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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
The text of The Sociotechnical Bridge is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
In practice, that means the following:
| You may | As long as you |
|---|---|
| Share —copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format | Give credit to Gonzalo Flores, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made |
| Adapt —remix, transform and build upon the material | Do not imply the author endorses your use without explicit permission |
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Suggested attribution
Gonzalo Flores, The Sociotechnical Bridge: from people to data, without splitting them in two, https://puente.gonzaloflores.dev, CC BY 4.0.
For a translation or adaptation:
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What this license does not cover
- Trademarks and proper names. The author’s names (for example, IMIA or Mendoza FuturIA) are not free to be used as if they were your own. The license covers the book’s content, not trademark registration or third-party certification.
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Why open
A book that argues you must read organizations before installing technology could not hide from the reader behind a paywall. Publishing it under an open license is consistent with its argument: knowledge improves when it circulates, when it is questioned and when it is tested in other contexts.
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