Well done 3-minute video on the hispanic wikisprint, produced by Ricardo Antón of the ColaBoraBora Koop in Bilbao, Spain, but covering other locales as well. Very cool, thanks a lot!! (video in spanish but enjoyable nevertheless)
Graphic: Product Design in the P2P Age
Interesting graphic by Thomas Lommee of infrastructures.net: See here for the commentary by Christian Remon: “Thomas Lommée, owner of the design studio Intrastructures in Brussels, believes the world has changed. The world we now live in is no longer hierarchical, it is a network society. People are not only connected to each other, but also… Continue reading
Energy crisis – The path to P2P energy
This is the 1st of a 3 part series by Silvia Garcia Alonso on P2P responses to the water and energy crisis. The text is also available in Spanish on her website. Energy is the engine of our economy. An economy based on growth that permanently demands larger amounts of energy. During the 20th century,… Continue reading
Gar Alperovitz on the Next Economic Tranformation
Watch the video here. Neelesh Marik summarizes the proposals: Note: Talk starts at 13th minute of video. * On systems thinking in political economics: 1. You know there is a deeper systemic issue if long trends that do not respond to demands, electoral changes and policies: such as no meaningful change in the income of… Continue reading
Bitcoin’s Triple Accounting innovation and the Verification by the whole network of peers
The hacker Jaromil has produced a report on Bitcoin, from which the following passage has been excerpted: “”The most remarkable innovation brought by Bitcoin deals with the system of accounting that we use today. Double-entry bookkeeping is what we use today to make sure that earnings and expenditures match, basically authenticating the ?ow of money… Continue reading
Research: Civil Society in the Sustainability Transitions of Food Systems
Below is an overview from an interestng PhD research project: * PhD: Civil Society in Sustainability Transitions of Food Systems (Rachael Durrant) SPRU, University of Sussex * The Overview: “Debates and discussions about moves towards deeply more sustainable food systems in the UK invoke and imply both technological and social changes, some of them quite… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Counter-Mapping Actions as Militant Research
* Article: Counter (Mapping) Actions: Mapping as Militant Research: Counter Cartographies Collective. Craig Dalton and Liz Mason-Deese. CME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2012, 11(3),439-466 This excerpt from the Conclusions gives an idea of the interesting content: “Autonomous cartography opens up possibilities for new forms of knowledge production and political change. As Colectivo Situaciones… Continue reading
A report on Digital Public Spaces
* Report/Book: Digital Public Spaces. Ed. by Drew Hemment, Rachel Cooper et al. FutureEverything, 2013 Here is a summary: “This publication gathers a range of short explorations of the idea of the Digital Public Space. The central vision of the Digital Public Space is to give everyone everywhere unrestricted access to an open resource of… Continue reading
On the Relation Between P2P Systems and Wisdom-Generating Forums
An excerpt on the following theme: * WHAT DO “WISE DEMOCRACY” AND POWERFUL DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION PROCESSES HAVE TO DO WITH PEERNESS? By Tom Atlee: “There is a seeming contradiction between p2p systems and the approaches to wise democracy that I’ve been advocating. P2P systems generate self-organization out of similarities and power equity: People eagerly… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: GIVE for Globally Integrated Village Environments
GIVE is an initiative by Franz Nahrada to promote the expansion of Global Villages. GIVE works in seven fields, explained here in more detail: (1) Global Villegiatura – Trans Market Economies “In a time when fewer and fewer productive industries supply the global markets with the full range of industrial basic goods, we have to… Continue reading