The Lemos Taxonomy

The hardest part thus far has been trying to conceptualize such a vast topic. Thankfully, Ronaldo Lemos, director of iCommons [Creative Commons International] and the director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), chaired the openess disciplinary (see images below) and open the proceedings by putting forward the three dimensions of openness:

1. Legal [copyright, liability of ISPs
   
2. political [WIPO development agenda, UNESCO diversity convention]
3. Economic [open business models, open-source software]

He went on to give three examples of concrete issues.:

1. open standards
2. open source software
3. open access [access to knowledge]

And just like that, I have a structure for my research paper. Many thanks to Prof. Lemos for pointing me in the right direction. I'll be dividing the topic by these three dimensions and then adding issues with concrete examples in each one.