Nailing The Commons

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A micro-doc by apc.au / toysatellite for the APC and iCommons.

View the rushes, Nailing the Commons 1 & 2.

Contents 1 Rationale 2 Interviews 2.1 Transcripts 3 Objectives 4 Budget 5 Licence 6 Distribution 7 Resources

Rationale

The notion of what constitutes the commons has broad interpretations. So to does the information commons. This video will enquire into what is considered an information/knowledge commons through a series of short interviews conducted at the 2008 iSummit in Sapporo Japan.

The end result is a video resource for the iCommons and APC, additionally supporting the APC Strategic Priority Scoping paper, Growing the Global Information Commons.

Interviews

The video would provide a sample of answers to the following questions:

• What is meant by the term the information commons and is this the same as the knowledge commons? Or, what does the term information commons mean to you?

• What issues are generally understood to be included in the information commons (e.g. copyright, freedom of information, open access, etc.)? Or, what issues do you understand to be included in the information commons?

• What are the specific concerns of developing countries in relation to the information/knowledge commons? Or, is there a connection between development, developing countries and the commons? if so, what?

Transcripts

Interviews were conducted over the first two days of the iSummit by Andrew Garton (day 1) and Pavel Antonov (day 2). They were all conducted in English.

• Yonghun Kwon: Producer, The Daily English Show, Japan
• Paul Jacobson: General Council, iCommons, South Africa
• Lanon Prigge: Cape Town, South Africa
• Diane Peters: General Council, Creative Commons, San Francisco, USA
• Mimi Ito: Anthropologist, Japan
• Shipra Sharma: Open Curriculum Development Worker, India
• Rebecca MacKinnon: Founder, Global Voices, Hong Kong
• David Bollier: Editor, OnTheCommons.org, Video: iSummit presentation
• Elliot Bledsoe: Creative Commons Clinic, Australia
• Sarah Whitcher Kansa: Executive Director, Alexandria Archive Institute, San Francisco
• Jessica Powell: Co-founder, Google Literacy Project, London, United Kingdom
• Alexandre Grauer: Chairman, Qwartz Electronic Music Award, Paris, France

Objectives

1. Conduct on-the-spot interviews at the 2008 iSummit, Japan. DONE
2. Interviews compiled into a single reasonably short (10-15 mins) video.
3. A freely viewable and shared resource to assist in growing the global information and knowledge commons.

Budget

This budget is based on the barest minimum post-production costs. It does not include fees for conducting and shooting the interviews, nor time involved in captioning, scriptwriting and voice-overs (if the latter is required). In addition, there are no costs allocated to titling, sound or transcoding and upload for the web.

Costs include:

• Stock (60 minutes miniDV tapes x 3) USD$45
• 4 x days editing USD$2000.00 (does not include captions)
• Archive and storage USD$150 (store on miniDV, HD and data DVD)

TOTAL USD $2195.00

Licence

Generic Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons Licence.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Distribution

Online distribution via:

• http://apc.org/
• http://engagemedia.org/

Resources