Intro by Michel Bauwens: P2P Value is a landmark study because it is the first long (3-year) scientific study of 300+ peer production communities, and it largely confirms the ten years of empirical observations that form the basis of P2P Theory and the documentation in the P2P Foundation Wiki. Our team was also one of […]
Peer Value: Advancing the Commons Collaborative Economy Amsterdam. September 2-3, 2016 Peer Value: Advancing the Commons Collaborative Economy is a conference integrating conversations and plans of action for shaping and connecting the Commons on a global level. Our final program is listed below, please join us in Amsterdam! The conference is organized along three tracks: […]
SwellRT Software Contest If you like to code, free/libre/open source software, and support a decentralized Internet, the SwellRT project invites you to participate in its Free Software Contest 3,000€, 2,000€ and 1,000€ prizes will be awarded to the best three projects which use or improve SwellRT technology. Find more info at: http://swellrt.org/contest SwellRT is a […]
The following book review by our P2Pvalue colleague Mayo Fuster Morell was originally published on the CCCBLab site. In addition, a presentation of the book was held in June 9 at CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona). Cases such as Airbnb, Uber, and eBay have popularised the concept of the sharing economy. Digital platforms […]
Join us in Amsterdam on September 2 and 3 for Peer Value: Advancing the Commons Collaborative Economy, a conference integrating conversations and plans of action for shaping and connecting the Commons on a global level. Event site Facebook event page
P2Pvalue’s Samer Hassan presented Teem and the process to reach it on Berkman’s Fellows Hours, on April 5, 2016, The slides are available here on slideshare. “The presentation will go through the exciting process of finding out what open communities would find useful, the social research, codesign workshops, multiple prototypes tested, and the actual result: […]
Video of a presentation on the topic of value and collaborative production, with Marco Berlinguer. Note: All Procomuns videos feature simultaneous translation, please switch from left to right channels to change languages. This plenary was filmed at PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event which was held in Barcelona in March, 2016 to discuss commons-oriented approaches to […]
The following is extracted from Procomuns’ newsletter- Sign up here. In this second newsletter from procomuns.net we want to refer to the new European Collaborative Economy agenda, which establishes guidelines for Member States on how they should regulate and what should be the Collaborative Economy policy of Members States. Is also an invitation to rethink […]
Video of a discussion on the topic of Open Source Circular Economy and the commons of reuse. Examples? Suggestions? What do we need to facilitate them? What tools are needed? Meeting spaces? Challenges? Opportunities? Including social organizations from Barcelona and beyond, with Leandro Navarro, Anita García, and others. Note: All Procomuns videos feature simultaneous translation, […]
We believe that on the part of government institutions it is time to define and advance the promotion of viable production and entrepreneurship alternatives, ones that fulfill the conditions for transparency and open resources as an engine of real progress, resilience and multiplication of opportunities. It is time for governments to act and stop the […]