Date archives "September 2018"

What on earth is the Catalan Integral Cooperative

September 19, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

This summary of our in-depth report on the Catalan Integral Cooperative was originally published in Outgrowing Capitalism. During my research I have encountered several sources which have mentioned the work of the Catalan Integral Cooperative and its philosophy of “Open Cooperativism”. Michel Bauwens and the P2P Foundation especially promote this organization and its approach, and… Continue reading →

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Our economy is a degenerative system

September 18, 2018 No Comment Daniel Wahl read

Republished from Medium.com Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies “What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet Our ecological footprint exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate. A number of useful indicators and frameworks have been developed to measure the ecological impact that humanity… Continue reading →

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Strengthening the Movement for a Cooperative Digital Economy Through The Platform Co-op Development Kit

September 18, 2018 No Comment Platform Cooperativism read

What is the Kit? The Platform Co-op Development Kit is a multi-year project that advances the cooperative digital economy. The Kit is a project by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, homed at The New School in New York City, in collaboration with the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University in Toronto, and platform co-op communities… Continue reading →

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Douglas Rushkoff on the importance of human connection in the digital age

September 17, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

Douglas Rushkoff, speaking at this summer’s Future Fest explores the importance of human connection in the digital age. About Team Human A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.”―Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital… Continue reading →

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Everything for everyone: Michel Bauwens interviews Nathan Schneider

September 17, 2018 No Comment Michel Bauwens read

The P2P Foundation has followed the work of Nathan Schneider for years, starting with his reporting on Occupy, followed by his visit to our FLOK project in Ecuador in 2014 (the first commons transition project undertaken at the invitation of nation-state institutions). Nathan was then instrumental in setting up, with Trebor Scholz, the platform cooperative… Continue reading →

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Bringing platform cooperatives to Japan: Q&A with Mathias Sager

September 16, 2018 No Comment Shareable read

Cross-posted from Shareable. Nithin Coca: The Platform Cooperative Japan Consortium (PCJ) is the first organization in Asia focused on promoting the idea of platform cooperatives — businesses that bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance — to the digital world. PCJ was founded by Mathias Sager and is directly connected to the New York City-based Platform… Continue reading →

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The Not-for-Profit World Our Hearts Know is Possible

September 15, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

Presentation by Prof. Donnie Maclurcan (@donmacca) of the Post Growth Institute (@postgrowth) on the Not-for-Profit World model, designed in collaboration with Jennifer Hinton (@hintojen) and Sarah Reibstein (@sarahreibstein) Hosted at London South Bank University (@LSBU), 6th Oct., by Prof. Ros Wade (@RosWade1). Filmed by Jeremy Williams (@jeremy_willaims) of www.makewealthhistory.org. Event organised by Gudrun Freese (@doshorts)… Continue reading →

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Decentralising the web: The key takeaways

September 14, 2018 No Comment Ann Marie Utratel read

Republished with permission from UK technology site Computing John Leonard: The Decentralized Web Summit is over – what’s next? Earlier this month a rather unusual tech event took place in San Francisco. The Decentralized Web Summit played host to a gathering of web luminaries such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Brewster Kahle and Vint Cerf. On… Continue reading →

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The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth?

September 14, 2018 No Comment Vasilis Niaros read

An article by Hug March that was recently published at the Journal of Cleaner Production. Find the full article here. Highlights Smart City is a technology-led urban response to global environmental challenges. Smart City may imply technological determinism, privatisation and depoliticisation. ICT may open the prospect of alternative, non-capitalist urban transformations. Degrowth should establish a… Continue reading →

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New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might

September 14, 2018 No Comment Vasilis Kostakis read

Vasilis Kostakis, Andreas Roos: In a book titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, MIT scientists Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry discuss why we have wars, mass poverty, and other social ills. They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with… Continue reading →

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“We Are Poor but So Many”: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India and the Team of the Platform Co-op Development Kit

September 13, 2018 1 Comment Platform Cooperativism read

“We Are Poor but So Many”: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India and the Team of the Platform Co-op Development Kit Co-Design Two Projects Last month, after a year of preliminary conversations, the team leading work on the Platform Co-op Development Kit launched a collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) – the largest organization of… Continue reading →

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Reconnecting Agriculture to our Cultural Base: An Interview with Ana Felicien

September 13, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

Ana Felicien and Cira Pascual Marquina – Reposted from Venezuelanalysis.com Ana Felicien works at Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research and is a founding member of the Semillas del Pueblo (People’s Seeds) movement. She researches in the areas of agroecology and food sovereignty. In this interview with Venezuelanalysis, we asked her about grassroots attempts to achieve… Continue reading →

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The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big

September 12, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

This article was reposted from City Limits, an independent online news source. Abigail Savitch-Lew, City Limits: The community land trust movement is on the rise in cities across the country from Miami to Oakland, but as of late, the Big Apple arguably ranks among the cities where the movement is most energized. Across the five… Continue reading →

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Community Control of Land and Housing

September 12, 2018 No Comment The Next System Project read

Jarrid Green: Exploring strategies for combating displacement, expanding ownership, and building community wealth A historical legacy of displacement and exclusion, firmly rooted in racism and discriminatory public policy, has fundamentally restricted access to land and housing and shaped ownership dynamics, particularly for people of color and low-income communities. Today, many communities across the country are facing new threats of… Continue reading →

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Good work across the globe – introducing the future work awards

September 11, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

Republished from The RSA Fabian Wallace-Stephens: Innovative initiatives are emerging to improve the quality of work across the globe. The recently launched Future Work Awards aims to recognise and champion them. What are we looking for? What do we expect to find? And how can you get involved? A good starting point is the burgeoning WorkerTech… Continue reading →

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Cultural Commons: (How) do we put it into practice in Medellin

September 11, 2018 No Comment Penny Travlou read

“Cultural Commons: (How) do we put it into practice in Medellin?” was a workshop held in Medellin, Colombia on 21 and 22 of June 2018, co-organised by Penny Travlou, a cultural geographer / ethnographer (Edinburgh College of Art/University of Edinburgh) and Platohedro, a local Medellin non-profit organization. The report (below, in English) reviews the two… Continue reading →