Create ways to measure effectiveness of political/social impact of these movements, and combine these with ways to measure overall network performance, and ways to share best practices and knowledge. Create a network of movements where many smaller movements can work together to achieve results by combining knowledge and effort in their areas of expertise.

I believe that both are needed, i.e. a dual power strategy of creating an alternative within the existing society; and efforts to change (or abolish, or create new ones) exisiting laws and institutions; isn’t one of the aims of the P2P Foundation precisely that, i.e. to create interconnections between the various movements, showing the commonality of purpose of the open/free, participatory and commons-oriented projects? Many people within these separate movements are already doing policy oriented and political work; but the standpoints are varied. Of course, we are only at the very beginning of such a process, Paul is entirely right. Now, what do you propose in terms of getting there?

Michel