The Global Cultural Commons after Cancun: Identity, Diversity and Citizenship

Drache, Daniel; Froese, Marc D.

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“…And when development is considered not only on an economic basis, but also in social and cultural terms, then education becomes even more essential. According to Drache and Froese (2005):…”

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MOOCs as "Semicommons" in the Knowledge Commons Framework

Rother¹

2016

Afr. j. inf. commun. (Online)

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The commons approach to knowledge governance is an increasingly popular and successful model for mediating and explaining the ways in which knowledge producers and users, institutions, and shared information resources, interact in social and cultural domains. There is a growing body of literature on the knowledge commons, to which this article seeks to contribute by offering an analysis of massive open online courses (MOOCs). The study outlined in this article deployed the knowledge commons research framework developed by Madison, Frischmann and Strandburg (2010). This framework attempts to align studies of knowledge commons by providing a structured yet flexible set of research questions that emphasise the dynamic relation between default governance regimes (such as proprietary intellectual property rights), tools and infrastructure, and social and cultural norms. The study determined that the MOOC environment exhibits some characteristics of a knowledge commons, and thus the Madison et al. (2010) framework can be productively applied in this context. In addition, the study found that, due to the generally conventional copyright paradigms and varying degrees of openness within the proprietary MOOC platforms, MOOCs can be considered a type of what Madison et al. (2010) term a "semicommons". Furthermore, because access to learning resources, a key element of access to knowledge (A2K), is an important driver of development, and because openness is an important facilitator of that access, the semicommons status of MOOCs (as learning resources) to some extent mitigates their contribution to increased A2K.

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“…And when development is considered not only on an economic basis, but also in social and cultural terms, then education becomes even more essential. According to Drache and Froese (2005):…”

Section: Education and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

MOOCs as "Semicommons" in the Knowledge Commons Framework

Rother¹

2016

Afr. j. inf. commun. (Online)

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An Empirical Analysis of why the WTO is Broken and cannot be Fixed – yet

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Froese

2008

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This article empirically examines the WTO’s dispute settlement performance over the past decade. Dispute settlement is the most significant deliverable of WTO governance and embodies all that is both problematic and progressive about that international institution. The article analyzes a number of important and unforeseen institutional consequences of the shift from an informal GATT mechanism to the mandatory norms and processes of WTO litigation. The rise to prominence of antidumping trade remedy action, a retaliatory dynamic of dispute settlement and the continued dominance of developed countries at the Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) has contributed greatly to the current negotiating deadlock.Cet article examine du point de vue empirique la façon dont l’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (OMC) a géré les différends entre ses membres au cours de la dernière décennie. Un des éléments-clés de cette politique interne a été l’ « Organe de règlement des différends » (ORD) qui représente un des acquis réels de l’OMC dont les procédés restent en même temps largement déterminés par les pays développés. L’article en arrive à la conclusion que ce manque d’équilibre entre ces derniers d’une part et les pays en développement d’autre part est la raison principale de l’échec des négociations du cycle de Doha.Der Aufsatz stellt eine empirische Untersuchung der Streitschlichtungspraxis der WHO innerhalb der letzten zehn Jahre dar. Das Streitschlichtungsverfahren ist die bemerkenswerteste Leistung der WHO-Politik und erhellt zugleich den zukunftsweisenden wie den problematischen Aspekt dieser Institution. Der Artikel untersucht eine Reihe wichtiger, aber unvorhergesehener Konsequenzen des Übergangs von dem informellen GATT-Mechanismus zu dem förmlichen, prozedural geregelten Streitschlichtungsverfahren der WHO. Das Überhandnehmen von Antidumping-Verfahren, die Tendenz zu Vergeltungsstrategien sowie die anhaltende Dominanz der Industrieländer innerhalb der Streitschlichtungsverfahren haben entscheidend zur gegenwärtigen Blockierung der WHO beigetragen

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The Global Cultural Commons after Cancun: Identity, Diversity and Citizenship

Cited by 2 publications

References 36 publications

MOOCs as "Semicommons" in the Knowledge Commons Framework

MOOCs as "Semicommons" in the Knowledge Commons Framework

An Empirical Analysis of why the WTO is Broken and cannot be Fixed – yet

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