.
  2. Fuster Morell, M. (2009). Governance of online creation communities: Provision of platforms of participation for the building of digital commons, Self-provision model: Social forums case study. Internet & Politics section, European Council of Political Research General Conference, Potsdam, September 2009.
  3. Fuster Morell, M. (2010). Commercial providers of platforms of participation online: Flickr case study. 5th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) summer workshop: “Social Movements, Civil Societies and Corporations”- Organization Studies Journal, Margaux, France, 26 to 28 of May,

Active in:

  1. International forum on access to knowledge and digital rights (Barcelona, October 28 to 31 2010) and Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge, 2009. http://www.fcforum.net
  2. Networked Politics Collaborative Research on new forms of political organizing http://www.networked-politics.net
  3. World Social Forum http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/

Some english texts on his works on the Aesthetic Commons:

  1. http://jordiclaramonte.blogspot.com/2009/10/aesthetic-commons.html
  2. http://jordiclaramonte.blogspot.com/2009/04/modal-aesthetics.html

Active in:

  1. http://lalistadesinde.net/
  2. http://hacktivistas.net/
  3. http://www.sindominio.net
  4. http://medialab-prado.es/article/culturas_de_lo_comun
  5. http://medialab-prado.es/article/ontologia_juridica_libre_-_laboratorio_del_procomun


Thailand


UK

  • Massimo De Angelis; Professor of Political Economy at the University of East London; founding editor of the journal The Commoner. His most recent book: The Beginning of History. Value Struggles and Global Capital, Pluto 2007




See also: * Earth Commons Rising, a forum of commons news of global relevance [20]



U.S.A.






  • Michael Madison, professor of law at the School of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


  • Marc Mascarenhas-Swan, Just Alternative Sustainable Economics (JASecon [24]




Presentation: Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes [27]




  • Trent Schroyer ; Emeritus Professor of Sociology-Philosophy from Ramapo College in N.J. ; member of the International Network for Cultural Alternatives to Development; presently living in Greece and working on a book on 'Transformative Learning ' that examines commons models from around the world.



  • Burns H Weston, Director, Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI); The University of Iowa College of Law [29] and Center for Human Rights [30]

Recommended works:

- “Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice: Foundational Reflections,” 9 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 375 (2009)

- Co-Director (with David Bollier begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting) of the Commons Law Project (CLP), dedicated to reinventing the law and governance of the ecological commons and thereby operationalize the human right to a clean, healthy, ecologically balanced, and sustainable environment.

Participating Organizations

International

  • Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge: Citizens’ and Artists’ Rights in the Digital Age http://fcforum.net/ & International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era – Organization and Action (FCForum) http://2010.fcforum.net/en Delegate: Mayo Fuster Morell, among others.
  • Free Technology Academy international online study programme about Free Software and Open Standards at master level. Coordinated by the Free Knowledge Institute Delegates: Wouter Tebbens and Franco Iacomella.

Brazil


Canada

  • Communautique, [35] is a community organisation that supports civic participation by promoting information literacy, appropriation of information and communications technologies and contribution to their development; Simon Emmanuel Roux, adjunct director

Finland

eCars Now [36], Jiri Rasanen


France

Germany

Alanus University; Silja Graupe

Coalition for Action "Copyright for Education and Science"; Dr. Christoph Bruch

German Development Cooperation (GTZ); Dr. Stephan Krall

GLS Treuhand, Antje Toennis

Greenfilm: film; TV and Internet communication and Production Company specialized in environment, social issues and sustainability; Jörg Grossmann

Green.tv: an Internet TV Channel for sustainability; Jörg Grossmann

IUWIS, Infrastruktur Urheberrecht für Wissenschaft und Bildung, The purpose of IUWIS is to provide an integrated information and communication platform on copyright issues for the German research community; Dr. Christoph Bruch

Netzpolitik: blog and political platform for freedom and openness in the digital age; Andrea Goetzke

Transition D/A/CH, Gerd Wessling

India

CACIM, Jai Sen (director)

Foundation for Ecological Security, Jagdeesh V. Puppala (chief executive)

Vagdevi Educational Trust, [Narahari Rao]], founder

Ireland

  1. Feasta


South Africa

  • Natural Justice works with communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America, to facilitate processes that secure the rights of communities to their resources and knowledge; Gino Cocchiaro


Thailand


U.S.A

  • Just Alternative Sustainable Economics (JASecon [37]. Represented by Marc Mascarenhas-Swan.

