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<\/p>\nAnother interesting book is The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n
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Yochai Benkler describes how social production is reshaping markets and offering new opportunities to enhance diversity, interaction, collective thinking, and justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.\u201d – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The networked information environment has been expanding and making information and knowledge available. However, it can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.<\/p>\n
Access this book here: [Link: http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/wealth_of_networks\/Main_Page<\/a>]<\/p>\n
This online version has been created under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike license<\/a> – see [Link: www.benkler.org<\/a>] – and has been reformatted and designated as recommended reading – with an accompanying Moodle course – for the Education Committee of CONGO<\/a> – the C<\/strong>onference O<\/strong>f N<\/strong>on-G<\/strong>overnmental O<\/strong>rganizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations – in conjunction with the Committee’s commitment to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World<\/strong> and related international Decades, agreements, conventions, and treaties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another interesting book is The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons license. Yochai Benkler describes how social production is reshaping markets and offering new opportunities to enhance diversity, interaction, collective thinking, … Continue reading