“Socially-activated, self-directed higher education – organized in small groups and peer reviewed”. The project is “A participant-run, member-supported project that emerged as a P2PU Labs project with a grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation, building directly on the experience and community of P2PU and Citizen Circles.” Some extra details: * On the Rhythm of the Open… Continue reading
Talking p2p and #p2pwikisprint in the Tabacalera in Madrid
This spanish-english dialogue took place in one of the largest self-managed places in Madrid, and involves both the people physically present, AND the people present via Google Hangout … The quality of the recording is less than usual, but to have experienced such a globa’local dialogue, which amongst others, discusses the evaluation of our latest… Continue reading
Introducing the Economic Transition Income policy proposal to fund peer production
Excerpted from Christian Arnsperger, as part of an integrated “Six_Framework_Conditions_for_Global_Systemic_Change“: “The frugal economy will be a “socio-diverse” network of communities experimenting with frugal ways of life, a loose network of local economies producing primarily for the local population. There will still be some long-distance trade, but with transportation having become so expensive, there will be… Continue reading
Dale Carrico: p2p is EITHER Pay-to-Peer OR it is Peers-to-Precarity
In the absence of its public subsidization peer to peer collaboration is always accompanied by increasing precarity. Whenever and wherever peer-to-peer labor formations are celebrated (for their “open access,” for their “flexibility,” for their “resilience,” for their “innovation”), but this celebration is not just as repeatedly and explicitly accompanied by the recognition that this provision… Continue reading
Project of the Day: The Moleque de Ideias open school in Nitteroi, Brazil
Moleque de ideias is a software house and a a place to learn what one wants to do. From age 4 onwards. In other words, an Open school without curriculum! Here is the basic description: “Firm founded in 1996. Moleque de Ideias keeps a living environment where all children, youth and adults can create and… Continue reading
A new humanist urbanism based on peer experience?
Øyvind Holmstad has alerted me to a series of so far 13 contributions in Metropolis magazine, doing the rounds in the p2p urbanism community around Nikos Salingaros. This is the gist of the manuscript by Robert Lamb Hart , which starts here: “My basic idea has been to step back, look at the unfinished cultural… Continue reading
The explosion of Chinese Web-Based Youth Self-Organizations
“In China, where civil society is still in its infancy, web-based youth self-organizations have been around for about ten years – nearly a decade of history. China’s youth facilitate the growth of youth social groups by sharing information and redefining social relationships. In recent years, there has been a trend of online self-organizations going offline… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Open TechSchool – Kreuzberg
Sam Muirhead explains: “It’s great to see the approach of OpenTechSchool, an recent initiative started here in Kreuzberg, whose approach includes both free access and open materials. Every week in a local co-working space, they offer workshops, meetups and classes, focused on bringing new people (particularly more women) into programming, and supporting them in their… Continue reading
Ray Podder: we need to go beyond the poverty of profit
A thoughtpiece proposed by Ray Podder: “Until now, this mantra of our fair civilization revered the ringing of the registers as the sure signs of prosperity for all. Perhaps the tiniest peeps against this theory of progress were not obvious enough to be felt, and so “profits equal progress” has now become the immutable wisdom… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Masque Una Casa
Rubén Alonso explains: “This is the web based tool masqueunacasa.org, an online platform that provides services to groups of people interested in undertaking self-managed housing projects. The masqueunacasa.org project is conceived as an online framework that enables the spreading and promotion of alternative options to the mainstream way of acquiring a home, which has basically… Continue reading