In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance of cognitive and financial capitalism, to Phase 3, a mature peer production economy associated with a ethical economy and a partner state.

Here are the preliminary proposals, penned down on September 23, and which will be improved on a ongoing basis:

The (Partner) State

* The State becomes a Partner State, which aims to enable and empower autonomous social production, which it also regulates in the context of common good concerns

* The State strives to maximal openness and transparency

* The State systematizes participation, deliberation, and real-time consultation with the citizens

* The social logic moves from ownership-centric to citizen-centric

* The state de-bureaucratizes through the commonification of public services and public-commons partnerships

* Public service jobs are considered as a common pool resource and participation is extented to the whole population

* Representative democracy is extended through participatory mechanisms (participatory legislation, participatory budgetting, etc..)

* Representative democracy is extended through online and offline deliberation mechanisms

* Representative democracy is extended through liquid voting (real-time democratic consultations and procedures, coupled to proxy voting mechanisms)

* Taxation of productive labour, enterpreneurship and ethical investing is minimized; taxation of the production of social and environmental goods is minimized ; taxation of speculative unproductive investments is augmented; taxation on unproductive rental income is augmented; taxation of negative social and environmental externalities is augmented

* The State sustains civic commons-oriented infrastructures and ethical commons-oriented market players

* The State reforms the traditional corporate sector to minimize social and environmental externalities

* The state engages in debt-free public monetary creation and supports a structure of specialized complementary currencies

The Ethical Economy

* Creation of a commons and common good oriented social / ethical / civic / solidarity economy

* Ethical market players coalesce around commons of productive knowledge, eventually using peer production and commons-oriented licenses to support the social-economic sector

* Ethical market players integrate common good concerns and user-driven and worker-driven multistakeholder in their governance models

* Ethical market players move from extractive to generative forms of ownership; open, commons-oriented ethical company formats are privileged

* Ethical market players practice open book accounting and open supply chains to augment non-market coordination of production

* Ethical market players create a territorial and sectoral network of Chamber of Commons associations to definte their common needs and goals and interface with civil society, commoners and the partner state

* With the help from the Partner-State, ethical market players create support structures for open commercialization, which maintain and sustain the commons

* Ethical market players interconnect with global productive commons communities (open design communities)and with global productive associations (phyles) which project ethical market power on a global scale

* The ethical market players adopt a 1 to 8 wage differential and minimum and maximum wage levels are set

* The mainstream commercial sector is reformed to minimize negative social and environmental externalities; incentives are provided that aim for a convergence between the corporate and solidarity economy

* Hybrid economic forms, like fair trade, social enterpreneurship, B-Corporations are encouraged to obtain such convergence

* Distributed microfactories for (g)localized manufacturing on demand are created and supported, in order to satisfy local needs for basic goods and machinery

* Institutes for the support of productive knowledge are created on a territorial and sectoral basis

* Education is aligned to the co-creation of productive knowledge in support of the social economy and the open commons of productive knowledge

The Commons Sector

* Creation of commons infrastructures for both immaterial and material goods; society is seen as a series of interlocking commons, that are supported by an ethical market economy and a Partner State that protects the common good and creates supportive civic infrastructures

* Local and sectoral commons create civil alliances of the commons to interface with the Chamber of the Commons and the Partner State

* Interlocking for-benefit associations (Knowledge Commons Foundations) enable and protect the various commons

* Solidarity Coops form public-commons partnerships in alliance with the Partner State and the Ethical Economy sector represented by the Chamber of Commons

* Natural commons are managed by public-commons partnership and based on civic membership in Commons Trusts