OuiShare Fest Forward is a 3-day accelerator for collaborative, open source projects with high social impact. About the Accelerator Taking place during the 3-days of OuiShare Fest Paris, Fest Forward will accelerate 3 open source projects with a high, measurable positive impact in the areas of sustainability, social development or decentralized governance. Fest Forward aims… Continue reading
The RSA’s recent report explores the emergence of a new kind of monopoly power in the sharing economy, and considers how we might challenge increasing economic concentrations of power through rethinking our approach to governance and regulation. The RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce), a 260-year-old charity in the UK,… Continue reading
We thought you would be interested to view and read about a recent webinar the Next System Project co-hosted with the Real Economy Lab (REL) and the New Economy Coalition on “Mapping the Next System” (video viewable in its entirety here). The webinar was partly to announce, and invite involvement in, the next round of the metamapping of the next… Continue reading
Essay: Economics and the Near-Death Experience of Democratic Governance. June Sekera. GDAE Working Paper No. 15-02, May 2015. Excerpted from June Sekera: “Non-market public production makes up a quarter to a half or more of all economic activity in advanced democratic nation-states. Yet here in the United States the public economy’s ability to function productively… Continue reading
I am exceptionally republishing an important contribution by Joe Corbett within the context of debates in integral theory, which purportedly dominated the period of postmodernity that was ushered in after 1968. By contrast, ‘left integralist’, such as Joe Corbett and my own ‘p2p theoretical’ approach, claim the next phase is marked by the importance of… Continue reading
OuiShare Fest Forward is an accelerator for open source projects with measurable positive impact on sustainability, social development or decentralized governance. Each year, the OuiShare Fest gathers innovative leaders from all over the world to build a common vision of a collaborative society. In 2016, OuiShare will take a step forward. Building on the experience… Continue reading
You don’t have to look too long or too hard to realize that the tech sector is in the midst of a fast paced, ongoing evolution. This period of rapid change has slowly been gaining momentum over the last few decades and seems to speed up with each successive year. The effects are far reaching… Continue reading
A dangerous new legal doctrine is lurking: The unrestricted Trade Secret protection Xnet launches a video campaign at European level, in collaboration with numerous civil society organizations such as Corporate Europe Observatory, EDRi, la Quadrature du Net, Health Action International, P2P Foundation, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, Commons Network, to expose the threats of the new legal… Continue reading
Article: Escape into the City: Everyday Practices of Commoning and the Production of Urban Space in Dublin. By Patrick Bresnihan and Michael Byrne. From the Abstract: “In Dublin there are many needs and desires which are not met, or excluded,by the pattern of high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public… Continue reading
A discussion on the interweavings of science with commons, public and private and the ways we understand, produce and socialize it. By Antonio Lafuente and Adolfo Estalella, from the Instituto de Historia (CSIC) and the University of Manchester. Proclaiming the public nature of science has become something as commonplace as it is controversial. At times,… Continue reading
Ballarat St permanent park providing green space for the people of Yarraville (Melbourne). Sharing Cities have been generating a lot of attention recently thanks to the Sharing Cities Network and the announcement of Shareable’s upcoming book on commons-based urban solutions for municipal and civic leaders. Interest in Australia and New Zealand is growing too as evidenced by… Continue reading
Excerpted from from Janosch Sbeih: Part One: Crisis as Opportunity “Crises offer the opportunity to implement policies that lead to profound political and economic changes on the fast track as societies are in turmoil and unable to organise themselves against these implementations. Naomi Klein (2007) explains in her book, “The Shock Doctrine”, how proponents of… Continue reading
Interesting form of p2p infrastructure: “The offline networks or ‘off.networks’ community has started as an attempt to bring together researchers, activists and artists that work on the idea of an offline network, operating outside the Internet. Such networks could range from artistic projects (eg. deadrops or wifitagger) and “personal networks” (eg. PirateBox.cc or subnod.es), to… Continue reading
“From New York to London, Dubai to Singapore, and Brasília to Sydney, governments are beginning to realise blockchain technology represents fundamental infrastructure and are in various stages of addressing how the appropriate policy and rules can enable both innovation and governance goals,” This talk took place at the Sydney 2015 Blockchain Workshops organised by COALA…. Continue reading
M.A. Thesis: The Transformative Effects of Crisis: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Economic Cultures in Spain and Greece. Janosch Sbeih. Schumacher College, 2014 An excerpt from Janosch Sbeih: “The etymology of the word ‘crisis’ tells a lot about the characteristics of such an event. According to the Oxford English Dictionary Crisis comes from the… Continue reading
Excerpted from a really interesting historical review by Jesse A. Myerson: (see below what she says about post-capitalist markets and de-marketing) “Markets predate capitalism by thousands of years. Almost from the very beginning of human history, there were markets. As early as the Ice Age, long before the rise of cities with permanently settled populations,… Continue reading