Peer to peer cinema at Clip Kino “‘Clip Kino’ events are self-organised screening events of short video clips & documentaries found online. It aims to drag aspects of normalised ‘private’ activity – of viewing downloaded content on one’s own computer – into public space for screening, appreciation and debate. ‘Media-environmental …
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Debate on the for-free economy Michel Bauwens 2nd March 2010 The “for-free economy” was the subject of one of the four daily debates held Jan. 26-28 at the seminar to assess the WSF’s first 10 years in Porto Alegre. Maria Osava reports: “The field of “the gratis economy” or “freeconomics” …
Newly Announced Speakers at Sustainable Brands 2010 to Lead Conversations, Best Practice Review Using “The Power of And”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sasha Fedulow Cohn & Wolfe Office: 415.365.8552 [email protected] Industry’s Leading Conference Explores Complex Issues Requiring Collaboration and Creativity during 4th Annual Event June 7–10, 2010 at the Monterey (CA) Conference Center SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 17, 2010 – Sustainable Life Media today introduced the first round …
P2P Foundation – From Owning to Flowing and Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
From Owning to Flowing Republished from Jean-Francois Noubel’s editorial on the underlying philosophy of the Metacurrency Project: “Our consumer society has built an ideology of accumulation. This is triggered by the scarce monetary system. Rather than sharing the stuff we need, we accumulate it in our basements, garages and backyards. …
P2P Foundation: From Owning to Flowing, Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
From Owning to Flowing Republished from Jean-Francois Noubel’s editorial on the underlying philosophy of the Metacurrency Project: “Our consumer society has built an ideology of accumulation. This is triggered by the scarce monetary system. Rather than sharing the stuff we need, we accumulate it in our basements, garages and backyards. …
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Some Insights on Peer Governance Peer projects do not operate in strict hierarchies of command and control, but rather in heterarchies; they operate “in a much looser [environment] which…allows for the existence of multiple teams of participants working simultaneously in a variety of possibly opposing directions” (Bruns, 2008, p. 26). …
Global Marshall Plan News 1/2010
Why we need a Marshall Plan for Haiti Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Global Marshall Plan Network Meeting in Austria May 5 2010 Global Marshall Plan Supporting Students Students found organisation in Austria – Plant-for-the-Planet – Azerbaijan Children adopt “Stop Talking. Start Planting.” Azerbaijan’s First Children’s Forum in …
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This new book by my longtime friend Jeremy Rifkin (see him on our TV show on “THE FUTURE OF WORK” at www.EthicalMarkets.tv) is his magnum opus. On getting my review copy of his Empathetic Civilization, we chatted about his concepts of this rising consciousness among humans and compared it with …
Shareable magazine on the Rise of a Sharing Industry
One of the top trends for 2009, selected by Shareable magazine: (go to that original article for the links mentioned below) “This year saw the founding of services like Rentalic, Share Some Sugar, and Neighborgoods—all of which rely on the web and mobile technologies to facilitate neighborhood-level sharing. In 2009, …
P2P Foundation: Towards a global innovation commons against climate instability
We are enthusiastic about the huge potential of the GLOBAL INNOVATION COMMONS and Dr. David Martin’s initiative. – Ed David E. Martin, an intellectual property activist who works with many developing countries, argues that a great many green technologies are already in the public domain and ready to be developed. …