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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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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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Delimiting Commons-Based Peer Production | P2P Foundation

Delimiting Commons-Based Peer Production | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
  Mapping 30 areas of activity (Fig. 1)   (This post by Marco Berlinguer & Mayo Fuster originally appeared on the P2Pvalue blog) It has been for some time now that research is engaging around a fauna of new forms of production that have been progressively appearing in the sectors more intensively impacted by the Internet and …
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Open App - P2P Foundation

Open App - P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

"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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P2P Lab's Plans for 2016 | P2P Foundation

P2P Lab's Plans for 2016 | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Our 2015 research has mostly been theory-driven, focused on transitional scenarios and visions for a commons-oriented society and economy. In 2016, P2P lab collaborators will try to ground these arguments and the, currently, tentative policy proposals on strong empirical evidence towards a more rigorous scientific treatment of the topic. Our first and foremost goal is …
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Technology Networks for Socially Useful Production » Journal of Peer Production

Technology Networks for Socially Useful Production » Journal of Peer Production | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
With unemployment reaching one in eight workers, and manufacturing in steep decline in the city, Londoners voted an avowedly socialist Labour council into power in 1981. Left-wing leaders of the Greater London Council (GLC) were committed to a radically alternative economic strategy compared to the “free-market” right-wing agenda of the Thatcher government nationally. The GLC quickly instituted a Greater London Enterprise Board (GLEB) committed to job creation, industrial democracy, and socially useful production.
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