Video panel exploring questions of what type of economy we want and need. Featuring Albert Cañigueral, Alvaro Solache Rodriguez, Boyd Cohen, and Clara Soler i Roig. Note: All Procomuns videos feature simultaneous translation, please switch from left to right channels to change languages. This plenary was filmed at PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event which was held in… Continue reading
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Procomuns Plenary 2: Industrial Commons and Open Design
Video panel exploring the question: how can we promote industrial restructuring and relocation based on open design, collaborative R&D and shared networks? A discussion on co-creation networks, locally produced open design, sustainability, learning and mutual aid. Featuring Mara Ballestrini, Tomás Díez, Wouter Tebbens, and others. Note: All Procomuns videos feature simultaneous translation, please switch from left to… Continue reading
Procomuns Plenary 1: Public Policies for collaborative economies, pt. 1
Video panel exploring the current situation in the city council, Generalitat, Spanish administration and European Commission level. Which are the different roles of the administrations? Which is the most appropriate model of collaborative economy to be promoted from the administrations? Featuring Álvaro Porro, Benedetta Brighenti, Jennifer Kang, Mayo Fuster and Prodromos Tsiavos, the presentations start at 12:06…. Continue reading
Alanna Krause on Enspiral’s Ethical Economy
Alanna Krause told us separately that this wonderful presentation was partly inspired by her participation in a in-depth 3-day conversation we co-organized with the Commons Strategies Group in Berlin, on the topic of Democratic Money for the Commons. This video is a very personal testimony how Alanna and other co-founders of Enspiral wanted to change… Continue reading
Douglas Rushkoff on Updating our Economic Operating System
I just watched an excellent talk from SXSW, titled Distributed: a New OS for the Digital Economy, on the “vacuum cleaner” effect corporations have on industries, communities, countries, and ultimately themselves, and what we might be able to do about it. Given by Doug Rushkoff, the talk riffed off themes from his new book Throwing… Continue reading
Video: Living the Limits to Growth with Heather Menzies
On March 9, 2016, Heather Menzies spoke to the Canadian Association of Clubs of Rome in Ottawa, Canada, on the theme “Living the Limits to Growth.” Originally published on Heather Menzies’ blog.
Procomuns: Commons Collaborative Economies and Public Policies
Here’s a short video from PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event which was held in Barcelona in March, 2016 to discuss commons-oriented approaches to public policy, peer production and the commons collaborative economy. Key goals included proposing public policies and providing technical guidelines to build software platforms for collaborative communities. We’ll be rolling out more Procomuns… Continue reading
Vinay Gupta & the Promise of the Blockchain
Vinay Gupta remains an indispensable analyst of the current shift, always interesting and provocative and combining references from a wide variety of fields. According to his own assessment, and we concur that it is an excellent mustwatch video presentation, this is his best introduction to the importance of the blockchain. Thanks for spreading it around,… Continue reading
Announcing UPSTREAM- Launch of a Podcast about Economics for Transition
Check out this cool new podcast, they’ve used some of our work to analyse the so-called sharing economy (and to imagine more honest alternatives). A project team called Economics for Transition has just launched UPSTREAM, a podcast of radio documentaries and interviews highlighting cutting-edge stories of global leaders and initiatives challenging and transforming our dominant… Continue reading
Video: Politics of Power – Products with embedded ideologies
A great explanation of network dynamics using multiplug outlets as a metaphor. The article text is by Filip Visnjic and it was originally published in The Creative Applications Network Created by Shanghai based design consultancy automato (Simone Rebaudengo + Matthieu Cherubini + Saurabh Datta),working in the field of IoT/networked and autonomous objects, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network… Continue reading
Video: How the P2P Foundation Does High-Level Coordination
Alanna from Loomio met up with Michel Bauwens in Berlin, while both were participating in a conference about “Capital for the Commons”. They managed to slip out for a few minutes so Michel could tell Alanna about his experience using Loomio with the P2P Foundation, which he founded. The P2P Foundation is a global network… Continue reading
Video: Noemi Giszpenc on the Data Commons Coop
A presentation by Noemi Giszpenc for the Platform Cooperativism Conference, NYC, November 2015. The following text is extracted from the Platform Cooperativism Website: Noemi Giszpenc is one of the founders of the Data Commons Cooperative, and the founder of the Regional Index of Cooperation, a precursor of the Data Commons. She is on the board… Continue reading
Video: Socially progressive uses of the blockchain
“From New York to London, Dubai to Singapore, and Brasília to Sydney, governments are beginning to realise blockchain technology represents fundamental infrastructure and are in various stages of addressing how the appropriate policy and rules can enable both innovation and governance goals,” This talk took place at the Sydney 2015 Blockchain Workshops organised by COALA…. Continue reading
Video: Pardis Sabeti on Open Sourcing the Ebola Virus Research
“When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus’s genome, learning how it mutated and spread. Sabeti immediately released her research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around the world could join in the urgent fight. In this talk, she shows how open cooperation was… Continue reading
Video: Driver-owned Uber Competitor ‘Arcade City’ to Launch on Valentine’s Day
Video interview of co-founder Christopher David: “The former ‘illegal Uber driver’ Christopher David — who provides rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire residents when cab companies will not — has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It’s called Arcade City.” Photo by motorblog
Video: Fred Harrison on Why Land Value Taxation would be fairer than progressive income taxes
During boom years, it takes land owners only three years to recuperate a lifetime of taxes through the rising land values. A brilliant explanation by Fred Harrison. Introduction to the book, ‘Ricardo’s Law ~ House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam’ by Fred Harrison: http://www.fredharrison.com Ricardo’s Law points lawmakers, policy analysts and social reformers… Continue reading