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Thursday, September 10, 2009
The global central climate bank can collect these funds in a central fund and distribute them according to an agreed method; it must be able to effectively sanction countries that fail to meet their payment commitments. There is no “outside” where negative consequences can be distributed. This includes the consolidation of “eye to eye” negotiations An emissions-trading system based on “benefit-sharing” would offer enormous opportunities to developing countries and provide the key to a new low-carbon global order.
These are excerpts from a quite technical
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Maghribis behaved as a common-based peer production ,
“(…) the networked environment makes possible a new modality of organizing production: radically decentralized, collaborative, and nonproprietary; based on sharing resources and outputs among widely distributed, loosely connected individuals who cooperate with each other without relying on either market signals or managerial commands.” As Benkler (20 06, p.100) points out, “core inputs of information production ubiquitously distributed in society is a core enabling fact, but it alone cannot assure
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
In this NYT guest editorial , Aaron Hirsh first describes the inevitability of Big Science approaches as scienfific communities grow to maturity, but also argues in the second part, that distributed citizen science is an alternative way to achieve bigness wihout centralization :
The Internet is a natural medium for Citizen Science — widely distributed yet highly organized, it’s the ultimate network of villages — and an initiative known as The Encyclopedia of Life has called upon the world’s hobbyists to contribute their sundry discoveries to a Web-based library of species: one page
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