Michel Bauwens: The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing
Editor’s note: the below is an English translation of the original interview in French conducted by Arthur de Grave. Cross-posted from OuiShare. Translation by Clement Defontaine. Michel Bauwens is one...
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The P2P Foundation’s James Burke chats with Vinay Gupta about homelessness, Ethereum, blockchain speed and scaling and whether the Republicans were right or not. Scroll down to see the timecodes for...
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P2P Revolution and Commons Phase Transition
P2P Revolution and Commons Phase Transition: Notes on the nature of the revolution in the P2P/Commons epoch At the P2P Foundation, we don’t use the moniker ‘revolution’ with much frequency, preferring...
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What the P2P Foundation did in 2015
2015 was a year of groundbreaking work and whirlwind travel for the P2P Foundation. Here are some of last year’s highlights. Our New Organizational Structure We’re pleased to announce that the P2P...
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What the P2P Foundation did in 2016
Welcome to our annual overview! 2016 has been widely acknowledged as a difficult year, and although we’ve had our share of hardship, it turned to be a very productive period for the P2P Foundation and...
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Developing a Coop-Commons alliance for a Collaborative Equitable and...
Lessons from the Conference at the European Economic and Social Committee, 5 December 2016 Developing a Co-op commons alliance towards a Collaborative Equitable and Participatory Economy: Cooperative...
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From Platform to Open Cooperativism
In the last few years, you’ve probably seen some articles about the flaws and failures of the what’s been called the “sharing economy”. Critics often cite the disingenuous use of the word “sharing”,...
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Commons in the time of monsters: How P2P Politics can change the world, one...
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what...
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The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a...
In this Commons Transition Special Report, George Dafermos documents the organizational model of one of the most interesting cooperative projects to have emerged in Europe in the age of crisis – the...
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Organizing and Governing the Commons: A Coop-Commons Multilevel Dialogue with...
In this rapidly changing world, existing systems are being weakened, resulting in risks as well as opportunities. The global economic crisis has degraded people’s working and living conditions but has...
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Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions
This report examines the re-emergence of the urban commons as both a bottom-up emergence by citizens/commoners and a radical municipal administrative configuration. Starting with an exploration of the...
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The City Taking the Commons to Heart
The Belgian city of Ghent plays host to a broad range of projects and initiatives around the commons. But it has yet to adopt a model which really places a commons-focused approach and logic at the...
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Peer to Peer: A Commons Manifesto
The P2P Foundation is announcing a new book that represents a summary of almost 15 years of vision and research. During this time we have studied the economic and governance systems evolving around...
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P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival
“Like so much that the P2P Foundation has done before, this is a paradigm-making vision for how to flip the future of the economy right side up. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down until I...
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