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] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. 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