Here's an update on the current state of Yochai Benkler's Cooperation project:
- "The Cooperation project is an interdisciplinary community of researchers, projects, and practitioners engaged in studying the underlying factors that contribute to human cooperation. Our current projects include a large-scale study of online cooperation, an investigation of how traditional institutions have adopted cooperative practices, and a weekly seminar where we discuss research on cooperation from a variety of academic disciplines." - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/cooperation I may be meeting with these folks in a few weeks when I'm in the US for a conference. If any of you have questions, I might be able to ask them... On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Cooperrider < [email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting. I hadn't heard about this project before. See below. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Evan Korth <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:06 PM > Subject: [mcc-talk] Yochai Benkler Cooperation Research Opportunities (fwd) > To: Matthew Cooperrider <[email protected]> > > > of interest to you? > > e. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:44:08 -0500 > From: Solon Barocas <[email protected]> > To: DCC Idea Exchange <[email protected]> > Subject: [mcc-talk] Yochai Benkler Cooperation Research Opportunities > > Please, help me to circulate this among your friends, students and > networks. > Thank you. Carolina > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships/cooperation > > Cooperation Research RA Opportunities > Cooperation Project Research Opportunities: 3 positions > > The Cooperation Project is a Berkman Center Project supported by the Ford > Foundation and led by Prof. Yochai Benkler that aims to understand how > different industries and actors are adopting commons-based strategy and > cooperation arrangements. > > Some goals of the project are: > > 1) Map the practices, organizations, and institutions that form the > basis for creating commons-based information production in areas critical > to > long-term development in a global information economy. > > 2) Provide a source of ideas and learning opportunities for new social > and educational agents who are considering new tasks, and thinking about > how > to approach their organization so as to leverage the power of distributed > peers in support of their goals. > > 3) Provide data necessary to examine the success and sustainability of > commons-based practices as part of the online policy and political debates > over the importance, extension, or contraction of patents, copyrights, and > similar exclusive rights and their implementation through the world trade > system. > > 4) Provide a platform and context for practitioners and researchers > interested in commons-based production, collaboration, development, and > access to knowledge to network with each other, to learn from each other's > work and in conversation with each other's practices. > > 5) Provide a rich set of materials to stimulate innovative > organizational and institutional thinking among policy makers, at both the > national and international levels; among civil society activists and social > entrepreneurs; and among the small but growing portion of the business > community that seeks to interact with practitioners of social production > and > achieve positive social outcomes. > > 6) Develop a political map ? who depend on patents or not and who can > be > the allies ? here we may be limited by jurisdiction (political-economy = > regional) (or project base- globally). > > Over the course of next year we will look deeply into three initial > sectors: > alternative energy, educational materials and scholarship and > biotechnology. > > Research Assistant Responsibilities: > > We are seeking 3 Research Assistants based in Boston/Cambridge area. Each > RA > will perform sectoral research, assist in the development of quantitative > and qualitative research, and conduct interviews among other activities > under the coordination and supervision of the Fellow of the project. The RA > also may assist the Fellow to organize meetings, online discussions, and > other conversations around the research focus. > > The required time commitment is flexible, but between 10 and 15 per week is > preferred. Interns generally are required to work onsite at the Berkman > Center one day per week at least or when agreed with the Fellow > coordinating > the project, but otherwise may work remotely. > > Required Education, Experience and Skills: > > Graduate students with professional or academic experience in one of the > sectors that are part of the initial focus of the project (alternative > energy, educational materials and scholarship and biotechnology) are > encouraged to apply. > > Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and enthusiasm for > commons-based research, or technology-related issues. Experience with > technology as applied for collaboration and commons-based production, > excellent research and writing skills, and the initiative and energy to see > projects to completion in a fast-moving environment are essential. > > We are also seeking a mixture of skills in data gathering and analysis, > online community familiarity (from blogging to social networks and > forward), > lightweight web programming (Ruby and PHP especially), and other technical > and analytic skills. > > Applications and Questions: > > To apply, please email a current CV or resume and a cover letter > summarizing > your interest and experience. Applications and requests for more > information > should be sent to: > > Carolina Rossini > crossini [AT] cyber.law.harvard.edu <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu> > Fellow > Cooperation Project > > and more information on the Research Assistants positions here: > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > > --- > You are currently subscribed to mcc-talk as: [email protected] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > leave-9925929-5695186.5b942933bcc65c599 > [email protected] > > > > > -- ----- Mark Elliott, PhD Director, CollabForge pty ltd collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. 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