Has anyone researched internet governance as voluntary? I have one undergrad paper on this. I think I am original on this but would appreciate any findings by others. also are there any statistics on this? Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
Has anyone researched internet governance as voluntary?
I have one undergrad paper on this. I think I am original on this but would appreciate any findings by others.
also are there any statistics on this?
you've got two different topics here, imho - one in the subject, one in the body. are you talking about volunteers RUNNING the internet, or the premise that internet networks submit voluntarily to governance by ICANN et al? both tracks of ideas have some support, but are quite different topics... --e
I like e's point. I also find an intriguing dichotomy between the content (online publishing, listservs, etc.) and the physical infrastructure (backbones, access points, asynchronous connections fostering oligarchical as opposed to anarchistic relationships, etc.). The term "governance" has to encompass both internal strictures, like the use of .xxx and so forth, as well as the external factors, like resource management, such as servers and bandwidth. Read Siva Vaidhyanathan's "The Anarchist in the Library" (2004) for more on the delineation between oligarchy and anarchy, which I've lifted directly from that source. -Conor elw@stderr.org wrote:
Has anyone researched internet governance as voluntary?
I have one undergrad paper on this. I think I am original on this but would appreciate any findings by others.
also are there any statistics on this?
you've got two different topics here, imho - one in the subject, one in the body.
are you talking about volunteers RUNNING the internet, or the premise that internet networks submit voluntarily to governance by ICANN et al?
both tracks of ideas have some support, but are quite different topics...
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I am talking about volunteers running the internet. 1. a fair amount of content is provided for no money like blogs that don't make money 2. open source software 3. voluntary organisations like FreeNets. 4. more in the future Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. On 27-Jun-07, at 5:49 PM, elw@stderr.org wrote:
Has anyone researched internet governance as voluntary?
I have one undergrad paper on this. I think I am original on this but would appreciate any findings by others.
also are there any statistics on this?
you've got two different topics here, imho - one in the subject, one in the body.
are you talking about volunteers RUNNING the internet, or the premise that internet networks submit voluntarily to governance by ICANN et al?
both tracks of ideas have some support, but are quite different topics...
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Peter, If you are looking for any literature on governance, "volunteerism" and motivation in the open source or "free" software movement, I would suggest the following collections/papers: 1. Cusumano et al, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262562278.pdf 2. Karin Lakhani, Robert Wolf, Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects, http://freesoftware.mit.edu/papers/lakhaniwolf.pdf They - combined with Karl Fogel's book "Producing Open Source Software" - provide an excellent introduction into governance and coordination in the open source software movement. They range from the theoretical, to the more nitty-gritty practical, but they provide many interesting perspectives and much insight. The papers/books I mention above are SPECIFICALLY geared towards the open-source software arena, which is NOT the same as the social networking or web 2.0 trend (social networking, wiki's, etc.). All the best, Chris Modzelewski Emerging Analysis Corporation / ChartSearch Corporation Peter Timusk wrote:
I am talking about volunteers running the internet.
1. a fair amount of content is provided for no money like blogs that don't make money
2. open source software
3. voluntary organisations like FreeNets.
4. more in the future
Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
On 27-Jun-07, at 5:49 PM, elw@stderr.org wrote:
Has anyone researched internet governance as voluntary?
I have one undergrad paper on this. I think I am original on this but would appreciate any findings by others.
also are there any statistics on this? you've got two different topics here, imho - one in the subject, one in the body.
are you talking about volunteers RUNNING the internet, or the premise that internet networks submit voluntarily to governance by ICANN et al?
both tracks of ideas have some support, but are quite different topics...
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I am talking about volunteers running the internet.
Then the answer to your question is probably 'no'.
1. a fair amount of content is provided for no money like blogs that don't make money
Most of which are hosted on machines operated by people who do get paid for their work.
2. open source software
The production of which is rather different from "running the internet". The internet does operate largely through use of software that is open-source. Not all open source / free software authors have "volunteerism" as a primary motivator.
3. voluntary organisations like FreeNets.
.. which are quite rare nowadays. --e
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