Originally posted at Cooperatives Europe: “Cooperatives Europe, in collaboration with LAMA Development and Cooperation Agency, released today a new publication, titled ‘Cooperative Platforms in a European Landscape: An Exploratory Study’, at the International Social Innovation Research Conference in Glasgow. The first known European exploratory study of its kind provides an overview of established cooperatives already… Continue reading
Extracted from economyofhours.com, check out their 2016 Echo Impact Report: We’re thrilled to present not only our first ever impact report, but also the first piece of research examining the social impact potential of a business-to-business time currency. In this research, we set out to examine the ways in which Echo can contribute to community… Continue reading
What happens when a group of frustrated and ambitious residents take over their town council and begin running things in a radically different way? What kinds of new economics and politics begin to emerge? And what happens to those who feel like they don’t belong to this new movement? What are the scars left from thirty years of… Continue reading
In the face of multiple converging crises, mere sustainability is no longer enough. Too much damage has already been done. We need to restore ecosystem and community health, and create regenerative systems that allow us to face uncertainty creatively. After the post-war Baby Boomers came Generation X, followed by Generation Y – the millennials –… Continue reading
OuiShare is glad to announce the publishing of the OuIShare Fest Report and Toolkit. Go ahead and explore it! OuiShare Fest 2016 Report from OuiShare OuiShare Fest Toolkit As part of OuiShare’s efforts to operate in an transparent and open source way, the first OuiShare Fest Toolkit is now available. It not only serves internally… Continue reading
Please consider lending our friends at resilience.org a hand. Their ongoing content curation is stellar and we are truly grateful to them for featuring material from the P2PF blog and Commons Transition. Click here to donate to the campaign. Resilience.org needs your help today. For the last 10 years, we’ve been operating resilience.org on a… Continue reading
Maira Sutton: There’s no question that the internet has ushered in a renaissance in building advocacy movements. We now have a number of platforms to coordinate global activism campaigns and connect large bases of supporters. But in spite of all the technological developments, there’s been scant public discourse among organizers and campaigners about the strategies… Continue reading
Maira Sutton: There are numerous reasons to be critical of the corporate “sharing economy,” which claims to democratize work and enable people to share assets. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Taskrabbit facilitate peer-to-peer access to various services for customers, and promise an easy income for their contract workers. But along with the convenience come some hazards for those involved. On… Continue reading
The only function of “intellectual property” is to snatch scarcity from the jaws of abundance — to take goods that, thanks to the advance of human knowledge, should naturally be getting cheaper, and make them artificially expensive. This is nowhere more evident than in the war corporations are fighting against their own customers’ right to… Continue reading
Originally posted By Joi Ito, on PubPub.ito.com. For comments and discussion, please follow the link: http://pubpub.ito.com/pub/reinventing-bookkeeping-and-accounting Double-entry bookkeeping was deployed in its modern form in the 1300s. While minor innovations have occurred since then, the fundamental atomic unit of tracking and managing value–our accounting system–is still based on this 700-year-old invention. With today’s computers,… Continue reading
The following text, written by Christian Siefkes, Johannes Euler and Gunter Kramp, showcases an idea for unifying commons-based projects in a self-organised solidarity economy that’s easy and convenient to join. It was the result of open-space brainstorming session at the last meeting of the Commons Institute. Anyone willing to spread it, discuss and criticise it… Continue reading
This text was written as a presentation for the recent Peer Value Conference in Amsterdam. I’m here to speak about serious stuff. About capitalist enclosures, environmental degradation, escalating poverty and an economics of despair, shopping malls and other gentrified spaces, and exhausted, thirsty people in Pakistan lined up behind a lone tanker making its first… Continue reading
An article by Aaron Bastani, originally published at OpenDemocracy: “At an event yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn promised that Labour would deploy digital technology to mobilise Britain’s ‘most visible General Election campaign ever’. He said: ‘Labour have now lost two successive general elections…we will not win elections solely by relying on the methods and strategies of the… Continue reading
Here’s a rundown of the latest goings-on from P2P Foundation close-associate and Commons Strategies Group member David Bollier. Every few weeks, I seem to give extended radio and pocast interviews about the commons, and write occasional talks and essays that find their way to the Web. Here is a quick round-up of some of my… Continue reading
An article by Ruth Catlow, originally published at Furtherfield: “I met Lina Theodorou, the artist and creator of Pawnshop, in her apartment on a sunny Sunday morning in Berlin. It was just one week after the UK referendum resulted in a vote to leave the EU. I was in Berlin to take part in an… Continue reading
I got the link to this article from Antonio Lafuente’s Twitter feed and, yes, proceeded to read it. Let’s try something out: if you read the extract (or the full article), please say so in the comments. We will then compare that with the sharing button stats. Caitlin Dewey writes: On June 4, the satirical… Continue reading