[OKFN-Spain] 10 Open Source Policies for a Commons-Based Society

Mar Sep 9 07:47:18 UTC 2014

hola a todos,

os adjunto este artículo de Shareable con un resumen de la propuestas de
Michel Bawens para un gobierno abierto y productor de bienes comunes. Me ha
parecido muy estructurado.

http://www.shareable.net/blog/10-open-source-policies-for-a-commons-based-society

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By Michel Bauwens <http://www.shareable.net/users/michel-bauwens>

Sunday

Michel Bauwens is the founder of the P2P Foundation
<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/> and former advisor to the goverment of
Ecuador for a project to “remake the roots of Ecuador’s economy, setting
off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge.” With a team of
researchers and through a partipatory process involving local civic actors
and global commoners, the FLOK project produced a generic transition plan
<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan> to a commons society with
more than 15 specific policy and legislative plans.

Mira Luna <http://www.shareable.net/users/mira-luna> from Shareable asked
Bauwens for his top recommendations of government policies to encourage
open source development and the commons. While government policy usually
sides with proprietary knowledge in the public sector, there is a huge
opportunity to use goverments as a ally, supporter and guardian of the
commons. To learn more and get involved, check out the P2P Foundation
<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/>,  OpenSource.com
<http://opensource.com/>, Open
Mind <https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/> and theOpen Source Initiative
<http://opensource.org/>.

*1. Education* - Government should invest in the education and awareness
for public of the legal and licensing choices for open knowledge to create
and protect open commons, including for law students.

*2.* *Research* *- *Publicly funded research should be Free/Libre/Open
Source (FLOS). Citizens have the right to learn from the technologies their
governments invest in on their behalf (e.g. public university research).
This includes open designs that enable the production of free and open
hardware.

*3.* *Purchasing -* Government purchasers, educational institutions and
other recipients of government funding should preferentially invest in open
machinery, software and hardware, for example use open scientific hardware
in laboratories to save the public and students' money by using
nonproprietary and free products. (e.g. Linux for university and student
use).

*4. Patents - * Adopt policies which preserve open source status of new
technologies in relationship to patents, especially in early stages of
development (e.g. 3D printers).

*5. Data -* Data produced or commissioned by public entities for public use
(e.g. surveys of vacant properties, government budgets) should be open and
shareable by the public.

*6.* *Collaboration -*Governments and education institutions should invest
in physical infrastructures that enable human collaboration around open
knowledge, such as hackerspaces, fablabs, and co-working spaces.

*7. Commons -* Government should preferentially invest in the type of
material commons that allows the creative actors to live and thrive in
urban and rural centers, protected from the private speculation that
renders commons-oriented creative work more difficult if not impossible.
Examples include: creation of non-speculative, off market housing through
urban community land trusts and publicly owned community centers.

*8.* *Health -* Governments should especially invest in open medical
research, so that medicines will be available at reasonable price levels.
Patents on drugs permit the deaths millions of Africans
<http://www.technologyreview.com/article/400954/in-africa-patents-kill/> each
year who fall to AIDS alone. Many natural cures go untested because they
can't be patented.

*9.* *Economy -* Government should invest in public-commons partnerships
and incubators that create livelihoods and a thriving economy around open
knowledge, software and design.

*10. Systemic Change -  *Government should embark on open source and
commons-oriented transition policies that systematize the transition
towards a society and economy towards open knowledge, following the example
of the  <http://floksociety.org/>Commons Transition Plan
<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan> in Ecuador.

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