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how to tackle netarchical domination, the p2p-f strategy
by Michel Bauwens 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

HOW TO TACKLE NETARCHICAL DOMINATION OF THE NETWORKS .. I've sent the below to a brazilian contact who asked me what I thought of the Indie Phone strategy of arial balkan, you may find the answer on the strategy of the p2p-foundation of interest here it is: "in my vision, there are 3 main ways to tackle this domination, and they should all be tried, as we don't really know what will work: * the first is what Balkan is doing, to create independent technologies, combined with a movement ... the problem is: it has been tried for at least a decade, but even if the tech works, adoption is a huge problem , and finds it hard to compete with the established platform monopolies and their network effects .. we are following these attempts here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure * the second is to fight the beast from within as it where, I am thinking here of the facebook user union and other attempts .. think of it as 'digital consumers unions' .. it is akin to workers having to work for companies to survive and forming unions to fight for their interests .. here also, success has been very very limited, and the reason is indeed that free is very seductive, and most users actually agree with the bargain .. at the most, it will some day have the success of the consumers associations, just part of the overall system of checks and balances, but not a major transforming power so this is why I think we need more structural solutions and this is what the p2p-f is aligned with, and that is: create a integrated counter-economy, so not just alt.tech, but really an alt.economy for example, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Why_We_Need_a_New_Kind_of_Open_Cooperativism_for_t… and http://p2pfoundation.net/From_the_Communism_of_Capital_to_a_Capital_for_the… this is also the background of our cooperation with the catalan integral cooperative, see http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-a-first-stateless-commons-transition-… (will be published later today on our blog) we are working for convergence between the already existing alternative economic forms, and the open forms of peer production, owned by the peer producers themselves and it is only on top of that, that we will create services like the ones proposed by Balkan, so the strategies are related, but they are socio-centric rather than techno-centric," -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Building Resilience in an Era of Limits to Growth - Nicole Foss on Big Ideas tonight at 8pm (Radio National)
by Michel Bauwens 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daryl Taylor <taylor.daryl.r(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:49 PM Subject: Fwd: Building Resilience in an Era of Limits to Growth - Nicole Foss on Big Ideas tonight at 8pm (Radio National) To: *Don't Miss* ... Nicole Foss on Big Ideas on Radio National 621AM tonight from 8:00pm TOPIC - *Building Resilience in an Era of Limits to Growth* We are approaching many limits to growth over the next decades: Economic contraction, peak energy and geopolitical stress. Nicole Foss explains how the deflationary dynamics that always follow finance and property bubbles will rapidly impact individuals and communities, while the longer acting forces of peak oil and climate change will limit the nature of any economic recovery. So how can we adapt? http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/building-resiliance-i… *Cheers, * *Daryl Taylor* *Resilient by Design* *Vulnerable by Nature* *0497 097 047* -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Re: [P2P-F] [Networkedlabour] Transnational and P2P Commons Transitions
by Orsan Senalp 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

In relation to this discussion, just wanted to identify the debate on Modular production networks in china and us as the new mode of production: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3/451.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc, and this http://netglobalcapitalism.files.wodpress.com/2013/12/abstract-of-chen-shuo…) Here is Kees' recent peace on China and class struggles: https://www.academia.edu/7864649/Class_Struggles_and_Development_in_Contemp… And Another line of empirical research and theoretical argumentation is also very relevant imho: http://netglobalcapitalism.wordpress.com/articles/information-technology-an… For example to get a better grasp on the positions of various transnational and national ruling class fractions With respect to, for instance, the four transition scenarios you have been writing about Michel. This would probably also involve in the state forms analysis, revolution-reform, alliances, and partnerships alliances so on. Best, orsan > On 03 Aug 2014, at 10:02, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 08/02/2014 01:29 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote: >> I have one question, you say Minqi Li says there is no longer a reserve >> periphery .. but what about Africa ? (and the rise of latin america in >> the naugthies ?) >> http://p2pfoundation.net/Rise_of_China_and_the_Demise_of_the_Capitalist_Wor… > > Minqi Li's claim is that too many formerly peripheral countries -- especially