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 →