The document discusses the iCommons Summit, which aims to have a global conversation about the future of the internet and how it can be used to create a better world. It explores questions around how openness and greater access to information affects society. The summit brings together groups like open content creators, businesses, civil society, and governments to discuss models for innovation using the internet that focus on ideas like transparency, communication, and fairness. The goal is to develop frameworks and strategies to build an "ecology of information" and a blueprint for a positive internet future.

1. iCommons
‘a global conversation about
the future of the internet’

8. Why are we afraid of telling
people what we know?

9. How can we use the internet
to serve a better world?

10. Does openness always bring
abundance?

11. Does greater access to
information make us wiser?

13. “Never was the technology of peace, in
the form of the tractor, transformed
into a weapon of war, more ferociously
than with the creation of the Valentine
tank... so named because it was first
born into the world on the day of Saint
Valentine in 1938.”

14. How will the history of the
internet be written?

15. (a)
‘We were doing so well, but the
internet soon became a weapon
of war and control’

16. (b)
‘At the brink of a new world war, the
internet made the world re-think
ideas about
cooperation and common
development.’

17. Creative Commons
Free Software

18. opportunity

19. creators

20. read/write culture

21. 21st century

22. ‘The wealth of networks’

23. The iCommons Summit
‘Starting the global
conversation’

24. With human beings as creators
at the centre

25. a special kind of
conversation

26. models

27. Rio 2006

28. Rio 2006
• Education commons

29. Rio 2006
• Education commons
• Culture commons

30. Rio 2006
• Education commons
• Culture commons
• Business commons

31. Rio 2006
• Education commons
• Culture commons
• Business commons
• Heritage commons

32. Rio 2006
• Education commons
• Culture commons
• Business commons
• Heritage commons
• Public sector commons

33. Rio 2006
• Education commons
• Culture commons
• Business commons
• Heritage commons
• Public sector commons
• Scientific commons

36. Communities
• Open content (cc, Wikipedia)
• Business and venture capital
• Civil society
• Governments

37. iCommons incubator
‘models for innovation’

38. features
• modular task construction
• self-selection
• transparency
• communication
• humanization
• fairness
• norm creation

39. The Freedom Toaster

40. Open business

41. Open business

42. Open business

43. Open business

44. Open business

45. Open Publishing in a Box

46. The Rio Framework on
Open Science
1. contracts for open science (CC)
2. software for open science (dspace, eprints,
topaz, etc.)
3. evidence for open science (journal articles,
data)
4. momentum for open science (press articles
etc)
5. arguments for open science (to funders,
universities, journals)

47. iCommons iCurriculum

48. Cultural heritage and
living archives

49. R&D

50. build an ecology of
information

51. a blueprint for the
future

52. www.icommons.org
heather@icommons.org