Pixelache Helsinki wants to bring key members of ZEMOS98 collective to the 2016 edition of their festival, under the campaign title 'CopyLove Helsinki'
During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation
Agreement-Based Organization (ABO) has gathered lots of positive attention since I introduced it in Collaborative Technology Alliance and Enspiral Tales this March. I’d like to summarize ABO here, describe its revisions and versions, and extend my...
Nembhard's vision for a next system created from the bottom up, building upon multiple grassroots cooperative enterprises, and democratic community-based economic practices.
Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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.
The City as Commons: a Policy Reader, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons.
Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
Photo By Nicholas Zambetti – http://www.arduino.cc/, CC BY-SA 3.0, This exploratory essay posits the idea of ‘cosmo-localism’ (or ‘cosmo-localization’) as a potentially useful concept in both explaining a new economic model and in formulating sustainable development pathways. It is a thought stimulation exercise that invites us to join a conversation about the design of a new... Continue reading →
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION FEATURED BOOK P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P COLLABORATION P2P LEGAL DEV. P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING
Over the past 10+ years, thousands of people have asked me “what is wirearchy?” There’s one common misconception that I’d like to clear up first, which is that wirearchy is mainly about technology. If anything, wirearchy is about the power and effectiveness of people working together through connection and collaboration … taking responsibility individually and collectively rather than Read More →
“Humans are social creatures. We live in groups. We use our social abilities to increase our overall capacity, to improve our potential, while being part of families, clans, tribes, communities, states, or economic continental regions.
Excerpted from an essay by Mike Neary and Joss Winn: “One of the more sustained renditions of a new commons is the notion of ‘commonism’ elaborated by Dyer-Witheford (2006, 2007), who, in a number of articles has sought to promote the concept of commonism as a way to avoid the bad history of authoritarian state... Continue reading →
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