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Title: Cooperation and game theory, free software or the #15m movement: Two examples for universities
Author: Jover Padró, Josep
Others: Open Access Week (1a : 2011 : Barcelona)
Abstract: Closing talk of the Open Access Week 2011 at the UOC, by Josep Jover. Why do altruistic strategies beat selfish ones in the spheres of both free software and the #15m movement? The #15m movement, like software but unlike tangible goods, cannot be owned. It can be used (by joining it) by an indeterminate number of people without depriving anyone else of the chance to do the same. And that turns everything on its head: how universities manage information and what their mission is in this new society. In the immediate future, universities will be valued not for the information they harbour, which will always be richer and more extensive beyond their walls, but rather for their capacity to create critical masses, whether of knowledge research, skill-building, or networks of peers... universities must implement the new model or risk becoming obsolete.
Keywords: cooperation
game theory
free software
open source software
15M
university
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
Issue Date: Nov-2011
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
Appears in Collections:Setmana internacional de l'accés obert (Barcelona, 24-30 octubre 2011)

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