...The organization that has kept Document Freedom Day alive, not surprisingly, can be found at documentfreedom.org. If you visit that site, you’ll find that Document Freedom Day is intended to...
...for free, but professionals, employed by commercial companies to contribute to the projects; large Open Source projects are often hierarchical and bureaucratic; opening your source does not automatically lead to...
In both theory and application, document standards have political implications for democratic governments.Free and open access to many types of government documents is crucial for democratic government, either because ensuring...
Applying the method of induction theory building, the authors have developed a case study based on the Linux kernel development process to build a model of Open Source knowledge creation.
We discuss the formation of technical standards platforms in industries with network externalities where firms are free to choose their degree of technical compatibility with competitors. In our model, firms...
History includes times of both gradual evolution, as well as sudden revolutionary change. Standard setting experienced a burst of revolutionary change in the late 1980s that led to the development...
A highly critical examination of governance issues at ICANN which recommends changes in the areas of representation, participation and accountability. The report offers a variety of specific suggestions, using numerous...
...and to comply with the requirements of agreements on sanitary and phytosanitary conditions, which are now basic prerequisites for market access embedded in the global trading system. The World Trade...
...It focuses on the promotion of technologies and interoperability specifications that facilitate the end-to-end interworking of intelligent agent systems in commercial and industrial practice. FIPA is organized according to two...
...conformity assessment, or the practice of determining whether a product, service or system meets the requirements of a particular standard; intergovernmental affairs and trade, in which the SCC advises federal,...