Liquid Law A project to create simpler, cheaper and more natural agreements between people to undertake tasks or projects together Originally at http://blog.liquidlaw.org ; the project may be defunct. “Liquid Law is a project to create simpler, cheaper and more natural agreements between people to undertake tasks or projects together. We aim to encourage collaboration… Continue reading
Date archives "March 2014"
OSVehicle – Hacking the automotive industry
http://www.osvehicle.com/
“BASIC INCOME is the life-saving boat of a sinking global economy”
“BASIC INCOME is the life-saving boat of a sinking global economy.” – Interview with Andrey “Boby” Angelov – Content Creator for the Bulgarian Facebook page about the European Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income. Interview by Dorotea Mar took place on the 17.01.2014, after the very successful campaign by Bulgaria Basic Income team. Dorotea: “What is… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Rule by Algorithm, Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy
* Article: Rule by Algorithm? Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy. By John Danaher. Excerpted from John Danaher: “An increasing number of people are worried about the way in which our data is being mined by governments and corporations. One of these people is Evgeny Morozov. In an article that appeared in the MIT… Continue reading
Call for Participation: March 12th P2P Data Jam
Friends and Peers, Wednesday March 12th P2PValue will launch the Directory of Commons Based Peer Production. http://directory.p2pvalue.eu The P2Pvalue directory currently holds more than a hundred cases of CBPP (Community Based Peer Production) such as Wikipedia, Free Software communities, platforms for collective research, citizen journalism, peer to peer financing, hackerspaces etc. To celebrate the launch… Continue reading
In the Red a film by Ana Pecar & Oliver Ressler
In the Red is a film about the Strike Debt group, an offshoot organization of Occupy Wall Street in New York City. The group organizes around debts, an instrument of control and maintenance of economic power. Strike Debt initiates several activities to expose hidden mechanisms of financial capitalism. Similar to Occupy, the movement organizes along… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: The Micro-Democracy Movement
Excerpted from Pat Conaty: “There is an interesting movement that gets little press but it pops up from time to time. It is called micro-democracy and it argues that the lowest tier of government and governance should activate and renew democracy from the base. This is relevant to CLTs because they were first conceptualised legally… Continue reading
P2P Project of the Day: ScotCoin
Extracted from Scotcoin.org, Scotcoin is an equally distributed crypto-currency for Scotland “The SCOTCOIN Project is a completely voluntary, opt-in crypto-currency, available to anyone that is a resident of Scotland and wishes to participate, willingly. The SCOTCOIN Project is not linked or associated with any banking, financial or corporate institution, and is not linked in any… Continue reading
From Cryptocurrencies to Cryptocontracts
“The twin technologies of cryptocurrencies and cryptocontracts are going to turn contract law into a programming language”. Excerpted from @ThoughtInfected: “Essentially what we are talking about is a real democratization of contractual agreements. Whereas today contracts are restricted to deals with enough value to justify a lawyers time (mortgages, business deals, land transfer etc…), in… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: The Conception-Aware, Object-Oriented Organization
* Article: “Leading the 21st Century : The Conception-Aware, Object-Oriented Organization” by Bonnitta Roy From the Summary: This essay “decribes a Generative Systems Model : The “G5” – Five Generative Processes that “entail unique internal dynamics, give rise to unique types of structural organization, and operate in fundamentally different ways”. It would be interesting to… Continue reading
Podcast of the day: Michel Bauwens on FLOKSociety and the new productive matrix
Extracted from Políticas Públicas del Buen Vivir. Francesco Salvino interviews Michel Bauwens about his work as research director for Ecuador’s FLOKSociety project. Although the webpage is in Spanish, the interview is conducted in English and, among other things, deals with new models of cognitive production based on free access. Michel also runs through his Four… Continue reading
The Governance of Online Creation Communities for the Building of Digital Commons
* Working paper: Fuster Morell, M. (2013). Governance of Online Creation Communities for the Building of Digital Commons: Viewed through the framework of the institutional analysis and development. Madison, M. J., Strandburg, K., & Frischmann, B. Convening Cultural Commons. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming) From the Abstract: “This chapter addresses the governance of a specific type… Continue reading
Discussion: The Free Market as Full Communism
* Article: Kevin Carson. The Free Market as Full Communism: Two Essays on Mutual Ownership & Post-Scarcity Market Anarchism. C4SS, 2013 Introduction from the publisher: This collection includes two provocative essays by contemporary mutualist writer Kevin Carson. “Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism,” explores the radical possibilities for market exchange and… Continue reading
Beyond netarchical capitalist platforms: The GNU MediaGoblin project
Our thesis here in the P2P Foundation is that netarchical capitalists , such as the Facebook or Google, abandon direct production and instead create and maintain platforms which allow people to produce. They rely much more marginally on intellectual property protection, but rather allow P2P communication while they control its possible monetization through their ownership… Continue reading
Solar residential development in Germany produces 4 times more energy than it uses
Sonnenschiff (or ‘the solar ship’) started out as a mixed commercial/residential building designed by Rolf Disch and built in 2004, according to Wikipedia “Sonnenschiff” Since then, other residential buildings have been added, making a whole little community that is energy independent, but not only. It produces energy from solar panels on the south-facing roofs and… Continue reading
A Community Standard for Communicating Designs in Synthetic Biology
* Article: SBOL: A Community Standard for Communicating Designs in Synthetic Biology/. From the Abstract “The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is a proposed data standard for exchanging designs within the synthetic biology community. SBOL represents synthetic biology designs in a community-adopted, formalized format for exchange between software tools, research groups, and commercial service providers…. Continue reading