Avenues towards reconciling wild and managed bee proponents.

Bees are crucial for food security and biodiversity. However, managed bees are increasingly considered drivers of wild bee declines, leading to stakeholder conflicts and restrictive policies. We propose avenues to reconcile wild and managed bee proponents and point out knowledge gaps that hinder the development of evidence-based policies

Discursive constructions of MMOGs and some implications for policy and regulation

This paper examines how the production of interactive, co-creative softwares such as multiplayer online games differs from conventional media production, and how stakeholders employ different discursive constructions to understand those environments. The convergence of forms and functions and the emergence of new structures that cross pre-existent regulatory and policy boundaries mean that the discourses adopted to describe these environments and enact regulation and control need to be examined for the particular interests they represent. The paper canvasses six different discourses about online social softwares such as games, and briefly discusses the implications of each for areas such as intellectual property, classification, governance, data privacy, creative industries and global cross-jurisdictional infrastructures

Research Methodology for Livestock On-Farm Trials : proceedings of a workshop held at Aleppo, Syria, 25-28 Mar. 1985 [Arabic version]

Co-published with ICARDAEnglish version available in IDRC Digital LibraryFrench version available in IDRC Digital Library: Méthodes de recherche applicables aux essais zootechniques en ferme : compte rendu de l'atelier tenu à Alep (Syrie) du 25 au 28 mars 198

Co-creating games: A co-evolutionary analysis

ABSTRACT. The phenomenon of consumer co-creation is often framed in terms of whether either economic market forces or socio-cultural non-market forces ultimately dominate. We propose an alternate model of consumer co-creation in terms of co-evolution between markets and non-markets. Our model is based on a recent ethnographic study of a massively multiplayer online game through its development, release and ultimate failure, and cast in terms of two explanatory models: multiple games and social network markets. We conclude that consumer co-creation is indeed complex, but in ways that relate to both emergent market expectations and the evolution of markets, not to the transcendence of markets