[Geo4All] Connecting GeoForAll to another international community -- the International Association of the Study of the Commons (IASC)

[labrinos at eled.auth.gr]

Thank you Charlie.
I will put it in the next (October) issue.

Nikos


Περιορίζοντας Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>:

> Dear GeoForAll colleagues,
>
> (Nikos - could you include this in the next GeoForAll newsletter under
> conferences?)
>
> Sorry for a longer note on two potentially relevant conferences.
>
> SOME CONTEXT:
>
> A theoretical description of what OSGeo and GeoForAll have been doing is
> the term "Commons-based Peer Production" -- or "Peer Production" for short
> -- coined by legal scholar Yochai Benkler. A great summary of what Peer
> Production is can be found at [1]. What we are producing in these groups --
> open source software, open access educational material -- are examples of
> "knowledge commons" that are created through Peer Production.
>
> With the above said, I wanted to draw your attention (especially our
> European colleagues) to two International Association of the Study of the
> Commons (IASC)
>
> UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
>
> 1) The IASC "thematic" conference in Paris on Knowledge Commons (October
> 20-22) [2].
>
> While call for papers have ended, some of the topics may be of interest to
> some on this list, and Track 7 is devoted to Knowledge Commons in the City
> that might be relevant to OpenCitySmart.
>
> 2) The IASC global conference in July 10-14 in Utrecht, the Netherlands
> [3].
>
> Many of the participants in that conference are interested in environmental
> commons (e.g., forests, fisheries, water resources, irrigation systems) and
> have a real interest in GIS. Many participants are from developing
> countries and would be very interested in learning FOSS4G technologies. If
> our NSF proposal comes in, we will have some funds to send someone to this
> conference to run a GeoForAll-related workshop. But even if that doesn't
> come in, I'd like to do this. It could be some kind of introduction to QGIS
> (or other desktop software) perhaps, or it could be something more
> sophisticated.
>
> If anyone is potentially interested in helping with this workshop idea,
> please let me know. It also might be nice to have a set of papers submitted
> to IASC related to our FOSS4G work in the education space as a form of
> Knowledge Commons.
>
> In short, I think GeoForAll and IASC need to be connected and it would be
> useful for both organizations.
>
> *Contact me if you have any interest in the Utrecht workshop idea in this
> so we can brainstorm and plan. *
>
> *And please let me know if anyone intends to go to the Paris Knowledge
> Commons conference. *
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charlie
>
>
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> [1] http://www.benkler.org/Peer%20production%20and%20cooperation%2009.pdf
> [2] http://knowledgecommons.paris/programme/
> [3] http://www.iasc2017.org/
>
> --
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation &
> Interim Director of the School of Public Policy,
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst



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