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Fwd: P2P Foundation Launch CommonsTransition.org
by Michel Bauwens 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

dear friends thanks to all to make a special effort to spread the news about this, through email lists, twitter, facebook, google+ and any other way you can ... many thanks!! Michel Dear Friends, We are very pleased to announce the launch of our new website Commons Transition. http://commonstransition.org/ This represents the beginnings of an ambitious project we feel is a critical contribution in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges we all face today. We greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word. Below is a short introduction from our announcement and sample messages to share far and wide. Many Thanks >From all at the P2P Foundation ----------------- Short Introduction ----------------- Today the P2P Foundation proudly presents The Commons Transition Platform. Commons Transition ( http://commonstransition.org ) is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. Basing a civil society on the Commons (including the collaborative stewardship of our shared resources) would enable a more egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable society. The proposals presented in our web platform go beyond rhetoric and are inspired by successful, self-organized working communities that maintain themselves and their environments through Commons Based Peer Production, Property and Governance. The Commons, together with Peer to Peer dynamics, represent a third mode of societal organization evolving away from the competitive Market State and obsolete, centrally-planned systems. It is a system based on the practices and needs of civil society and the environment it inhabits at the local, regional, national and global levels. The main three policy documents you’ll find in the platform, authored by Michel Bauwens, John Restakis and George Dafermos, were originally created for Ecuador’s groundbreaking FLOK Society Project ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-plans/ ). Commons Transition, however, features newly revised and updated, non-region specific versions of these documents. We share them in order to provide an overview of the many precedents and possibilities pointing toward a fairer societal order, and to inspire civil society collectives at the local, regional, national and global levels to adapt them to their particular contexts. As a matter of fact, the proposals originally developed for FLOK are currently being discussed and adapted by the Catalan Integral Cooperative. There is a stark difference between these projects, the former being a state-sponsored study and the latter a completely pre-figurative, stateless initiative. The Commons Transition website features material related to both and will reflect the ongoing development of these projects. ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-projects-past-and-future/ ) In parallel with these pilot projects, we also highlight the valuable work of other transnational, commons-oriented collectives, such as Share the World’s Resources, the Post Growth Institute, and the Sustainable Economies Law Center. These, among others, are presented in the Related Projects section of the website ( http://commonstransition.org/related-projects/ ). Other highlights include an FAQ on Commons Transition( http://commonstransition.org/frequently-asked-questions/ ), a News and Articles section with exclusive interviews and regular updates on Commons Transition activities ( http://commonstransition.org/news-and-articles/ ) and a Wiki entirely dedicated to Commons-oriented policy proposals and transition-oriented projects. ( http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/Main_Page ) To give you a taste of the material contained in this web platform, here is Michel Bauwens’ and John Restakis’ overview of the Commons Transition project. This text has been adapted from their introduction to our Commons Transition Book, which features the newly updated policy in an easy to read, downloadable format. ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-the-book/ ) To continue to read the full article - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/introducing-the-commons-transition-web-platfo… ------------ Please Share ------------ Please share or retweet the following content directly from the Facebook post and Twitter post, or copy and paste the text from below into your social media profiles. Feel free to customize the messages to suit your audiences, and remember to retype in the names of groups that have been highlighted using the '@' symbol. https://www.facebook.com/P2PFoundation?fref=ts https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation Facebook Content Towards a Commons-based society The Commons Transition Platform is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed towards achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. The Commons, together with Peer to Peer dynamics, represent a third mode of societal organization that evolves away from the competitive Market State and obsolete, centrally-planned systems. It is a system based on the practices and needs of civil society and the environment it inhabits at the local, regional, national and global levels. Find out more at www.commonstransition.org @P2P Foundation @Shareable @Share The World's Resources @OuiShare #postgrowthalliance #CommonsTransition #Commons #P2P Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/Commons-Transition-World-m… Twitter Content Practical experiences and proposals for a #Commons Society http://bit.ly/1ExGSQC @Commons_Trans @mbauwens #P2P -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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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P2P Foundation Launch CommonsTransition.org
by Kevin Flanagan 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Dear Friends, We are very pleased to announce the launch of our new website Commons Tansition. http://commonstransition.org/ This represents the beginnings of an ambitious project we feel is a critical contribution in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges we all face today. We greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word. Below is a short introduction from our announcent and sample messages to share far and wide. Many Thanks >From all at the P2P Foundation ----------------- Short Inroduction ----------------- Today the P2P Foundation proudly presents The Commons Transition Platform. Commons Transition ( http://commonstransition.org ) is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. Basing a civil society on the Commons (including the collaborative stewardship of our shared resources) would enable a more egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable society. The proposals presented in our web platform go beyond rhetoric and are inspired by successful, self-organized working communities that maintain themselves and their environments through Commons Based Peer Production, Property and Governance. The Commons, together with Peer to Peer dynamics, represent a third mode of societal organization evolving away from the competitive Market State and obsolete, centrally-planned systems. It is a system based on the practices and needs of civil society and the environment it inhabits at the local, regional, national and global levels. The main three policy documents you’ll find in the platform, authored by Michel Bauwens, John Restakis and George Dafermos, were originally created for Ecuador’s groundbreaking FLOK Society Project ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-plans/ ). Commons Transition, however, features newly revised and updated, non-region specific versions of these documents. We share them in order to provide an overview of the many precedents and possibilities pointing toward a fairer societal order, and to inspire civil society collectives at the local, regional, national and global levels to adapt them to their particular contexts. As a matter of fact, the proposals originally developed for FLOK are currently being discussed and adapted by the Catalan Integral Cooperative. There is a stark difference between these projects, the former being a state-sponsored study and the latter a completely pre-figurative, stateless initiative. The Commons Transition website features material related to both and will reflect the ongoing development of these projects. ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-projects-past-and-future/ ) In parallel with these pilot projects, we also highlight the valuable work of other transnational, commons-oriented collectives, such as Share the World’s Resources, the Post Growth Institute, and the Sustainable Economies Law Center. These, among others, are presented in the Related Projects section of the website ( http://commonstransition.org/related-projects/ ). Other highlights include an FAQ on Commons Transition( http://commonstransition.org/frequently-asked-questions/ ), a News and Articles section with exclusive interviews and regular updates on Commons Transition activities ( http://commonstransition.org/news-and-articles/ ) and a Wiki entirely dedicated to Commons-oriented policy proposals and transition-oriented projects. ( http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/Main_Page ) To give you a taste of the material contained in this web platform, here is Michel Bauwens’ and John Restakis’ overview of the Commons Transition project. This text has been adapted from their introduction to our Commons Transition Book, which features the newly updated policy in an easy to read, downloadable format. ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-the-book/ ) To continue to read the full article - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/introducing-the-commons-transition-web-platfo… ------------ Please Share ------------ Please share or retweet the following content directly from the Facebook post and Twitter post, or copy and paste the text from below into your social media profiles. Feel free to customize the messages to suit your audiences, and remember to retype in the names of groups that have been highlighted using the '@' symbol. https://www.facebook.com/P2PFoundation?fref=ts https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation Facebook Content Towards a Commons-based society The Commons Transition Platform is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed towards achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. The Commons, together with Peer to Peer dynamics, represent a third mode of societal organization that evolves away from the competitive Market State and obsolete, centrally-planned systems. It is a system based on the practices and needs of civil society and the environment it inhabits at the local, regional, national and global levels. Find out more at www.commonstransition.org @P2P Foundation @Shareable @Share The World's Resources @OuiShare #postgrowthalliance #CommonsTransition #Commons #P2P Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/Commons-Transition-World-m… Twitter Content Practical experiences and proposals for a #Commons Society http://bit.ly/1ExGSQC @Commons_Trans @mbauwens #P2P

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P2P Foundation launch CommonsTransition.org
by Kevin Flanagan 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Dear Friends, We are very pleased to announce the launch of our new website Commons Transition. http://commonstransition.org/ This represents the beginnings of an ambitious project we feel is a critical contribution in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges we all face today. We greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word. Below is a short introduction from our announcement and sample messages to share far and wide. Many Thanks >From all at the P2P Foundation Apologise in advance for cross-posting ----------------- Short Introduction ----------------- Today the P2P Foundation proudly presents The Commons Transition Platform. Commons Transition ( http://commonstransition.org ) is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. Basing a civil society on the Commons (including the collaborative stewardship of our shared resources) would enable a more egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable society. The proposals presented in our web platform go beyond rhetoric and are inspired by successful, self-organized working communities that maintain themselves and their environments through Commons Based Peer Production, Property and Governance. The Commons, together with Peer to Peer dynamics, represent a third mode of societal organization evolving away from the competitive Market State and obsolete, centrally-planned systems. It is a system based on the practices and needs of civil society and the environment it inhabits at the local, regional, national and global levels. The main three policy documents you’ll find in the platform, authored by Michel Bauwens, John Restakis and George Dafermos, were originally created for Ecuador’s groundbreaking FLOK Society Project ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-plans/ ). Commons Transition, however, features newly revised and updated, non-region specific versions of these documents. We share them in order to provide an overview of the many precedents and possibilities pointing toward a fairer societal order, and to inspire civil society collectives at the local, regional, national and global levels to adapt them to their particular contexts. As a matter of fact, the proposals originally developed for FLOK are currently being discussed and adapted by the Catalan Integral Cooperative. There is a stark difference between these projects, the former being a state-sponsored study and the latter a completely pre-figurative, stateless initiative. The Commons Transition website features material related to both and will reflect the ongoing development of these projects. ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-projects-past-and-future/ ) In parallel with these pilot projects, we also highlight the valuable work of other transnational, commons-oriented collectives, such as Share the World’s Resources, the Post Growth Institute, and the Sustainable Economies Law Center. These, among others, are presented in the Related Projects section of the website ( http://commonstransition.org/related-projects/ ). Other highlights include an FAQ on Commons Transition( http://commonstransition.org/frequently-asked-questions/ ), a News and Articles section with exclusive interviews and regular updates on Commons Transition activities ( http://commonstransition.org/news-and-articles/ ) and a Wiki entirely dedicated to Commons-oriented policy proposals and transition-oriented projects. ( http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/Main_Page ) To give you a taste of the material contained in this web platform, here is Michel Bauwens’ and John Restakis’ overview of the Commons Transition project. This text has been adapted from their introduction to our Commons Transition Book, which features the newly updated policy in an easy to read, downloadable format. ( http://commonstransition.org/commons-transition-the-book/ ) To continue to read the full article - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/introducing-the-commons-transition-web-platfo… ------------ Please Share ------------ Please share or retweet the following content directly from the Facebook post and Twitter post, or copy and paste the text from below into your social media profiles. Feel free to customize the messages to suit your audiences, and remember to retype in the names of groups that have been highlighted using the '@' symbol. https://www.facebook.com/P2PFoundation?fref=ts https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation Facebook Content Towards a Commons-based society The Commons Transition Platform is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed towards achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. The Commons, together with Peer to Peer dynamics, represent a third mode of societal organization that evolves away from the competitive Market State and obsolete, centrally-planned systems. It is a system based on the practices and needs of civil society and the environment it inhabits at the local, regional, national and global levels. Find out more at www.commonstransition.org @P2P Foundation @Shareable @Share The World's Resources @OuiShare #postgrowthalliance #CommonsTransition #Commons #P2P Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/Commons-Transition-World-m… Twitter Content Practical experiences and proposals for a #Commons Society http://bit.ly/1ExGSQC @Commons_Trans @mbauwens #P2P

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Fwd: Dia de Reyes > Descargate gratis mi eBook sobre Sentient City.
