Information for everybody.

As I was watching Creating Usability and Sociability in Online Social Spaces I was reminded of something I wrote back in the day when I took LIS 2000. I have pasted it below as it seemed to go well with many of our themes for this class as well.

"The main idea put forth by The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report is that we can create a world where information is truly free and accessible to all. As Marybeth Green writes in her book review, Kranich “conceptualizes a future in which information recourses are freely available and communally managed in a shared space” (Green, 2004). [That sounds a lot like Wikipedia.] Kranich offers viable options to the public in regards to common information. The six key recommendations that she makes on page 35 offer a well thought out and well rounded approach to the idea of free information. Her links between information commons and environmental commons is restated in her first point “create a movement similar to environmentalism”. She gives a clear starting place for action, which is something that Benkler was never able to create in The Wealth of Networks. As librarians the sixth idea of “value the public domain” should be our battle cry because these principles are the essence of librarianship."