This will also appear in the ‘really really excellent’ Issue 1 of the Journal of Peer Production. I start the article by reviewing different expressions of the broader ‘P2P’ movement: “Amongst the movements discussed below are the following: § progressive liberal interpretations such as those of Yochai Benkler, who discusses ‘commons-based peer production’ in his… Continue reading
Date archives "July 2012"
The emerging sharing economy in Europe: fast growth , but culture matters
Here are some takeways from the successful Ouuishare Europe conference on the Sharing Economy, held in the wonderful co-working place The Mutinerie, a must-place to visitors to Paris, excerpted from Benjamin Tincq: (original article has links and videos) 1. The conference report “The “use” side of the Collaborative Economy, whether you call it Collaborative Consumption… Continue reading
People as assets: towards the co-production of people-powered public services
“people with problems” (i.e. service end-users) have to be recognized as ”people with capabilities” (i.e. service co-producers). That is, people with knowledge, time and energy to usefully contribute to the service conception and, most importantly, to its day-by-day production and delivery.” Excerpted from Ezio Manzini, Eduardo Staszowski, of the DESIS Network of innovation design labs:… Continue reading
From the P2P expressions of spirituality to the spiritual expression of P2P
Poor Richard comments on my essay, “The Next Buddha Will Be A Collective“, which appeared in Reality Sandwich magazine. Poor Richard: “Michel Bauwens writes in The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective, “As society evolves towards distributed networks, with peer to peer based social relations, it will affect spiritual expression in fundamental ways.” He concludes,… Continue reading
In support of the #FREEBASSEL campaign (to free Syrian open source advocate)
Bassel by Joi Ito, on Flickr English, Français, Arabic On March 15, 2012, Bassel Khartabil was detained in a wave of arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus. Since then, his family has received no official explanation for his detention or information regarding his whereabouts. However, his family has recently learned from previous detainees at… Continue reading
The Greek Potato Movement becomes political
“We receive about 5,500 orders for each sale of produce, representing about 45,000 people, or 55 per cent of the population of our town … Political gatherings are lucky if they get 50 people.”- Ilias Tsolakidis, Pieria group co-founder. After the Swedish filesharers and the the musicians of the Nordeste in Brazil (Fora do Eixo),… Continue reading
The knowledge generation system in the Economy of the Commons
Source: Las Indias Las Indias has been working on a integrated vision of p2p learning and production, below’s document is a result of their discussions. (Translated by Steve Herrick of interpreters.coop from the original in Spanish) The theoretical knowledge generation system in the Economy of the Commons
P2P Production and Cooperation in Action: the explosion of the Bitcoin ecology
Absolute must watch visualization of the evolution of cooperation for creating Bitcoin and its ecology of financial services: (technical details: the maker, ‘enmaku”, “used the open-source version control visualization software Gource (http://code.google.com/p/gource/) to visualize the history of Bitcoin”)
The Story of the School of Commoning
At a time when the Commons is being talked about more and more by the Occupy Movement and our latest ‘Occupying the Commons’ magazine has now been published we felt it would be a highly relevant time to present through a series of videos “The Story of the School of Commoning.” The School of Commoning… Continue reading
Public Innovation is needed to jumpstart Partner State approaches
how do public services change if they are conceived as platforms to trigger, enable and support active and collaborative citizens? How can we promote the necessary mutual support between public and social innovations? Excerpted from Ezio Manzini, Eduardo Staszowski, of the DESIS Network of innovation design labs: “In the face of current economic and social… Continue reading
Nathaniel James’ great song: ‘Occupying This City’
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Time to go beyond industrial feudalism, and to avoid post-industrial feudalism
Excerpted from Wolfgang Hoechsele: “What is industrial feudalism? It refers to the failure of modernity to keep its promises of liberation from the old order, particularly the key structural feature of the feudal (or agrarian feudal) order, that a few feudal lords controlled all the productive resources. A modern factory is very much like a… Continue reading
David Harvey on the Fetishism of the Local and Horizontal
Republished via the Global Sociology Blog: (page numbers refer to David Harvey’s book: Rebel Cities) “In chapter 3 of Rebel Cities, David Harvey discusses the commons in the context of the right to the city for marginalized populations. In the process, he challenges the left for its fetishism of the local (a pet peeve of… Continue reading
Collective Presencing and ‘Circle Being’: the group is more than the sum of its parts
men and women are being increasingly called to practice the new life-form composed of groups of individuated individuals merging their collective intelligence as the “circle being” One of the mistakes of modernity is to reduce systems to its constituent parts and to believe that by studying a system’s parts, it can reconstitute the workings of… Continue reading
Bruce Sterling announces upcoming 2nd issue of Journal of Peer Production on Biohacking
Via Wired, Bruce Sterling announces the as yet unavailable second issue of the journal. The issue should be available here after the official announcement. Excerpt chosen by Bruce Sterling: “But first, a few words about the multiple sites of do-it-yourself biology. (((Gets the anthrax-tainted popcorn.))) There is quite a diverse set of places in which… Continue reading
Gineagrotis: innovative farm+food renting connects citydwellers and farmers in Greece
Excerpted from Jon Henley: ‘The idea behind www.gineagrotis.gr (the name means ‘Become a farmer’) is straightforward: citydwellers rent a patch of land from a farmer, tell him what they would like grown on it, and get their own fresh vegetables delivered to them weekly. And unlike some services elsewhere, it costs them on average 70%… Continue reading