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opening assets is just one part of a broader goal to enable and nurture creative communities. And that this perspective gives a different way of viewing the largest digital platforms, and a more targeted response to their dominance.

As the regime governing intellectual property rights evolved and began disproportionately favoring IP rights owners, the concept of openness became a tool for challenging power relations and striving for more equality. In that sense, the promotion of reuse and access to informational resources was fully compatible with the need to defend human... See more

having failed to make openness illegal using state power, the oligopolists are now trying to make it irrelevant using private power, network effects and hard-wired filters.

Jimmy Wales described it in 2004, was to create “a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” The following year, Wales also stated, “We help the internet not suck.

Other components of the governance model include privacy and data protection legislation, research ethics that should guide the researchers and developers, and social (or community) norms.

How do you solve that by collecting everything? Because even if you’re collecting it and it’s right there, they don’t want to believe it.

Some may. All we can do is to collect it and make it easily available. What’s exciting to me is that not only can we now see that there are these separate worlds, but also we can see across universes. We can see... See more

Why do we care about openness? The reasons I hear given for being open can be grouped into three categories:

• openness and transparency support accountability – it enables us to delve inside the workings of an organisation or a piece of code to understand it better, detect where things are going wrong, and do something about it;


• openness removes

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