The Open Book (Free Stuff Friday!)

The Open Book is an essential reference point for those interested in the culmination of a global movement for change in a time of rapid social progress.

The Open Book is

• free
• crowdsourced
• licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
• the third part of the Reaktio series

What's inside?

• an exploration of the social and technological manifestations of the emerging open movement
• over 25 in-depth thought pieces written by pioneers of openness around the world
• a living digital document which chronicles the legacy of open knowledge and open data movements over time
  

Who are some of these pioneers?

• Free Software Foundation, Karsten Gerloff
• Open Data Manchester, JulianTait
• IBM, Ville Peltola
• The Centre for Sustainable Communications, Jorge Luis Zapico
• The Guardian, Simon Rogers
• The Open Hardware Summit, Catarina Mota
• Open Design Now, Peter Troxler
• The Harvard Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, Mayo Fuster Morell

Who's behind The Open Book?

• Released by: The Open Knowledge Foundation and The Finnish Institute in London
• Editors: Jussi Nissilä and Kaitlyn Braybrooke, with Timo Vuorikivi
• Book design: Design by Åh
• Web design: Kaitlyn Braybrooke

See, read, and download it here.