... America’s innovation policy needs to recognize that even the way we change is changing. The executive director of the University of California-Berkeley’s Center for Open Innovation, Professor Henry Chesbrough, observes that many leading companies are pursuing “open innovation” strategies. ...
A related concept is what scholars such as Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler have called “commons-based peer production,” which is the creative energies of large numbers of people who are using the Internet to create information, knowledge, and culture, often without financial incentives or traditional hierarchical organizations. ...
The new administration should identify appropriate steps that the federal government can take to promote the economic and societal benefits of the information revolution. Among the steps it could take would be to ... develop multimedia digital libraries that place our shared cultural and historic heritage at the fingertips of every American. ...
To improve government, the 44th president must make government more open, transparent, efficient, and user-friendly by taking a page from former Center for American Progress fellow Carl Malamud, who put the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database of corporate filings online, and successfully urged C-SPAN to expand citizen access to its online video of congressional hearings, agency briefings, and White House events. The new administration should require government to make it easy for citizens, community-based organizations, and the private sector to add value to data, especially given the power of “mash ups” and other Web 2.0 tools and techniques. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/20/2008 09:43:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
