Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Photo By Nicholas Zambetti – http://www.arduino.cc/, CC BY-SA 3.0, This exploratory essay posits the idea of ‘cosmo-localism’ (or ‘cosmo-localization’) as a potentially useful concept in both explaining a new economic model and in formulating sustainable development pathways. It is a thought stimulation exercise that invites us to join a conversation about the design of a new... Continue reading → 
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2 diagrams that map the big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions.
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The founding groups, the pioneers in almost any community, hold a different status: equal rights, more responsibility, and more prominence.
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We need to find ways of globally sharing wealth and natural resources more equally and in a way that is cooperative and doesn't lead to conflict.
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The refugee fund will focus on helping autonomous and self-managed projects so refugees can retain full control over the decisions made in their lives.
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Two days ago, we presented the article by Seth Ackerman in which he presented the ‘economic calculation problem’ and various solutions to it, ending his argument with a call for a form of socialized finance which would respect the autonomy of the firm. For a more in-depth understanding, see how I have processed his arguments …
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From an in-depth conversation of Robin Murray with Jeremy Gilbert and Andrew Goffey for New Formations magazine: (Note from editor Michel Bauwens: please note that Robin here confuses our concept of Netarchical Capitalism with that of anarcho-capitalism or distributed capitalism) Robin Murray: “Platforms are a new kind of economy, in which you can talk about …
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The commons is a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness
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Help our friends at the Mutual Aid Network (MAN) build local, resilient, peer to peer economic networks through their crowdfunding campaign.
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2 diagrams that map the big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions.
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2 diagrams that map the big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions.
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An update from our friends at the unMonastery in Matera, Italy and, as you’ll soon see, beyond. Over the past 6 months the unMonastery has been going through a number of significant developments, explorations and experiments?—?these initiatives have had mixed results, some very successful and some borderline disastrous; the net effect has restricted our capacity …
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During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation
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The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
jean lievens's insight:
BLOCKCHAIN BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P COLLABORATION P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYblo
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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Douglas Rushkoff has made a career of peering into an unknown future and helping the rest of us come to grips with the burgeoning digital space
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Joshua Vial from Enspiral and Dev Academy shares thoughts on the art of entrepreneurship and his personal learning journey.
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Excellent documentary, with english subtitles, about democracy in the workplace. Instead of the owners of capital renting worker’s time, the film proposes a reverse contract, i.e. the real producers rent capital, but run their own production processes. Watch the documentary here:
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There is an urgent need for citizens to demand the pressing structural reforms needed to address interconnected social, political and environmental crises.
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The paper will offer a more progressive vision to the smart city vision to legitimate city as commons ideas within the domain of civic public policy
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David Bollier reflects on the work of the Commons Strategies Group while taking us through their beautiful new website.
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Join our friends from the Chicago Chamber of the Commons to discuss our Commons Transition plans
jean lievens's insight:
Activism, Commons, Commons Transition, Culture & Ideas, Ethical Economy, Featured Book, Guest Post, P2P Action Items, P2P Bibliography, P2P Books, P2P Collaboration, P2P Development, P2P Foundation, P2P Theory, Peer Production, Politics, Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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The Humanist Management Network is “working on reconnecting the old humanistic traditions with the insights of the sciences to provide an alternative narrative for human organizing”. Michael Pirson explains: “The Humanist Management Network, of which I’m a founding partner, has been working on reconnecting the old humanistic traditions with the insights of the sciences to …
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