(ISF) RE: Capitalism 3.0 and "Open"

Dear Catherine, and other esteemed colleagues:

Thanks for the link to the Fast Company article!

This is a fascinating topic, but I'm beginning to wonder whether we
should take it over to the "Open Content Business Models" affinity
group.

Here's the official blurb for the group, which is hosted by NTEN:

"There has been a lot of discussion in the nonprofit technology
community about open content. Open content is content (papers,
articles, presentations, graphics, etc.) that is freely available, and
released under a Creative Commons (or similar) license. But, so far, a
successful business model has not be tested or evaluated. This group
is designed to provide a forum for frank discussions of open content
business models for the nonprofit sector, to discuss what works, what
doesn't work, how to evaluate different models, and, eventually, to
help develop, disseminate and foster different kinds of content
business models that provide the ability to provide quality content to
the sector in ways that are both financially sustainable for the
authors and editors, and are as open and freely accessible as
possible."

"Business models for content generation in the nonprofit sector
is one part of a much larger question: how does knowledge generation
happen in the sector, and what are the ways we can help foster and
sustain it? We'll be discussing that larger issue as well.";

Here's the link:

<http://groups.nten.org/group.htm?mode=home&igid=48282>;

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn%40post.harvard.edu">deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu
www.cyber-yenta.org

Recommended reading:
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights&quot;
<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights>;

-----original message-----
>&gt;Seems like there's a link between our recent thread about "open" and
this Fast Company blog about Peter Barnes, a social entrepreneur,
former journalist and author. "Barnes offers timely analysis--and an
unorthodox solution. He says "capitalism as we know it is deeply
flawed": it creates pollution, waste, inequality, anxiety, "and no
small confusion about the purpose of life."; Specifically, he says,
corporate-driven capitalism is squandering the assets that we've
historically thought of us belonging to all of us--the commons. That
would include, foremost, the environment, but also the airwaves and
community infrastructure. Business, Barnes argues, depletes these
assets without compensating us."&gt;>

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