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Domenico Di Siena <urbanohumano(a)gmail.com> Date: 2015-01-06 4:37 GMT+07:00 Subject: Dia de Reyes > Descargate gratis mi eBook sobre Sentient City. To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Hola, confieso que celebrar el dia de Reyes no es lo mio.... Sin embargo este año se me ha ocurrido que puede ser una escusa perfecta para un pequeño regalo. Hasta la medianoche del dia de Reyes te puedes descargar mi ebook: *Sentient City: la Ciudad del Conocimiento* <http://urbanohumano.org/sendy/l/If763W6VUs2LHclnULd81bpg/EibK0ghcfud892EPIO…> . *Este regalo es una iniciativa conjunta con dpr barcelona <http://urbanohumano.org/sendy/l/If763W6VUs2LHclnULd81bpg/qR9b3FvAh8925WMG8O…>, los editores del ebook. * También te recuerdo que hasta la medianoche del dia de Reyes la plataforma Tutellus ofrece un descuento del 60% para apuntarte a mi *curso sobre Innovación Urbana* <http://urbanohumano.org/sendy/l/If763W6VUs2LHclnULd81bpg/si8yz9x16mW1nFo9AE…> . El curso consta de una serie de 15 videos cortos, de 5 a 15 minutos. En cada video presento un tema que desde mi punto de vista es relevante a la hora de analizar la realidad urbana y social que estamos viviendo. Saludos, Domenico -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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] Reputation Standard
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samer <samer(a)fdi.ucm.es> Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:33 PM Subject: [members] Reputation Standard To: P2PValue Project Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> Very interesting: a startup providing a "reputation standard", aggregating your reputation from several "sharing economy" sites, and allowing new systems to use their API forusers to start with a given reputation. I.e. if you are trustable in AirBnB and Ebay, you are likely to be trustable in an BlaBlaCar trip. They define themselves as online passport: "In *Traity* you receive your online passport to reflect your real reputation and prove you are credible on any website." They even include a way for third-parties to reward users with badges. They don't offer a "unique number" condensing the reputation but a complex profile... the faq is useful for that: https://traity.com/faq Of course, the whole thing is centralised, non-free, for-profit, US-based. PS: Wtf, just noticed there is a student of mine hired by this startup xD It seems the three founders are Spanish. -- Samer "We are the ones we have been waiting for" (June Jordan) -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: Pivot Webinar: Why Enterprise Social Initiatives Fail -- and What You Can Do About It
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jennifer Long <info(a)momentumevents.co> Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:35 PM Subject: Pivot Webinar: Why Enterprise Social Initiatives Fail -- and What You Can Do About It To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Dear Michel, Join us Thursday, January 15th – 1:50-2:45 pm Eastern for the Pivot Webinar Series entitled “Why Enterprise Social Initiatives Fail -- and What You Can Do About It" Please register online at: http://www2.momentumevents.co/e/28272/enterprise-social-/yp4hz/587778889 *Speaking at this event will be:* Andy Jankowski, Founder and Managing Director of Enterprise Strategies Andy is the Founder and Managing Director of Enterprise Strategies <http://www2.momentumevents.co/e/28272/2015-01-06/yp4j2/587778889>, a company focused on applying social tools and processes to solve enterprise communication, collaboration, knowledge management and productivity challenges. Recent Enterprise Strategies's clients include AIG, Aon, Marsh Inc., Allianz, XL Group, Laclede Gas, Indianapolis Power & Light and several others. During the last 19 years Andy has also served as a trusted advisor for several industry leading organizations including Andersen, Ernst & Young, JP Morgan Chase and The Oracle Corporation. He is a career long student of enterprise complexities and loves sharing what he has learned. Andy is a frequent keynote speaker and an avid road cyclist. He enjoys connecting people and dots. *Covered at this seminar:* As an executive in your organization, getting your employees to communicate and collaborate more effectively is paramount. Many companies have turned to enterprise social networks and social intranets as enabling platforms for this transformation. In fact, research suggests that many of you are either dealing with a company-wide initiative to get your employees using these enterprise social tools or trying to decide whether to start such an initiative. While enterprise social networks and social intranets can provide many benefits, rolling out this new way of working also comes with challenges which can impede its success- or even cause failure. Join Andy Jankowski, Founder and Managing Director of Enterprise Strategies, to hear practical advice on the steps you as executive should take to make your company's enterprise social strategy, and corresponding initiative, are successful. Learn why context, integration, and executive engagement are all critical to social business success. Please register online at: http://www2.momentumevents.co/e/28272/enterprise-social-/yp4hz/587778889 Kind regards, Jennifer Long Marketing Associate PivotCon To update your email preference center, click here <http://www2.momentumevents.co/unsubscribe/u/28272/64890df4310b10a4c6c516316…> . -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: [Commoning] The NET session: A New Money, Banking and Financial System for a New Economy