the giants, India and China -- have moved into the position of what the world systems theorists call "semi-peripheral" countries, supplying mid-range or partially elaborated products to the central, high-technology producers. The result is a declining pool of people to exploit, both in terms of labor and resources, and in terms of defenseless markets that must necessarily buy products from the center. When large percentages of the world population have access to at least mid-level producer technology, capital can no longer accumulate at the former centers, whose power declines. The current state of affairs in Western Europe and the US/Canada seems to bear this thesis out. > > In such a perspective, Michel, your ideas and those of everyone working on p2p and commons approaches become far more pertinent. When the centers of capital accumulation can off the fruits of very high technology to all of those, across the world, who rise into the middle classes, then there is scant likelihood of winning them over to a cooperative approach -- the powers of capitalist seduction are just too strong. Yet in a condition of long-term stagnation, coupled with environmental threats stemming directly and visibly from capital accumulation, alternative proposals may become much more attractive across a flattening global hierarchy. > > Of course I agree with Orsan that everything possible must always be tried right now. But it is encouraging to realize that over the middle term, there are some dynamics going our way. It is tough to sustain the fascist-type solution for very long. Too many people have too much agency, even under severe conditions. If it is true that capitalism can no longer produce employment of even the precarious kind that prevailed under the last cycle, then there is really room for something new under the sun, that's what I see as an historic chance. > > warmly, Brian > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour

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CIC, Commons Transitions and P2P-F. responding to Orsan
by Michel Bauwens 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Orsan asks: <<> background at > http://p2pfoundation.net/Why_We_Need_a_New_Kind_of_Open_Cooperativism_for_t… > (short) ; > http://p2pfoundation.net/From_the_Communism_of_Capital_to_a_Capital_for_the… > (long) > This sounds really interesting, do you mean as P2P-F or Commons Strategy Group will be forming alliance with the CIC?>> This is about the P2P Foundation, not the CSG <<> we want to do this both 'top down' by talking to party leaders, and bottom > up, through the creation of local alliances and chambers of the commons; the > latter is not getting much traction yet, but there is definite interest in > parties like Syriza (at least part of it) to discuss commons oriented policy > orientations > above, do you mean that the 'top down' is not getting traction?>> Orsan, none of the two is reallly getting tractions, but there are early sign that these potentialities are maturing. One is a string of conversations with people like Uffe Elbaek, Neal Lawson, who, given the EU electoral victories for the radical right forces, say, 'the time is now' to start pushing for it. and even a first question came here by marco guistini asking for the creation of a commons party .. the signs of bottom up political trends is very meager as well, but there are certainly unifying commons conferences and festivals happening such as the commonsfest in Crete and topical coalitions around commons urbanism but if you see what is happening in Italy around the Commons, a wide variety of political and policy initiatives, then I would say now is the time to seriously start pushing these new ideas and have them circulate, I would like to work with you on this projects <<and the above evaluation and perspestive from a deep dive is very interesting as well. I was wondering what was the reason in making it as a closed session, and was it taking place between individuals participating in grassroots movements or representing (semi-)hierarchically formed organisations? Just to understand if this is part of top-down or bottom up practice.>>, I have done a number of these exploratory deep dives, funded by FPH and Boll foundations, to prepare the ICC and ECC conferences ... as we only have funding for a very small number (10 to 25), they are indeed closed and invitation only, but the invitees are meant to be representative of regions, gender, political forces .. though they are there as individuals, not as representers .. the idea is to explore the concerns of people in particular fields to inform the organisation of larger initiatives .. I realize this may not sound very p2p but because the selection procedures for quality of knowledge and discourse, they work extremely well, I guess we can consider them as meritocratic processes -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [members] My take on the future of P2P
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karthik Iyer <karthix(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:25 PM Subject: [members] My take on the future of P2P To: P2PValue Project Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> My article in this months Entrepreneur India Magazine on the coming age of distributed autonomous peer 2 peer systems in the largest selling magazine for Entrepreneurs with over 5 million readers. Please read and share if you find it interesting. http://techdisruption.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/my-article-in-entrepreneur-i… Best Regards Karthik -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Re: [P2P-F] [Networkedlabour] Transnational and P2P Commons Transitions
