Convened by the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the newly formed Commons Strategy Group, the event, “Building a Commons- Based Policy Platform,” will bring together more than 150 activists, academics and project leaders from 35 countries. Participants will explore new strategies for developing the emerging ‘commons sector’ and provide a space for ‘commoners’ to discover how they might collaborate. 

At the moment, the global movement of commoners is eclectic and growing but fragmented. There are a number of flourishing trans-national commons movements, such as free software, Wikipedia and various pools of Creative Commonslicensed content, such as open access scholarly journals and amateur video sites.

This article was originally published in the Fall | Winter 2010 issue of Kosmos Journal.  The full text can be downloaded as a PDF here.