This month we are serialising the report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation. Today we post Chapter 3: Infrastructures For ‘Sourcing The Crowd’ And Mutualizing Idle Resources. And don’t forget the “Ask Me Anything” session with Michel Bauwens over on reddit. (Of course if you can’t wait… Continue reading
Open Call: Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy
Source: UNRISD This project has a Call for Papers open between 1 October and 15 November 2012. Project Objectives This project seeks to: (i) understand the conditions and contexts that enable social and solidarity economy (SSE) to expand; and (ii) assess the implications of such processes and interactions with external actors and institutions for realizing… Continue reading
Kevin Carson: why we should not worry about Darpa’s funding of hackerspaces
Republished from Kevin Carson: “There’s been some concern lately in the open-source micromanufacturing community that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is interested in financing hackerspaces and Fab Labs. The concern is that such funding might coopt and domesticate what otherwise promises to be an industrial revolution based on liberatory technologies. But let’s put… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Future Money
Book: James Robertson. Future Money. Green Books, 2012 Description Future Money explains in plain language and convincing detail how our money system is propelling us toward the self-destruction of our species – and what we should do about it. Our present money system frustrates the well-meaning efforts of active citizens, NGOs and governments to deal… Continue reading
Waste and peer-to-peer
Source: Garbologie It is one of the pleasures of Twitter to have a constellation of different ideas emerge, combine with your existing framework of knowledge and form new concepts. And so it is with Michel Bauwens’ writing on peer-to-peer (tweeting at @mbauwens) In the waste management context, Michel’s description of the failings of information and production hoarded is… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Coliving
Excerpted from Jessica Reeder: “The underlying concept of coliving will be nothing new to anyone who’s had roommates: sharing a house, sharing the rent, living with near-strangers for a shared purpose. “Roommate situations are typically based on who can afford to pay the rent and who has one or two things in common,” says Chelsea… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Makers, The New Industrial Revolution
Book: Chris Anderson. Makers, The New Industrial Revolution. 2012 Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective… Continue reading
Discovering The User As Value Creator And The Emergence Of A User-Centric Ecosystem
This month we are serialising the report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation. Today we post Chapter 2: Discovering The User As ValueCreator And The Emergence Of A User-Centric Ecosystem. And don’t forget the “Ask Me Anything” session with Michel Bauwens over on reddit. (Of course if you… Continue reading
Trend of Day: Pocket Neighborhoods
Excerpted from Kelly McCartney: “From Whidbey Island, Washington, to Winnsboro, Texas, pocket neighborhoods are taking root in communities in search of a simpler, more shareable way of life. In a pocket neighborhood, houses with a smaller-than-normal footprint surround a shared green space. The more public areas of the homes — living room, dining room, and… Continue reading
Anti-systemic enterpreneurialism and the emergence of Radical Social Entrepreneurs
Excerpted from a specialized blog on the topic: “Social entrepreneurs apply entrepreneurial initiative to solve social problems. Radical social entrepreneurs do the same — but at a deeper level. They create ideas and projects to help evolve law, governance, community, education, and culture. They focus on changing the systems that lead to poverty, crime, and… Continue reading