Comments on: World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:53:07 +0000

I have a feeling that while it will help re-distribution of new concepts too, Mr. Zoellick’s action is great!

By: intraday tips

intraday tips — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:17:03 +0000

This was one of the Great Initiative we have ever witnessed.
As this initiative will encourage & empower to resolve toughest issues, due to its open access nature. These type of policies are very crucial at this stage!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:25:58 +0000

Interesting that “Sam” and “Toshiyuki” have posted exactly the same comment. I suspect these comments are the work of an automated FUD bot, programmed by anti-CC parties. The comment is self-contradictory, and seems designed to spread the lie behind the nonsense phrase “intellectual property” – the lie that ideas can be owned, and therefore one can “steal” them. This lie is exposed by Richard Stallman of the Free Sofware Foundation in this essay:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

By: robb s.

robb s. — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:00:44 +0000

This action by the World Bank is a major step toward digital age transparency in an organization that has log been criticized for its lack of openness. I applaud Mr. Zoellick’s action.

By: Kieth Brian Tomo

Kieth Brian Tomo — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:12:51 +0000

Awesome

By: Matt Taylor

Matt Taylor — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:11:47 +0000

Sharing of research products and information is a good thing. Like any knowledge it can be used for good or evil and generally over the course of history most of it gets used for mostly good purposes.

I applaud this stance by the world bank. All publicly funded institutions in every country should be taking this step.

By: Danyl Strype

Danyl Strype — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:14:50 +0000

By: Adeposi Okupe

Adeposi Okupe — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:27:38 +0000

Jory got it all right. Good initiative if all parties will only agree to work together for the common good and not for selfish interests.

By: Jory Piccinino

Jory Piccinino — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:03:03 +0000

Many people are obviously turned off as a gut reaction when they hear of something called The World Bank. Yet as an nonconforming idealist I am aware of how through the manipulation of information even so-called sinister organizations or ones that are collectively agreed upon to be untrustworthy have actually turned out to be like Quasimodo or Frankenstein: someone with good intentions who is socially classified as a “monster” or a similar label.

In order to create a free world, we must be willing to cooperate with each other and not erroneously claim authority over ideas and objects as belonging to one person or group of people that thinks they are the only one that had the idea or got to it first, or the only one capable of developing such an idea. Once we let go of our false ideas of ourselves and what “success” means as a comparative model, once we develop faith in each other and grow to be supportive of each other within our interconnecting communities, we will realize that Creative Commons is a powerful solution to suppression of creative power all over the planet.

By: toshiyuki Masubuchi

toshiyuki Masubuchi — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:03:20 +0000

I have a feeling that while it will help re-distribution of new concepts, this could also create situation where people steal new research ideas from others.