Excerpted from Carlos Eduardo Martínez: To refer to this topic, and to try recreate this subject with the greatest clarity possible, it seems important to us to establish what kind of of phenomenon and/or activity we’re referring to when we talk about self-management by workers. We also believe it is necessary and important to clarify… Continue reading
Mutual Coordination Economy is a phrase and idea that arose from the P2P Foundation and their Mutual Coordination Economics Working Group. This essay explores how the coordination signals used in current capitalist supply chains might be transformed for such an economy. Introduction I will look at the coordination signals used by the most advanced… Continue reading
“We run a real risk of creating a new kind of regulatory capture — not in the classic sense, where corrupt public officials preference one company over another, but rather a more private kind, where a for-profit corporation literally becomes the regulatory framework itself — not through malicious intent or greed, but simply by offering… Continue reading
Eddy Adams of SIX interviews P2P Foundation researcher Penny Travlou at the Unusual Suspects Festival in Glasgow, where she spoke passionately about the work she’s been involved in with refugees in Greece. This interview was originally published in Social Innovation Europe’s Magazine. As part of our Beyond Crisis Collection, Eddy interviewed Penny to learn more about this work of using food making… Continue reading
As an unprecedented alliance of campaign organisations combine their efforts in calling on governments to tackle the root causes of inequality, a new opportunity arises to instigate a much needed public debate on why future policy decisions should be guided by the principle of sharing. Arguably, one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity… Continue reading
“When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus’s genome, learning how it mutated and spread. Sabeti immediately released her research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around the world could join in the urgent fight. In this talk, she shows how open cooperation was… Continue reading
By Theodoros Rakopoulos This book chapter is an ethnography of a vibrant social movement that spread throughout crisis-ridden Greece from early 2012 onwards. It draws from fieldwork pursued in 2012 and tells the story of the Greek solidarity economy by focusing on one successful case study of a group in this movement. The research was carried… Continue reading
Once in a while, we are confronted by initiatives which elicit contrary feelings, especially if they come from what you consider as ‘your own side’. An example of this would be my perplexity towards encountering CodeSolid and their proposal for Employee-Owned Source Code, originating as it does from a cooperative, which Nathan Schneider considers to… Continue reading
Introduction Global governments, and especially the European Union, have shown their worst side with the events of recent times. Economic Rescue is being exchanged for popular sovereignty. Neoliberal control, wage and pension cuts, tax increases, layoffs and all kinds of privatization. And governments, rather than give in to demands for democracy from citizens, use brutality… Continue reading
Excerpted from PodNet: “PODpioneers is a global community of environmentally conscious entrepreneurs looking to bring fresh, affordable, organic food to backyards and local communities throughout the world. We build the lifePOD for the home and school, and the agriPOD systems that help create and restore healthy communities. Anyone can become a PODpioneer. If you’re looking… Continue reading
The BIEN website gives a good breakdown about what actually will happen in Finland, written by Vito Laterza: “The government has set aside 20 million euros for two years for the experiment. There are several options that the working group will consider. The first is a full basic income, where the amount paid to participants… Continue reading
As social and environmental crises continue to escalate, it seems increasingly unlikely that the sharing economy will lead the way to a more sustainable future – unless it actively challenges the power structures that maintain an unjust status quo. During the course of 2015, the continued success of Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit and other commercial giants… Continue reading
Video interview of co-founder Christopher David: “The former ‘illegal Uber driver’ Christopher David — who provides rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire residents when cab companies will not — has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It’s called Arcade City.” Photo by motorblog
“Despite 300 years of industrialisation 156 of 196 modern states are agrarian; that is, their economies remain land based. Their assets cover two thirds of the world’s land area and cater to 87% of its population. Directly dependent rural dwellers number three billion or 42% of the world’s population. Most (at least two billion and… Continue reading
” just as standards of weights and measures are determined independently of those that use them as a common good.” An interesting argument by Shann Turnbull: (via email) “I cannot see how money can become democratic unless its value is determined independently of the financial system just as standards of weights and measures are determined… Continue reading
Excerpted from Jason Koebler: “” anything from cell phones and computers to tractors, watches, refrigerators, and cars. It will also focus on passing state-level legislation that will require manufacturers to sell repair parts to independent repair shops and to consumers and will prevent them from artificially locking down their products to would-be repairers. “It’s long… Continue reading