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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Essay of the Day: Urban Revolutions and the Network Commons | P2P Foundation

Essay of the Day: Urban Revolutions and the Network Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
“Citizen networks, wireless or not, could become a transversal infrastructral layer, reaching across society and different domains, becoming a revolutionary enabler of a new urban life in a way that points beyond capitalism as we knew it. … Rather than having corporations and the state who centrally organize production and consumption, in such a commons mode of production peer-to-peer forms of cooperation link infrastructural, political and cultural layers. The decentralized utopia envisioned by the 68 generation can now become a concrete project. With citizen networks and decentralized computing power localized exchange economies can be organized.”
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P2Pvalue Podcast 001: Marco Berlinguer - How to Assess Value in Peer Production | P2P Foundation

P2Pvalue Podcast 001: Marco Berlinguer - How to Assess Value in Peer Production | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

This recording of Marco Berlinguer discussing the research carried out by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IGOP) in the first phase of the P2Pvalue project was recorded on February 19th 2015  as part of a series of hangouts at the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin jointly held by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation and Professor Erik Olin Wright of the Real Utopias project on the topic of Capitalism, Post-Capitalism and Transition Strategies towards a Sustainable and Socially Just P2P Society.

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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Robert Steele on the Open Source Everything Manifesto

Please watch this excellent presentation by our friend Robert Steele:

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Framing the FLOK Transition Project in Ecuador: why open knowledge is not enough

Framing the FLOK Transition Project in Ecuador: why open knowledge is not enough | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

“In the current debate concerning the rise and consequences of “cognitive capitalism”, a new discourse is developing around the concept of a “social knowledge economy”. But what does a social knowledge economy mean and what are its implications for the ways in which a society and an economy are ordered?

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A history of abundance | P2P Foundation

A history of abundance | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A brief tour of the imagining of abundance throughout history, from the Golden Age of the ancients to the P2P production of the current generation.
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Comparing business paradigms | P2P Foundation

Comparing business paradigms | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

“People centered” means that control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person. When an individual person with this empowerment reaches their individual carrying capacity to operate, they will tend to reach out to others who are operating like them, and a connection-based network will emerge. Economic development here targets individuals operating as self-employed independents who network together. Independents, small businesses, community groups, working together, with government, higher education, and larger business are the new economic driver. The more control people have an on individual scale of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and governance, *and* the more connectivity there is between those people, the that more growth happens in “people centered economic development”.

When control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person, a new way of coopertive co-managing of existing resources, and surpluses of production tends to emerge. That new way of co-managing is known as “Resource Sharing”."

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Historical record shows how intellectual property systematically slowed down innovation

The pattern here is clear: copyright monopolies and patent monopolies encourage neither creativity nor innovation. Quite the opposite. Throughout history, we observe that today’s giants were founded in their absence, and today, these giants push for the harshening and enforcement of these monopolies in order to remain kings of the hill, to prevent something new and better from replacing them. Pushing for copyright monopolies and patent monopolies was never a matter of helping others; it was a matter of kicking away the ladder once you had reached the top yourself.”

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Using Open Source Hardware to conquer new Markets

Using Open Source Hardware to conquer new Markets | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Few days ago, I stumbled upon Angel, an amazing project for a healthcare/fitness related wristband sensor.
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