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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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Located in Barcelona, AureaSocial is a Catalan Integral Cooperative initiated open space for health, education and self-management.
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Photo: jonathan mcintosh. Article co-authored with Pablo Munoz.
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PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event held in Barcelona to discuss commons-oriented approaches to public policy, peer production and the collaborative economy.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CONFERENCES COOPERATIVES CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED VIDEO OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS OPEN GOVERNMENT ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING VIDEOS
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"There are now more self-employed workers than at any time since modern records began. Some 4.6 million people, around 15 per cent of the workforce, are now self-employed and data from the Office for National Statistics show that two thirds of new jobs in the UK created in recent years are down to self-employment.
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Solidarity for All is an organization that offers technical support, capacity building, and network-scaling for various grassroots initiatives in Greece.
jean lievens's insight:
COOPERATIVES P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P MOVEMENTS SHARINGcoop
socioeco-fr's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 3:02 AM
COOPERATIVES P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P MOVEMENTS SHARINGcoop
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The case for Co-op and Internships for students in food https://t.co/Ons2CUcBhm https://t.co/2ZwIzYX6lj
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Siward Zomer speaking about energy cooperatives at the conference Economy, People & Planet 2015, organised by Omstilling Nu/Transition Now.
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RICOL Ltd, the first interpreters’ cooperative in the UK, has been founded by highly qualified language professionals, with substantial interpreting and translating experience in the UK and abroad.
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Photo: jonathan mcintosh. Article co-authored with Pablo Munoz.
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Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek have published a manifesto for the next human age under the title Inventing the Future: P…
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Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative Bank have announced a three-year co-operative development initiative. In 2015, the Bank committed £1m towards co-ope
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"The 'sharing economy' wasn't supposed to be this way," write Stefanie Ehmsen and Albert Scharenberg in their preface to Trebor Scholz's "Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy," published in January 2016 by Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung's New York Office. The more or less authentically expressed motivations behind the sharing economy (the maximization of underutilized resources, more rewarding peer connections, etc.) sound good, Ehmsen, Scharenberg, and Scholz agree, but the actual result of the rise of mobile-based sharing platforms has been something else altogether. "This new economy is not really about sharing at all," write Ehmsen and Scharenberg. "Rather, as Trebor Scholz argues in this study, it is an on-demand service economy that it spreading market relations deeper into our lives."
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Self employment levels used to be a measure of how underdeveloped an economy was. Now it has become something that is celebrated across developed countries.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELS PEER PROPERTY
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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.
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You are invited to participate in this survey conducted by the research teams from the P2Pvalue project, in which the P2P Foundation is a consortium member. In the research project P2PValue we study what we call peer to peer (P2P) communities. With this we mean networks of people who freely collaborate around a common goal,... Continue reading →
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Cooperatives UK have just released an in depth report full of examples of best practices for co-operatives collaborating to meet the needs of workers
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Imagine an economy without bosses. It’s not a utopian vision but a growing daily reality for many enterprises. A close analysis of the performance of worker-owned cooperative firms—companies in which workers share in management and ownership—shows that, compared to standard top-down firms
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Fairmondo is creating a true alternative to the big online marketplaces and helping others who want to set up democratic and fair business at a larger scale
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A critique of the ideas of U.S. cooperative leaders such as Richard Wolff and Gar Alperovitz.
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Copylove is everything we produce and reproduce that can take us closer to "good living", to a sustainable living, and not simply in monetary terms.
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This May Day, there will be an exciting new opportunity to build an Internet of ownership. MIT’s Co-Design Studio is calling for people to organize Co-op DiscoTechs—simultaneous events around the world designed to connect people into the intersection of cooperative enterprise and technology. This is a totally participatory effort, so don’t wait for someone to organize a Co-op DiscoTech near you, if they aren’t already—create one yourself!
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Are people not united? Do they distrust each other? You don’t need deep, introspection: you need to distribute responsibilities and get to work
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If we have a collective right to a resource, we should be able to participate in decisions about that resource’s use.
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