Channel: Sports
Uploaded: July 23, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Author: LondonOlympics1948
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This summer we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1948 London Olympics, the so called games of the reconstruction. More than 4000 athtletes from 59 countries participated in the Games of the XIV Olympiad. But what happened next? The London 1948-project attempts to (re)construct the biographies of every single athlete who participated back then. It will try to do so by means of 'commons based peer production'. This concept is coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler. It describes a model in which creative energy of large numbers of people is coordinated into large, meaningful projects. The reconstruction of the 1948 London Games will be done with the aid of the internet. More info: www.London1948.org