Open Source Development

How can open source product development and licensing address technology transfer conflict within the post-Kyoto climate change negotiations?

a research paper considering how Open Source Ecology can diffuse through an open source climate change adaptation and mitigation development regime

Online Resources

• Appropedia: Open Development Wiki
• Global Swadeshi: Open Source Development Network Forum
• Open Knowledge Working Group in Development Wiki Open information and communication technologies for development
• Open Knowledge Working Group in Development Forum
• Open Innovation and Tech-Transfer @ USAID US Federal Open Development program

Survey Search Terms

• innovation economics, intellectual property rights (IPR), public domain, free and open source

References

• Söderberg, Johan. (2007) Hacking capitalism: the free and open source software movement Volume 9 of Routledge research in information technology and society.
  • "The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below."