http://www.bollier.org/blog/new-eco-digital-commons
"Participatory sensing is only one of the ways in which networking
technologies can help create new bodies of aggregated knowledge that
would otherwise be impossible. Consider the System for Rice Intensification,
an international collaboration of rural rice farmers who trade advice
on the Internet, open-source style, to learn how to improve yields
without using GMOs or pesticides. The project has bridged the local and
the global, enabling bottom-up, trans-national collaboration to improve
rice yields on marginal plots of land around the world."
Can't you just hear Monsanto quaking in their boots? If the crowd can accomplish what a giant corporation can accomplish for free, shouldn't the crowd at least get free Internet?
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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