Michel Bauwens will be speaking on “From Open Business Models to a Commons-Orientated Economy” at 17:30 on Wednesday May 4th at DERI, NUI Galway Ireland. This is an open, public talk.
From the flyer:
Commons-based peer production, as the generalization of the free software mode of production identified by Yochai Benkler, has steadily moved from open knowledge and software, to shared design practices that directy impact material production. In this process, a institutional solidification has been created that offers a template for “open business models”, that are slowly eating their way in the world of commerce. But the implications of this powerful trend, now responsible for 1/6th of U.S. GDP, are also increasingly social and political, as they question the traditional mechanisms of for-profit companies and point to various alternative models. Hence, in a conjuncture in which the neoliberal model seems to fail more and more people (need I tell that to the Irish?), peer production becomes a political topic, a call for a different political economy.
»Commons-based peer production … open business models … now responsible for 1/6th of U.S. GDP« ?????
Could you explain?
Hi Stefan,
there has been a report some months back on the open content economy, arriving at that estimate. I’m on the road now, and it’s a little more difficult to check out the exact reference, but if you fire off an email, I’ll do it as soon as I have some time,
note that the Shanzai economy, the illegal version of open source if you like, is estimated to be an even bigger part of the GDP of China, but I have no idea how they arrived at such an estimate,
Michel
please stream/post video of this event.