[apologies if you receive this more than once]
Hi all,
The Digital Commons Policy Council is delighted to announce the release of its “Report on the production of digital commons and on the conditions of the organisation and action of the Digital Commons Policy Council”.
An electronic version of the report is available for free download from the APO open access evidence platform: https://apo.org.au/node/320864
A print version will be available on request.
For the DCPC,
Mathieu
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REPORT ON THE PRODUCTION OF DIGITAL COMMONS AND ON THE CONDITIONS OF THE ORGANISATION AND ACTION OF THE DIGITAL COMMONS POLICY COUNCIL
Digital commons are resources produced and maintained by communities and projects made of diverse actors. They are governed by rules which guarantee their collective and shared nature. Examples include Linux (computer software), Firefox (web browser), Wikipedia (online encyclopedia), and OpenStreetMap (geographic database). In contrast to political exclusion and privatised digital technologies with restricted or no access, the collaborative co-creation of digital commons illustrates how people from all over the world can work together to create useful resources which anyone can use.
The Digital Commons Policy Council was created to build connections between the worlds of policy-making and of community-based digital innovation. Our aims are to increase the recognition of the volunteer labour that produces common digital resources and to examine the opportunities and limitations of digital commons as templates for futures of work. Some of the questions we aim to address are: How could volunteer coproduction be better recognised in future economic policies? What could be done to incentivise the ongoing development and maintenance of our digital commons? Is the monetisation of online labour through new digital currencies and tokenisation a help or hindrance to the production of digital commons? And finally, are peer-to-peer or decentralised organising models living up to their emancipatory aims?
Part I of this report documents our activities in 2021-2022 and outlines some future plans. Part II includes a selection of relevant documents published before the Digital Commons Policy Council’s foundation in June 2021, as well as since that date.
CONTENTS
I. INCREASING RECOGNITION FOR DIGITAL COMMONS AND THE VOLUNTEER LABOUR THAT PRODUCES THEM
DCPC
FOSS
WP
TOKENISING LABOUR FOR THE COMMONS?
RFP: POLICY LAB 2024
II. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE DIGITAL COMMONS POLICY COUNCIL
NOW, THE COMMONS (extracts)
The Journal of Peer Production, 2017
WHAT’S NEXT? PEER PRODUCTION STUDIES? (extract)
The Handbook of Peer Production, 2021
BE YOUR OWN PEER! PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES FOR THE COMMONS (extract)
The Handbook of Peer Production, 2021
THE OPEN-SOURCE WORLD IS MORE AND MORE CLOSED
Le Monde diplomatique, 2022
THE TRIUMPH OF PEER PRODUCTION? ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE DIGITAL COMMONS POLICY COUNCIL
The Journal of Peer Production, 2022
DIGITAL LITERACY: USING WIKIPEDIA AS A FACT-CHECKING TOOL
Connections, 2022
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Dear Colleagues: great project! count me in!
here my basics
Saskia Sassen
The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology
Columbia University
New York City
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 11:37 PM Mathieu O'Neil via CITAMS <
citams@list.citams.org> wrote:
[apologies if you receive this more than once]
Hi all,
The Digital Commons Policy Council is delighted to announce the release of
its “Report on the production of digital commons and on the conditions of
the organisation and action of the Digital Commons Policy Council”.
An electronic version of the report is available for free download from
the APO open access evidence platform: https://apo.org.au/node/320864
A print version will be available on request.
For the DCPC,
Mathieu
=-=-=
REPORT ON THE PRODUCTION OF DIGITAL COMMONS AND ON THE CONDITIONS OF THE
ORGANISATION AND ACTION OF THE DIGITAL COMMONS POLICY COUNCIL
Digital commons are resources produced and maintained by communities and
projects made of diverse actors. They are governed by rules which guarantee
their collective and shared nature. Examples include Linux (computer
software), Firefox (web browser), Wikipedia (online encyclopedia), and
OpenStreetMap (geographic database). In contrast to political exclusion and
privatised digital technologies with restricted or no access, the
collaborative co-creation of digital commons illustrates how people from
all over the world can work together to create useful resources which
anyone can use.
The Digital Commons Policy Council was created to build connections
between the worlds of policy-making and of community-based digital
innovation. Our aims are to increase the recognition of the volunteer
labour that produces common digital resources and to examine the
opportunities and limitations of digital commons as templates for futures
of work. Some of the questions we aim to address are: How could volunteer
coproduction be better recognised in future economic policies? What could
be done to incentivise the ongoing development and maintenance of our
digital commons? Is the monetisation of online labour through new digital
currencies and tokenisation a help or hindrance to the production of
digital commons? And finally, are peer-to-peer or decentralised organising
models living up to their emancipatory aims?
Part I of this report documents our activities in 2021-2022 and outlines
some future plans. Part II includes a selection of relevant documents
published before the Digital Commons Policy Council’s foundation in June
2021, as well as since that date.
CONTENTS
I. INCREASING RECOGNITION FOR DIGITAL COMMONS AND THE VOLUNTEER LABOUR
THAT PRODUCES THEM
DCPC
FOSS
WP
TOKENISING LABOUR FOR THE COMMONS?
RFP: POLICY LAB 2024
II. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE DIGITAL COMMONS POLICY
COUNCIL
NOW, THE COMMONS (extracts)
The Journal of Peer Production, 2017
WHAT’S NEXT? PEER PRODUCTION STUDIES? (extract)
The Handbook of Peer Production, 2021
BE YOUR OWN PEER! PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES FOR THE COMMONS (extract)
The Handbook of Peer Production, 2021
THE OPEN-SOURCE WORLD IS MORE AND MORE CLOSED
Le Monde diplomatique, 2022
THE TRIUMPH OF PEER PRODUCTION? ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE DIGITAL
COMMONS POLICY COUNCIL
The Journal of Peer Production, 2022
DIGITAL LITERACY: USING WIKIPEDIA AS A FACT-CHECKING TOOL
Connections, 2022
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