What is P2P? – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:58:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 62076519 A Introduction to the Basic P2P Ideas; Part 1: What is P2P? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-introduction-to-the-basic-p2p-ideas-part-1-what-is-p2p/2015/06/23 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-introduction-to-the-basic-p2p-ideas-part-1-what-is-p2p/2015/06/23#respond Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:15:21 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=50842 Over the last ten years, the P2P Foundation has produced a sizeable body of material, both original and curated, but none of it is specifically designed as an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach. Hence Irma Wilson‘s proposal, during a trip which FutureSharp helped organize in South... Continue reading →

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]]> Over the last ten years, the P2P Foundation has produced a sizeable body of material, both original and curated, but none of it is specifically designed as an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach. Hence Irma Wilson‘s proposal, during a trip which FutureSharp helped organize in South Africa in the two first weeks of June 2015, to produce a number of short videos. With Irma’s assistance, and the help of filmmaker Michel Taljaard, we produced four videos which are being serialised here in the P2P Foundation Blog and which will be compiled in a forthcoming Commons Transition Article.

This first video answers the question, what is peer to peer?

Photo by Jason A. Samfield

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