Date archives "December 2017"

Summer of Commoning 4. The Assembly of the Commons of Marseille: a prefiguration full of promise

During the summer of 2017, I travelled throughout France. Now I am sharing the stories of the commons I met along the way, never knowing what I would find in advance. These articles were originally published in French here: Commons Tour 2017. The English translations are also compiled in this Commons Transition article. The Assembly of… Continue reading

Yochai Benkler on the Benefits of an Open Source Economic System

Cross-posted from Shareable. Bart Grugeon Plana: After the breakthrough of the internet, Yochai Benkler, a law professor at Harvard University, quickly understood that new online forms of collaboration such as Wikipedia or Linux responded to a completely new economic logic. Specializing in the digital culture of the networked society, Benkler worked on a coherent economic… Continue reading