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Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org. 
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2 diagrams that map the big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions.
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2 diagrams that map the big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions.
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The Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL) along with the Open Food Foundation present Commons Governance Masterclass with Michel Bauwens.
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A summary from the Commons Strategies Group recent event in Berlin featuring videos with David Bollier, Michel Bauwens and Silke Helfrich
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Equally important, FLOK evolved a process for the development of these proposals, which was itself modelled upon the principles of the commons, of peer collaboration and free access to knowledge. In this respect, it has been an attempt to reinvent the policy process by organising its development from the bottom up. To achieve this, FLOK sought from the very beginning to engage a wide spectrum of actors in the development of its policy recommendations: not only academics, public servants and policy makers, but also hackers, activists, social movements and civil society at large. To this end, the project evolved a research process that was open, collaborative and distributed. It was open because the results of the research process – as crystallised in the FLOK policy documents – were released under free/open licenses, thus allowing anyone to use them, to modify them and to redistribute them. It was collaborative because FLOK made use of tools and technologies that enable distributed collaboration and promote transparency: for example, the project used wikis and pads for collaborative authorship, the co-ment platform for the process of peer review of the policy documents by the community, mailing lists and Mumble for communication among project contributors. Last, the process was distributed because anyone, regardless of their geographical whereabouts, could participate in the development of those policy proposals which, in order to encourage participation, were released ‘early and often’, thereby opening up their development process from a very early stage to the global community.
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What are peer to peer Economics? Michel Bauwens presents an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach.
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More detais on the project to follow. This short interview was done just two hours before my departure from South Africa and online before the flight took off. Enjoy it here:
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Michel Bauwens shares his top recommendations for government policies to encourage open source development and a commons-based society.
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On the one hand we have a re-emergence of the cooperative movement and worked-owned enterprises, but they suffer from structural weaknesses. Cooperative entities work for their own members, are reluctant to accept new cooperators that would share existing profits and benefits, and are practicioners of the same proprietary knowledge and artificial scarcities as their capitalist counterparts. Even though they are internally democratic, they often participate in the same dynamics of capitalist competition which undermines their own cooperative values.
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Interviews produced at the Economics and the Commons Conference which took place place in Berlin 22 to 24 May 2013. Entretiens réalisés lors de la Conférence...
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This new phenomenon represents an opportunity to revolutionize the current state of play of the society, economy, institutions and law. This new social, economic, institutional and legal paradigm is going to characterize the 21st century as the “CO-century,” the century of COmmons, COllaboration, COoperation, COmmunity, COmmunication, CO-design, CO-production, CO-management, COexistence, CO-living. For all these reasons, it is urgent to design the rules and institutions of this new century. LabGov.it is working on this frontier and is doing it together with experts, organizations, and individuals that represent what we think is a newly rising social class, a class of economic and institutional innovators.
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This proposal is based on the policy document prepared by the author (Dafermos 2014) on behalf of the FLOK Society research project, with the aim of developing a set of public policy proposals for the transformation of the productive matrix in Ecuador towards a social knowledge economy. However, while the official FLOK version focuses on a specific country, the aim of the present version is to address the need – which is urgently felt in many countries around the world – to develop a radical alternative to the domination of cognitive capitalism. As such, this chapter could be considered a ‘non-country specific’ version of the original FLOK document.
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What exactly is the P2P Foundation? I consider it an invaluable resource of archived information about the history of peer production and related topics.
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"The commons have become the most exciting space for the critique of capitalism and also a scalable social practice. No longer limited to an avantgarde, the commons could take our societies beyond the constraints of markets and states – as Yochai Benkler and Michel Bauwens observe. In a talk recorded at the UN|COMMONS conference those two leading thinkers and practioners of the commons look back at experiences from the past 20 years and present outlooks for what we are able to change at the macro level if we continue to struggle for the commons.
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Meet the hardest working man in Commons Oriented Peer Production, Michel Bauwens at the Melbourne School of Design on December 4th.
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The European Cultural Foundation and it’s partners the Connected Action for the Commons Network brought 50 idea makers together to Subtopia in Stockholm last month for their annual Idea Camp. Michel and I among others were invited to discuss and contribute ideas to creative projects of activists and artists from across Europe.
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Watch David Bollier’s presentation just below, followed by my own. The event was organized in Berlin, on September 8, by the Boll Foundation on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. Silke Helfrich of the Commons Strategies Group introduced the speakers and moderated the discussion. 1. …
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What is the CopyFair License? Michel Bauwens presents an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach.
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What is peer to peer? Michel Bauwens presents an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach.
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A new collaboration between the P2P Foundation (P2PF) and the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC), working together on a Commons Transition Plan.
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“Capitalism wasn’t always an organic and dominant system. Before it achieved its status as a full mode of production, i.e. as a coherent way to create and diffuse value, as a form of society and civilization, it needed to hack the old society to mold it to its image. Karl Polanyi, in The Great Transformation, explains how early merchants were still dependent on artisans and guild labor for example (the so-called “putting out” system), and could not rely at first on making labour a commodity itself. The situation is not different for the emergent ‘proto’ system of production that is today ‘commons-oriented peer production’, in which communities of contributors, paid or unpaid, create ‘commons’ (shared resources governed by their users) and not commodities. How can this emergent post-capitalist logic, that is already beyond the labour and commodity logic, come into its own? How do we make peer production into an organic system?”
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Michel Bauwens interviews Professor Christian Iaione on the City as Commons
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Michel explains what the FLOK Society is and how it can help Ecuador to become a p2p and commons-oriented society. At the end of May the proposed policies of FLOK will be presented amongst politicians from Ecuador and the whole of South America as well as civic society.
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