OuiShareFest a 3 day festival dedicated to exploring the collaborative economy took place in Paris at the beginning of May. The festival brought entrepreneurs, designers, makers, economists, investors, politicians and citizens together from around the world to discuss and debate the future of the collaborative economy. The program featured a broad range of presentations many… Continue reading
Event: Shared Digital Futures
Over the last decade digitization has reached deep into our societies, invaded the archives, transformed production and distribution. The established divisions of labor are called into question, and deep challenges emerge to the theory and practices of many cultural domains. Shared Digital Futures brings together a diverse group of people – artists, researchers, critics, entrepreneurs… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Guerrilla Translation!
At the P2P Foundation, and we believe we can here speak for once as part of the p2p movement more generally, we have already tremendously benefitted from the high quality work of our guerilla translators friends. So, go for it guys, glad you are formalizing these activities! Here is their story: “Guerrilla Translation comes from… Continue reading
Denis Postle, of psyCommons, on the Berlin Economics and the Commons conference
Two reflections stimulated by attending the ECC2013 conference. By Denis Postle: (version without notes) Part One: Beyond Market and State – the Commons and Commoning This is the first of two posts of reflections following my participation in the Economics and the Common(s) Conference – From Seed Form to Core paradigm in Berlin May 22-24,… Continue reading
Is Bitcoin a system designed to create bitcoin billionaires?
A summary of the inequality critique directed at Bitcoin, summarized from a very commented article at Ouishare, from Stanislas Jourdan: “Bitcoin faces two types of criticism. The first is technical: Bitcoin is an anonymous and authority-less currency, which is eventually of great help to drug dealers, weapons sellers and anyone operating on the black market…. Continue reading
Vasilis Kostakis interviewed on p2p developments in Greece
Vasilis Kostakis is one of the co-founders of the P2P Foundation in Greece and of the P2P Lab in Ionnanina. He is interviewed by Layne Hartsell:
Hierarchies don’t bring economies of scale
Excerpted from a recommended article by Dave Pollard: “What If Everything Ran Like the Internet?” “It is because business and government systems are wedded to the orthodoxy of hierarchy that as they become larger and larger (which such systems tend to do) they become more and more dysfunctional. Simply put, complicated hierarchical systems don’t scale…. Continue reading
P2P Monastery Project in Barcelona: greening the city through forest labs
A crowdfunding campaign to create a “Forest Lab” to research sustainable lifestyles for the city of Barcelona, based in a former cistercian monastery: (this was posted five months ago, thanks for any updates on this project!) Valldaura Crowfunding (v1) from ON i ON comunicación on Vimeo.
Self-managing the commons in contemporary Greece
Here is a brief abstract of an important article by Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Theodoros Karyotis: “In this text we set out to explore a number of contemporary instances of self-management as pursued in various fields of production in present-day Greece. Situated in a poorly industrialised country which is embedded in the information age of global… Continue reading
The explosion of Internet-Enabled Consumer Movements and Campaigns
Excerpted from Simon Mainwaring: “The recent protests against Monsanto over their use of GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) have taken on unprecedented proportions. According to the AP, “March Against Monsanto” protests took place in at least 52 countries and 436 cities amassing over 2 million people attacking the agribusiness giant over genetically modified foods. The movement… Continue reading