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 among a handful of few people in the planet to have worked for all the top four open source companies: Red Hat, SuSE (Novell), terrasoftsolutions (yellow dog linux) and Sun Microsystems. Karthik spent the past decade influencing fortune 500 companies and governments to adopt open source and open standards based technologies, he has been an integral part of the digital commons movement right from its early days and is active in various debates involving open knowledge, open data and governance of the commons.

Karthik is currently pursuing a PhD degree and also holds an MBA from BI- Norwegian Business School and Fudan University, China; a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden and a four-year bachelor's degree in computer engineering from India.

Karthik’s field of expertise is 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 management of shared innovation commons in the open source Android project."

Twitter: http://twitter.com/karthix

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]