• DOI:10.14763/2020.4.1530
• Corpus ID: 240800967

Digital commons

@article{Rosnay2020DigitalC,
  title={Digital commons},
  author={M{\'e}lanie Dulong de Rosnay and Felix Stalder},
  journal={Internet Policy Rev.},
  year={2020},
  volume={9}
}

• Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Felix Stalder
• Published 17 December 2020
• Economics
• Internet Policy Rev.

: Commons are holistic social institutions to govern the (re)production of resources, articulated through interrelated legal, socio-cultural, economic and institutional dimensions. They represent a comprehensive and radical approach to organise collective action, placing it “beyond market and state” (Bollier & Helfrich, 2012). They form a third way of organising society and the economy that differs from both market-based approaches, with their orientation toward prices, and from bureaucratic forms of organisation, with their orientation toward hierarchies and commands. This governance model has been applied to tangible and intangible resources, to local initiatives (garden, educational material), and to resources governed by global politics (climate, internet infrastructure). Digital commons are a subset of the commons, where the resources are data, information, culture and knowledge which are created and/or maintained online. The notion of the digital commons is an important concept for countering legal enclosure and fostering equitable access to these resources. This article presents the history of the movement of the digital commons, from free software,