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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Why the P2P and Commons Movement Must Act Trans-Locally and Trans-Nationally | P2P Foundation

Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
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FairMarket Is Here | P2P Foundation

The FairCoop team is pleased to announce that the FairMarket has now officially entered its beta phase, which means that it is fully functional as a market, and we invite interested individuals and organisations to come and test it out, either as...

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A key concept for p2p society: Cosmo-Localization | P2P Foundation

A key concept for p2p society: Cosmo-Localization | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the rainbow.” – Old Native American Prophecy In a …
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Trebor Scholz et al on Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy | P2P Foundation

Trebor Scholz et al on Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This is really good panel on the necessary cooperative forms for the sharing economy: ““Given the mounting attention to the unethical labor practices in the so-called “collaborative sharing economy” with labor brokerages like Handy and Uber, what are the alternatives? Imagine for one moment that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism …
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The Cybersyn experiment, lessons from a past failure in mutual coordination economics | P2P Foundation

The Cybersyn experiment, lessons from a past failure in mutual coordination economics | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

What pricing is for market allocation, and decisions are for planning, mutual coordination is for commons economics. Two previous experiments, the failed Russian internet described in Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty and the Cybersin experiment described in Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries, failed. We have argued that commons-oriented peer production offers a unique chance to revive these practices (see here), but below, Eden Medina looks back at what went wrong in Chile, even before Pinochet destroyed the project:

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Open App - P2P Foundation

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"The plan at this point is focused on getting Cobudget properly user-tested and minimally integrated with Loomio groups by using the Circle app to stick them together. There are lots of requests for some combination of Cobudget and Loomio. We want to go where the demand pull is, then bootstrap the ecocsystem from there." (https://www.loomio.org/d/RJnwlM1g/project-update)

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Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression in Greece - P2P Foundation

Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression in Greece - P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

This essay narrates, from a creator-observation perspective, the production of two works of fiction, a book of short stories and a play, based on the principles and technologies of Commons-based peer production (CBPP). This is potentially interesting from both the CBPP and the literary perspective. Even though both seem well-matched by their prima facie lack of profit orientation, CBPP case studies rarely deal with fiction, and regarding plays, artistic creativity is still mostly associated with one, maybe two. After tracing and analysing the CBPP phenomenon, the case studies show concretely the fate of the specific projects as well as how, nowadays, people can involve in collaborative artistic projects inspired and catalysed by Commons-oriented principles and technologies.

 
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Four Future P2P Scenarios - P2P Foundation

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This entry is about the theory of the four future scenarios for a collaborative economy, firstly developed by Michel Bauwens. It is important to mention that Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens are working on a research monograph that explores the relation of capitalism and the Commons. The book Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy is contracted by Palgrave Macmillan.

 
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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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Video: John Higson on Sustainable Empowerment Platforms for an Ethical Economy | P2P Foundation

Video: John Higson on Sustainable Empowerment Platforms for an Ethical Economy | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
John Higson’s priority is how to involve a maximum number of people involved in decision-making processes in the creation of sustainable local economies. John Higson is a “social entrepreneur, and former branding consultant that got tired of creating added value for products that lack true value. John is convinced that our most wasted natural resource(s) …
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Essay of the Day: Urban Revolutions and the Network Commons | P2P Foundation

Essay of the Day: Urban Revolutions and the Network Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
“Citizen networks, wireless or not, could become a transversal infrastructral layer, reaching across society and different domains, becoming a revolutionary enabler of a new urban life in a way that points beyond capitalism as we knew it. … Rather than having corporations and the state who centrally organize production and consumption, in such a commons mode of production peer-to-peer forms of cooperation link infrastructural, political and cultural layers. The decentralized utopia envisioned by the 68 generation can now become a concrete project. With citizen networks and decentralized computing power localized exchange economies can be organized.”
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Digging Fiber in Your Own Neighborhood: the example of rural Lancashire | P2P Foundation

Digging Fiber in Your Own Neighborhood: the example of rural Lancashire | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
B4RN is a documentary by James Uren and Suzette Heald, starring the volunteers who have built their own gigabit fibre network in rural Lancashire. An example for all! Watch the video here:
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The Cybersyn experiment, lessons from a past failure in mutual coordination economics | P2P Foundation

The Cybersyn experiment, lessons from a past failure in mutual coordination economics | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

What pricing is for market allocation, and decisions are for planning, mutual coordination is for commons economics. Two previous experiments, the failed Russian internet described in Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty and the Cybersin experiment described in Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries, failed. We have argued that commons-oriented peer production offers a unique chance to revive these practices (see here), but below, Eden Medina looks back at what went wrong in Chile, even before Pinochet destroyed the project:

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P2P And Open Infrastructures: The Society Of Openness Comes Of Age

P2P And Open Infrastructures: The Society Of Openness Comes Of Age | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
What are P2P and open infrastructures? Can open knowledge and peer production subvert the economic system of physical production? Is there a chance for the society of openness to ever come of age? Robin Good interviewed the P2P Foundation
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Four Future P2P Scenarios - P2P Foundation

Four Future P2P Scenarios - P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

This entry is about the theory of the four future scenarios for a collaborative economy, firstly developed by Michel Bauwens. It is important to mention that Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens are working on a research monograph that explores the relation of capitalism and the Commons. The book Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy is contracted by Palgrave Macmillan.

 
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P2P Lab Publications - P2P Foundation

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A list of P2P Lab collaborators' publications in international peer-reviewed journals, starting from 2013:

 
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