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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 development regime for climate change adaptation and mitigation
Need for low-carbon technology innovation and transfer
Open source licensing vs intellectual property licensing
Section I: post-Kyoto Technology-Oriented Agreements (TOA)
Conflict & post-Kyoto TOAs
History of international licensing for development
WTO TRIPS
TRIPS makes room for compulsory licensing with regard to patented technologies in cases of “national emergency or other circumstances of extreme urgency or in cases of public non-commercial use”
UN WIPO
WIPO conflict Compulsory licensing and the pharmaceutical industry
Intellectual Property, Innovation and Commercialization
Drivers
IP as sole driver? Professor Barton of Stanford Law School
Knowledge economy and Human Capacity Development
Where does the knowledge and skill lie? Does this transfer?
Section II: Open Source Development (OSD)
History of FLOSS
FLOSS & Innovation in “information capitalism”
Current OSD Initiatives
USAID
Open Source Ecology
Business Models for OSD
Small Scale Social Enterprises
Grameen Bank, What would make Open Source development viral?
Section III: OSD Policy Recommendations for post-Kyoto TOAs
Bibliography
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
Notes
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."