doi: 10.7763/IJIMT.2012.V3.308
Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts
Karthik Jayaraman
- University of Oslo, Norway.
Abstract
Commons based peer production of digital artifacts such as open source software and online content creation platforms such as wikipedia are plagued by the tragedy of the commons scenario. Issues such as participation in equality, which is a small percentage of the population creates and the rest consume and others have led to this scenario. The aim of this paper is to examine and debate the various ethical dilemmas and issues leading to the tragedy of the commons in the realm of commons based peer production of digital artifacts.
Keywords
- Commons
- Peer Production
- Open Source
- Open Source Governance
- Digital Ethics
How to Cite
Karthik Jayaraman, "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 625-627, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIMT.2012.V3.308
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Copyright © 2012 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).