Explores the extent to which different forms of openness can return value to the communities from which they derive their data, content and code.
Increasingly we are sharing not just data on data centres, but also genome sequences, plant seeds and even biomaterials. While data remains the core commons element, both the material carrier and the kinds of rights subsisting in our shared “content” changes: if twenty or thirty years ago we were wondering on the ethics of enclosure, now we are debating on the ethical boundaries of sharing.