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jean lievens
May 24, 2016 3:11 AM
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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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jean lievens
February 18, 2016 11:29 AM
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In Dublin there are many needs which are not met due to high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public space.
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jean lievens
December 21, 2015 4:59 PM
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Decentralizing the commons is a key requisite for their protection and evolution.
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jean lievens
December 10, 2015 5:36 AM
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David Bollier reflects on the work of the Commons Strategies Group while taking us through their beautiful new website.
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jean lievens
October 8, 2015 1:52 PM
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The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
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jean lievens
August 19, 2015 4:17 PM
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* M.A. Thesis: The Transformative Effects of Crisis: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Economic Cultures in Spain and Greece. Janosch Sbeih. Schumacher College, 2014 Here is a summary from the abstract, followed by two excerpts: “By adopting an action research methodology, I inquire into how far the responses of citizens to the global economic …
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jean lievens
August 1, 2015 6:33 AM
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Stewart Brand in a summary of a talk by Mariana Mazzucato: “The iPhone, Mazzucato pointed out, is held up as a classic example of world-changing innovation coming from business. Yet every feature of the iPhone was created, originally, by multi-decade government-funded research. From DARPA came the microchip, the Internet, the micro hard drive, the DRAM …
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jean lievens
July 15, 2015 2:17 PM
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* PhD Thesis: Economic aspects of additive manufacturing: benefits, costs and energy consumption. Martin Baumers. Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University, 2012. From the abstract: “Additive Manufacturing (AM) refers to the use of a group of technologies capable of combining material layer-by-layer to manufacture geometrically complex products in a single digitally controlled process step, entirely …
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jean lievens
June 16, 2015 2:47 PM
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jean lievens
May 23, 2015 9:00 AM
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* Article: The Ethic of the Code: An Ethnography of a ‘Humanitarian Hacking’ Community. By Douglas Haywood. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3, July 2013 From the Abstract: “Hackers and computer hacking have become important narratives in academia and popular media. These discussions have frequently portrayed hackers as deviant, framing them ethnocentrically within North Atlantic …
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jean lievens
April 27, 2015 4:03 PM
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We live in a world with limits, yet our economy needs growth. How can we expect this scenario to play out? My view is that this problem will play out as a fairly near-term financial problem, with low oil prices leading to a fall in oil production. But not everyone comes to this conclusion. What were the views of early researchers? How do my views differ?
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jean lievens
April 6, 2015 9:37 AM
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The last in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue & designed by Laura Recio shows some of the crazy things we can do with collaborative communities. The poster can be downloaded below (click on image to go to the downloads page on Wikimedia Commons) & used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. …
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jean lievens
February 22, 2015 10:30 AM
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This month we feature Adam Arvidsson whose work on the Ethical Economy and Digital Ethnography looks at the role of reputation in collaborative communities.
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jean lievens
May 16, 2016 2:43 PM
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Next year will be the 40 years anniversary of Christopher Alexander‘s seminal work “A Pattern Language”. 20 years ago Nikos A.
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jean lievens
January 23, 2016 9:45 AM
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Gail Tverberg in her post “2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle” concludes that we’re now on the end of a debt supercycle. Because debt is different this time, it’s very unlikely that we can enter a new supercycle. This has to do with the fact that we live in a finite …
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jean lievens
December 16, 2015 5:04 AM
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Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
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jean lievens
November 25, 2015 2:11 PM
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“How can the power of algorithms be understood and, when called for, controlled? We are only starting to understand how these strings of computer code are shaping our view of the world. As researchers point out, inherent biases in algorithms can lead to startling discriminatory possibilities, with important consequences.
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jean lievens
August 25, 2015 2:26 PM
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* Article: Pearce, J.M. (2015) Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development. Modern Economy, 6, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/me.2015.61001. open access From the abstract: “With the maturation of digital manufacturing technologies like 3-D printing, a new paradigm is emerging of distributed manufacturing in both scientific equipment and consumer goods. Hardware released under free licenses is …
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jean lievens
August 13, 2015 11:48 AM
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The Community Economies Collective are a networks of researchers who share an interest in theorizing, and ultimately enacting new visions of economy.
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jean lievens
July 25, 2015 1:31 PM
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* Essay: Reconsidering the Bayh-Dole Act and the Current University Invention Ownership Model. By Martin Kenney and Donald Patton. From the abstract: “The current model within which universities own the inventions made by their researchers was enshrined in the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. This paper finds that the current system, in which universities maintain de …
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jean lievens
July 6, 2015 12:29 PM
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* Essay: The Power of Free: In search of democratic academic publishing strategies. Jan Blommaert. Summary of the thesis: “In this polemical essay, I intend to engage with the current system of academic publishing, in light of the debates about possible Open Access publishing strategies. I write my remarks from my own position in the …
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jean lievens
May 23, 2015 9:41 AM
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Read the survey as a pdf: – Reputation based on punishment rather than generosity allows for evolution of cooperation in sizable groups Abstract: Cooperation among unrelated individuals can arise if decisions to help others can be based on reputation. While working for dyadic interactions, reputation-use in social dilemmas involving many individuals (e.g. public goods games) becomes …
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jean lievens
May 19, 2015 11:35 AM
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“Joana Formosinho is a zoologist with a background in animal behavioural research, but as she says in her introduction, she felt that her research and research methods had not brought her a profound level of insight:
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jean lievens
April 7, 2015 9:12 AM
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The last in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue & designed by Laura Recio shows some of the crazy things we can do with collaborative communities.
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jean lievens
February 23, 2015 1:28 PM
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Gabriella Coleman, a cultural anthropologist and professor at McGill University, spent years observing Anonymous, witnessing the group’s rise from within the trolling subculture to its current pursuit of cyber activism. Her new book, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, is the most comprehensive research to date about the hacktivist collective.
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