Transcript of a video interview of Michel Bauwens by Robin Good of masternewmedia.org “What we do at the P2P Foundation is study: Peer production, peer governance, and peer property. In other words, all the modalities where people can aggregate around the Internet using collaborative platforms and produce something of value together. This has an application… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2010"
Against ‘left’ cyber-utopianism
Dale Carrico (excerpt): ““The Internet is antithetical to commerce.” With this declaration, science fiction novelist and technology writer Cory Doctorow began an editorial essay for the O’Reilly Network (the online home of the key publisher of technical computer books and manuals as well as an organizer of important conferences on media and technology issues) in… Continue reading
From the Berkeley Open Science Summit
Science must be open and accessible, and knowledge diffusion should not be limited by patents and copyright. After the wave of legal, political and social clashes which shook science after the rise of intellectual property rights for scientific knowledge and data, science needs “a new contract with society”. This was the subtitle of the first… Continue reading
What is open statecraft?
Next to e-participation and open data, there is a third aspect of open government, introduced here by Philipp Mueller. Excerpt: “I propose the term open statecraft to introduce the managerial and strategic perspective, to open value creation. The term statecraft refers to the art of conducting state affairs, sometimes with sinister implication, as used by… Continue reading
Dale Carrico’s critique of libertarianism
Dale Carrico (excerpts): “Libertarianism in this idiosyncratic, “anarcho-capitalist” denotation tends to have three primary characteristics: First, these curious market-fundamentalist libertarians take an appealing commonsense Millian (or, I suppose, even more broadly, “Golden-Rulian”) commitment to a general Non-Initiation of Force as if it represented a kind of axiom, and then treat that axiom as the foundation… Continue reading
Openness has no ROI and needs new customer-value oriented metrics
Philipp Mueller, a supporter of planetary policy-making, has an interesting comment on why openness should not be calculated in Return on Investment terms. Excerpt: “If we look at the most successful 2.0 projects of the last years, we see a pattern, where the ROI is not a relevant indicator to evaluate the project. One of… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens at Ethical Economy Summer School
Michel will be taking part in the Ethical Summer School in Salerno, Italy, August 21-27. More info at http://www.societing.it/summerschool/
Peer learning notes from Bogota
I recently gave two lectures in Colombia at both Rosario University and the Universidad Nacional, at the invitation of Carolina Botero, Creative Commons lawyer, and Julion Gaitan, juridical scholar at Rosario. These lectures touched upon the future of education and the impact of horizontal peer learning networks on the future of educational institutions. I tried… Continue reading
Wikileaks in its own words
Julian Assange and co-transparency-conspirator at 26C3:
Eric Hunting on the Open Structures Project
An evaluation of the Open Structures Project by Eric Hunting: “In recent years a large number of Open Source hardware projects have emerged, exploring the potential of community based technical development that was once largely the province of software. Among these, some of the more interesting are those that pursue platforms or modular systems for… Continue reading
Karatani: The two forms of resistance in the the spiritual counter-economy: circulation boycott and associationism
Turning again to Chauvet and his textual analysis of the Eucharistic Prayer, I will outline how the Eucharist not only offers a possible form of resistance to capitalist exploitation, but is rather an actual witness to, and participation in, the divine economy of grace that restores and redeems the exploitative relationships between production and consumption…. Continue reading
A critique of MoveOn and the clicktivism of political marketeers
Excerpted from Micah White: “Novel for its combination of the ideology of marketing with the skills of computer programming, MoveOn is a major center-leftist pro-Democrat force in the US. It has since been heralded as the model for 21st-century activism. The trouble is that this model of activism uncritically embraces the ideology of marketing. It… Continue reading
The spiritual gift as the basis for the counter-economy
Interesting article within the context of christian theology. Here is the first part which usefully distinguishes three modalities of exchange, how they are interconnected, and how the capital-nation-state can only be overcome if tackled together: Geoffrey Holsclaw: “But now the money changers no longer need to be driven from the Temple of God because they… Continue reading
Can we raise $500 in 5 days?
We have just 5 days to raise the funds needed to keep the P2P Foundation Ning site alive. The cheapest Ning plan available for a community of our size (689 members so far) is Ning Plus, costing $19.95/month or $199.95/year (saving 16%). Our goal is to raise $500. In part, this is because $500 is… Continue reading
Introducing Dadamac: enabling networked learning, mostly in Africa
A contribution from Pamela McLean: 1. What we do “Dadamac’s work is about enabling collaboration (mostly, but not only, between between UK and Nigeria) and is usually about networked learning of one kind and another. We could never have come together and collaborated before the existence of the Internet. http://www.dadamac.net/about-us. Minciu Sodas (Lithuanian for Orchard… Continue reading
Video: How Is Political Struggle Related to Peer Production
Third part of an interview by Robin Good: If the above piques your curiosity, here’s a recording of a full lecture in Spain, covering all the basis of our p2p approach: