Karthik Jayaraman

= researcher in peer production and P2P financial systems, based in Oslo, Norway (alternative name: Karthik Iyer

Bio

"Karthik is a technology strategist and PhD researcher based in Oslo. He is one of the few people in the world to have worked for all the top four open source companies in the world, Red Hat, SuSE (Novell), terrasoftsolutions (yellow dog linux) and Sun Microsystems. He holds an MBA from BI- Norwegian School of Management and Fudan University, China; a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He also has a four-year bachelor's degree in computer engineering from India.

Karthik’s field of expertise is in open source, open innovation and other forms of commons based peer production. His current research is centered around open source design and economics where he is researching the systems and structures of peer / local currencies such as Bitcoin and the Urstromtaler. The second part of his research is centered around the governance of open design commons and how it can overcome limitations such as planned obsolescence and limited reuse posed by the existing firm based production model. The third part of his research focuses on open innovation in networked industries, where his unit of analysis is the shared innovation commons in open source Android project."

Publications

1. Commons Based Peer Production of Mobile Phone Software: An Exploratory Framework for Analyzing Success Factors. Proceedings of the IRIS 2011 Conference, Helsinki, 2011.[1]
2. Making sense of software ecosystems : A critical review , The Eleventh International Conference on Electronic Business, Bangkok 2011.[2]
3. Tragedy of the commons in the production of digital artifacts , 3rd International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology, Dubai, 2011.[3]