Cultivating a Post-Growth Relationship with Knowledge
Knowledge from a post-growth mindset might diverge from our hunger to know, but it will create a better one: a hunger for meaning and purpose. That will truly transform our societies.
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The Frontier Beyond Open Access Publishing? Commoning
This piece is a gust of fresh air – a much-needed, long-overdue challenge to the corporate and university powers that control academic publishing. Through inertia, ignorance, and sometimes complicity, universities are not challenging the distinct limits of corporate-controlled “openness” and defending the ideals of academic scholarship.
The Open Access Ethos in Agroecology
How does resource sharing affect biodiversity? How does knowledge exchange drive community resilience? How is information access—delivered via technologies—an equalizer among the underrepresented, marginalized, and oppressed? How does our ability to feed a growing planet depend on a culture of openness?
On the Commodification of Human Discovery
Free Knowledge is a welcome survey of alarming impacts of IP law and also valuable introduction to some salutary alternatives.
Ecuador, Open Knowledge, and ‘Buen Vivir’
Having enshrined the rights of nature in its constitution, Ecuador is now exploring how this principle, and the principle of open knowledge, might reshape its economic development.