Search
Items tagged with: commons
I don't think too many people in the Fediverse know of the groundbreaking, but quite accessible research Elinor Ostrom did on the Commons, which eventually won her the Nobel Price.
Commons = a resource shared by a group and that together manages that resource for the good of all.
The #Fediverse is a #Commons, but as it is today it isn't very good about several of the success criteria that #Ostrom identified. E.g. look at the list at the bottom of:
https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons/index.html
Can we do better?
The votes have been counted, announcing the 2022 #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year 
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwell duck (Mareca strepera) in Taudaha Lake, near Katmandu, Nepal.
Attribution: Prasan Shrestha / CC-BY-SA 4.0
3,600+ voters selected this picture first out of 1,102 featured pictures and 55 other finalists!
See the rest of the results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons😛icture_of_the_Year/2022/Results
#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons
Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?
Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…
Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
#funding #tech #eu #commons
The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.Aral Balkan
I'm a visual #artist working who builds #interactive digital media installations. I'm a supporter of #opensource and #commonage or #commons (digital and physical).
I am working on projects about 'networks' (woodland, digital, human) and planning to use a platform for a project in the UK later this year.
Look forward to meeting #artist #curator #environmentalist #programmer or anyone interested in a world built on community!
I'll post some recent #artworks here to get started.