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Volkswagen Scandal Confirms the Dangers of Proprietary Code | P2P Foundation

Volkswagen Scandal Confirms the Dangers of Proprietary Code | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Few commentators have mentioned that the Volkswagen scandal would not have happened if the software for the pollution-control equipment had been open source
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Video: An explanation by Joonas Pekkanen on the Open Ministry Platform in Finland | P2P Foundation

Video: An explanation by Joonas Pekkanen on the Open Ministry Platform in Finland | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The first explanation dates from 2012; the second is an interview from 2014. The Finnish parliament has failed to act on the first six citizen initiatives based on crowdsourced legislation, but the project leaders remain committed. First video: Second Video:
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Free Software and Human Rights

Free Software and Human Rights | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

In the Free Software and Education conference I attended in Quito, Ecuador last month, I met a most interesting person, GianMarco Schiesaro, who gave a very interesting presentation, entitled: Free Software and Human Rights. I’m not aware that this particular relationship has been investigated many times.

 
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at 11:39 am and is filed under Free Software, P2P Education, P2P Legal Dev., P2P Public Policy, Politics. 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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Three proposed governance hacks for making peer production into a real economic and social system | P2P Foundation

Three proposed governance hacks for making peer production into a real economic and social system | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Michel Bauwens: (also published in an edited form in the Winter 2015 issue of STIR) 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 …
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The Rise of Biocultural Rights | P2P Foundation

The Rise of Biocultural Rights | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The idea of bioocultural rights provides a powerful legal framework for reclaiming land, culture, traditional knowledge and self-governance.
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