David Bollier
David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010.
Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons, and now blogs at his own website, . Bollier calls his work “exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.”
Bollier co-founded the public interest group Public Knowledge in 2002 and served as a board member until 2010. He was awarded the 2012 Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin.Books
- Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons"
- Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons"
- The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State"
- Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own
- Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity
- Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture
- Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation
- Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content
- Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
- Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision.
- The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters
- Crusaders & Criminals, Victims & Visionaries: Historic Encounters Between Connecticut Citizens and the United States Supreme Court
