Creative Commons Global Summit 2017 - Toronto, Canada

The narrative about commons was entangled in the last five years with different approaches from the “sharing economy” and “collaborative economy”. This tag had been extensively used and abused. The ideas of sharing and collaboration are turning to be empty concepts, ready to be filled with different contents. In that quicksand, only the idea of the commons seems (a little more) stable, and a lot of initiatives describe themselves as “commons oriented”. But how could we measure when an initiative is really commons oriented? And how could we make our work for the commons sustainable?