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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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jean lievens
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John Higson’s priority is how to involve a maximum number of people involved in decision-making processes in the creation of sustainable local economies. John Higson is a “social entrepreneur, and former branding consultant that got tired of creating added value for products that lack true value. John is convinced that our most wasted natural resource(s) … 
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This is really good panel on the necessary cooperative forms for the sharing economy: ““Given the mounting attention to the unethical labor practices in the so-called “collaborative sharing economy” with labor brokerages like Handy and Uber, what are the alternatives? Imagine for one moment that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism …
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Sarah T. Gold provides an excellent overview of the current state of personal data privacy (or, increasingly, the total lack of it) and imagines some possible solutions in her video ‘The Alternet': …the Alternet evolved as a superfiction, a creative proposal that blends fiction and real world structures, presenting organisations and the lives of invented …
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Situated in the heart of Madrid’s La Latina district, El Campo de Cebada is a community-managed urban space. It is also a great working example of a for-benefit P2P association. Everybody is welcome to contribute and benefit from El Campo de Cebada, where neighbours invest their time and effort building and maintaining both the physical and intellectual structures that hold “ECDC” together.
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Michel Bauwens explores the potential of the blockchain as a social transformation tool to enable an ethical peer to peer society.
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The Personal Cinema network has started a crowdfunding campaign at goteo.org for the production and distribution of the documentary “Building communities of commons: A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area”. The aim is to explore in depth the journey of the community “Sarantaporo.gr” by shedding light on its beginnings, its background, its aspirations and the …
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B4RN is a documentary by James Uren and Suzette Heald, starring the volunteers who have built their own gigabit fibre network in rural Lancashire. An example for all! Watch the video here:
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“The project is about creating a wireless networking infrastructure as a commons and building a community around it. It is not just about bringing the Internet to remote areas. Locals are already participating in and are offering their premises for infrastructure deployment, forming local support groups in which they organize their participation, acquiring knowledge, skills and expertise on deploying and maintaining this infrastructure.
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“In 1991, Cuba’s economy began to implode. “The Special Period in the Time of Peace” was the government’s euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as “art” in a movement he dubbed “Technological Disobedience.”
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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 at 9:19 am and is filed under Economy and Business, Open Innovation, Open Models, P2P Infrastructures, P2P Manufacturing, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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