The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of “Open source agriculture: Co-create with Tzoumakers” , celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world. The workshop will be hosted at the rural makerspace “Tzoumakers”, which is located in NW Greece. 1. Introduction and background The P2P Lab… Continue reading
Hi, My new book Team Human, launches today. I’ve never written to everyone in my address book before, but this is by far the most important publication of my career: a manifesto arguing for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age. Autonomous technologies, runaway markets and weaponized media seem to have overturned civil society,… Continue reading
For centuries, ordinary Brits have enjoyed a legal “right to ramble” throughout the countryside even when they might cross someone’s private property. In England and Wales alone, there are an estimated 140,000 miles of footpaths and bridlepaths that are considered public rights of way. Now, as reported by the website Boing Boing, the full scope of this… Continue reading
Thanks a lot to Heikki Patomäki for the stimulating proposal for “A World Political Party”. I am sceptical for a number of reasons but primarily because I do not see a organic connection with anything that is unfolding on the ground. What I see unfolding is quite different, and I believe our solutions must be… Continue reading
See Sharing Society Project for complete details INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies” Bizkaia Aretoa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain) May 23-24, 2019 Call for Papers and Poster Presentations 1. Context and Rationale Although the concept of collective action has been widely… Continue reading
In this video, American technology consultant Jerry Michalski shares his thoughts on ‘abundance’ in the face of artificial scarcity. The ExO Foundation’s MTP (Massive Transformational Purpose) is Migrating Society to Abundance. Michalski explores exactly what abundance means in that context. Jerry Michalski is the former managing editor of Release 1.0, a technology newsletter. He is the… Continue reading
The following podcast and text are reposted from The Wakeman Agency. About This Episode In 2010, The American Bar Association named Janelle Orsi a Legal Rebel, for being an attorney who is remaking the legal profession through the power of innovation. We agree- Janelle is a rebel with a cause, transforming the way we think… Continue reading
The following article is reposted from CECOP-CICOPA Europe. CECOP-CICOPA Europe has decided to give a voice directly to young people and those working with them. Here is the result! Three videos illustrating employment and entrepreneurial opportunities that cooperatives in industry and services provide to young people across EU. Cooperatives are riding the wave of changes…. Continue reading
Michel Bauwens: At the P2P Foundation, we do not favour technological determinism (technology determines societal outcomes), nor the ‘technology is neutral, it depends what you do with it’, but rather, we believe that technological infrastructures are in fact socio-technical systems, whose design and deployment, and potentially subversive use, are the reflection of the values and… Continue reading
International Conference: “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy” Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal Date: 6 – 8th November 2019 Organiser: Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL) The second international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons” will be a meeting point for researchers, activists, public officials and… Continue reading
This post is republished from Enspiral Tales/Medium Sep 1, 2015: I was recently invited to talk with the Lifehack Flourishing Fellows, who are starting projects to improve the wellbeing of young people in Aotearoa. Since co-founding Loomio a couple years ago, I receive these invitations fairly regularly, to talk with uni students or activists or… Continue reading
This post by Tiberius Brastaviceanu of Sensorica was republished from Steemit Since 2011 I have been working almost full time on collaborative projects, with open and decentralized organizations. I can say that I’ve seen it all, but I am still trying to make sense of it all. I recently realized something that plagues a lot… Continue reading
Republished from The Alternative UK We’re delighted to be able to distribute the free-to-view copy (embed above) of The People’s Spring, a 2018 documentary made by Ryslaine Boumahdi and her team of supporters. (This post is an update of an earlier post.) Here’s the blurb from Ryslaine: In the 20th century, public life revolved around… Continue reading
He was a really great scholar, and his definition of social-ism was simply a society where the social needs are primary, as opposed to capital-ism, where the needs of capital are primary. He invited me in the spring of 2016, because he thought our P2P approach was eminently compatible with his own vision of Real… Continue reading
I’m happy to report that my odyssey in producing Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons — my new book on the commons with coauthor Silke Helfrich — is over….at least, the writing part. Last week we submitted the manuscript to New Society Publishers for publication in September. A German translation will be published… Continue reading
Scroll down to the videos below to see young, engaged commoners describing the state of the art in Open Coops and P2P Politics. When talking about enclosures in the Commons, we usually think of natural or cultural resources. But there’s something else that’s vulnerable to enclosure, which I hesitate to describe as a “resource”: emancipatory… Continue reading