This paper calls for a new generation of engineers, and the technologies they will invent and
implement, to meet the basic human needs for security, broadly defined. The greatest threats …

Mass-collaborative product development refers to a paradigm where large groups of people
compete and collaborate globally to develop new products and services. In contrast to the …

The question of how to effectively design products for consumers in the developing world
has been widely debated. Several methodologies have been developed to address this …

Purpose Existing studies on crowdsourcing have focused on analyzing isolated
contributions by individual participants and thus collaboration dynamics among them are …

Open source culture and practice emerged as software hackers took control over the
production, ownership and distribution of their skilled work. This revolution, quiet and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to outline and analyze the influence of environment‐
oriented cooperation on innovations as the important factor for sustainable development …

The experience of the Open Source and P2P distributed systems represent a promising
direction for the organization of collaborative networks, since their processes and …

This paper reviews the findings of several engineering researchers and practitioners on the
topic of design for the developing world. We arrange these findings into eight guiding …

Commons-based peer-production (CBPP), as exemplified by community-based open source
software (OSS) development, has been posited by Yochai Benkler as an alternative to …

A single organization or individual is almost always unable to provide completely
satisfactory solutions to a community problem. Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) …