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The Open Coop Governance Model in Guerrilla Translation: an Overview

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The Open Coop Governance Model in Guerrilla Translation: an Overview

Guerrilla Translation (GT) began its life as an activist translation collective of politicised, conscious translators. Our motivation is to create a plurilingual knowledge commons, accessible through GT’s websites (English and Spanish so far). But GT is also a translation/language agency offering a variety of communication services and its governance model ties these two facets together. GT’s model is an extensive… Continue reading →

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Essay of the day: When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance

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Essay of the day: When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance

When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance, a working paper/preprint by David Rozas, Antonio Tenorio-Fornés, Silvia Díaz-Molina and Samer Hassan. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Abstract Blockchain technologies have generated excitement, yet their potential to enable new forms of governance remains largely unexplored. Two confronting standpoints dominate the emergent debate around… Continue reading →

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A Critical Political Economic Framework for Peer Production’s Relation to Capitalism

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A Critical Political Economic Framework for Peer Production’s Relation to Capitalism

Marxist authors often misunderstand us, because the P2P Foundation uses a socially reconstructive approach, rather than a critical approach, and subsumes conflict to reconstruction. It absolutely does NOT mean we ignore or deny conflict, but rather that we play a specialized role accompanying the reconstructive moment, which will always co-exist with the conflictual forces that… Continue reading →

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Platform Coop’s Governance (II): From Coop Platforms to Platform Ecoopsystems

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Platform Coop’s Governance (II): From Coop Platforms to Platform Ecoopsystems

The solution to the three problems I outlined in the first part of the post is not easy, for it is the problem of the governance (management of risks and cares, or more precisely, the legitimacy of the game of risks and cares) of large communities with different degrees of participation and stakes. Ana Manzanedo… Continue reading →

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Platform Coops’ Governance (I): Challenges

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Platform Coops’ Governance (I): Challenges

As I wrote in my previous post, we can build Platform Coops mainly based on thin relationships that follow maximizing individual self-interest, or based mainly on thick relationships that follow social and emotional engagement (always expect, though, a combination of the two). While governance is not the only factor that shapes relationships, it is nevertheless… Continue reading →

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Paywalls vs Creative Commons: Experiments with Patreon, Medium and LeanPub

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Paywalls vs Creative Commons: Experiments with Patreon, Medium and LeanPub

Last year I wrote about my dilemma: I have an ethical commitment to the commons, and I want to make a living from my writing. I want to publish all my creative work for free, and I am at my most creative when I have a reliable income. In that story I shared my long history of writing on the… Continue reading →

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Regenerating a Carbon Drawdown Economy Through Reverse Mining and the Blockchain

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Regenerating a Carbon Drawdown Economy Through Reverse Mining and the Blockchain

This is a very exciting project! Connecting agriculture and finance in this new way is cutting edge and you are really breaking ground with this. My one caution for you is that in emphasizing the rejuvenation of the carbon cycle, you are marginalizing the rejuvenation of the hydrological cycle and the nitrogen cycle. While you… Continue reading →

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Essay of the Day: Self-Organisation in Commons-Based Peer Production

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Essay of the Day: Self-Organisation in Commons-Based Peer Production

A PhD Thesis: Self-organisation in Commons-Based Peer Production (Drupal: “the drop is always moving”) by David Rozas. University of Surrey, Department of Sociology, Centre for Research in Social Simulation, 2017. Abstract “Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) is a new model of socio-economic production in which groups of individuals cooperate with each other without a traditional hierarchical… Continue reading →

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Organizing and Governing the Commons: A Coop-Commons Multilevel Dialogue with Municipalities and Labour

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Organizing and Governing the Commons: A Coop-Commons Multilevel Dialogue with Municipalities and Labour

In this rapidly changing world, existing systems are being weakened, resulting in risks as well as opportunities. The global economic crisis has degraded people’s working and living conditions but has also raised questions about the legitimacy of financialized capitalism. The development of digital technology has produced new types of precarious jobs, but it has also… Continue reading →

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The Commons: Beyond the State and the Market

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The Commons: Beyond the State and the Market

As an alternative that has been tried and tested in practice by communities past and present, the paradigm of the commons goes beyond the state and the market and implies the radical self-instituting of society, allowing citizens to directly manage their shared resources.  Yavor Tarinski, writing for New Compass, shares a great overview of the… Continue reading →

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Why you should read “Ours to Hack and to Own”: the book in 24 powerful insights

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Why you should read “Ours to Hack and to Own”: the book in 24 powerful insights

The book “Ours to Hack and to Own: the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and fairer Internet” edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider came off the presses a few months ago. You have to add to this the firsthand testimonial descriptions of twenty-five initiatives based on cooperative… Continue reading →

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Art Co-ops and the Power of Mobilizing Collaboration for Creativity

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Art Co-ops and the Power of Mobilizing Collaboration for Creativity

Maira Sutton: Brian Eno rejected the lone genius myth — the idea that groundbreaking works of art arise out of a notable few graced with exceptional talent. Instead, he observed that good artwork doesn’t miraculously emerge from a few great figures, but from relationships. He coined the term “scenius” to reflect the genius that arises out from… Continue reading →

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Commons Based Peer Production in the Information Economy

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Commons Based Peer Production in the Information Economy

P2P Value is a landmark study because it is the first long (3-year) scientific study of 300+ peer production communities, and it largely confirms the ten years of empirical observations that form the basis of P2P Theory and the documentation in the P2P Foundation Wiki. Our team was also one of the 8 partners in… Continue reading →

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Transnational Republics of Commoning 2: New Forms of Network-based Governance

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Transnational Republics of Commoning 2: New Forms of Network-based Governance

The text below is a second installment from my essay, “Transnational Republics of Commoning: Reinventing Governance through Emergent Networking,” published by Friends of the Earth UK. The third and final part of the essay will appear next. Digital Commons as a New Species of Production and Governance To return to our original question: How can… Continue reading →

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Transnational Republics of Commoning 1: Toward New Forms of Open Source Governance

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Transnational Republics of Commoning 1: Toward New Forms of Open Source Governance

I am often asked what the commons has to contribute to solving our climate change problems. Since most commons are rather small scale and local, there is a presumption that such commons cannot possibly deal with a problem as massive and literally global as climate change. I think this view is mistaken. The nation-state as… Continue reading →

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Blockchain and P2P value creation in the Information Age

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Blockchain and P2P value creation in the Information Age

The global economy is arguably amidst a transitionary process. The ever increasing importance of information is widely acknowledged, a fact which is showcased with the term ‘information’ gradually preceding one by one every discipline of human activity and intellect: from ‘information technology’ to ‘information society’, ‘information economy’, all the way to the ‘information age’. In… Continue reading →