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Bollier <david(a)bollier.org> Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:01 AM Subject: [Commoning] The NET session: A New Money, Banking and Financial System for a New Economy To: "commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de >> Commoning" < commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de> This may be of interest to the Commoning list.... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Help us promote the NET session: A New Money, Banking and Financial System for a New Economy Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:25:31 -0800 From: Noel Ortega <noel(a)ips-dc.org> <noel(a)ips-dc.org> To: Noel Ortega <noel(a)ips-dc.org> <noel(a)ips-dc.org>, Lena Silberzahn <lena(a)ips-dc.org> <lena(a)ips-dc.org> (Apologies to those who have already received a version of this note.) Dear Friends, We hope you are off to a great start in the New Year! I'm writing to let you know that our *newest* NET (New Economy Transition) discussion session "A New Money, Banking and Financial System for a New Economy" is out! And we need your help with promotion. In this online presentation, we've included some short background readings, presentation discussion videos, audio and additional resources.Click here for more info. <http://www.neweconomyworkinggroup.org/discussions/new-money-banking-and-fin…> This time, David Korten (New Economy Working Group <http://neweconomyworkinggroup.org/>), Stacy Mitchell,( ILSR <http://www.ilsr.org/>), Ellen Brown (Public Banking Institute <http://publicbankinginstitute.org/>), Jared Gardner (Move your Money Campaign) and Â Bill Greider (The Nation) envision a banking and financial system devoted to investing in the creation, rather than the expropriation, of real wealth. As you know, this NET session is part of an ongoing series of discussions <http://www.neweconomyworkinggroup.org/discussions> that look at key transition points that get us closer towards a New Economy -- and that you have participated in over the last few years. We have packaged these discussions into an online presentation so we can disseminate them to a larger audience. *So we need your help spreading the word! *Below you'll find suggested Facebook posts and tweets to share with your networks. Thank you for all your help and support! All the Best, Noel, LenaÂ and the New Economy Working Group 2. Post and tweet [image: image.jpeg] The proper function of money is to fulfill the needs of people, communities and nature. Find out how we can create a community-based and democratically accountable banking system: http://ow.ly/ESirf In this NET session about our money system, The Nationâ€™s Bill Greider provides recommendations for restructuring the Federal Reserve. Find out how we can create a community-based and democratically accountable banking system http://ow.ly/ESirf . <http://ow.ly/ESirf> In this NET Discussion Â about our money system, Stacy Mitchell Â (co-director ILSR <http://www.ilsr.org/>) explains how we can strengthen and rebuild systems of local community banks and credit unions. Find out how we can create a democratically accountable banking system ttp://ow.ly/ESirf <http://ow.ly/ESirf> *Tweet:* We need a community-based and accountable banking system responsive to people's needs. http://ow.ly/ESirf http://ow.ly/i/7Ieb0 *Hashtag*: #NewEconomy -- Noel Ortega New Economy Coordinator Institute for Policy Studies 1112 16th Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 tel: 1 (202) 234-9382 ext. 5257 email: noel(a)ips-dc.org www.ips-dc.org www.NewEconomyWorkingGroup.org skype: noelortega *Institute for Policy Studies â€” celebratingÂ 50Â years of turning ideas into action!* _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de http://lists.wissensallmende.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: [tapas] CHANGE GREECE – CHANGE EUROPE – CHANGE 4ALL
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: George Papanikolaou <georgepapani(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:52 AM Subject: [tapas] CHANGE GREECE – CHANGE EUROPE – CHANGE 4ALL To: tapas(a)lists.p2pfoundation.net Happy new year to all the members of the list! Things are heating up here in Greece as the election date is approaching (25 January). An electoral victory of anti-austerity parties could prove to be the first step towards a wider panEuropean progressive change. Here is an appeal that appeared in the context of the international solidarity campaign that is just starting: http://www.with-the-greeks.eu/ As you might have noticed, once again systemic international media and many German media and governmental officials are once again trying to orchestrate the well known fear campaign to blackmail the vote of Greek citizens. But I think this time they will fail. Best regards George -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: Vandana Shiva is the new co-chair of the NSP! And a request from her...
