Towards a Global Digital Commons: The iCommons Summit

The past few years have seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science, and knowledge in communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community—"free and open source software," "open access," "open content," and "open science," among others—but they share key processes and values whose common elements are yet to be fully realized.

Supported by OSI, the 2006 iCommons Summit was designed to bring together in a creative, stimulating, and cooperative environment the pioneers from these communities, to inspire and learn from one another and establish closer working relationships around a set of incubator projects. With participation by commons communities from Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Science Commons, Ubuntu, A2K and others, the Summit is a significant event for creative and knowledge commons pioneers from around the world.

For more information, see www.icommons.org.