iCommons‘a global conversation about the future of the internet’

Why are we afraid of telling people what we know?

How can we use the internet to serve a better world?

Does openness always bring abundance?

Does greater access to information make us wiser?

“Never was the technology of peace, in the form of the tractor, transformed into a weapon of war, more ferociously than with the creation of the Valentine tank... so named because it was first born into the world on the day of Saint Valentine in 1938.”

How will the history of the internet be written?

(a)‘We were doing so well, but the internet soon became a weapon

of war and control’

(b)‘At the brink of a new world war, the

internet made the world re-think ideas about

cooperation and common development.’

Creative CommonsFree Software

opportunity

creators

read/write culture

21st century

‘The wealth of networks’

The iCommons Summit

‘Starting the global conversation’

With human beings as creators at the centre

a special kind of conversation

models

• Education commons

• Culture commons

• Business commons

• Heritage commons

• Public sector commons

• Scientific commons

Rio 2006

Communities

• Open content (cc, Wikipedia)

• Business and venture capital

• Civil society

• Governments

iCommons incubator

‘models for innovation’

features

• modular task construction

• self-selection

• transparency

• communication

• humanization

• fairness

• norm creation

The Freedom Toaster

Open business

Open Publishing in a Box

The Rio Framework on Open Science

1. contracts for open science (CC)2. software for open science (dspace, eprints,

topaz, etc.)3. evidence for open science (journal articles,

data)4. momentum for open science (press articles

etc)5. arguments for open science (to funders,

universities, journals)

iCommons iCurriculum

Cultural heritage and living archives

R&D

build an ecology of information

a blueprint for the future

www.icommons.org

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