Owning or Sharing? New Thinking for a New World
In this course, we try to understand how choices about what we own and what we share influence the future of our common world. We enjoy walking in a lush, green park free of traffic, and cycling on tree-lined streets. We don't own these though- shouldn't we be paying someone for these?
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13 July 2020
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About the Course
Most of us really enjoy walking in a lush, green park or a large garden that is free of traffic, cycle on tree-lined streets and in these lockdown times, play or read or just sit on a terrace or garden in our apartment buildings. Do you think it is fair that we should pay to use these spaces or get a permit every time we want to use them? None of us really owns these spaces but we use them and ‘someone else’ seems to take care of them. Shouldn't they be paid for that?
Let's put these questions to something we are all familiar with- Wikipedia. A lot of us use it almost on a daily (if not hourly) basis for research projects in school or to get information about some historical event etc. How does this work? It appears to be something that no one owns but everybody can access and share. In this course we look forward to exploring some of these questions in the context of how we respond to challenges and uncertainties thrown up by larger events like climate change and of course now the COVID-19 pandemic. What do ownership, permission, sharing mean when it comes to research, ways to manage disease, access to vaccines etc.?
At the heart of this course is an attempt to understand how choices about what we own and what we share influence the future of our common world.
Read the course facilitator, Radha Gopalan's blog post about her work in the past with 14 year olds on similar issues.
About our Facilitator:
Rachit is an electronics engineer who has been designing analog circuits for the past decade. His work experience includes Cosmic Circuits and Cadence Design Systems (which acquired Cosmic Circuits), on the design of integrated circuits for audio codecs, serial interfaces, and phase locked loops amongst other things. He likes to spend his time on reading, understanding audio, building speakers, music, and sports.
Rachit has a Masters degree from the Centre For Electronic Design And Technology at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Muralidhar (aka Murali) is senior mentor and course designer at GenWise with 20+ years of experience in the social sector. In addition to delivering Vocational Training to young adults, he is currently responsible for design, manufacturing and marketing operations at a traditional handicraft (wooden toys) enterprise near Bengaluru. Murali has also delivered training and professional development programs for secondary science teachers and 'making' skills to "gifted students" for around 4 years.
Murali has a bachelor's degree in Engineering from IIT Madras.