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tikkun/NSP--Network of Spiritual Progressives < info(a)spiritualprogressives.org> Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:14 AM Subject: Vandana Shiva is the new co-chair of the NSP! And a request from her... To: Michelsub2004(a)gmail.com <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kahS6ZFN1Qy3FUYBD5hYl8LuHMJaZl…> . We at the Network of Spiritual Progressives are delighted to announce that Vandana Shiva, the internationally acclaimed environmental activist from India has become the international co-chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives along with Rabbi Michael Lerner. Dr. Shiva has contributed in fundamental ways to changing the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Her books *The Violence of the Green Revolution* and *Monocultures of the Mind* pose essential challenges to the dominant paradigm of non-sustainable, industrial agriculture. Through her books Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest and Water Wars, Dr. Shiva has made visible the social, economic and ecological costs of corporate-led globalization. . In her letter to us accepting the position of NSP co-chair, Vandana Shiva requested that we send out to you her request that you read the information below, and then sign and send the letter included below to President Obama and President Modi. You can copy and send the letter below to President Obama at the White House website <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WJLajbqNeb9I17baaICELMLuHMJaZl…>. President Modi will receive messages mailed to the Embassy of India, 2107 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Washington, DC 20008 or by calling (202) 939-7000 or by faxing (202) 265-4351. . In her letter to us accepting this position, Dr. Shiva also enthusiastically endorsed the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution proposed by the Network of Spiritual Progressives. She had previously told us that she was particularly enthusiastic about the section of the ESRA which eliminates all private and corporate money from elections and the part which requires corporations to prove a satisfactory history of environmental and social responsibility to a panel of ordinary citizens in order to get or renew (every five years) their corporate charter. Please read it at www.tikkun.org/esra <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jiN5ptbncBwiHw1LC4SwdMLuHMJaZl…> and help us get your local city council, state legislature, Congressional representatives and U.S. Senators, your local branches of whatever political party you belong to, your church, synagogue, mosque or ashram, your college of university, your union or professional organization, and your local civic and social change oriented organizations to publicly endorse it. . If you have not yet joined the NSP, please do so now by clicking here <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UB%2Fq%2Bpp%2FetvlxAj%2BC50grM…>. Warm wishes for a wonderful New Year. We face immense challenges with a new Congress determined to undo environmental protections and defund social welfare programs for the poor and powerless. Don't face those challenges alone! JOIN THE NSP <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RUgqzHMVUZmOBKYNSo13qMLuHMJaZl…> ! . With gratitude for your support, . Cat J. Zavis Executive Director Cat(a)spiritualprogressives.org ------------------------------ *Seed Freedom and Food Democracy* An Open letter to Prime Minister Modi and President Obama from democratic, concerned citizens of India and the US . We, as concerned and democratic citizens of India, and the US, welcome the coming together of two of the largest democracies of the world to work together to protect the rights of their citizens and their biodiversity. Both nations were founded on the principles of freedoms of our people, and the unacceptability of colonialism and subservience to Empire. . President Obama, you have been invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to India’s Republic day celebrations on 26thJan, 2015. In 1930, on 26th January, the people of India pledged to demand Purna Swaraj or complete self-ruleindependent of the British Empire. (Literally translated from Sanskrit, purna, “complete"; swa, “self"; raj, “rule".) . The people of India observed 26 January as *Independence Day*. The flag of India was hoisted publicly, across India, by Congress volunteers, patriots and the citizens of India. The declaration stated the following: . *We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom and to enjoy the fruits of their toil and have the necessities of life, so that they may have full opportunities of growth. We believe also that if any government deprives a people of these rights and oppresses them the people have a further right to alter it or to abolish it. The British Government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but has based itself on the exploitation of the masses, and has ruined India economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually. We believe, therefore, that India must sever the British connection and attain Purna Swaraj, or complete independence.* . We write this letter in the spirit of Swaraj-of Bija Swaraj (Seed Freedom) and Anna Swaraj (Food Democracy), with the hope that your visit to India will enhance and deepen the common freedoms of the people of India and the US, not the freedoms of the Corporations undermining the freedoms of citizens in both countries. Your visit coincides with pressure being put by the US, on behalf of its corporations, to undermine seed freedom in India. Our particular concern is Intellectual Property Rights in the area of biodiversity, seeds , and living biological resources. . . On 30 September 2014, the US & India issued a Joint Statement on the occasion of Prime Minister Modi’s meeting with President Obama,in the US. *(a)greeing on the need to foster innovation in a manner that promotes economic growth and job creation...committed to establish an annual high-level Intellectual Property (IP) Working Group with appropriate decision-making and technical-level meetings as part of the Trade Policy Forum.* . We hope that fostering innovation refers to real innovation and not theft from nature or other parts of the world. . LIFE IS NOT AN INVENTION . IPRs expanded to cover living systems and organisms is a distortion of “Innovation” and “invention”. This distortion was introduced by corporations such as Monsanto in the TRIPS(Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement of WTO. Corporate influence on Patent Law began with the drafting of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement of the WTO by the Intellectual Property Committee (IPC) of the multilateral corporations. . James Enyart of Monsanto is on record illustrating just how deeply the TRIPs agreement is aligned to corporate interest and against the interests of nations and their citizens: . “Once created, the first task of the IPC was to repeat the missionary work we did in the US in the early days, this time with the industrial associations of Europe and Japan to convince them that a code was possible…. Besides selling our concepts at home, we went to Geneva where [we] presented [our] document to the staff of the GATT Secretariat. We also took the opportunity to present it to the Geneva based representatives of a large number of countries… What I have described to you is absolutely unprecedented in GATT. Industry has identified a major problem for international trade. It crafted a solution, reduced it to a concrete proposal and sold it to our own and other governments… *The industries and traders of world commerce have played simultaneously the role of patients, the diagnosticians and the prescribing physicians*.” . The first case in the WTO was initiated by the US against India, to force India to change it’s patent laws. Methods of agriculture and plants were excluded from patentability in the Indian patent act to ensure that seed, the first link in the food chain, was held as a common property resource in the public domain and farmers’ inalienable right to save, exchange and improve seed was not violated.And only process patents were allowed in medicine.The pharmaceutical corporations which are the same as the biotechnology corporations are seeking absolute monopolies on seed and medicine through patents. . When India amended her patent acts, safeguards consistent with TRIPS were introduced. Article 3 defines what is not patentable subject matter. . Article 3(d) excludes as inventions “the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance”. . This was the article under which Novartis’s patent claim to a known cancer drug was rejected. This is the article that Novartis tried to challenge in the Supreme court and lost. . Article 3(j) excludes from patentability “plants and animals in whole or in any part thereof other than microorganisms; but including seeds, varieties, and species, and essentially biological processes for production or propagation of plants and animals". . This was the article used by the Indian patent office to reject a Monsanto patent on climate resilient seeds. . While the Indian patent office rejected a Monsanto patent, the US Supreme Court ruled on behalf of Monsanto against a farmer called Bowman who had not bought seeds from Monsanto but purchased soybeans from an Indiana grain elevator.The US Supreme court ruling creates intellectual property in future generations of a grain or seed. This is biologically and intellectually incorrect because all that Monsanto has done is add a gene for resistance to its proprietary herbicide Round up, to (i) claim ownership of any plant/animal that gene finds it’s way into and (ii) to enforce a RoundUp monopoly. Adding a gene of RoundUp resistance does not amount to “inventing” or “creating” a soya bean seed, its future generations and the species the gene pollutes. . In addition to suing farmers like Bowman, Monsanto has sued farmers like Percy Schmeiser of Canada whose fields were contaminated with Monsanto’s Roundup ready canola. Instead of the principle of polluter pays, patents allow Monsanto to work on the principle of polluter gets paid. This has recently happened in the Australia in the case of Steve Marsh. While Monsanto does not have a patent on Bt cotton in India, it goes outside the law to collect royalties as“technology fees”. Most of the 291000 farmers suicides in India since 1995 when WTO came into force are concentrated in the cotton belt. And 95% cotton is now controlled by Monsanto. . Intellectual Property Rights are defined as property in the “products of the mind”, including patents. Patents are granted for inventions, and give the patent holder the right to exclude everyone from the use or marketing of a patented product or process. Over the last 2 decades, patent laws have taken a different direction, under the influence of corporations, from protecting the interests of genuine inventions and ideas to ownership of life and control over survival essentials like seed and medicine. Such monopolies are violative of article 21 of the Indian constitution which guarantees all citizens the right to life. . This is why 3(j) in India’s patent law excludes essentially biological processes from being counted as an invention. The TRIPS article on Patents of Life was to be reviewed within four years of the coming into force of the WTO agreement i.e. in 1999. India in its submission had stated “Clearly, there is a case for re-examining the need to grant patents on lifeforms anywhere in the world. Until such systems are in place, it may be advisable to (a) exclude patents on all lifeforms . The mandatory review of TRIPS has been blocked by the US since 1999. This review must be completed to remove the current IPR distortions. Biopiracy is not “Innovation” . Biopiracy is another example of false claims to “inventions”. Over the past decade, through new property rights, corporations have gained control over the diversity of life on earth, and people’s indigenous knowledge. There is no innovation involved in these cases; they are instruments of monopoly control over life itself. Patents on living resources and indigenous knowledge are an enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons. Life forms have been redefined as “manufacture”, and “machines”, robbing life of its integrity and self-organization. Traditional knowledge is being pirated and patented unleashing a new epidemic of “bio piracy”. - Patenting of Neem The patenting of the fungicidal properties of Neem was a blatant example of biopiracy and indigenous knowledge. But on 10th May, the European Patent Office (EPO) revoked the patent (0436257 B1) granted to the United States Department of Agriculture and the multinational corporation W. R. Grace for a method of controlling fungi on plants by the aid of an extract of seeds from the Neem tree. The challenge to the patent of Neem was made at the Munich Office of the EPO by 3 groups : The European Parliament’s Green Party, Dr. Vandana Shiva of RFSTE, and the International Federation of Organic Agriculture and challenged it on the grounds of “lack of novelty and inventive step”. They demanded the invalidation of the patent among others on the ground that the fungicide qualities of the Neem and its use has been known in India for over 2000 years, and for use to make insect repellents, soaps, cosmetics and contraceptives and the neem patent was finally revoked. - Biopiracy of Basmati On 8th July 1994, Rice Tec Inc, a Texas based company, filed a generic patent(Patent No. 5663484) on basmati rice lines and grains in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with 20 broad claims designed to create a complete rice monopoly patent which included planting, harvesting collecting and even cooking. Though Rice Tec claimed to have “invented” the Basmati rice, yet they accepted the fact that it has been derived from several rice accessions from India. Rice Tec had claimed a patent for inventing novel Basmati lines and grains. After protests, and the case in the Supreme Court of India, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office struck down most sections of the Basmati patent. - Syngenta’s Attempt at Biopiracy of India’s rice diversity Syngenta, the biotech giant, tried to grab the precious collections of 22,972 varieties of paddy, India’s rice diversity, from Chattisgarh in India. It had signed a MoU with the Indira Gandhi Agricultural University (IGAU) for access to Dr. Richharia’s priceless collection of rice diversity which he had looked after as if the rice varieties were his own children. The mass agitation by the peoples’ organisation, farmers’ unions and civil liberty groups, women’s groups, students’ groups and biodiversity conservation movements against Syngenta and IGAU bore result and Syngenta called off the deal. - Monsanto’s Biopiracy of Indian Wheat European Patent Office in Munich revoked Monsanto’s patent on the Indian wheat variety, Nap Hal. Monsanto, the biggest seed corporation was assigned the patent (No. EP 0445929 B1) on wheat on May 21st, 2003 by the EPO under the simple title, “plants”. On January 27th, 2004 The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology along with Greenpeace and Bharat Krishak Samaha filed a petition at the EPO challenging the patent rights given to Monsanto, leading to the patent being revoked. - ConAgra’s Biopiracy claim on Atta (Wheat flour) Atta, a staple food and ingredient within India, is currently under threat from the corporation ConAgra who filed a “novel” patent (patent no 6,098,905) claiming the rights to an atta processing method, and was granted the patent on August 8th, 2000. The method that ConAgra is claiming to be novel has been used throughout South Asia by thousands of atta chakkis, and so cannot justly be claimed as a novel patent. - Monsanto’s Biopiracy of Indian Melons In May 2011, the US company Monsanto was awarded a European patent on conventionally bred melons (EP 1 962 578). These melons which originally stem from India have a natural resistance to certain plant viruses. Using conventional breeding methods, this type of resistance was introduced to other melons and is now patented as a Monsanto “invention”. The actual plant disease, Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV), has been spreading through North America, Europe and North Africa for several years. The Indian melon, which confers resistance to this virus, is registered in international seed banks as PI 313970. With the new patent, Monsanto can now block access to all breeding material inheriting the resistance derived from the Indian melon. The patent might discourage future breeding efforts and the development of new melon varieties. Melon breeders and farmers could be severely restricted by the patent. At the same time, it is already known that further breeding will be necessary to produce melons that are actually protected against the plant virus. DeRuiter, a well known seed company in the Netherlands, originally developed the melons. DeRuiter used plants designated PI 313970 – a non-sweet melon from India. Monsanto acquired DeRuiter in 2008, and now owns the patent. The patent was opposed by several organisations in 2012. - Monsanto’s Biopiracy of Climate Resilience Monsanto applied for blanket patents for “Methods of Enhancing Stress Tolerance in plants and methods thereof” (The title of the patent was later amended to “A method of producing a transgenic plant , with increasing heat tolerance, salt tolerance or drought tolerance”). These traits have been evolved by our farmers over millennia, through applying their knowledge of breeding. On 5th July, 2013, Hon Justice Prabha Sridevi, Chair of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India, and Hon Shri DPS Parmar, technical member, dismissed Monsanto’s appeal against the rejection of these patents that claim Monsanto has invented all resilience Corporations like Monsanto have taken 1500 patents on Climate Resilient crops. The climate resilient traits will become increasingly important in times of climate instability. Along coastal areas, farmers have evolved flood tolerant and salt tolerant varieties of rice such as “Bhundi”, “Kalambank”, “Lunabakada”, “Sankarchin”, “Nalidhulia”,“Ravana”,”Seulapuni”,”Dhosarakhuda”. Crops such as millets have been evolved for drought tolerance , and provide food security in water scare regions, and water scarce years. . To end this new epidemic and to save the sovereignty rights of our farmers and citizens, it is required that our legal systems recognise the rights of communities, their collective and cumulative innovation in breeding diversity, and not merely the rights of corporations. It is the need of the hour to evolve categories of community intellectual rights (CIRs) related to biodiversity to balance and set limits along with boundary conditions for protection. The Intellectual Property Rights as evolved are in effect, a denial of the collective innovation of our people and the seed sovereignty or seed rights of our farmers. . FREEDOM TO SAVE SEEDS IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT In 2004, both India and the US introduced new seed laws that criminalized the saving of traditional/heirloom varieties of all seeds. By outlawing the availability of renewable, open-pollinated seeds, corporations selling non-renewable patented seeds would be able to force everyone, from a large scale farmer to a balcony gardner, to buy only the seeds they sold, ensuring an absolute monopoly. In India, hundreds of thousands of citizens petitioned the government and worked with the Parliament to roll back the Seed Law of 2004. India’s law titled Plant Variety Protection and Farmers Rights Act 2001 has a clause on Farmers Rights. *“a farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act in the same manner as he was entitled before the coming into force of this Act”* There is no such protection for citizens and farmers of the US. Not only are citizens in the US being denied their right to know what they are eating, they are now being denied their right and duty to save and exchange seed. The Seed Laws of 2004 have been used in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and now, Minnesota, to shut down seed libraries. Seed saving is the foundation of Swaraj in our times. Seed saving is vital to our ability to address hunger and malnutrition. Seed Saving is vital to bring back taste, nutrition and quality in our food. And without conservation and evolution of the biodiversity of our seeds ,we will not be able to adapt to climate change. . Seed Freedom is an imperative for the poor farmers of India, but also for the equally hard working farmers of the US; and the human species. And the duty to save seeds is an ethical and ecological imperative. Patents on life violate the “Order Public” or moral order embodied in the philosophy of Vasudhaiv Kutumbhakam, all beings on earth as a family. IP laws need to be subjected to ethical criteria, criteria of justice, and on a clear definition of invention.