Workshop: "Defining (and synerging) free and open infrastructure for open online collaboration" by Mayo Fuster Morell, Rufus Pollock and Michel Bauwens on July 1st at 12:30 in Workshop II @ the Open Knowledge Conference, Kalkscheune, Johannisstr. 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany More info: http://okcon.org/2011/programme/defining-and-synerging-free-and-open-infrast... Each time more and more activity take place, not in ones personal computer, but online. However, while it is quiet clear vision on the conditions for a free and open software, this is not the case on the infrastructure that support the open online collaboration in the cloud. The workshop will address the legal, technical, governing and economical conditions for free and open infrastructure for open infrastructure for open online collaboration. We will build upon infrastructure working group at the Fcforum 2010 definition of free and open infrastructure (http://fcforum.net/en/sustainable-models-for-creativity/how-to-manual#collab...) aiming to cross and synergy with the work of the open definition of the Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.opendefinition.org/software-service/), or other previous attends (http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Standards#Open_Definitions) and the inputs of the people attending the workshop. Mayo Fuster Morell, Rufus Pollock and Michel Bauwens will do some warming presentations of the issue. Bio presenters: Mayo Fuster Morell is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Govern and Public Policies (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and visiting scholar at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Open University of Catalonia). She has been appointed Berkman Center of Internet & Society fellow for the academic year 2011-2012. She collaborates in research projects on Wikimedia/pedia with Science Po and Barcelona Media. She is member of the research committee of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Association Amical Viquipedia (User: Lilaroja). She is promotor of the international forum of collaborative communities for the building of digital commons. She was co-founder of the International Forum on Free Culture and co-organized its first two editions (2009 & 2010). Additionally, she promoted the Networked Politics collaborative research and developed techno-political tools within the frame of the World Social Forum. She did her PhD thesis at the European University Institute on “The governance of online creation communities: Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons”. She co-wrote the books Rethinking Political Organisation in an Age of Movements and Networks (2007), Activist Research and Social Movements (in Spanish, 2005), and Guide for Social Transformation of Catalonia (in Catalan, 2003). Dr. Rufus Pollock is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and a Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation which he co-founded in 2004. He has worked extensively as a scholar and developer on the social, legal and technological issues related to the creation and sharing of knowledge. Taken from: http://rufuspollock.org/about/ Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has been an analyst for the United States Information Agency, knowledge manager for British Petroleum, eBusiness Strategy Manager for Belgacom, as well as an internet entrepreneur in his home country of Belgium. He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary Technocalyps with Frank Theys, and co-edited the two-volume book on anthropology of digital society with Salvino Salvaggio. Michel is currently Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008). Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, assisting Richard Hames with the development of the Asian Foresight Institute. In Thailand, he has taught at Payap University, CMU, and Dhurakij Pandit University’s International College. He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group. «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Ph.D European University Institute Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley. Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation http://www.onlinecreation.info E-mail: [email protected] Skype: mayoneti Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748