Date archives "October 2012"

Ethical Marketing in Age of Horizontal Socialization (2): can we replace marketing?

Excellent, but also demanding, master’s thesis on the need for a wholly different kind of ‘ethical’ marketing, that goes much deeper than the conventional critiques. * Master’s Thesis: Rethink ethical marketing after the critiques of Bernard Stiegler. Maxime Lathuilière. ESC Toulouse / WF Ingolstadt master in management , 2012 Below is the second excpert focusing… Continue reading

Post-2008 Social Movements and Their Use of P2P Media

Excerpted from Orsan Senalp: “Since the Seattle and the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, global solidarity and justice activists have been intensively using email lists, Skype meetings, video-sharing, websites and other software available in order to organise alter- or anti-summits as well as reach out the public. However since 2004, with the arrival… Continue reading

Rushkoff on “Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy Report”

  “There is no longer any excuse to remain ignorant of the vast peer-to-peer landscape that is slowly but surely replacing the obsolete, monopolistic, and competitive institutions of yesterday. This authoritative survey of the emerging collaborative economy may shock businesspeople and scare bankers, but it sure encourages me.”   – Dr. Douglas Rushkoff – author,… Continue reading

Spurring local innovation through the collaborative economy

Interesting presentation by Simone Cicero, which you can find here. Here is the introduction: “During my speech, I first introduced the correlation between the digitization of the economy, democratization, cooperation and resilience (in a context of access to resources that will become increasingly problematic in the future) and then moved on to the topic of… Continue reading

Debating the Partner State (3): Mariana Mazzucato on the Enterpreneurial State

1. how many people know that the algorithm that led to Google’s success was funded by a public sector National Science Foundation grant? Or that molecular antibodies, which provided the foundation for biotechnology before venture capital moved into the sector, were discovered in public Medical Research Council (MRC) labs in the UK? Or that many… Continue reading

Ask Michel Bauwens Anything Part 1

This is the first part of the video answering your questions to the P2P Foundation Reddit page: http://redd.it/11d4m7 based on the Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy report by the P2P Foundation and Orange Labs. James Burke gathered together the questions and recorded a converstion with Michel Bauwens to provide more valuable insight into the themes… Continue reading

New Zealand’s Wellington: an example of a partner state / enterpreneurial state approach

The City Council is starting to modestly support a social enterpreneurship ecology. Excerpted from JAZIAL CROSSLEY: “Business collective and incubator for entrepreneurs with a social conscience Enspiral has caught the attention of Wellington City Council, earning it a $5000 grant from public funding. The democratically run hub for startups that want to create social change… Continue reading

Project of the Day: the Open Source Solar Steam Engine

From a description of Steve Nelson‘s Zenman Energy Open Source Solar Steam Engine, by David DiSalvo: “What makes (Steve) Nelson noteworthy, beyond the solar power technology he’s invented, is that unlike most everyone else trying to score in this market, Nelson’s vision for success includes giving away the technology for others to replicate and improve… Continue reading

Ethical Marketing in Age of Horizontal Socialization

Excellent, but also demanding, master’s thesis on the need for a wholly different kind of ‘ethical’ marketing, that goes much deeper than the conventional critiques. We are excerpting it in two parts: 1) the critique; 2) the alternatives * Master’s Thesis: Rethink ethical marketing after the critiques of Bernard Stiegler. Maxime Lathuilière. ESC Toulouse /… Continue reading

Essay of the Day: The dramatic rise of p2p communications within the emancipatory movements

In the article I give a personal review on some of the important spaces of convergence and mobilisations which took place in 2011 and 2012 and currently being planned: like, 15O, Joint Social Conferences, Hub Meetings of Indignados, Global May, Agora 99 and Florence 10+10 among others. I also deliver my observations on the dramatic… Continue reading

Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy full appendixes

This month we are serialising the report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation. Today the full, in-depth  Appendixes. This is the final installment, but all posts on the report can be found here and there is a lively discussion over on facebook too! And remember you can… Continue reading

From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common

Excerpted from a draft of an article by Hilary Wainwright: “Resistance to alienation takes many forms: from the refusal to work, humour, sabotage and conventional trade unionism, to a variety of struggles for and experiments with alternatives in and against state and market. An alternative conception of labour, as part of a wider alternative economics,… Continue reading

Debating the Partner State (2): The New Synthesis Framework for Public Policy Formation

The New Synthesis Framework … is framed around four vectors. The two vertical vectors help readers clarify the desired public results at the highest level by exploring the interrelationship between public policy results and civic results. These vectors help explore how government, people and communities can work together and share responsibility for producing public results… Continue reading

Project of the Day: Sharetribe, customized sharing sites for existing communities

Sharetribe is a platform for creating customized sharing sites for physical or virtual communities Below, co-founder Juho Makkonen explains its Business Model, its Open Source Aspects and the Scaleability Issue. “Everyone can go to our site and create their own “tribe”, a peer-to-peer marketplace just for their community – whether it’s a sports club, neighborhood,… Continue reading

Jon Matonis: Bitcoin is incompatible with the state banking system and should not seek legitimation

Interesting libertarian argument excerpted from Jon Matonis: (editor’s note: the illusion here is that keeping Bitcoin a-legal would protect it from state intervention) ” I was a radical before most of you Bitcoin users were born. That doesn’t make me any better than you (hopefully I did a few things to make you better than… Continue reading