by Örsan Şenalp 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

This a good example Stacco, agree that it woud be usefull, for p2p-f but also in general. May be on this there can be a work done for the foundation at the community development space Michel was referring. Menawhile just started to copmpile a general list with Dennis Postle on the debategraph (collaborative software suggested by Helene Findori and seemed useful to me after several try): http://debategraph.org/Details.aspx?nid=349168 orsan On 2 August 2014 12:01, Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi friends. > > Right now I'd say we're at the exploration level. It's a big concern in Peer > Production, how do we avoid freeriding, undue influence and stalling? To me > the answer is to have a clear set of agreed-on protocols and the tools to > implement them and that's where our thinking is directed these days. We're > doing it at a smaller scale and with a much more concrete focus in Guerrilla > Translation, but I think that a lot of the knowledge we're gleaning there > can be scaled up to Foundation. > > The first "structural" proposal we try out will probably not be the last > one, and this process will imply continued experimentation and feedback, but > any attempt at moving beyond structureless will benefit us all and improve > the sort of styrmegic collaborative practices we favour. > > My proposal is that we adapt the Better Means Open Governance level to suit > our needs, that's be the background/governance aspect hat would clarify > roles and responsibilities greatly. Additionally, it isn't based on > hierarchy or coercion but meritocracy, you don't have to "state" what your > commitment level is or what you're going to do You just do it and your work > will be vauled and, if you don't do it, that's ok, someone else can take > that work up. > > On the practical sense and given that we're a transnational network the > workflow I'm personally familiar with and which has worked out great for us > is the following: > > Loomio (for discussion and decision making)-Trello (for workflow and task > management) -Wiki- (For the knowledge acquired). > > These feed into each other of course (and can be intimately connected > through hyperlinks). > > I'll copy bunch of links related to these models below but I'd specially > draw your attention to the first. (The Open Enterprise Framework), but all > the links have a lot of valuable info. I think that by reading them all and > then discussing the ideas and voting on proposals on Loomio will get us half > of the way there. > > Open Enterprise Manifesto and Governance model > > Video intro to Open Enterprises > > Open Enterprise TEDX talk > > Better Means Shareable article > > Open Value Network: A framework for many-to-many innovation > > Enspiral Member Requirements > > Espiral on Better Means > > Loomio, when business met Occupy > > Enspiral and Cobudget > > Intro to Open Organizations > > Enspiral on the P2P Wiki > > > > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> > wrote: >> >> dear Orsan, >> >> we have a community development list within the p2p-f, I think that >> perhaps this is the best place to advance the governance work, >> >> I think that Stacco is motivated to advance this work as well, and he can >> tell you how far we have gotten, >> >> Michel >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Certainly agree that it is time to advance this work. >>> >>> I think the working on such exercises and ideas on developed protocols >>> on an open page, may be including interested from lists and networks >>> on the topic, sounds like a good idea. In tandem with the debate on >>> licences and partner state, it would be very complementary. So I would >>> be happy to collaborate on that. >>> >>> May be an idea to have one page for inner-governance, one for between >>> p2p governed distributed networks, and one between distributed/p2p and >>> vertical agency interactions? >>> >>> Orsan >>> >>> >>> On 28 July 2014 08:01, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> wrote: >>> > Dear Orsan, >>> > >>> > it is precisely for this reason that we parted with flok >>> > >>> > in the longer term, we need to find and focus on the protocols that are >>> > necessary to retain equipotentiality in a network ... >>> > >>> > perhaps we could work together on identifying those rules ? >>> > >>> > it has been on the back of my mind for a few years, see >>> > http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Hierarchy_Theory and >>> > http://www.diigo.com/user/mbauwens/Protocollary-Power .. >>> > >>> > It seems to me that the work of Stephen Downes would be a great >>> > starting >>> > point .. >>> > >>> > >>> > http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Hierarchy_Theory?search=stephen+downe… >>> > >>> > for example: >>> > >>> > http://p2pfoundation.net/Democratic_Institutional_Design / >>> > http://p2pfoundation.net/Knowing_Networks >>> > >>> > so my proposal is to have a joint page where we can jot down the rules >>> > that >>> > maintain