CYBER COMMONS AND SOCIAL INFORMATICS

摘要

A cyber commons will be discussed with respect to a social informatics. The socialrninformatics can be characterized as an interdisciplinary area that discusses human behaviorrnand social systems in an information rich environment. The environment may be developedrnand supported by information systems according to a certain vision of society. Such arnsociety can be characterized that information is commodity, time is currency, andrnpreference is convenience.rnThe cyber commons may play an important role in the environment, in that it must be arnrepository for a generation, an accumulation, and a distribution of information andrnknowledge.rnIn order to successfully develop and maintain the cyber commons, we have to consider therndifferences between the cyber commons and a traditional commons, in that the commonsrnhas been observed as common pooled resources, mainly in relation to a human usage ofrnnatural resources. One of the major differences between them may depend on a generationrnof commons, namely whether to be able to generate it or not, not just on a manner of usagernin case of the cyber commons.rnWe will discuss the difference between them, observing the cyber commons in the Internetrnand employing our results of simulation, and develop a policy to proliferate the cyberrncommons in the Internet.