An Introduction to the Digital Commons: From Common-Pool Resources to Community Governance

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9561
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Dulong de Rosnay, Mélanie; Le Crosnier, Hervé
Conference:	Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources: Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural, and Genetic Resources Commons, 1st Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons
Location:	Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Conf. Date:	September 12-14
Date:	2012
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9561
Sector:	Information & Knowledge
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Subject(s):	internet knowledge commons common pool resources enclosure
Abstract:	"This article proposes an introductory analysis of digital resources and commons-based peer production online communities with the framework of the common pool-resources. Trying to go beyond the classic economy dichotomy between physical resources scarcity and informational resources reproducibility, the approach allows to focus not only on the nature of the resources, but mostly on the governance by the communities to produce resources which remain available for all to share and build upon, while avoiding risks of pollution, degradation, underuse or enclosure by the market."

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