Exceptionally in French (including Quebec-styled), there are various voices, including mine, on the premises for a economics of the commons. A well-done two-part mix by Alain Ambrosi and the experienced video team of Remix the Commons. Thanks to the budding School of Commoning (Ecole des Commnuns) in Montreal, Quebec: “Organisé par Communautique et Remix biens… Continue reading
Os fundadores da P2P Foundation em São Paulo, Brasil
Michel and me will be present in Sao Paulo (Brazil) to give a workshop the Saturday December 1st. More information here. The invitation in portuguese below: Imperdível oportunidade de estar com Michel Bauwens – um dos maiores especialistas mundiais em processos p2p, economia colaborativa, modelos abertos – e Franco Iacomella, diretor ejectuvi da P2P Foundation…. Continue reading
The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions
The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions – Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events – 23-25 May 2013 – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: White Paper on Fractional Scholarship
Report: The Rise of Fractional Scholarship. Jon Wilkins and Samuel Arbesman. Kauffman Foundation Context by Jon Wilkins: “I’ve been working with the incomparable Sam Arbesman to write up some thoughts on the concept of “fractional scholarship.” Basically, the idea is that there are a lot of people out there who have the expertise and the… Continue reading
Are Coops Outdated in a Network Age?
Excerpted from a Facebook discussion by Tiberius Brastaviceanu: “I think the coop is as outdated as the corporation. It adds more democratic processes into our economy, and democratizing the economy will definitely have an impact on our governance systems, making our representative “democracy” more democratic. But coops aren’t well- equipped to extract value from the… Continue reading
Eric Garland on The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State and the emerging global networks
Excerpted from Eric Garland in HBR: “The world’s major economies have been engaged in a strategy of irreversible interconnection for so long that there’s no turning back. The future of prosperity will be in investing in new economic and democratic networks, not in hoping that business can somehow reform itself to defend the now moribund… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy
* Book: Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy: Helping People Build Cooperatives, Social Enterprise, and Local Sustainable Economies. Janelle Orsi. SELC, 2012 Obviously focused on the U.S. , but a pioneering effort for the defense and advocacy of sharing and commons approaches, which are often under legal assault: “To most law students and lawyers, practicing… Continue reading
Towards a Commons Accounting Revolution
A text by Thomas Olsen: (references are here) “With a few clicks on your computer’s keyboard you can access news that reveals the most horrifying examples of poor management, taking place in broad daylight, in the so-called ‘developed world’. Let’s take the now virtually bankrupt airline SAS (in the past known as Scandinavian Airlines) as… Continue reading
Organizing P2P Organizations
[Revised repost. I probably should have titled this “Hacking the Organization”. What follows is not a primer of organizational design but simply a back-of-the-envelope sketch of how a number of organizational design and management ideas might be applied to peer-to-peer (P2P) organizations. My intention is for these ideas to be adapted or “hacked” for P2P… Continue reading
Paolo Gerbaudo presents “Tweets and the streets”
Paolo Gerbaudo presents “Tweets and the streets” book at the MIT Center for Civic Media. Watch the book presentation here: