10 Open Hardware Projects to Save the Earth
On the coattails of the rise of intellectual property and economic monopolies, the Open Source movement is thriving, expanding public access to knowledge, culture and tools.
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P2P Perspectives: Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism has become a powerful current in the development of alternative globalisation discourses.
P2P Perspectives: Alternative development
Africa, Latin America and Asia, they are supposed to be societies on a particular trajectory of history … they are all supposed to be trying to be in the future what Europe and North America are today. So, in that sense, technically there are no options open to them in the future.
P2P perspectives: Reform Liberalism
This is the first in a series in which Jose Ramos and Michael Bauwens debate nine different political perspectives and how they relate to peer to peer.
Manifesting a Material Commons – A Trialogue
KMO remote-hosts a trialogue between Michel Bauwens, Dmytri Kleiner and John Restakis on establishing a peer-production economy in which economic rents are distributed to every member of a community.
Collectivization and the P2P mode of production
Let’s take a tour to look for the relationship between collectivization, the new commons, and the P2P mode of production.
Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders
This report details 32 specific policy steps that local leaders can take to benefit from the growing sharing economy and support innovations such as carsharing, ridesharing, cohousing, cooperatives, and urban agriculture.
How the new peer-to-peer economy can lead to the renaissance of the commons
The “peer to peer” and commons-oriented vision for a new type of civilization and economic system starts from an analysis of what is fundamentally wrong with the current economic system.