Note: Picture from the Civil Society Institute website (about the logo).
E-research is about e-rights, e-responsibilities, e-access, e-intellectual property, e-privacy, e-etc. I can’t add much to the Jane’s Anderson’s and Kathy’s Bowrey’s paper, annotated this week in AustralianPolicyOnline, but felt that it would be inappropriate to leave it unnoticed in this blog. By providing a solid review of the literature about indigenous cultural property, open access to knowledge and the gap between them in the modern society, this paper also provides a good source for thinking about other legal and moral aspects of e-research in education, social sciences and humanities.
Below is the extract from the paper and URL. Together some more links related to this topic.
- Anderson, J. & Bowrey. K.(2006). The Imaginary Politics of Access to Knowledge: Whose Cultural Agendas are Being Advanced? Australasian Intellectual Property Law Resources, 13. URL
"This paper explores the humanitarian promise contained in advocacy for broader access rights to knowledge, and, the notion that access is a precondition to the public good of invention. This politics is explored from three perspectives: the Commons as a product of a history of Empire; the Commons as a byproduct of intellectual property law; the Commons as the embodiment of the machine logic of the network society. Discussion is informed by critical readings of the archive, commodification and information technology theory and draws on examples regarding current access to, and the digitisation of, Australian knowledge pertaining to Indigenous life and lore. The paper invites critical reflection upon the cultural agendas produced through networks of power and imaginary politics. What or where, is the public interest in the production of an information commons? Is there scope for recognising that the public is not all of one kind?"
- The American Civil Liberties Union website. Some playful food for thinking about the privacy rights in the networked society. URL
- The Legal Framework for e-Research project (QUT) “aims to build a legal framework that will overcome barriers to the adoption of an e-Research methodology. It will address legal issues such as contractual frameworks, data ownership, access/reuse, IP licensing, privacy and liability”. URL
- The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre (UNSW) “provides a focus for research, public interest advocacy and education on issues of law and policy concerning digital transactions in cyberspace”. URL
No commentary this time. Your comments are welcome!