Peer2Politics

By agreement with the P2P Foundation, those of us coming together to foster improved cross-fertilization across the various opens will use the P2P Foundation Wiki to create pages and links so that a culture of Open Cooperativism is fostered in this neutral and nurturing environment. What we are finding is that extraordinary information intended to be shared is "lost" in discussion lists and internal web site postings.

As Dmytri Kleiner puts it so well in his statement on Radical Openness, to be open is to be free is to not be a capitalist tool (we paraphrase). Capitalism, a form of organization that concentrates profits while externalizing costs, has toxified the earth and deprived humanity of its potential, many industrial era accomplishments notwithstanding. The scarcity concept is a false one. Hoarding of knowledge is harmful to others. The time has come to move well past the open source initiatives in the information technology arena, and to a lesser extent in manufacturing and materials, and go for the whole enchilada -- open source everything with an equal emphasis across all nine opens but singling out here Open Intelligence (education, intelligence, research), Open Governance, Open Provisioning(energy, food, shelter, water), and Open Space.