Brilliant and funny presentation at TEDxBoulder:
Date archives "December 2012"
Some observations on peer governance
This is excerpted from my 2006 manuscript when I first outlined ‘P2P Theory’, but I think still a valid framework to think about peer governance and how it applies to peer production communities vs. society as a whole. Michel Bauwens: “If there is to be a Peer to Peer Era, our hypothesis is that it… Continue reading
Donating to build a commons for the commons!!
Since our appeal for donations last week, we have recieved over $500 from supporters – thanks to everyone who has given so generously! Just 250 x $100 donations or 500 x $50, before the end of the year will make our work possible through 2013, so please read our appeal below and consider donating if… Continue reading
Looking at Makers with the Prism of Community
Excerpted from a review of the book “Makers”, of Chris Anderson, by Martin Pasquier: “Chris Anderson’s “Maker : the new industrial revolution” is a brilliant book, one of the kind you can’t close without DOING something. And it really matches with all my current thoughts on a community-based world (may sound familiar for US readers,… Continue reading
Franco Accordino on Policy Making 3.0 in the EU Futurium
Policy Making 3.0 is prototyped by a participatory foresight platform called Futurium. We are launching the Futurium, our online lab where stakeholders, experts and non-experts, can co-create ideas for future European policies by drawing inspiration not only from today’s trends, but especially from desirable futures. Franco Accordino: “Time to experiment with new policy making models?… Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue of the Journal of Peer Production: Value and Currency in Peer Production
Call for Papers Special issue of the The Journal of Peer Production: Value and Currency in Peer Production Edited by: Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicolás Mendoza and Francesca Musiani. The marriage of cryptography and the dynamics of open-source have now produced a working distributed currency system. Bitcoin, as the most notable example, can be understood as a… Continue reading
The ethics of P2P
The ethics of P2P, a value statement set in music and pictures by the Taiwanese shaman-singer Akasa. Our most popular video to date:
Eugenio Tisselli interviewed on the Sauti ya wakulima project
(via Furtherfield.org’s Marc Garrett) I met Eugenio Tisselli in Edinburgh at the Remediating the Social conference in November 2012. Eugenio gave a presentation on the project Sauti ya wakulima, “The voice of the farmers”: A collaborative knowledge base created by farmers from the Chambezi region of the Bagamoyo District in Tanzania, and “by gathering audiovisual… Continue reading
An introduction to Christopher Alexander’s pattern language
by Øyvind Holmstad Jump to 12:20 to skip introductions As said in the introduction to this lecture held in spring 2011, Christopher Alexander has started a fire that keeps on burning, spread by the ‘wind’ throughout the world. But in the wake of this fire there’s no ash, but only beauty and true living structure…. Continue reading
Do we need p2p to help markets deal with complexity, or does p2p get us beyond markets?
John Robb launched the following debate: “Modern economic systems were first organized by bureaucracy and scientific management. The limits of the complexity it could organize was limited, as we saw with the USSR/China. Next, we’ve seen market/bureaucratic hybrids develop (the US/China model). Those hit the limit recently, as we saw in the latest series of… Continue reading
Critique of monetary system is an academic death sentence
Bernard Lietaer talks about the chartist school of monetary theory, endorses but critiques it, and mentions the various repressions faced by monetary tranformers:
Shift Change: a new documentary on worker-owned cooperatives
Here is the preview: Hannah Miller reports in Shareable: “A new documentary by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work, delves into an entirely different way of working – worker-owned cooperatives – finding companies that may not look different on the surface, but whose structure changes the way people work, and… Continue reading
Selected citations on p2p and ecology/sustainability
You can find the original sources here: “When birds fall from the sky and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people …shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the Warriors of the Rainbow.”… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Lost Science of Money
Book: The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, the Story of Power by Stephen Zarlenga. American Monetary Institute, 2002. Dr. Michael Hudson writes: “The history of money is critical to understanding the greatest problem the third millennium will face. Stephen Zarlenga’s Lost Science of Money book provides the needed background for seeing the… Continue reading
Monitoring Bitcoin: In France, The First Officially Recognized Bitcoin Bank
Text by Sepp Hasslberger: According to a post in the Bitcoin Forum, titled Bitcoin-Central, first exchange licensed to operate as a bank. This is HUGE Bitcoin-Central (https://bitcoin-central.net/) “is getting, through a partnership with Aqoba and the Credit Mutuel, allowed to operate as a bank, (or more precisely a PSP which is basically the same as… Continue reading
Networked Democracy as a Mindset: Brazil’s Rio del Sul shows the way
“Democracy in network is first and foremost a mindset”, an article republished from @bernardosampa. Bernardo Gutierrez: “The political structures must change. But the replacement will emerge as people act and communicate in the present, not talking about the future.” The phrase is from the book Open Source Democracy, from Douglas Rushkoff, published in 2003. The… Continue reading