true distribution of power >>> > >>> > Michel >>> > >>> > <<>From the communist manifesto to first international, from Erfurt and >>> > Gotha to Comintern the discussion between theses and factions, being >>> > formed among groups of friends, based on one important but small >>> > faction or an entirely new frame of theoretical-analytical >>> > abstraction, took the conflicts between individuals and caused strong >>> > and irreversible demarcations between sppousedly emancipatory visions >>> > and energies.. May be most of the time very stupid reasons, like >>> > money, girl, ego casued these we can't now... Then we (emancipatory >>> > peopel) had reproduced the power games of rulers -can be traced easily >>> > in the tone of writings of Marx, Engels, Luxembourg, Kautsky, Lenin, >>> > Proudhon, Bakunin,... the spirit of the time is gaining respect and >>> > authority for argument was full fledged attacks on personality.. plus >>> > whatever possible, as may be a result of structural possibilities >>> > limiting communication. It killed the true spirit of >>> > revolution/emancipation as well as prevented prefigurative ethical >>> > politics as such. In my opinion this made it possible for the rulers >>> > to survive and evolve into capitalist class agency for itself and gave >>> > them advantage. Since they saw that their grave digger were also like >>> > them.. since we did reproduce the capitalist form of power >>> > accumulation. It is not possible in the same way today, p2p mode of >>> > communication allows more open confrontations and conflict resolution >>> > processes, egalitarian and ethical - prefigurative relationships, as >>> > well as checks and balances. Still there are ways and tricks to gain >>> > network power and use it against the 'lower order' nodes? so on these >>> > weaknesses there is a work to do. Yet the structurally speaking it is >>> > not impossible to solve these problems today>> >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no >>> > record >>> > of previous communication, proposals, etc .. >>> > >>> > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - >>> > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >>> > >>> > Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >>> > >>> > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > NetworkedLabour mailing list >>> > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org >>> > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetworkedLabour mailing list >>> NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org >>> http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no >> record of previous communication, proposals, etc .. >> >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > > > > > -- > - Stacco Troncoso > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour >

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Re: [P2P-F] [Networkedlabour] Transnational and P2P Commons Transitions
by Michel Bauwens 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

agreed Brian, a imperfect analysis that I wrote a few years ago and that jibes with the K-wave timing, http://p2pfoundation.net/Russia_and_the_Next_Long_Wave my opinion is that the midwave crisis point (to be compared to 1973-74 in the last one) of the next k-wave, is when the huge opportunity will arise, and in the meantime we have to maximalize the conditions (even if it weren't to happen and we have to survive in something much worse than capitalism) here is the as yet unpublished text of our strategic agreement with the Catalan Integral Cooperative, after a previous accord with the post-growth alliance, we welcome other players to join these huge but necessary efforts: Towards a first stateless commons transition plan: a partnership of P2P-F with the Catalan Integral Cooperative <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-a-first-stateless-commons-transition-…> [image: photo of Michel Bauwens] Michel Bauwens 6th August 2014 *The General Assembly of the Catalan Integral Cooperative has confirmed a proposed partnership with the P2P Foundation.* This is an important development for several reasons. First, the Catalan Integral Cooperative is the first new type of cooperative that is entirely in line with the idea for a new type of coops engaged in the co-production of the commons, and, after themselves already embodying these ideas before we formulated them in our recent appeal <http://p2pfoundation.net/Why_We_Need_a_New_Kind_of_Open_Cooperativism_for_t…>, they are committed to continue and pioneer the path of open cooperativism. Second, the CIC fully endorses the Commons Transition Plan <http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan> that was formulated in connection with the floksociety.org project in Ecuador. The FLOK experience was important in that it was a historical first for such ideas to be endorsed at a nation-state level, but also because that cooperation with a government brings its own type of challenges <http://p2pfoundation.net/FLOK_Society_Project#Evaluation_by_Michel_Bauwens>. How to transition towards partner state practices with a state that is not a partner state itself ? The experience in Catalonia promises to be very different. While the CIC endorses the Commons Transition Plan as its own development plan and roadmap, of course to be adapted and concretized to their own needs, it wants to