Governing diversity in the digital ecosystem
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The concept of ecosystem is about to be brought into the digital age where, instead of plants and animals, the digital species who roam the landscape include software components, applications, services, business models, contractual frameworks and laws. Along with understanding the nature of habitat and the significance of localisation, diversity is one of the key characteristics of a healthy ecosystem. However, encouraging diversity in the context of technology production brings with it significant challenges, and designing a framework for governance that can balance interests, address technology lock-in and enable the co-existence of diverse software production methods quickly becomes a priority, as participants in the Digital Business Ecosystem project have found.
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- Authors
- Darking, M., Whitley, E. A., & Dini, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Brighton (GB)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2008-10
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 137-140
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2108709085
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 3.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- University of Brighton Repository (University of Brighton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Diverse Legal and Medical Studies
- Keywords
- diversity governance, digital ecosystems, digital divide, digital inclusion, technology policy
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