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Why is there no open-source vaccine against Covid-19?
The Covid-19 pandemic is, without doubt, one of the biggest societal challenges of our times. Since its outbreak in December 2019, more than 3 million people died due to or with a Covid-19 infection....
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Bordercrossing Podcast: Patents, Profits & Pandemics ft. Susan Sell
Over at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, we have recently launched Cooperadio – The Global Cooperation Podcast. In its most recent episode on “Patents, Profits &...
View ArticleGlobal Vaccine Allocation or Why the Pandemic Is Not All Over Yet
This post is provided by Jasmin Schmitz, Research Assistant at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research When the then novel Covid-19-virus broke out in December 2019, it soon...
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Bordercrossing Blogpost: A Guide to Wikipedia Editing für Researchers
Over at Elephant in the Lab, Paul Börsting and Maximilian Heimstädt blogged about “Wikipedia as Science Communication” and provide a neat step-by-step guide for researchers who want to improve their...
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Towards “alternative” as an analytical lens for investigating “alternative...
(Image, CC0) This post is provided by Konstantin Hondros, post-doctoral researcher at University of Duisburg-Essen in the DFG-funded research project “Organizing Creativity under Regulatory...
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Bordercrossing Article: “Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience...
We, that is Sigrid Quack, Konstantin Hondros, Katharina Zangerle and I, proudly present the article “Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in...
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Platform rules! Terms and conditions on professional creative platforms...
Platform rule No. x, own drawing In a recent blog post, Amy Thomas from the CREATe center at the University of Glasgow suggests that contractual provisions can have – not least detrimental – effects...
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Global Talk on Open Source Vaccine Development: Practices, Opportunities, and...
At this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which takes place October 25th-29th 2021, Konstantin Hondros and myself presented a working paper titled “Tinkering and...
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The Importance of Time: Leveraging the Medicines Patent Pool as a...
Building upon a case study of the Medicines Patent Pool, this blogpost aims to set the Medicines Patent Pool/Merck License for Molnupiravir in a processual context. About the License Agreement...
View ArticleThe Rocky Road to Open Source Drug Development: The Challenges for Open...
This post is provided by Suela Simoni, Student Assistant at Innsbruck University While the concept of “open source” emerged as a radically open and transparent way of developing software, it is...
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Making Sense of the Decline of “Sharing” as a Label: Tentative Theses
In a recently published article in New Media & Society, Nicholas John (2022) reports on the decline of the use of “sharing” in the self-presention of large social network sites (SNS) over the last...
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Bordercrossing Blogpost: “Three Faces of Openness in Organising Copyright”
Konstantin Hondros and myself had been invited to contribute to the great series of evidence summaries for the 21 for 2021 project, a CREATe project within the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and...
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Laudatio for Sigrid Quack receiving the EGOS Honorary Membership
Laudatio delivered by Leonhard Dobusch at the 38th EGOS Colloquium, July 7, 2022, at WU Vienna, Austria. How can we assess what a pioneering and lasting contribution to “the social sciences dealing...
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Bordercrossing Article: “We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”
“Dhaka Savar Building Collapse” by rijans, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 In the article “’We Can’t Compete on Human Rights’: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of...
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A Digital Remix Culture Guide to Public Service Media Reform: Copy –...
(Source: everythingisaremix.info) I delivered this statement as a panelist at the RIPE@2022 conference “Between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Power: Conservation and Innovation in Public Service...
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Are there Open-Source Vaccines?
Konstantin Hondros & Milena Leybold Is an open source vaccine inside? Just over a year ago, Milena Leybold and Leonhard Dobusch asked, Why is there no open-source vaccine against Covid-19? and...
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Bordercrossing Essay: “How Openness Becomes Exclusionary”
In March 2021, Alek Tarkowski and Paul Keller published an essay on the “Paradox of Open” on the occasion of launching their Brussels-based Think Tank Open Future. While sketching an agenda for their...
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Discussion Proposal: Increasing Vaccine Access in a Shorter Time
As we have all experienced recently, to prevent pandemic outbreaks or mitigate an evolving pandemic crisis, it is of utmost importance to guarantee timely and global access to safe and effective...
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Bordercrossing Call to Action: »Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse!«
While there is a lot of discussion about new Twitter alternatives and the relevance of journalists and other critical groups of users, the potential of university-based Fediverse instances has hardly...
View ArticleCall for Papers for the EGOS 2024 Subtheme: “Regulating Organizations:...
Florian Überbacher (Montpellier Business School), Elke Schüßler (Leuphana University) and Arno Kourula (University of Amsterdam Business School) are calling for submissions to their 2024 EGOS Subtheme...
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