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As an open economy neophyte, I’ll admit some of the concepts can be confusing.  Yet with encouragement from the P2P community and some perseverance, newcomers can begin to appreciate the message.

The problem is that many people are unwilling to click on a post titled Neoliberal Exploitation of Commons-Based Structural Exchange Platforms.  (Which was a truly fascinating article.)

Not everyone is a reader.

My son and his friends prefer podcasts.  Other people enjoy photos with witty captions. Many of the people I work with prefer their information in tweet-sized bursts. (Which explains why they don’t bother reading the policies my unit publishes.)

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As a compromise to all these styles of information intake, we thought a set of short, engaging videos that illustrate P2P concepts might appeal to a variety of folks.  People who might otherwise not expose themselves to the commons.

Recently, I participated in a group discussion regarding how to move a project like this forward.  One person suggested creating a budget proposal and applying for funding.  Another person thought we needed a research team.  Michel Bauwens participated in the discussion. He said,

“Why don’t we do it the P2P way?”

So, that’s what we aim to do.

The working title for the project is P2P: a-z.  We’d like to produce 24 videos, one for each letter of the English alphabet.  If there are people interested in pursuing this in a language other than English, we can do videos for each letter of your language.

I created a project in Loomio.  Loomio is an online platform that facilitates peer decision-making.  All members can share their ideas and we can decide together how we want to accomplish this project.  To participate, go to https://www.loomio.org/g/eaRjUBw5/p2p-a-z and click Ask to join group.

Whether you have video editing skills, writing skills or creative ideas for illustrating P2P concepts, we welcome your participation.

To illustrate my impression of the type of videos we want to produce, I made a video about making videos for P2P.

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The IASC Commons (International Association for the Study of Commons) has released a series of six short, artfully produced videos, “Commons in Action,” that amount to short advertisements for important commons projects.

Each begins with the words:  “Commons are forms of governance and governance strategies for resources created and owned collectively.  Commons are a reality today.”

The longest video, at four-and-a-half minutes, focuses on the newly created Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons, which bills itself as “a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project based on studying cases of commons governance for knowledge and information resources. The Workshop and its methods are inspired by the work of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University.”

Professor Michael Madison of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law is the host of the website.  The Workshop is a collaboration among prominent academic scholars of the knowledge commons such as Brett Frischmann (Cardozo School of Law), Charlotte Hess (Syracuse University), Charles Schweik (UMass Amherst), among others.

Other videos in the series provide brief vignettes of commons in Mexico, Japan, India and the UK in very attractive animations done by Carlos Gamboa. The videos are a joint project of the IASC and the Elinor Ostrom Award.

This text was originally published in bollier.org

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