Learning to live together is the title chosen by Mustapha Cherif for the inaugural lecture for the UOC’s academic year 2006-2007, which is published alongside a foreword by the rector Imma Tubella and a counterpoint from Xavier Rubert de Ventós. This lecture opens the 3rd issue of UOC Papers, which also includes the following articles: “Optimum online shopping and surfing experiences”, by Inma Rodríguez; “Does persuasive communication constitute the communicative paradigm of the knowledge society?”, by Ferran Lalueza; “The Barcelona model of e-administration: adoption and institutionalisation”, by José Ramón Rodríguez; “The influence of the knowledge society on the modernisation of the Public Administration”, by J.Á. Martínez, P. Lara-Navarra and P. Beltrán; The 2.0 teacher: teaching and research from the Web, by I. Peña, C. Córcoles and C. Casado. The issue is completed with two reviews: of Bruno Latour’s work Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, by Eduard Aibar; and J. Hawkins and S. Blakeslee’s On Intelligence, by Salvador Climent.

The central article analyses the use of Creative Commons licences as an alternative to copyright. This is followed by two critical reviews of the proposals of Sherry Turkle, on the one hand, and the empirical contribution of Jorgenson, Ho and Stiroh, on the other. The summary is completed by a brace of articles, one on the network company and the other on the criteria of Linux migration in local administrations. Finally, the review section ends with references to the books by Ilana Snyder and Bruce Kasanoff.

Articles by César Coll, Jordi Mas, Manuel Sanromà, Adolfo Estalella and Víctor Renobell; two reviews, the first one, by David Megías, is about the book The Success of Open Source, written by Steven Weber; the other one, by Rosa Borge, is about the book Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation, written by S. Coleman and J. Gøtze. Finally, there is a selection of books published in 2004, related to the main topics of UOC PAPERS.