Superb article from our friend Vasilis Kostakis, published in First Monday: Article: Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s peer governance: The case of inclusionists versus deletionists. by Vasilis Kostakis. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 3 – 1 March 2010 Abstract “Wikipedia has been hailed as one of the most prominent peer projects that led… Continue reading
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Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Hartzog; discussion with Bauwens, Cedric & Hartzog)
This last post concerning the interview part includes Paul Hartzog ‘s philosophical position followed by an intriguing “discussion” amongst Bauwens, Hartzog and Cedric (read the previous interviews here and here). Interview with Hartzog Question: How does governance without government come possible? In your work (2005, 2008) you firstly define what governance and government imply (“government… Continue reading
Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Cedric and Barry Kort)
In the vein of the previous post, here two interviews are introduced. Cedric is an active member of Wikipedia Review and has written a lot of critical material on Wikipedia (The Six Rotten Pillars of Wikipedia ) published in sites such as Wikipedia Review and others. The second interviewee, Barry Kort, is a MIT Media… Continue reading
Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Bauwens & Bruns)
This week the interviews with experts and (ex-)Wikipedians, on which parts of my paper “Peer Governance and Wikipedia: Identifying and Understanding the Problems of Wikipedia’s Governance (2009)” were based, are going to be presented in a series of separate posts. This first post contains the short interviews with Michel Bauwens and Axel Bruns who are… Continue reading
Peer governance and Wikipedia (1)
I am going to reproduce here parts of my paper “Peer governance and Wikipedia”. The following text deals with some tentative proposals regarding the problematic side of Wikipedia’s governance, departing from the battle between inclusionists and deletionists. — The main characteristics of peer governance are equipotentiality, heterarchy, holoptism, meritocracy, participation, openness, networking, and transparency. “The… Continue reading
The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Institutional Innovation
The following essay is adapted from a talk given on May 5 at Radical May, a month-long series of events hosted by a consortium of fifty-plus book publishers, including my own publisher, New Society Publishers. My talk — streamed and later posted on YouTube here — builds on two previous blog posts. As the pandemic continues, it… Continue reading
Commons-based peer production at the edge of a chaotic transition
Interview by Simone Cicero and Stina Heikkilä. Originally posted at Platform Design Toolkit. Michel Bauwens believes that because societies are complex adaptive systems, the only way to move towards a new, stable system is through a chaotic transition. The current pandemic shock will serve as a wake-up call, exposing the fallacies of our current systems. What we need… Continue reading
Small and local are not only beautiful; they can be powerful
By Vasilis Kostakis and Chris Giotitsas, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.. Originally published in Antipode Online. Introduction E.F. Schumacher’s seminal work Small Is Beautiful (1973) champions the idea of smallness and localism as the way for meaningful interactions amongst humans and the technology they use. Technology is very important after all. As Ursula… Continue reading
What the decentralized web can learn from Wikipedia
By Eleftherios Diakomichalis, with Andrew Dickson & Ankur Shah Delight. Originally published in permaweird In this post, we analyze Wikipedia — a site that has achieved tremendous success and scale through crowd-sourcing human input to create one of the Internet’s greatest public goods. Wikipedia’s success is particularly impressive considering that the site is owned and… Continue reading
The P2P Festival in Paris: Unite the Peers
A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of peer-to-peer. All the powers of the old-world have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: liberal States and dictators, banks and FANG, regulators and speculators. Where is the State that hasn’t attempted to muzzle freedom of communication and information, or to expand surveillance… Continue reading
Multilateralism and the Commons
What a pleasant surprise to learn that some people at the United Nations – specifically, its Inter-Parliamentary Union – want to know more about how commons might be relevant to the “multilateral system” of international governance and assistance. I was happy to oblige by participating on a conference panel last Friday, February 22, called… Continue reading
Culture For The Many? Intellectual Property and Financing ‘Our’ Cultural Commons
This post by CultureBankED / Liam Murphy is republished from Medium.com Photo by Ron Guest 1. Versions Of Culture Nothing, beyond the natural world happens ‘outside of culture’ and even our basic elements of existence — atoms, cells, time, chemistry, etc can be fundamentally manipulated and altered by it. For that reason, defining what we mean by… Continue reading
Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum — a fairer and more just post-monetary sociopolitical economy
Taking the Bitcoin dream of ‘freedom as self-sovereignty’ beyond anything even Bitcoin maximalists ever dared to dream of. Written by Hank Sohota. Originally posted on Good Audience on 28th January 2019. A viable, sustainable and scalable P2P sociopolitical economy, which embraces digital and data sovereignty for all agents, is about to emerge. One in which, as a consequence, money… Continue reading
Unions and the Gig-Economy: The Case of AirBnB
In this article, reposted from Socialist Project, Steven Tufts examines union reactions to sharewashing platforms. Steven Tufts: The so-called gig-economy is celebrated, maligned, fetishized, and qualified by analysts. Whether it is called the collaborative, platform, crowd-sourcing, or sharing-economy, the rise of peer-to-peer exchanges does raise important questions for workers. Do emerging ‘sharing-economy’ platforms such as Uber and Airbnb mark… Continue reading
Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity
Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene I’ve spent most of the past 2 years travelling with my partner Nati, trying to discover what is the most strategic & wise action to take in a world that seems to be accelerating towards collapse. After an enormous amount of consideration, I have… Continue reading
Continue readingRes Publica ex Machina: On Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics
Reposted from Institute of Network Cultures By FELIX MASCHEWSKI & ANNA-VERENA NOSTHOFF: In 2017, Denmark sent the first digital ambassador, Casper Klynge, to Silicon Valley. The aim of this move of ‘techplomacy’ was, as Klynge explained, not simply to distribute greetings notes by the Danish queen. Rather, the intention was to ‘update diplomacy’ based on… Continue reading