The Citizen Science Alliance is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop, manage and utilise internet-based citizen science projects in order to further science itself, and the public understanding of both science and of the scientific process. The CSA writes that: “These projects use the time, abilities and energies of a… Continue reading
Leadership in Open Communities: the founders document dilemma
Source: Suresh Fernando Let me begin by posing a question: under what conditions, in the absence of a Founding Document specifying hierarchy or leadership, are we willing to explicitly grant someone status as a leader of a group? I spent a few years of my life working hard to realize my vision for scalable, open,… Continue reading
Should we aim for P2P Guilds and Leagues instead of P2P Phyles?
“Such guilds and leagues as may be created in the service of p2p culture will be able to confederate in any number of flexible ways. So too can those peer groups who, despite my valiant efforts of persuasion, prefer to call themselves phyles, tribes, clans, pods, schools, gaggles, or ganfaloons… In many cases peers will… Continue reading
Influence of Peer Reviews in Making Choices
Social media has become one of the most discussed platforms that bring people of similar interests together. There are other online agencies and websites that focus on encouraging people of similar interests to share their opinions, views, principles and suggestions. The P2P Foundation is one such organization that follows peer-to-peer technology to raise consciousness towards… Continue reading
Message to the debt taliban in the U.S. Congress: sovereign states can’t go bankrupt
David Graeber in conversation with Max Keiser, on the insights from his book on the history of debt:
What Might Explain the Timing of the Uptake of Technologies?
Amazing how presumably ‘neo-marxist’ authors, can totally evacuate the notion of social struggle from their evaluation of internet technologies and see it as a sole expression of the dominant system. See this quote: “The Web, we might say, is the pre-eminent technological construct of an increasingly sickly neoliberal capitalism. As such, it is a major… Continue reading
Alan Moore’s proposal for a Radical Redesign of Business
Question: we have built our industrial organisations to work within an orthodox industrial model how can we learn to design for transformation—is it even possible? Answer from Alan Moore: “It is a vexing question. The further discussion that ensued indicated that these companies were thinking very carefully about their future, what a best possible future… Continue reading
Evolution Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris on economics
Watch the video here: Evolution Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris on economics from Katie Teague on Vimeo.
Monitoring Bitcoin – Bitcoin Friday and the Bitcoin Store
(From our collaborator Jon Holmquist, Bitcoin community insider and entrepreneur) This week in the dramatic and sometimes comedic world of Bitcoin, the internet’s favorite crypto-currency: 1- Bitcoin Friday, an event occurring today! Black Friday in the US refers to the day after Thanksgiving Day, which is traditionally considered the first day of the holiday shopping season. It’s generally… Continue reading
Online Community, Reciprocal Consciousness and Trust
Source: Suresh Fernando Many of us have vast amount of experience operating in virtual environments. We have all noted the substantial power of the internet. It makes possible real time communication across the globe. We’ve noted that massive projects like Wikipedia and the Linux operating system have had transformed the world. We have assumed that… Continue reading