In the article I give a personal review on some of the important spaces of convergence and mobilisations which took place in 2011 and 2012 and currently being planned: like, 15O, Joint Social Conferences, Hub Meetings of Indignados, Global May, Agora 99 and Florence 10+10 among others. I also deliver my observations on the dramatic… Continue reading
Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy full appendixes
This month we are serialising the report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation. Today the full, in-depth Appendixes. This is the final installment, but all posts on the report can be found here and there is a lively discussion over on facebook too! And remember you can… Continue reading
From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common
Excerpted from a draft of an article by Hilary Wainwright: “Resistance to alienation takes many forms: from the refusal to work, humour, sabotage and conventional trade unionism, to a variety of struggles for and experiments with alternatives in and against state and market. An alternative conception of labour, as part of a wider alternative economics,… Continue reading
The Historical Origins of Inequality
This is a crucial topic for the development of a P2P Hierarchy Theory. Below, Peter Turchin discusses the book by Robert Bellah. Religion in Human Evolution which in turn refers to Boehm’s Hierarchy of the Forest, a classic on hunter-gathering egalitarianism. This is a must-read review from Peter Turchin’s article, Religion and Empire in the… Continue reading
Debating the Partner State (2): The New Synthesis Framework for Public Policy Formation
The New Synthesis Framework … is framed around four vectors. The two vertical vectors help readers clarify the desired public results at the highest level by exploring the interrelationship between public policy results and civic results. These vectors help explore how government, people and communities can work together and share responsibility for producing public results… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Sharetribe, customized sharing sites for existing communities
Sharetribe is a platform for creating customized sharing sites for physical or virtual communities Below, co-founder Juho Makkonen explains its Business Model, its Open Source Aspects and the Scaleability Issue. “Everyone can go to our site and create their own “tribe”, a peer-to-peer marketplace just for their community – whether it’s a sports club, neighborhood,… Continue reading
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin is incompatible with the state banking system and should not seek legitimation
Interesting libertarian argument excerpted from Jon Matonis: (editor’s note: the illusion here is that keeping Bitcoin a-legal would protect it from state intervention) ” I was a radical before most of you Bitcoin users were born. That doesn’t make me any better than you (hopefully I did a few things to make you better than… Continue reading
Four scenarios for the inevitable P2P Future
P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and also their mobilization by social forces having… Continue reading
Food Commons for All on Haultain Boulevard (Victoria, Canada)
A very inspiring example on how to turn public/common land for inclusive gardening projects; a lively conversation with the founding mothers of the project: “Rainey Hopewell’s crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them… Continue reading
P2P Foundation Essay of the Year: Hilary Wainwright on the Co-Creative Partner State
This key article by Hilary Wainwright on the themes of Co-Creative Labor, Productive Democracy and the Partner State is a very important text to reset government policies for the p2p age. The 3 parts cover: 1 A value revolution in labor; 2 Re-constituting industrial strategies based on co-creative labor; 3 The Co-Creative Economy needs a… Continue reading