• a [[book]]
  • by [[elinor ostrom]]
  • [[1990]]
  • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-40599-7 pull
  • [[hypothesis]] https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/ostrom_1990.pdf
    • [[go]] [[hypothesis]]
  • [[google books]] https://books.google.ch/books?id=4xg6oUobMz4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780521405997&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU5ZfmhczwAhWEuaQKHVnnCEwQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1401146586013618183 pull https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1400884449949126663 pull

• [[book]]
  • [[author]] [[elinor ostrom]]
  • [[common pool resource]] [[cpr]]
  • [[tragedy of the commons]]
  • [[prisoner's dilemma]]
  • [[collective action]]
  • [[leviathan]]
  • [[new institutionalism]]
  • [[self-organized governance]]

Governing the Commons

[[Elinor Ostrom]].

Towards a Knowledge Commons

• a [[draft]].
  • [[pull]] [[commons]] [[knowledge commons]] [[digital commons]] [[counter anti disintermediation]]

As we enter [[2022]], I believe we are in a better position than ever to accomplish many great things as a society -- and this goes for many definitions of society, up to and including perhaps the most important, that as society as the group of all humans¹. In particular I believe that we are entering a [[renaissance of the internet]] that will enable it to deliver on the promise of a distributed commons that stalled somewhat in the last fifteen years due to the success of [[anti disintermediation]] as effected by interested parties. But hopefully you won't have to take my belief at face value; let me try to show you why I think what I think.

Consider the potential of the [[commons]] as illustrated by [[Free, Fair and Alive]] and the work of [[Elinor Ostrom]], taken in the spirit of a alternate timeline [[solarpunk]] [[Friedrich Engels]]: [[utopian socialism]] and the internet (seen through the lens of the [[theory of the commons]]) really go together at least as well as a horse and carriage. Engels came up with the carriage (the plan, the blueprint) but didn't have the horse to drive his vision effectively. This is my vision: the internet is the horse that can drive the [[revolution]] we need, the machine that Engels and [[Protopians]] before and after him were missing, and it is more than just machine, because it is endowed with [[higher consciousness]].

But let me backtrack a bit. Let me tell you why I believe both us and the internet we've built are ready for this.

On distributed thought

Thought is a [[non rivalrous good]]; thought can be efficiently encoded digitally; the internet makes a [[digital commons]] both tractable and [[peer governable]]. That's the heart of the matter.

We have lived with [[wikis]] for thirty years now, and [[wikipedia]] is clearly one of humanity's most important projects, but for some reason wikis aren't a big part of many people's lives; in some ways we haven't yet seen them come to fruition. As of the beginning of the [[2020s]], though, personal knowledge management systems like [[tiddlywiki]], [[org mode]], [[roam]], [[logseq]], [[obsidian]], [[athens]] and the like have come to prominence.

• a [[book]]
  • #apa Hess, C., & Ostrom, E. (2019). Understanding knowledge as a commons—From theory to practice. The MIT Press.
    • by [[charlotte hess]] and [[elinor ostrom]]
      • goodreads has this under [[charlotte hess]]
      • only 3.7 :(
      • described as a loose collection of essays; might make sense to take notes per-chapter
    • [[go]] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/understanding-knowledge-commons
    • [[hypothesis]] https://via.hypothes.is/www.wtf.tw/ref/hess_ostrom_2007.pdf
    • [[pull]] [[knowledge commons]]
    • [[es]] [[los bienes comunes del conocimiento]]

Understanding Knowledge as a Commons

A : [[book]]

URL : https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/understanding-knowledge-commons