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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