Speaker: Dr Juho Lindman, Hanken School of Economics
Date and time: Wednesday 25 April 2012, 1300-1430
Location: NAB 4.21
Both open source software and open data stacks are artefacts that attract developers (hackers) and reorganise production. These two phenomena hint towards a new regime of ownership of digitalized products or 'knowledge goods'. At the same time, open source and open data remain 'mere buzzwords' - words that consultants use to create legitimacy for enacting the next management fad followed by organizational change.
The topic of the talk is investigating what happens when these kinds of ideas (open source, open data) are adapted in organizational practice. What tensions arise when self-proclaimed openness meets traditions, hierarchies and resource ownership? What artefacts, practices and services stay - and what go.
Juho Lindman is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki where he researches and teaches on Research on open source, open data and open access