Peer2Politics

A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area produced by the media arts collective Personal Cinema.

David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."

Roam provides short-term apartments with a communal feel, for today's digital work-from-anywhere nomad.

A bedrock of any solidarity economy is the old idea of cooperativism—sharing ownership among those affected by an enterprise and governing it democratically

Collaborative consumption allows everything from car-sharing to go to work to exchanging hours of language practice, from offering babysitting services to offering hospitality to people who speak other languages or are part of our network of hobbies. It’s all set of demands whose satisfaction is key to weaving social cohesion.

Distributed infrastructure, distributed renewable energy and distributed manufacturing enabled by P2P design, makes collapsing infrastructures obsolete

The City as Commons: a Policy Reader, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons.

Creative Commons licensing is the smart way to distribute local or national news content when the goal is maximum impact and outreach.

One of Shareable’s core projects this year is to produce a new book and digital database comprised of case studies and model policies to support the growth of Sharing Cities.

It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income

The global refugee crisis: humanity’s last call for a culture of sharing and cooperation. The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism.

In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections and data, the vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use networks intelligently.