Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Considering 2030: Future of the commons

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Other overviews that would be interesting[edit]

  • Risks: Enclosure and propriety
    1. Corporate + business equilibria that trend towards preemptive and re-enclosure
    2. Failure to recognize value except when enclosed: naive view that commons are low value and any successful businesses is by definition high value.
  • Opportunities: commons efficiencies of scale, reach, reuse
    1. Similar failure to value effectively: inability to measure global knowledge surplus means advances in global well-being from commons (say, doubling productivity or research speed) are invisible until they happen
    2. Historical examples: even extablished successes like Minitel are forgotten, replaced by enterprises that devote more energy to promotion, lobbying.
    3. Content-focused: what are obvious candidates for a Commons edifice that are still closed off? All of science, medicine, academia. All of education. Much broader than considerations here.

Maybe worth a separate summary. –SJ talk  14:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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