VIDEO 7 – Square 4: ‘Benefits of the Network’ From a Video Series about ‘Open Source Business Models for Circular Economy’ – produced for the Open Source Circular Economy Days (OSCEdays). See our original post on Open Source Circular Economy Days for the complete set of resources: tool downloads, explanations, videos, script, links. (4) THE… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2016"
Soviet or Internet – Cyberneticists in Hell
Originally published on Furtherfield.org A Book Review for Benjamin Peters’ How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet, The MITPress, 2016 “At the philosophical scale, the abundance of information and the plurality of worldviews now accessible to us through the internet is not producing a coherent consensus reality, but one… Continue reading
The ReMaker Society
This is an important essay which in many ways is convergent with the approach of the P2P Foundation. The authors’ concept of the ReMaker society acknowledges that a key issue is that peer production has the radical potential of drastically lowering the cost of complex social organization, and agree with us that this needs to… Continue reading
Silke Helfrich on Patterns of Commoning
As part of our series on the 100 Women Who Are Co-Creating the P2P Society, I interviewed Silke Helfrich on her work in the commons, and her collaboration with David Bollier on Patterns of Commoning. Bauwens: Silke, could you first give some background about yourself and your collaboration with David Bollier in editing your books… Continue reading
The next digital economy: Why refusing to grow is better business
This is an interview I did with myself about my book – trying to explain what matters about it, as briefly as possible. Q. Your title is provocative. Are you saying we should throw rocks at the Google Bus? A. No – but the real protests by San Francisco residents struggling to afford to remain… Continue reading
Trebor Scholz on the Rise of Platform Cooperativism
Next month, on November 13, Civic Hall will be hosting an unconference on platform cooperativism in tandem with a working conference at the New School on the same topic organized by Trebor Scholz. In preparation for both events, we sat down with Trebor to look back at what led him to launch this burgeoning movement… Continue reading
Open Source Business Models for Circular Economy Video Series (6)
VIDEO 6 – Square 3: ‘Your Benefits From a Video Series about ‘Open Source Business Models for Circular Economy’ – produced for the Open Source Circular Economy Days (OSCEdays). See our original post on Open Source Circular Economy Days for the complete set of resources: tool downloads, explanations, videos, script, links. (3) YOU BENEFIT How… Continue reading