Peer2Politics

The Collaborative Week in Milan is coming and all eyes are on the city. An eight-day event from November 7 to 14 the week is divided into five specific sub-events[1] that embody the willingness of Milan, its citizens and other actors to support and spread the voice of the sharing and collaborative economy. The week promises to offer a great debate with national and international experts and is hosted at BASE MILANO. The place itself is an incredible example of public space reuse and provides a new real stage to express the city’s voice and reflects the vibrant and dynamic atmosphere that is marking Milan in the last years: social innovation, creativity, sustainability, collaboration, cooperation, co-housing, co-working…

Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People - Policy & FLOSS for the Commons

We invite you to participate in the forthcoming international workshop “Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People” in Barcelona, March 11-13. This event is organized by the P2Pvalue project in collaboration with the Barcelona municipality.

This interdisciplinary workshop will follow up the previous workshop FLOSS4P2P, this time expanding the focus to policy. It will provide an opportunity for policy people to interact with the technical teams of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) platforms for commons-based peer production communities, and to get a deep dive into how to promote the commons approach to collaborative economy from institutions. We have three aims:

1) Highlight the relevance of the commons-oriented model within the collaborative economy

2) Build policy recommendations for the European Commission concerning the regulation of the collaborative economy

3) Provide technical guidelines to build software platforms for collaborative communities.

The workshop will include panels on relevant topics, unconference dynamic spaces, a hackathon, and working groups to draft the mentioned policy and technical documents.

We welcome proposals for:

- Lightning talks (2m): summarise your idea & receive feedback from the audience

- Leading Discussion (20-30m): gather those interested in your project/tech/policy/research, introduce it to the group, and discuss

- Participatory sessions (30m-1h): engage the interdisciplinary attendees in co-creating, playing or creative dynamic sessions

Please email: info@dimmons.net with your proposals, deadline Feb 29.

You may find additional info at http://procomuns.net/en/