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Almost everyone thinks academic publishing needs to change. What would a better system look like? Economist Elinor Ostrom gave us design… 
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Open Democracy Defending the global knowledge commons Open Democracy Thanks to Timothy Deliyannides, Lauren Collister and the rest of the staff of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing at the University of Pittsburgh for assistance...
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As one of the countries hardest hit by austerity politics, Greece is also in the vanguard of experimentation to find ways beyond the crisis. Now there is a documentary film about the growth of commons-based peer production in Greece, directed by...
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The commons perspective stresses the democratic governance of knowledge as it identifies knowledge as a shared resource that is a collective responsibility. It emphasizes equitable access to knowledge resources such as health-care and education, the urgent need to prioritize ecological sustainability in knowledge policy and the promotion of an open and democratic Internet.
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The Commons encourages the democratic governance of knowledge for the common good and identifies it as a shared resource and collective responsibility.
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As the global information economy intensifies, voices from the global South have been calling for more coordinated and deliberate work to defend what is known as the global “knowledge commons.” Movements resisting international trade agreements and the patenting of “intellectual property” have been inspired and guided by activists in places like Brazil, India, and South Africa, where strong resistance to TRIPS--or trade-related intellectual property rights agreement--helped keep life-saving medications more affordable and challenged the commodification of knowledge.
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Commons are forms of governance and governance strategies for resources created and owned collectively. Knowledge commons governance is likely to be key to successfully addressing important social issues in medicine, environmental protection, education, science and beyond. It is critical for us to study knowledge commons and learn how variations and governance affect outcomes: what works, what doesn't. Recently a group of university researchers affiliated with IASC has founded a new internet based research network called Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons - knowledge-commons.net
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