Rishab Ghosh
Researcher
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-MERIT
- OFFICE:
- Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, The Netherlands
- E-MAIL:
- PHONE:
- +31(0)43 3884479
- NATIONALITY:
- India
Biographical Statement
- 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
- 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
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Peer-reviewed Books
- hosh, Rishab Aiyer (ed.), 2005, Collaboration, Ownership and the Digital Economy, MIT Press, Cambridge
Peer-reviewed Book Chapters
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2004, Measuring free software: Cooking-pot markets and balanced value flows, in: Rishab Ghosh (ed.), Collaboration, Ownership and the Digital Economy, MIT Press
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2004, Economic Foundations of Open Source, in: Feller et al (ed.), Making Sense of the Bazaar: Perspectives on Open Source and Free Software, O’Reilly Associates
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2001, Cooking-pot markets: an economic model for free resources on the Internet, in: Peter Weibel and Timothy Druckrey (eds.), Net Condition: Art and Global Media, MIT Press
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2000, Kochtopfmärkte: Ein ökonomisches Modell für freie Ressourcen im Internet, in: Jan Engelmann, Michael Wiedemeyer (eds.), Kursbuch Arbeit, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1999, Cooking-pot markets: what is value on the Internet, in: Telepolis, London/Berlin
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1998, Trends in Indian Media and Prospects for Broadcasting Reform, in: Broadcasting Reform in India, Oxford University Press
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1998, Cooking-pot markets: a model for the non-monetary economy of the Internet, in: README, Society for Old and New Media (De Waag), Amsterdam, a compilation of papers
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer & Luc Soete, 2006, Information and Intellectual property: the global challenges, Industrial and Corporate Change, 15:6, pp. 919-935
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2003, A preliminary analysis of clustering and dependencies between open source developer communities, First Monday
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2003, Licence fees and GDP per capita: The case for open source in developing countries, First Monday, vol 8 no. 12
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 2000, Orbiten Free Software Survey, First Monday, Volume 5, Number 7 – July 3rd 2000, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_7/ghosh/
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1998, Cooking-pot Markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet, First Monday, vol 3, issue 3, translated into French and German and reproduced in multiple versions in several books, journals and other publications
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1997, Economics is dead. Long live economics!, First Monday
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1997, Broadcasting reform in India, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, Yeshiva University New York
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer, 1996, Network-centric is an oxymoron, First Monday
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- Knowledge and industrial dynamics
- Co-ordination Action for Libre Software Engineering for Open Development platforms for software and services (CALIBRE)
- EUX2010SEC – Enterprise Unified Exchange Security
- FLOSSCom: Using the principles of informal learning environments of FLOSS communities to improve ICT- supported formal education
- 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]
- FLOSSInclude – Free/Libre/Open Source Software: International Cooperation development roadmap
- FLOSSInclude – Free/Libre/Open Source Software: International Cooperation development roadmap
- Free / libre/ Open source software metrics and benchmarking study (FLOSSMETRICS)
- Free/Libre/Open source software – policy support (FLOSSPOLS)