Excerpts from David Bollier‘s report for the Aspen Institute: * Report: Power-Curve Society: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Emerging Networked Economy. By David Bollier. Aspen Institute (Communications and Society Program), 2013 Introduction David Bollier: “It is now nearly twenty years since the World Wide Web exploded, helping to insinuate the… Continue reading
#P2PWikisprint: Southern Europe and Latin America, united by the P2P
By: Bernardo Gutiérrez An indigenous collective of Chiapas, tangled with a co-working space of Quito. A crowd funding platform of Barcelona, ??working with open data movement of Montevideo. A Greek cooperative, inspiring artistic groups of Caracas (and vice versa). A hacktivist group of Madrid, feeding of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas permaculture. A community of free… Continue reading
Reflections from the European Deep Dive on the Commons
This is David Bollier‘s report on the European preparatory workshop for the Commons Economics Conference that will be held in Berlin on May 22-24. David Bollier: “”At a small workshop outside of Paris, France, twenty-two of us – mostly Europeans except for two of us – got together to discuss the economics of the commons… Continue reading
The Structural Communality of the Commons
Thus, commons structurally generate responsibility on the part of their participants for preserving the resource and the collective relationships, while markets generally do not. Commoners are in charge of shaping the social relationships involved; therefore, they can take responsibility for their actions. However, this also entails their responsibility to do so. In the commons, it… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Four Phases of Team Collaboration Success From Thomas Edison’s Lab
Book: Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab. Sarah Miller Caldicott. ISBN: 978-1-1184-0786-8. 284 pages. December 2012 Principles The four-step process outlined: Step 1: Capacity “Build diverse teams of two to eight people. What worked for Edison: To create the lightbulb, Edison’s team had to include chemists, mathematicians, and… Continue reading
Do networks create a winner-take-all “Power-Curve Society” (1)
In this emerging technologically accelerated economy, wealth increasingly concentrates in the hands of a few rather than spreading itself out across the larger population (i.e., the traditional ??bell curve of normal distributions). The Report explores the mechanisms of this phenomenon and its suspected role in ??hollowing out? the American middle class. It also questions contemporary… Continue reading
Carne Ross on the Leaderless Revolution
An interview by Bill Moyers of author Carne Ross, that is still of interest:
Exposing the inner mechanics of the netarchical Ted experience
Lots of swearwords, Californian hyper-individualism but also lots of genuine concern about a hyper-managed elitist machinery in the video below. Eddie Huang, booted out as Ted Fellow explains his experience during the latest TED conference. Hilarious, and worth watching: For extra context, see Evgeny Morozov‘s take on the TED meme machine: “Today TED is an… Continue reading
Sharing Commons Spring Barcelona March 2013
Sharing commons sprint. Barcelona. March 20th & 21st 2013. In occasion of Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) visit to Barcelona. Brought to you collaboratively by OuiShare, IGOP – UAB & Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, with the support of BCN The Lab. March 20th 14h – Wikisprint When: March 20th What: Wikisprint es un esfuerzo… Continue reading
Coming soon: Open source operating systems for smartphones and tablets
Daily Wireless has an article which points to several open source developments in the smartphone and tablet market. Firefox, Tizen 2.0 and Ubuntu Smartphones Introduced Firefox Built entirely using HTML5 and other open Web standards, Firefox OS is a Linux-based open source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers. It has been demonstrated on Android… Continue reading