apply the proposals for the commonification of public services and the partner state, not at the state level, but at the civic level. So the aim here is to directly create civic institutions which can, within or outside of the CIC, carry out the same support functions and enable the further expansion of the commons economy, in particular to stimulate p2p-based production and manufacturing, which the CIC itself is already pioneering. If successful, we may well have a adaptable/changeable but also largely replicable model that could be used in other regions of the world as well, because it will have been the experience where different pieces of successful DNA have come together in a working model. Here is the announcement of the CIC, translated from Catalan and Spanish: “*CIC and P2pfoundation strategic partners* It’s been a while now since some people in the CIC took the initiative to start collaborating with the P2P Foundation after certifying our common goals. Indeed, the Permanent Assembly of July 27 approved supporting this line of strategic partnership between CIC and P2P Foundation. In fact, the P2P Foundation itself (a foundation for the peer-to-peer alternatives), has already expressed the need to partner strategically. You can find more information about the purpose of the P2P Foundation on its website <http://p2pfoundation.net/>. Amongst it’s priorities, the P2P Foundation includes the promotion of open cooperativism, as explained in this article. In this sense the CIC appears as one of the ongoing initiatives with most affinity to these principles of open cooperativism, and for both organizations it seems important to keep on developing it and make it known. Another priority of the P2P Foundation, and one of the areas where they have developed more research, is to generate transitions towards open production processes related to knowledge and towards a social, common goods economy. In this sense, they have been collaborating with Flok Society, a project financed by the government of Ecuador, for which the following document was composed <http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan>. >From the core work group of the CIC in this area we have suggested that they collaborate with us to tailor a plan of this type for the development of CIC in the following 5-10 years. The objective is not as a theoretical approximation, but to contribute towards identifying and developing key strategic projects that might enable the production of tangible and intangible commons to become one of the reference characteristics of the CIC’s approach to production. The P2P Foundation has responded enthusiastically to the proposal, amongst other reasons because they will bring their experience and knowledge to a grassroots initiative like ours. We are already beginning to form a joint working group so as to get started with our work. Michel Bauwens, the P2P foundation’s co-founder, expressed his intention to find funding for this project through several independent european foundations. In addition to these initiatives, as strategic partners, new ways for collaboration will most certainly appear in the future.” On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/02/2014 01:29 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote: > >> I have one question, you say Minqi Li says there is no longer a reserve >> periphery .. but what about Africa ? (and the rise of latin america in >> the naugthies ?) >> http://p2pfoundation.net/Rise_of_China_and_the_Demise_of_ >> the_Capitalist_World-Economy >> > > Minqi Li's claim is that too many formerly peripheral countries -- > especially the giants, India and China -- have moved into the position of > what the world systems theorists call "semi-peripheral" countries, > supplying mid-range or partially elaborated products to the central, > high-technology producers. The result is a declining pool of people to > exploit, both in terms of labor and resources, and in terms of defenseless > markets that must necessarily buy products from the center. When large > percentages of the world population have access to at least mid-level > producer technology, capital can no longer accumulate at the former > centers, whose power declines. The current state of affairs in Western > Europe and the US/Canada seems to bear this thesis out. > > In such a perspective, Michel, your ideas and those of everyone working on > p2p and commons approaches become far more pertinent. When the centers of > capital accumulation can off the fruits of very high technology to all of > those, across the world, who rise into the middle classes, then there is > scant likelihood of winning them over to a cooperative approach -- the > powers of capitalist seduction are just too strong. Yet in a condition of > long-term stagnation, coupled with environmental threats stemming directly > and visibly from capital accumulation, alternative proposals may become > much more attractive across a flattening global hierarchy. > > Of course I agree with Orsan that everything possible must always be tried > right now. But it is encouraging to realize that over the middle term, > there are some dynamics going our way. It is tough to sustain the > fascist-type solution for very long. Too many people have too much agency, > even under severe conditions. If it is true that capitalism can no longer > produce employment of even the precarious kind that prevailed under the > last cycle, then there is really room for something new under the sun, > that's what I see as an historic chance. > > warmly, Brian > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [members] Fwd: [europe-measure-online-communities] PhD grant to study what a good team and a good management is in online communities
