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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Documentary: Building Communities of Commons in Greece | P2P Foundation

A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area produced by the media arts collective Personal Cinema.
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How to obviate the patent system by algorithmically generating all "prior art" | P2P Foundation

All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, making the published concepts un-patentable
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BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COPYRIGHT/IP CULTURE & IDEAS FEATURED PROJECT P2P ART AND CULTURE P2P TECHNOLOGYbui

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A Pattern Language Conference in the Sustainable Valley of Hurdal in 2017? | P2P Foundation

Next year will be the 40 years anniversary of Christopher Alexander‘s seminal work “A Pattern Language”. 20 years ago Nikos A.
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CONFERENCES GIFT ECONOMIES OPEN CALLS P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P ECOLOGY P2P EDUCATION P2P GOVERNANCE P2P LOCALIZATION P2P RESEARCH P2P TECHNOLOGY

 

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When did the internet-based 3rd industrial revolution really start ? | P2P Foundation

The 3rd Industrial Revolution is not really limited to computers or the internet. The revolution is expressed through the networking of everything
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE CULTURE & IDEAS P2P COLLABORATION P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS P2P SUBJECTIVITY P2P TECHNOLOGYcolle

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Algo-Robotic Systems: the new wave of automation and what it means for all of us | P2P Foundation

If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy.
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 8: Areas of commonality | P2P Foundation

Market competition socializes the benefits of technological progress, absent artificial property rights that enable capitalists to enclose them as rent.
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Arthur Brock on the Blockchain's Major Design Flaw | P2P Foundation

Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents.

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Video: Politics of Power – Products with embedded ideologies | P2P Foundation

Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control.

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Economic Calculation (3): Can Distributed Energy Metering Be Considered as a Commons? | P2P Foundation

Economic Calculation (3): Can Distributed Energy Metering Be Considered as a Commons? | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A thought module proposed by Roberto Verzola, via email: “Please look more closely at net metering and the energy exchanges that happen under it. It seems to be similar to the kind of (economic calculation) mechanism you are looking for, as follows: – It measures the individual contribution of a solar owner’s surplus (the reversal …
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Why has Bitcoin failed? | P2P Foundation

Why has Bitcoin failed? | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed. What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people. Worse still, the network is on the …
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The Blockchain is a New Model of Governance

The Blockchain is a New Model of Governance | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The blockchain provides an alternative governance model to the current system of oligarchic control, argues Nozomi Hayase.
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MAZI Initiative to provide know-how for local networking | P2P Foundation

MAZI Initiative to provide know-how for local networking | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Local connectivity is well within our technical means ... but it  needs to be organised, says Mazi, the know-how put together and made available.
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Michel Bauwens on P2P and Accelerationism (1) | P2P Foundation

Michel Bauwens on P2P and Accelerationism (1) | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Regarding the book: * Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Verso, 2015 I must confess, I have not read the book yet, but I am familiar with the ‘accelerationist’ manifesto, with various reviews and discussions on the book, etc .. There is probably not a single …
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New version of TechnoCalyps is out: six theses on the cyber-sacred | P2P Foundation

A non-p2p subject, echoing the last post about Remi Sussan’s webcast.
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Procomuns Plenary 5: why decentralization is relevant | P2P Foundation

Video panel exploring questions of why decentralization is relevant. The session addressed this topic with examples from projects like D-CENT and Pump.io, as well as the digital social innovation ecosystem in Europe. There was also a presentation about the European strategy for Collective Awareness Platforms and distributed infrastructures. Featuring David Rozas, Loretta Anania, Irina Bolychevsky,... Continue reading →
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Arthur Brock on the Blockchain's Major Design Flaw | P2P Foundation

Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents.
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Shaping the new world of work: The impacts of digitalisation and robotisation. | P2P Foundation

The purpose of this ETUC/ETUI conference is to discuss how the world and nature of work and employment is being changed radically by the digital revolution.
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Project Solid - can the web be re-decentralised? | P2P Foundation

Solid, from social linked data, is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
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Using Blockchain Technology To Build A Social and Solidarity Economy | P2P Foundation

A primer on the basics of the Blockchain and its potential to facilitate remittances, financial inclusion, cooperative structures and microinsurance systems

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The cryptoeconomy is just like other economies, except probably with more peer production | P2P Foundation

On the convergence of the blockchain and the commons, with the blockchain as the new institutional technology that makes the commons scale.

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Rebel Geeks - The Citizens' Network | P2P Foundation

Rebel Geeks - The Citizens' Network | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This is a 25 minute video about efforts in Bolivia to gain independence from foreign internet services. They are building, literally from scratch, a local communications infrastructure as well as a direct people-to-people local cloud net. Rebel Geeks – The Citizens’ Network This film investigates how Bolivian senator Nelida Sifuentes has led the campaign to …
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True Accelerationism (5): John D. Liu on Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration Projects | P2P Foundation

True Accelerationism (5): John D. Liu on Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration Projects | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction: “”It’s possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems.” Environmental film maker John D.

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True Accelerationism (4): The LM3D, the first system of sustainable distributed manufacturing may be ready by 2017 | P2P Foundation

True Accelerationism (4): The LM3D, the first system of sustainable distributed manufacturing may be ready by 2017 | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction. “With sustainability at the core of the design, parts can be manufactured directly from digital files at ‘Microfactories’, reducing the costs and carbon footprint associated with molding, casting and machine use. Users could recycle parts indefinitely, replacing damaged bodywork or upgrading as …
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True Accelerationism (3): Abundance is the basis of civilization, on the scale economics of renewable energy | P2P Foundation

True Accelerationism (3): Abundance is the basis of civilization, on the scale economics of renewable energy | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction. “Although we might prize scarce items highly, civilizations are built on abundance.

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Techno-Optimism and the Way to the Age of Abundance (an accelerationist interview) | P2P Foundation

Techno-Optimism and the Way to the Age of Abundance (an accelerationist interview) | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
It is not often that one can encounter an author who is deeply read in both liberal, marxist and even libertarian literature, embracing Marx AND Ayn Rand, and claiming to show an underlyng unity. Please note that the underlying ideas for a technological utopia are not the ideas of the P2P Foundation, as we must …
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