Preferred term
digital commons
Scope note
Notes about the usage and scope of the concept.- [Adoption reflection — History] The digital commons grew from movements to build and share knowledge and code without privatizing them — the free software movement (Stallman, 1980s), Creative Commons (2001), Wikipedia. It carries the commons of land (iriai, Allmende) into the digital world. [Culture] Attitude differs by whether knowledge and information are seen as commodities to buy and sell, or as a commons cultivated together. [Capacity of actors] What matters is whether the digital commons, like the offline commons, has norms and organization to manage it. "Free release" alone does not sustain — the commons survives only with self-governing devices that organize contribution and prevent free-riding and privatization (Ostrom's principle of the commons applies here too).
Belongs to group
Group which the concept belongs to.In other languages
Terms for the concept in other languages.Korean
URI
https://cloud.maeul.net/maat/digitalCommons