Policy Proposals by Topic

Introduction and Generalities

  1. Developing the Meta Services for the Eco-Social Economy, draft proposed by Feasta writers, Ireland/UK
  2. Framework for Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of Commons-based Initiatives, George Por, Community Intelligence
  3. Infrastructural Commons for Sustainability, edited by Emer O'Siochru and David Korowitz. EENGO Submission to the (Irish) National Sustainable Development Strategy. Final Report January 2008.
  4. Securing the Commons. By Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Esther Mwangi, and Stephan Dohrn. CAPRi Policy Brief 4. [38]

Topics and Policy Domains

Commons Governance

  • The Commons Law Project (CLP), dedicated to reinventing the law and governance of the ecological commons and thereby operationalize the human right to a clean, healthy, ecologically balanced, and sustainable environment. A project by Weston H. Burns and David Bollier

Cultural Commons


In Brazil:

Healthcare

  • Krikorian G. (2009), The politics of patents: conditions of implementation of public health policy in Thailand. In S. Haunss and K. C. Shadlen (éd.), The Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information (Edward Elgar, UK), 29-55.
  • Krikorian G. (2009), New trends in IP protection and health issues in FTA negotiations. In B. Coriat (éd.), The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries. TRIPS, Public Health Systems and Free Access (Edward Elgar, UK) 52-77.
  • Krikorian G. & Szymkowiak D. (2007), Intellectual property rights in the making: the evolution of intellectual property. Provisions in US free trade agreements and access to medicine. The journal of world intellectual property, 10 (5), 388-418.

Earth and Climate Commons

  1. Cap and Share: A Fair Way to Cut Greenhouse Emissions [40], written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK.
  2. Global Climate Trust, written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK
  3. The Viable Systems Model and Climate Governance; written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK
  4. Against Ecological and Information Enclosures : Towards a Convergence of “Commons”. A Note on a Workshop in New Delhi, December 13 2007’. Jai Sen (Cacim 2008) [41]
  5. “Cllimate Change and Intergenerational Justice: Foundational Reflections,” 9 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 375 (2009). Weston H. Burns

Currency or Monetary Commons

  1. Liquidity Network [42]: Mutual credit commons written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK
  2. Intervention by Margrit Kennedy, Ludwig Schuster: Sustainable Financial Markets as a Global Commons
  3. Stefan Meretz on the question of transition and the role of open money: http://www.keimform.de/2009/the-question-of-transition-and-the-role-of-money/

Infrastructure Commons

  1. Developing the Meta Services for the Eco-Social Economy, draft written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK
  2. Applying abundance to cities, http://shareable.net/blog/how-to-create-abundant-cities, by Wolfgang Hoeschele

Land, Food and Water Commons

  1. Food and Water Watch, USA, represented by Maude Barlow
  2. Land Value Tax, written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK
  3. Biting the Bullet: How to Secure Access to Drylands Resources for Multiple Users. By Esther Mwangi and Stephan Dohrn. CAPRi Working Paper 47. [43]

CCRI website has links to the IASC conference and the 8 National Seminars,

  1. with 8th seminar on Common Land, http://www.ccri.ac.uk/Events/8thseminarcommonland.htm
  2. the 'heritage and landscape' category, e.g. http://www.ccri.ac.uk/Projects/HeritageandLandscape/Current/Assessingdevelopingprinciplesdeliverynationalbiodiversitytargets.htm

Brazil:

  1. Jean Pierre Leroy's chapter about territorial management by Amazonian communities, in the book Genes, Bytes and Emissions [44] in Spanish


UK:

  1. the Commons Act 2006. Text of the law is at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/26/pdfs/ukpga_20060026_en.pdf
  2. legal aspects of common land approach in the UK at DEFRA: http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/protected/commonland/index.htm
  3. Useful summary on common land in England and Wales: see http://www.naturenet.net/law/commonland.html
  4. Examples of local councils: the Federation to Cumbria Commoners and the Dartmoor Commons Council.
  5. OSS (Open Spaces Society) either: http://www.oss.org.uk/

(Commons-based) Taxation

  1. Land Value Tax, written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK (video

Knowledge/Science Commons

  • Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities [45]
  • Berlin 8 Open Access Conference [46]
  • Coalition for Action "Copyright for Education and Research" [47]

In Brazil:

General Documentation

Peer to Peer Urbanism

From Dr. Nikos Salingaros of the Gruppo Salingaros:

  1. http://www.greekarchitects.gr/en/architectural-review/peer-to-peer-urbanism-id1973
  2. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/urban-seeding-and-the-city-as-computer/2008/09/08
  3. http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer-to-Peer_Themes_and_Urban_Priorities_for_the_Self-organizing_Society


Video

  1. Emer O'Siochru on Reclaiming the Commons [48] : addresses destruction of 'the commons' - the vital but undefined resources that sustain life and civilisation that are under threat form the current system. It offered ideas about how they can be redefined, given legal protection within the market economy
  2. Dan Sullivan on the Land Value Tax as a Community Development Tool


Organizers

  1. David Bollier
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