P2P: a new model for enterprise and for society – a conversation with Michel Bauwens
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (GMT+1000)
The Hub, Melbourne, Australia

Humanity has invented a new model of value creation that is based on sharing knowledge, code and design and involves the cooperation of a commons/community, an enterpreneurial coalition of mission-oriented businesses adding value to the commons, and for-benefit assocations that maintain for the common stock of knowledge and the infrastructure of cooperation for the benefit of all. Find out how this new model can work for  you, as well as being the seed for a new form for the economy and society.
Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has been an analyst for the United States Information Agency, knowledge manager for British Petroleum, eBusiness Strategy Manager for Belgacom, as well as an internet entrepreneur in his home country of Belgium. He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary Technocalyps with Frank Theys, and co-edited the two-volume book on anthropology of digital society with Salvino Salvaggio. Michel is currently Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008). Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, assisting Richard Hames with the development of the Asian Foresight Institute. In Thailand, he has taught at Payap University, CMU, and Dhurakij Pandit University’s International College. He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group.
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