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our guiding principles

April 30, 2005

These are some principles that guide our work in Prince George's County:

Although we are building a Website, our broader goal is to create a new, diverse, democratic, nonprofit association for our community. This association will exist in the "real world" as well as online.
We are working in partnership with groups in other communities, with the shared purpose of creating a national movement to promote Information Commons.
We define our community as the geographical area where we live, study, and work.
We offer young people a leading role and major responsibilities. However, the Commons is not simply for or by youth. An important goal is to offer people of different ages the chance to work together, both inside and outside schools.
The University of Maryland (a public, land-grant institution) is an important resource for our work. The University's Democracy Collaborative is the organizational leader behind this initiative. However, the Commons is independent of any single institution.

If you are interested in a more detailed statement of our principles, please see "Building the Electronic Commons."

Read more about our work and the ideas behind the Information Commons in the following:

Diana E. Hess, "Deconstructing the Brown Myth," Rethinking Schools, vol. 18, no. 3 (spring 2004) pp. 8-11 (not online)

Peter Levine "Kids, Communities, and the 'Scholarly Communication Commons." (links to a pdf), Presented at the Workshop on Scholarly Communication as a Commons, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 31-April 2, 2004.

Peter Levine, "A Movement for the Commons?" (links to a pdf), The Responsive Community, vol. 13, no. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 28-39.

A webcast interview of Peter Levine.

Peter Levine, "Building the E-Commons." (links to a pdf), The Good Society, vol. 11, no. 3 (2002), pp. 1-9. This is a shorter version of a document entitled "Building the E-Commons: A Project of the Democracy Collaborative."

Peter Levine, "Civic Renewal and the Commons of Cyberspace." (links to a pdf), The National Civic Review, Fall 2001.

Posted by Prince Georges at April 30, 2005 05:24 PM

Prince George's Information Commons

our guiding principles

April 30, 2005

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