Nudging the Ostroms' Vision of the Commons on Polycentric Governance into the Digital Environment

In 2003, Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom wrote what many consider to be a seminal piece, Ideas, Artifacts, And Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource. In this article, Hess and Ostrom began to tackle the intellectual land grab that they saw happening as the world moved into a digital environment. They wrote: