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
Date archives "October 2012"
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
The Historical Origins of Inequality
This is a crucial topic for the development of a P2P Hierarchy Theory. Below, Peter Turchin discusses the book by Robert Bellah. Religion in Human Evolution which in turn refers to Boehm’s Hierarchy of the Forest, a classic on hunter-gathering egalitarianism. This is a must-read review from Peter Turchin’s article, Religion and Empire in the… 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