by Michel Bauwens 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melanie Dulong de Rosnay <melanie.ddr(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:16 PM Subject: [members] Fwd: [europe-measure-online-communities] PhD grant to study what a good team and a good management is in online communities To: P2PValue Project Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicolas Jullien <Nicolas.Jullien(a)telecom-bretagne.eu> Date: 2014-07-30 8:23 GMT+01:00 Subject: [europe-measure-online-communities] PhD grant to study what a good team and a good management is in online communities To: "europe-measure-online-communities(a)mlistes.telecom-bretagne.eu" < europe-measure-online-communities(a)mlistes.telecom-bretagne.eu> Hello, the iSchool, Telecom Bretagne (France) has a 3 years grant for a student willing to do a PhD in France (it is the duration of PhD studies in France). The grant is ~€1200 per month, which is quite comfortable for Brest, with possibilities to teach (in English or in French) for an extra €300/month. The research can be done in English. Skill in management theory and in computing are expected. A master degree is compulsory. The subject is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/ 0B8IfgmZdkcDKcVNWdFB3MzJxbnc/edit?usp=sharing People interested can apply, emailing a résumé before September, 2 to me They will be contacted after this date for further discussion if needed. Feel free to diffuse this announce. Thanks in advance, Nicolas Jullien Here is a summary of the subject: Communities aiming at producing a certain kind of knowledge, or “epistemic communities”, and doing so online, are viewed as central in the generation of new, innovative knowledge, because the organizations increasingly rely on virtual teams to produce knowledge, but also because of the ”open-innovation” relationships they create with those online communities. Echoing the research on (virtual) team, two points are particularly studied : the composition of the teams and the management (leadership) of these communities, but those points are not jointly studied and are poorly related to the existing literature on virtual team and leadership in management. New data extraction and analysis capacities, notably those developed by a previous project and multidisciplinary research teams make it possible to go beyond the actual studies, jointly studying the impact of the structure and of the leadership of the virtual groups on their performance. This, in order to provide 1) the managers of the virtual communities with metrics and tools (dashboards) to evaluate and monitor the efficiency of those communities, but also 2) the Institute (and the companies) with a better understanding of the new skills the employees may develop to work in those teams. The case study will be Wikipedia. -- Maître de Conférences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M@rsouin. Institut TELECOM Bretagne & UEB In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the "ICT and Society" Institut Mines-Telecom's research network http://nicolas-jullien.lussi-ischool.eu/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 TELECOM Bretagne, Technopôle Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3 -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Social charters for material production [was: FLOK >< Cybersyn}
by Michel Bauwens 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

reply to bob haugen on the difference between sensorica and the p2p-f approach ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Date: Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 4:59 PM Subject: Re: Social charters for material production [was: FLOK >< Cybersyn} thanks Bob, let me go straight to how I see the difference with Sensorica, it's not that it is about all kinds of work and about hardware, as contrasted to the CBRL all work is material, but all work incorporates knowledge and if that knowledge is formalized as knowledge, code or design, the CBRL approach applies so our license is actually designed for the material economy, to allow a cooperative economy to emerge the difference in my view lies in the relation between the commons and the market I want to insulate the commons more, which means that when people work voluntarily for the commons, it is not related to the market, but only when they are paid as cooperators in Sensorica's vision, as I understand it, all commons work can be indirectly remunerated since all work is recorded the second difference is that Tibi sees all formal organisational formats as outdated, while I think they will continue to exist; of course, the DAO's may also institute a intermediary regime of informal temporary organisations bound by DAO smart contracts, but essentially, Sensoria is an organized network, not an organization for sensorica, there is no wall between the commons and the market, for me, it's better if there is one, hope that makes sense, Michel On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Michel, > > I changed the subject a bit and excerpted some statements from a > couple of your messages to ask a question (below the excerpts). > > <excerpts> > as you likely now, my instantiation is centered around the creation of > open and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions, that co-produce commons, > and that start applying open book accounting and open supply chains in > their collaborative practices (a la Curto Cafe), using commons-based > reciprocity licenses as their binding social charter, > > [...] > > The basic idea of open coops is explained here: > > http://p2pfoundation.net/Why_We_Need_a_New_Kind_of_Open_Cooperativism_for_t… > and elaborated here: > > http://p2pfoundation.net/From_the_Communism_of_Capital_to_a_Capital_for_the… > > At the core of such coops, intended to create cooperative > enterpreneurial coalitions, is > the proposal to use a new kind of license, commons-based reciprocity > licenses, a first instantiation of which is , though I don't like its > too explicit political language, the Peer Production License, > http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License > > Essentially such a license creates open knowledge, with one exception: > > * allows full use by not for profit and common good oriented entities > * allows full use by self-owned enterpreneurial entities > * allows full use by for-profits who contribute > > so the one exception is for-profits who do not contribute, who have to > pay for the use of the license; the idea is less the money flow, but > the recreation of a moral economy and social charter about > reciprocity, to be defined by coalition itself > </excerpts> > > Question: that social charter (the PPL) focuses on "intellectual > property": '“Work” means the literary and/or artistic work offered > under the terms of this License'. > > Sensorica's value network concept, by contrast, deals with all kinds > of work, especially those involved in creating material goods. I > understand from past conversations that you *do* want the ideas of > peer-to-peer mutual coordination to apply to all kinds of production. > Sensorica's idea of a social charter, as I understand it, includes the > distribution of income from sales of goods and services, back along > the network of value producing activities that went into those goods > and services. Not only through one organization, but also among other > organizations that contributed to the outcomes. > > That obviously does not lessen the money flow, but it does establish > reciprocity. I am curious how you would deal with the social charter > and reciprocity in the production of material goods, especially in > this period of transition. And if you know of other examples of doing > something like that, and how their social charters work. > > I am not trying to persuade anybody about anything regarding > Sensorica's concept here. Their first real value equation is just now > being formulated. I use them as an example of a social charter for the > production of more than intellectual works, with the goal of > developing the means for people to make a living in these experiments > toward a better economy (although making a living from their work is > not yet a reality in their case, either). > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: July issue of the TIM Review
by Michel Bauwens 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TIM Review <newsletter(a)timreview.ca> Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM Subject: July issue of the TIM Review To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Dear Reader, In the latest issue of the TIM Review, our authors present insights about business models for the Internet of Things; standards and platforms in the video game industry; improvisation in entrepreneurship; the relationship between commercialization and societal benefits; value co-creation in knowledge-intensive business services; and ambidextrous strategies for innovation in firms. The issue includes the following articles: Designing Business Models for the Internet of Things - Mika Westerlund, Seppo Leminen, Mervi Rajahonka Innovation Opportunities: An Overview of Standards and Platforms in the Video Game Industry - Mikael Laakso, Linus Nyman Improvising Entrepreneurship - Tom Duxbury Commercialization and Public Good: Conflict, Complement, or Critical Component? - Sandra Schillo Designing and Managing Value Co-Creation in KIBS Engagements - Lysanne Lessard Ambidextrous Strategies and Innovation Priorities: Adequately Priming the Pump for Continual Innovation - Nehemiah Scott TIM Lecture Series – The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences: Developing the Art and Science of Analysis - J. David Harris We invite your comments on the articles in this issue as well as suggestions for future article topics and issue themes. Kind regards, Chris McPhee Editor-in-Chief Technology Innovation Management Review http://timreview.ca Note: The Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review) was previously known as the Open Source Business Resource (OSBR). You are receiving this email because you created an account on the TIM Review website or the OSBR website. -- Unsubscribe from this newsletter: http://timreview.ca/newsletter/confirm/remove/b18e33dd02161t6 -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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