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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Senior researcher
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webpage http://www.firstmonday.org
phone +31(0)43 3884479
research group(s) 3. Knowledge and industrial dynamics
   
Key experience
  • Since 1995 - (Founding) international and managing editor of First Monday, a peer-reviewed journal covering Internet economics, law and technology.
  • Since 1999 - jury member, Global Bangemann Challenge (now Stockholm Challenge Award), a prestigious prize awarded to IT projects with socio-economic impact by the mayor of Stockholm.
  • 1999 - Founder Member of the GII Internet Commerce Brain Trust.
  • 1995 - 1999: editor, The Indian Techonomist, analytical newsletter on Indian media and communications targeted at a global audience.
  • 1996 - 1999: analyst/newsletter contributor, Indian communication and media markets for US-based Paul Kagan Associates
  • 1994-1995: Writer of a widely distributed weekly column on Internet society, Electric Dreams, http://dxm.org/dreams/
  • Since 1990: written widely, with over half a million words published in journals, newspapers and magazines worldwide, from PC Quest India to Wired Magazine, USA.
  • 2000 onwards - initiated and led the FLOSS project and started a research focus on open source software
  • 2008 onwards - heads the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT

Selected publications by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh


Projects involved in


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Ongoing projects:
Theme 3 EUX2010SEC - Enterprise Unified Exchange Security
Theme 3 FLOSSInclude - Free/Libre/Open Source Software: International Cooperation development roadmap
Theme 3 FLOSSInclude - Free/Libre/Open Source Software: International Cooperation development roadmap
Theme 3 Free / libre/ Open source software metrics and benchmarking study (FLOSSMETRICS)
Theme 3 ICT-Inno
Theme 3 Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR)
Theme 3 Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR)
Theme 3 Open Source Study for the European Space Agency
Theme 3 Prizes for Medical Innovation
Theme 3 QUALity in Open Source Software (QUALOSS)
Completed projects:
Theme 3 Co-ordination Action for Libre Software Engineering for Open Development platforms for software and services (CALIBRE)
Theme 3 FLOSSCom: Using the principles of informal learning environments of FLOSS communities to improve ICT- supported formal education
Theme 0 FLOSSCom: Using the principles of informal learning environments of FLOSS communities to improve ICT- supported formal education [Ref: 229405 - CP -1-2006-1- PT - MINERVA - M]
Theme 3 Free/Libre/Open source software – policy support (FLOSSPOLS)
Theme 3 Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Survey and Study
Theme 3 Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Worldwide Impact Study (FLOSSWORLD)
Theme 3 Open source software engineering and productivity metrics
Theme 3 Open Standards and Open Source Software (OSOSS) – Panel Survey
Theme 3 Open Standards and Open Source Software (OSOSS) – Baseline Survey
Theme 3 Study into effects of allowing patent claims for computer-implemented inventions
Theme 3 Study of economic impact of FLOSS policies in the region of Extremadura
Theme 3 Survey of Wikipedia users and contributors

 
         
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