The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (19 mins) Kristy Milland, TurkerNation — If Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) were a boss, one would guess that it hated its employees. This has driven mTurk workers (Turkers) to fight back in a variety of… Continue reading
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Nathan Schneider on the Internet of Ownership Project
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (16 mins) Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado — Building a platform co-op economy is about more than just new “killer apps”—it’s about creating and connecting an ecosystem. In the wake of last year’s Platform Cooperativism… Continue reading
Jeremy Rifkin’s recommended presentation on The Empathic Civilization
This is a strongly recommended video, about ten minutes, illustrating the main findings of Jeremy Rifkin’s research into our empathic nature, and what it potentially means for our next form of civilization: From the notes to the video: Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and… Continue reading
Darren Sharp on the Emerging Ecosystem of Platform Cooperativism in Australia
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (14 mins) Darren Sharp – Australia is in the midst of a transition from an extractive economy led by the mining and agricultural sectors, towards a knowledge-based service economy. While digital innovation and startups are… Continue reading
Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier (A short introduction to economic localization)
Fantastic short video from our friends at Local Futures to which we’d like to add that you can also Design Global, Manufacture Local! Going local puts more focus on what’s really important: friends and family, community, good food, clean environment. This 2-minute animated video from our friends at Local Futures offers a succinct and accessible intro… Continue reading
Dispatches from the Commons Assembly
Many people are engaged in commons-based alternative practices as part of the struggle for ecological, social and cultural transition within their communities. In these fields, the commons approach offers a new vocabulary for collective action and social justice. It opens up ways of reshaping processes for governance of resources by communities themselves. Commons-based practices respect… Continue reading
The Food Commons in Europe
Food, a life enabler and a cultural cornerstone with multiple meanings, is governed as a mere commodity by the neoliberal food policies that prevail in Europe. These meanings so relevant to human are reduced to the one of tradeable good and the value of food is mixed with its price in the market. RE-VALUING MULTIDIMENSIONAL… Continue reading
What do we do about Trump…
The election of Donald Trump has left millions, maybe even billions of us in shock. Although we may be looking with bewilderment at the US today, we should remember that he is not an isolated phenomenon. He is a symptom of a sickness that is raging all around the world. People are hurting, disillusioned with… Continue reading
Marisa Morán Jahn on CareForce
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (14 Mins) Marisa Morán Jahn, Studio REV — Initiated by artist Marisa Morán Jahn (Studio REV-) with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Caring Across Generations, the CareForce is a transmedia, public art project, web… Continue reading
Francesca Bria on Barcelona’s Strategy for Technological Sovereignty
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. Cities and Technological Sovereignty 3 – Barcelona’s Strategy for Technological Sovereignty: Winning Back Technology for the People (14 mins) Francesca Bria – While the platform economy has a clear potential to generate economic impact, there… Continue reading
Understanding the current blocked ‘world conjuncture’, and why it produces ‘global Trumpism’
This is one of the most clear-eyed analyses of I have seen on the state of global empire to date, and why it produces populist reactions on both the left (Syriza/Podemos) and the right (Trump, etc ..). We recommend watching at least the first fifty minutes of this stellar presentation by Mark Blyth. At the… Continue reading
Yochai Benkler on Advancing Towards an Open Social Economy
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (34 MINS) Yochai Benkler – Democratic capitalism is in crisis. Brexit and the Trump nomination marked victories for xenophobic economic nationalism that would have been unimaginable in these two bastions of free trade, globalization, and… Continue reading
Commons-Based Peer Production in a Nutshell
Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new and increasingly significant model of social innovation based on collaborative production by citizens through the Internet. This project will foster the CBPP phenomenon by providing a techno-social software platform specifically designed to facilitate the creation of resilient and sustainable CBPP communities. As part of the P2Pvalue.eu project, we… Continue reading
Eclipse and re-emergence of the coop movement
This post by Siôn Whellens originally appeared on whatif.coop In his recently republished Cooperative Manifesto, Tim Huet explains why he came to the conclusion that ‘There Is No More Important Social Change Work You Can Do Than Cooperative Development’. Huet was one of the first organisers of the Arizmendi Assocation of Cooperatives, which Ed Mayo… Continue reading
How the FairShares Association Makes Better Decisions with Inclusive, Democratic Processes
Originally published on the Loomio blog Rory Ridley-Duff is a reader in cooperatives and social enterprise at Sheffield Business School, director of Social Enterprise Europe, and founder of the FairShares Association. They use Loomio to model their governance structure online, for effective, equitable stakeholding. FairShares Association is a loose network of educators, researchers, and consultants … Continue reading
Merve Bedir on the Architecture of Commons
This post by Olga Alexeeva was originally published on politicalcritique.org. Future architecture should look for ways of living (al)together, as all power structures and capitalist formations push us more and more away from each other. Merve Bedir talks with Future Architecture about her work, including the project Bostan: A Garden for All which she presented… Continue reading