[BOAI] InWeave: Intellectual Wealth and Value is launched

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Øystein Jakobsen, via Ethan Zuckerman.  --Peter Suber.]


The Genero project was launched to adress the fundamental changes
surrounding our relationship to culture and media. In short it is a
registry that connects all the providers of free culture today, and
enables the evolution of new business models upon creative works with
free licenses. The Genero system was constructed from analysis, trying
to figure out how the perfect system should be like. However, the
analysis is not performed by the scientific community, and even though
the Genero model has been developed with input from very skilled
resources within the network economy and free culture, the model has
not been properly investigated and peer-reviewed.

Now the InWeave research project is being launched to adress this.

The research centre Norwegian Computing has replied to the Norwegian
Research council's call "The Future Internet" with the project
proposal InWeave. InWeave is short for Intellectual Wealth and Value.
It is an Open Science project, which will investigate which mechanisms
provide society with Intellectual Wealth of the greatest value, by
performing research into the entire ecosystem around new modes of
production and dissemination.

For further details on the research project, go to the project website
www.inweave.org.

You can also read the project proposal directly here:
http://fribit.no/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/INWEAVE-public-version.pdf

We are also preparing to launch the standardisation body Genero
Initiative early next year. We are also in the process of developing
the first components of the Genero system.

If you want to participate in any way either with the research project
or the Genero Initiative, or know someone that would be interrested,
send me (or them) a mail. Feel free to forward this mail to anyone you
like. The project proposal is CC licensed, you are free to do as you
please. Given the overwhelming response we have gained sofar, the
prospects are looking great!

Best regards
Øystein B. Jakobsen
+47 9283 0070
Email: oystein.jakobsen at fribit.no
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