International Commons Conference - 2010

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Status

This is a working document for a conference in Berlin, taking place November 1 and 2, 2010.

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

This is the official site of the conference, with many background articles: http://www.boell.de/economysocial/economy/economy-commons-10451.html

Agenda/program: http://www.boell.de/economysocial/economy/economy-agenda-international-commons-conference-10456.html


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 & Support Committee


Support Team:


Media Support:


Supporting organisations:

Participating Individuals

Austria

  • Brigitte Kratzwald, commons-oriented social scientist and political activist from Graz, maintainer of a Austrian Commons blog
  • Franz Nahrada; researcher and networker for the advancement of Global Villages
    • part of the ICC support team with focus on content and consensus
    • main themes: Knowledge Commons and Global Virtual P2P Cooperation for liveable habitat and augmented human settlement fostering resonance with nature and landscape.

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



  • David Eaves, Open government, open source, negotiation. Writer, consultant, public speaker.


  • Roberta Lentz, Assistant Professor of Media and Public Policy in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). She is affiliated with Media@McGill [2] - a hub of research, scholarship and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology and culture


Colombia


  • 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 [3].


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 (& Belgium)


  • Genvieve Azam, =Economist, University of Toulouse II, France. Scientific council of Attac-France


  • Benjamin Coriat, Professor of Economics at the University Paris 13. His research domains includes IPR Sytems


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





  • Ricardo Petrella, (1941) professor (economy, political sciences) at the Catholic University in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) is a noted advocate of the public domain and the public good, particularly in relation to (access to) water as a universal human right. He is also a great propounder of the 'solidary economy'




Germany


  • Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, German social scientist: Women’s Studies and Peasant Studies (in Mexico, Austria, 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




  • Hannes Foth, researching doctoral thesis on justifications of property rights arrangements




  • 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





  • Imma Harms, a computer scientist, philosopher, journalist and documentary filmmaker; participant in PaG, ‘Projektwerkstatt auf Gegenseitigkeit’, which is based on the concept of separating ownership of a property from its use. The name PaG can be roughly translated as ‘workshop for mutual support’.



  • Michael Kirk, Professor of Development Economics, Agricultural Economics and Cooperation Economics at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.


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


  • Birgit Kraemer, social scientist at Economic and Social Research Institute (WSI), private interest in cooperatives, community structures and regional development, active in social movements


  • 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)





"Allmende-Kontor" in Berlin



knowledge about open wireless networks; founder of the Open Hardware Initiative; associated with the Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance [12] ; lobbying for more open licensing models for the radio spectrum via Open Spectrum EU



  • 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




  • 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,





Transition & Commons: "The commons concept plays a vital role in the Transition model; both on the physical as well as the intellectual and IP level (Software etc.). As a representative of the global Transition movement Gerd Wessling will try to bring some of those ideas into the conference and is likewise very much looking forward to feed back the expertise of all the other conference members into the 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



Ireland

Italy




  • Giovanna Ricoveri
  • Recommended text:
    • - Commons vs Commodities. Paper by Giovanna Ricoveri for the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), “Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future”

10-14 Jan. 2011, Hyderabad, India.

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



  • Robin Temple, working with knowledge commons curation - using social technologies to create online education about the Commons [16]



  • Patrice Riemens, Geographer, cultural and Internet activist, independent researcher and translator, advocate of Free and/or Open Source Software, 'social hacker'. Formerly with the Tactical Technology Collective, now with the Antenna Foundation.

[17], [18]

Nicaragua


Norway

Philippines

    • Representative pieces:

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. [21]

- Implementing a Traditional Knowledge Commons. Opportunities and Challenges. Developments following the Traditional Knowledge Commons Workshop, December 2009, Cape Town, South Africa. Natural Justice, 2010. [22]

Spain


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


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/


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 [26]



U.S.A.



Suggestion to ICC participants: I invite you to link to each other's web sites in order to bring more attention to the commons. I also invite participants to link to Shareable.net. That would help us immensely. I'm happy to return the favor. Just send the URL of your site to neal at shareable dot net. Thank you, Neal





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


  • Marc Mascarenhas-Swan, Just Alternative Sustainable Economics (JASecon [30]




Presentation: Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes [33]




  • 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 [35] and Center for Human Rights [36]

Recommended works:

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

- Co-Director (with David Bollier 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, [41] 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; Alain Ambrosi, videographer

Finland

eCars Now [42], 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

Philippines

  • SRI-Pilipinas, a network of farmers, academics, government officials and researchers promoting the system of rice intensification [44]; Roberto Verzola
  • the Philippine Greens, a loose network of environmental activists in the Philippines ; Roberto Verzola

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


Spain

Thailand


U.S.A

  • CommonSource, a Tides Center project and publisher of Shareable Magazine. Represented by Neal Gorenflo. Learn more: http://shareable.net. Suggestion to ICC participants: I invite you to link to each other's web sites in order to bring more attention to the commons. I also invite participants to link to Shareable.net. That would help us immensely. I'm happy to return the favor. Just send the URL of your site to neal at shareable dot net. Thank you, Neal.
  • Just Alternative Sustainable Economics (JASecon [45]. 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. [46]
  5. Giovanna Ricoveri: Commons vs Commodities. Paper by Giovanna Ricoveri for the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), “Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future” 10-14 Jan. 2011, Hyderabad, India.
  6. Hazel Henderson, Defending the Global Commons

On the Economy of the Commons:

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 [48], 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) [49]
  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 [50]: 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/
  4. Podcast interview with Thomas H. Greco, Jr. on the Credit Commons [51]
  5. Text: Transforming Finance Group's Call Recognizes Finance as a Global Commons

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. [52]

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 [53] 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 [54]
  • Berlin 8 Open Access Conference [55]
  • Coalition for Action "Copyright for Education and Research" [56]

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 [57] : 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
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