Yochai Benkler
yochai_benkler at
      harvard.edu

Curriculum vitae Short Bio Face

Publications

My new spectrum policy paper finds that unlicensed wireless technologies have become the core innovation space in wireless, from markets in smart grid communications or health care, to the increasing use of WiFi offloading even for mobile broadband.
My Wikileaks paper still seems to be of sufficient interest to leave it up here for now.
and the comparison of the attack on Wikileaks to key elements of the PROTECT_IP Act seems to have become more important with the introduction of SOPA in the House.
• Cooperation and Cooperative Human Systems Design
• Commons in Information and Communications Systems
• Exclusive Rights Regimes (Copyrights, Patents)
• Open Spectrum, or Spectrum Commons
• Democracy, Autonomy, and Information: Theoretical and Constitutional Analysis
• Internet Regulation Generally
  

Research interests

• General theoretical problems
• Cooperation and Human Systems Design
• how we understand the dynamics of human cooperation through work in many disciplines, from experimental economics, evolutionary biology, and computer science, to organizational sociology and anthropology, and how we can synthesize this body of work into an approach to designing human systems: be they technical platforms, business processes, or law 
• Commons-based information production and exchange 
• sustainability and comparative efficiency  
• Freedom, justice, and the organization of information production on nonproprietary principles
• Normative analysis of the implications of commons-based production and exchange of information and culture
  
• Specific problem areas
• Effects of the networked public sphere on democracy
  
• Access to knowledge, and the role and uses of commons-based, non-proprietary production models for development and global redistribution
  
• Peer-production of information and culture in the networked environment
  
• Large-scale effective sharing of privately owned goods and resources
  
• Open wireless communications
  
• Free software
• Free and open science: scientific publication models; open science organizational models