Based in London, the School of Commoning offers workshops, seminars and courses and has a thriving online presence to connect sharing advocates and facilitators. Cat Johnson explains: “The School of Commoning is a worldwide community of people participating in the local and global commons. It offers workshops, seminars and courses and has a thriving online… Continue reading
Closed Nature of Cradle to Cradle Certification Process Holds Back Progress of the ‘Circular Economy’ in Pioneering Netherlands
Via the Economic Realms blog, an assessment of the progress of the ‘circular economy’ (zero waste because waste becomes raw material for other processes): “I was interested to find out whether experts working on the circular economy in the Netherlands also shared Braungart’s confidence. Krispijn Beek, who worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation… Continue reading
Influence of Peer Reviews in Making Choices
Social media has become one of the most discussed platforms that bring people of similar interests together. There are other online agencies and websites that focus on encouraging people of similar interests to share their opinions, views, principles and suggestions. The P2P Foundation is one such organization that follows peer-to-peer technology to raise consciousness towards… Continue reading
Nine Temporalites for the Commons
Here I detail nine key discourses or perspectives that offer fundamentally different visions for the world. These can be considered counter hegemonic knowledges and temporalities, and indeed each one has a distinctly different narrative to the dominant hegemonic rationality. I do not argue that these are the only counter-hegemonic narratives that either exist or should… Continue reading
Influence of Peer Reviews in Making Choices
Social media has become one of the most discussed platforms that bring people of similar interests together. There are other online agencies and websites that focus on encouraging people of similar interests to share their opinions, views, principles and suggestions. The P2P Foundation is one such organization that follows peer-to-peer technology to raise consciousness towards… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Tim O’Reilly on the Birth of the Global Mind
Tim O’Reilly’s “Birth of the Global Mind” is a Long Now Foundation presentation, which touches on sharing and open source at the end of the presentation. Stewart Brand introduces the talk: “As a student of the classics at Harvard in the 1970s, O’Reilly was impressed by a book titled The Discovery of the Mind: In… Continue reading
The Triune Peer Governance of the Digital Commons
The following is one of my contributions to the excellent book of readings on the commons: The Wealth of the Commons, edited by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. Michel Bauwens: “In a foundational essay, “The Political Economy of Peer Production” (Bauwens 2006), I defined commons-based peer production in two different ways. The first perspective draws… Continue reading
Wouter Tebbens reviews Wolfgang Hoeschele’s The Economics of Abundance
Republished from Wouter Tebbens: “Now let me intent to summarise Wolfgang Hoeschele’s book: * Wolfgang Hoeschele. The Economics of Abundance: A Political Economy of Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability. Gower Publishing, 2010 The creation of scarcity In the first part of the book, Hoeschele addresses the production of scarcity. The mechanisms designed to create artificial scarcity… Continue reading
Four more reasons to donate to the P2P Foundation!
Four friends of the P2P Foundation explain why they support our Winter Holiday Appeal Ideas relating to new ways for humans to organize work, learning, and life are now flowing fast and furious, and they are continuously and masterfully collated by the P2P Foundation. I can’t think of a more thorough and informed source for… Continue reading
A New study about the Governance of Open Source Software Foundations: Who Holds the Power?
* Article: Governance of Open Source Software Foundations: Who Holds the Power? By Ludovico Prattico. TIM Review, December 2012 The Abstract: “The research reported in this article attempts to discover who holds the power in open source software foundations through the analysis of governance documents. Artificial neural network analysis is used to analyse the content… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Usman Haque on Global Open Data for Digital Urbanism
Stuart Candy (ARUP Melbourne, Australia) explains: “Usman Haque (@uah) is a London-based architect, artist and entrepreneur. He has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and dozens of mass-participation initiatives. We are rapidly populating the world with instruments that help us comprehend our architectural, infrastructural and environmental surroundings. As their increasingly rich data flows… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: The Post-Growth Institute
The Post-Growth Institute advocates for reduction in consumption and minimizing one’s ecological footprint, the Australian-based institute supports and promotes sharing communities and prominent sharing advocates Cat Johnson explains: ” With a tagline, “From bigger, towards better,” the Post-Growth Institute provides platforms for people to offer insights about sharing in an economic context. Advocates for reduction… Continue reading
Open Access Debates (2): A critique of the elitist aspects of Gold Open Access specifically
Excerpted from a critique by Martin Weller: “The favoured route is that of Gold OA, under which authors pay publishers to have open access articles published, usually through research funds. This is good in that it means these research papers will be openly available to all, but bad from a digital scholarship perspective. And here’s… Continue reading
Project of the Day: The Networked Transit System proposal for Los Angeles
Paul Davies writes: “Under the banner of NETWORK_LA Transit, a group of architects and urban designers are proposing a bold data-driven approach to getting Angelenos out of their cars. NETWORK_LA Transit makes a bold assertion: by mining the torrent of real-time mobile data produced by the city’s denizens, urbanists can revitalize public transit in Los… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Beth Noveck on Open-Sourcing Government
Via TED: “What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness — connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the “writable society” …” Watch the video here:
Neal Gorenflo: “Donating to the P2P Foundation is a no brainer”
Neal Gorenflo of Shareable on why he has donated to the P2P Foundation: “Donating to the P2P Foundation is a no brainer. Do it. I just did. The explanatory power of their research and writing is unmatched. They’ve helped me make sense of what’s emerging, and they do that for millions of people. They show… Continue reading