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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


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

  • Beatriz Busaniche, Board member of Fundación Vía libre, Founding member of Wikimedia Argentina. ICC coordination team.

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

Chile


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 [2]


Documentation:

- The Göttingen Declaration on Copyright for Education and Research




  • Rainer Kuhlen University of Konstanz, Information Science (www.kuhlen.name) - An ethical foundation of knowledge as a commons



knowledge about open wireless networks; founder of the Open Hardware Initiative; associated with the Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance [4] ; 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


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 [5]

Contribution:

- 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)

Italy

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

Philippines


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

UK

See also: * Earth Commons Rising, a forum of commons news of global relevance [9]

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 [11]



Presentation: Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes [13]



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 Delegates: Simona Levi and Mayo Fuster Morell, among others.

Brazil

Finland

eCars Now [19], Jiri Rasanen


France


Germany

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

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

Transition D/A/CH, Gerd Wessling

India

CACIM, Jai Sen (director)


Ireland

  1. Feasta

U.S.A

  • Just Alternative Sustainable Economics (JASecon [20]. 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. [21]

Topics and Policy Domains

Digital commons

  • “Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge” (http://www.fcforum.net). The Charter was signed by more than 200 international organizations and used in policy making at the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the European Council of Ministers of Culture, and the Spanish Law for Sustainable Culture, among others.


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 [22], 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) [23]

Currency or Monetary Commons

  1. Liquidity Network [24]: Mutual credit commons written by members of Feasta, Ireland/UK


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. [25]

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 [26] 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 [27]
  • Berlin 8 Open Access Conference [28]
  • Coalition for Action "Copyright for Education and Research" [29]

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 [30] : 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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