Doctoral Seminar: Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technologies DBA Program University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

1. Digital Commons: A Strategic View
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems Department
College of Business, San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
sverma@sfsu.edu
Unless noted otherwise
Doctoral Seminar: Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technologies
DBA Program
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

2. me

3. also me
Institutional Academic Partner
Centre of Excellence
Mona School of Business
University of the West Indies
Jamaica
http://coe-msb.org/about

4. Teach
networks, databases, media
licensing and collaboration
strategy, compliance, governance
technology ->
enables ->
use ->

5. Research
diffusion and adoption of innovative
technologies
how perception drives adoption

6. Service
The Commons Initiative at San Francisco
State University
http://commons.sfsu.edu

7. Fun
take things apart!
...and sometimes put them back together :-)

8. http://instagram.com/v3rmaji

10. Resources

12. Makes sharing easy,
legal and scalable

13. EthernetEthernet Computers
TCP/IPTCP/IP The Network
HTTP/The WebHTTP/The Web Documents
Creative CommonsCreative Commons Knowledge and
Culture

14. Getting permission
Copyright holder
Get permission from copyright holder

15. Can we preempt
the asking of
permission for the
most common
requests?

16. A simple, standardized
way to grant copyright
permissions to your
creative work.

17. Copyright is based on the law of the land.
Creative Commons is a license within the
jurisdiction of the Copyright Law.
Creative Commons does not replace Copyright.
It facilitates attribution, propagation and use.

18. Attribution
Non-Commercial No Derivative Works
Share Alike
Step 1: Choose Conditions

19. Step 2: Receive a License

20. CC Licenses are built on
top of copyright law

23. Human
Readable
Deed

24. Lawyer
Readable
Legal Code

25. Machine
Readable
Metadata

27. http://wikipedia.org

31. Education grants

32. Resources Curation

33. OLPC Jamaica
http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

34. Jamaica
http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

36. AugustTownPrimarySchool
http://olpcMAP.net?id=813006

37. Providence Basic School, Liguanea http://olpcMAP.net?id=810009

38. Problem:
Curate and organize
Books
Music
Video
Audio
Animation
Catalog

39. Pathagar: A Book Server
Open Publication Distribution System
Pathagar : Path + Agar
पपाठपागपार : पपाठ + आगपार
A Practical Hindi-English Dictionary http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/caturvedi/

40. OPDS: Open Publication and
Distribution System
http://code.google.com/p/openpub

42. http://archive.org

43. The Internet Archive is an
incredible collection of over 3
million free books!
It has gems such as this film:
Jamaica in 1933

44. Resources Curation Dissemination

45. Internet Access
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Penetration.png

47. http://www.internetworldstats.com/car/jm.htm

48. How do we make
books available in
the middle of
nowhere?

49. Internet in a Box
A self-contained low-power Linux server
AC
Solar
Battery
Built-in
Wi-Fi
Hotspot

50. Middle of nowhere

51. Resources Curation Dissemination

52. Most importantly,
keep it open and accessible
for the generations to come.