Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
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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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Every so often I am invited to write a piece that in effect answers the question, “Why the commons?” I invariably find new answers to that question. 
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A on change how we view plastics: from a waste product that is clogging up our oceans, landfills and animals, to a valuable resource for makers
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY DEFAULT FEATURED PROJECT OPEN CONTENT OPEN INNOVATION OPEN MODELS P2P MANUFACTURING
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Creative Commons licensing is the smart way to distribute local or national news content when the goal is maximum impact and outreach.
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People, not corporations or governments, make things: Labor is what has produced things under every ism in history. The isms just determine who gets paid.
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qaul.net connects different wireless devices directly to the mesh network, it works therefore without mobile telephony or servers.
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Paul Mason occupies a niche where there is plenty of room for more good analysis.
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“We believe that a new economy cannot be built in vacuum. We see this as a process of metamorphosis. The ethical and aware classical players will join first to transfer their classical store value and production assets into new assets. This is in essence a transfer of resources from the old economy into the new.... Continue reading →
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Taking place during the 3-days of OuiShare Fest Paris, Fest Forward will accelerate 3 open source projects with a high, measurable positive impact.
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“When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus’s genome, learning how it mutated and spread.
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Decentralization simply means building mechanisms which allow for a group of peers to efficiently arrive at decisions without having to rely on fixed hierarchies, central coordination and single points of failure. From an excellent article on the “Mike Hearn” controversy in the promising magazine Backfeed, excerpted from Julian Feder: “Since Hearns post mid january, the …
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This is excerpted from a book originally published 30 years ago, by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. This is the final excerpt in this serialization of Dieter Duhm: “Building a humane community usually means confronting difficulties that are deeply rooted in the character structures of modern man and especially in the …
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The Precious Plastic project provides open source designs and instruction manuals for the free sharing of cheap DIY machinery to recycle plastics everywhere
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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A recent article on a Society of the Commons co-authored by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis.
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D-CENT invites you to an exciting week-long programme of activities which showcase and celebrate the results of the D-CENT project.
jean lievens's insight:
CAMPAIGNS COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CONFERENCES CULTURE & IDEAS OPEN CALLS OPEN MODELS P2P COLLABORATION P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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Conversationpiece enables dialogues and participatory setups to talk about the most burning topics in post-digital culture today.
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Distributed infrastructure, distributed renewable energy and distributed manufacturing enabled by P2P design, makes collapsing infrastructures obsolete
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"Pardis Sabeti immediately released her ebola research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around the world could join in the urgent fight"
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OuiShare Fest Forward is an accelerator for open source projects with measurable positive impact.
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A discussion on the weaving of science and commons: what's public, what's private and the ways we understand, produce and socialize science.
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“We believe that a new economy cannot be built in vacuum. We see this as a process of metamorphosis. The ethical and aware classical players will join first to transfer their classical store value and production assets into new assets. This is in essence a transfer of resources from the old economy into the new. …
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Excerpted from Matthew Heskin : “Competition does not support sharing. Competition suggests that there is scarcity and supports a scarcity mindset. History has already proven that the “pie” is not a fixed size. Our “know how” changes the size of the pie even in the face of rapid population growth. We like to look at …
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