[Note: The following is a transcript from the Facebook P2P Group of threads discussing some possible directions for the information technology we may wish to apply to our work. The bulk (not all) of the discussion is of a technical nature assuming some information science or software engineering background. This conversation transpired over seven days… Continue reading
Discussing Global Unionism: The Supply-Chain Model
New Unionism Network has recently started a timely discussion on ‘How do we build global unions? Below is Peter Hall-Jones into and the first paper published on the NUN blog: That is, how do working people come together across borders to support each other, to protect the environment and to start shifting the goal posts… from… Continue reading
Distributed Access To The Factors Of Production
This month we are serialising the report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation. Today Chapter 5: Distributed Access To The Factors Of Production. And don’t forget the “Ask Me Anything” session with Michel Bauwens over on reddit. (Of course if you can’t wait you can download the… Continue reading
Project of the Day: The Canadian Health Hackatons
“Hacking Health is a hackathon that is focused on social innovation more than technical innovation. Our approach to improve healthcare is to pair technological innovators with healthcare experts to build realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line healthcare problems”. In Tim Review, Jeeshan Chowdhury relates their experience: “With the urgent need for disruptive innovation in health and… Continue reading
The Social Meltdown in Athens, Greece
Very touching documentary .. there is hunger on the streets of Athens: “Dr Dimitris Dalakoglou explains the social meltdown which took place in Greece between May 2010 & June 2012 that is on going. This film contains videos and photos shot on the streets, often containing violence and paints a portrait of widespread economic hardship… Continue reading
Slowing down for the (UK) commons
we should like to return to the old ways on common land, with motorists encouraged to appreciate that commons are special, that they represent an era when the pace of life was more leisurely—and that we slow down for commons. Excerpted originally from the Headline Environment website, On the Agenda, 12 October 2012. “Responding to… Continue reading
Danah Boyd and Doc Searls on the Value of Cyber-Utopianism
Source: Future Tense “Call someone a ‘cyber utopian’ and it’s likely to be taken as an insult, according to leading media theorist Ethan Zuckerman. But we’ll meet some self-confessed utopians (of the digital variety) who are out of the closet and proud! While they concede cyber utopianism can get a little disconnected from reality, that’s… Continue reading
What the Pirate Party has already done for Europe
Excerpted from Rick Falkvinge: “In short: Without them, there would now be a “three-strikes” scheme in Europe, and ACTA would most likely have been in global effect. Instead, the political support for copyright monopoly reform has grown by orders of magnitude, and finally, there are subtle but very important changes in the language used by… Continue reading
Beyond Corporate Open Innovation: Commons-Oriented Peer Production
This month we are serialising the report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation. Today Chapter 4: Beyond Corporate Open Innovation: Commons-Oriented Peer Production. And don’t forget the “Ask Me Anything” session with Michel Bauwens over on reddit. (Of course if you can’t wait you can download the… Continue reading
Lawrence Taub on Russia: the Polario hypothesis
A few years ago, I had the chance to read, “The Spiritual Imperative: Sex, Age, and the Last Caste.”, by Lawrence Taub. While I found plenty to disagree with, I found the book stimulating and Larry eventually visited me in Chiang Mai, and we became friends. Here is his most recent article which appeared in… Continue reading