“The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has… Continue reading
Date archives "October 2013"
Post-Crisis Networks for Political and Social Change in Greece
In addition to our efforts in the P2P Lab and to our collaborators and partners (for example the DLN network or the Athens-based hackerspace), the TEPSIE report (see the full citation and more info about it at the end) contains some more initiatives with the aim to build alternatives for the Greek society: “This category… Continue reading
From the Command Economy to the eNetworked Industrial Ecosystem
* Article: IT – Revolutions in the Industry: From the Command Economy to the eNetworked Industrial Ecosystem – Position Paper – By Mihaela Ulieru and John Verdon. “This paper explores the transition from the command & control (C2) structure and culture of the traditional hierarchy – as backbone of last Century’s Industrial Revolution – towards… Continue reading
Join the Sharing Cities Map Jam
“Hey sharing folks, Shareable is hosting the Sharing Cities Map Jam October 12th through the 26th. This is the kickoff action of our just announced Sharing Cities Network. We want to collaborate with you to map all the sharing goodness in as many cities as possible around the world. You know all that good stuff… Continue reading
#Pcond – Participatory Open Online Course Oct 15th – Dec 6th
“Media@McGill’s Participatory, Open, Online Course (or “POOC”) on The Participatory Condition addresses the history, problems and possibilities of participatory media in contemporary society. The POOC is offered as a complement to Media@McGill’s international colloquium on The Participatory Condition, taking place in Montreal on November 15th and 16th, 2013. All participants who register for the POOC… Continue reading
Self-Organizational Pedagogy
* Article: Complexity and Education – Self-organizational Pedagogy on the Edge of Chaos. Giorgio Bertini. P2P Theorizing on learning: “This paper describes our attempt to develop a pedagogical practice informed by the concepts of complexity applied to education. The context of our study was the science methods course within an elementary teacher education program. The… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Community Sourced Capital
Community Sourced Capital = CSC helps local businesses borrow money from people in their community. “Neither crowdfunding nor a financial institution in the traditional sense, Community Sourced Capital (CSC) aims to build community through finance by enabling community members to provide needed capital to local businesses. Through aggregating small sums from community members, CSC pools… Continue reading
How to Build a “Shareable City”
Republished from David Bollier: “Shareable and the Sustainable Economies Law Center have released a fantastic new report surveying the ways in which cities can adopt policies to promote “sharing” in a range of areas — food, housing, transportation and jobs. The landmark report, “Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders,”… Continue reading
Hacia Una Sociedad P2P (Constructing a p2p society in the Basque region)
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Self-Management and Self Control Networks in Greece
According to the TEPSIE report (see the full citation and more info about it at the end): “These involve groups of citizens that find innovative ways to express themselves by developing a new way of thinking about everyday life while putting these ideas into action. The main objective of these networks is self- sufficiency and gaining… Continue reading
How Nordic Everyman Rights protect the Scandinavian Commons and Nature
Excerpted from Steve Rushton: “During my visit to Finland and Sweden this summer, I saw how the Nordic Everyman Rights represent a potential step toward reclaiming those commons — particularly if they get expanded and adopted beyond the northern reaches of Europe. After coming to understand the freedoms one is entitled to in Finland, I… Continue reading
Rethinking Sustainable Development in terms of Commons
Wouldn’t sustainable development initiatives, mechanisms and policies considerably gain in effectiveness if they were planned and assessed in relation to the principles, processes and practices of the commons? The commons are a social system that intimately associates people or stakeholders with their resources and the participatory and mindful ways they are managing/producing/caring for them. Commons… Continue reading
Tiberius Brastaviceanu on open value accounting for scalable p2p economics
“A discussion of scalable peer economics, from the standpoint of a practiced innovator. Tiberius Brastaviceanu (Tibi) is co-founder of sensorica.co Open Value Network. He is based in Montreal, Canada.” Watch the video interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6dFH8Qr30buy wellbutrin xl
Movement of the Day: Accelerationism
Excerpted from the Accelerationist Manifesto by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek: 1. We believe the most important division in today’s left is between those that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline what must become called an accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity of abstraction,… Continue reading
A complex system approach in higher education of The Commons
Republished from Alain Ruche: “The ‘enlived’ recapitulation of the principles of commons presented at the recent Conference in Berlin (May 2013) on ‘Economics and the Commons’ implicitly shows the benefits of a complex system approach. So, the question is not why we need such an approach, but how it can be used. This note makes… Continue reading
The Case for Stewardship (not Ownership) of Culture
* Book: Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership and Intellectual Property. University of Massachusetts Press, 2013 Excerpted from a review by David Bollier: The book ” points out some of the distinct limits to “intellectual property’s” dominion. The book is a series of essays by academics from various disciplines that explores how social practice and culture have… Continue reading