| Life forms, plants and seeds are all evolving, self-organized, sovereign beings. They have intrinsic worth, value and standing. Owning life by claiming it to be a corporate invention is ethically and legally wrong. Patents on seeds are legally wrong because seeds are not an invention. Patents on seeds are ethically wrong because seeds are life forms, they are our kin members of our earth family. . When the US talks of strong patent laws , it is restricting itself to the corporate interest.On criteria of corporate rights at the cost of nature and people, US laws are strong.On grounds of ethical considerations and social and ecological justice, they are weak. . CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PERSONS, AND AN ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY IS NOT FREE SPEECH . During your first election campaign, President Obama, you had promised you would implement a law for labeling GMO foods. Sadly, $100 million has been used to defeat labeling laws in California, Washington, Colorado, Oregon. And Vermont which did pass a labeling law is being sued by corporations on the false premise of corporate personhood, and the influence of money as corporate “free speech”. Denying Citizens the Right to Know violates the fundamental principles of Food Democracy. . When the County of Maui in Hawaii voted to be GMO free, Dow and Monsanto sued them, subverting the democratic process which rests on the will of people, not the power of Corporations. This corporate jurisprudence needs to be reversed if human rights and the rights of Mother Earth are to be protected. ------------------------------ Dear President Obama and Prime Minister Modi, . Humanity and the Earth are at a critical juncture. Patents on seeds and seed monopolies have created an ecological crisis of biodiversity erosion, erosion of farmers rights and erosion of people’s freedoms. . It is not India’s IPR laws that need changing but US laws. On criteria of rights of nature and people’s rights, India’s laws are strong. As our democracies deepen their interaction, the citizens of India and the US expect that it will be ethical and ecological values that will lead the dialogue, not the false claims of“invention” by corporations to establish ownership of life on Earth. Ownership and royalty collections are the only reason GMOs are being pushed by corporations. It is imperative that we protect our cultural and indigenous intellectual property from being appropriated for short term profits of a few. . As citizens, we ask that in each of our countries, you do not dismantle the protections that ensure the ethical fabric of our societies and the fundamental freedoms like saving seeds and knowing what we are eating, in order to allow corporate ownership of nature’s bounty through false claims of innovation. We ask that our democratic representatives take the strengths in our legislation (e.g. Article 3(d) and 3(j) of the Indian Patent Act) and multiply our strengths. Working together, we resolve to protect these rights that we have and should have. Prime Minister Modi, we count on you to uphold the science based definitions in India’s patent laws that protect the rights of citizens, and play a leadership role to work with President Obama to help correct the distortions in the US IPR system. . We ask that the US not put pressure on India to undo article 3(d) and 3(j), and will instead take lessons from India about how to respect the integrity of living systems and processes, and put the rights of farmers and citizens first. For us seed freedom includes farmers rights to save, exchange, breed, sell farmers varieties of seeds- varieties that have been evolved over millennia without interference of the state or corporations. . Prime Minister Modi and President Obama, let this Republic day in India sow the seeds of Earth Democracy and Vasudhaiva Kutumbhakam, for our times and the future. We hope you show great leadership by working together to strengthen the laws to protect your citizens and countries instead of making it easier for corporations to take control over life-forms for short term profits. Let us build Purna Swaraj for all life on Earth, freedom to grow our food and know our food. Let us work toward a future where our food is our freedom. ------------------------------ web: www.spiritualprogressives.org <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DqwMB4CtxI0CtMn9dyDfkcLuHMJaZl…> email: info(a)spiritualprogressives.org *Click here to unsubscribe* <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4zbSrYtOUTsJYP1aCYKcx8LuHMJaZl…> ------------------------------ Copyright © 2014 Network of Spiritual Progressives®. 2342 Shattuck Avenue, #1200 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-644-1200 Fax 510-644-1255 [image: empowered by Salsa] <http://www.salsalabs.com/?email> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: [Networkedlabour] Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy — Medium
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:34 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy — Medium To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> interesting piece by Trebor Schulz: "The backlash against unethical labor practices in the “collaborative sharing economy” has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/10/at-the-uber-for-…> , New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/upshot/when-uber-lyft-and-airbnb-meet-the…> and others <http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120378/wonolo-temp-worker-app-shows-scar…> started to rail against online labor brokerages like Taskrabbit, Handy, and Uber because of an utter lack of concern for their workers. At the recent Digital Labor conference <http://digitallabor.org/>, my colleague McKenzie Wark proposed that the modes of production that we appear to be entering are not quite capitalism as classically described. “This is not capitalism,” he said, “this is something worse.” [1] <https://medium.com/p/2ea737f1b5ad/edit#_ftn1> But just for one moment imagine that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism could be cloned and brought back to life under a different ownership model, with fair working conditions, as a humane alternative to the free market model. Take, for example, Uber’s app, with all its geolocation and ride ordering capabilities. Why do its owners and investors have to be the main benefactors of such platform-based labor brokerage? Developers, in collaboration with local, worker-owner cooperatives could design such a self-contained program for mobile phones. Despite its meteoric rise, $300 million in VC-backing (and its $18 billion evaluation bubble), as well as massive international reach, there is nothing inevitable about Uber’s long-term success. There’s no magic sauce when it comes to developing such a piece of software; it’s not rocket science. Of course, technology is only one part of the equation and instead of letting techno-determinism run its course, I’d rather point to the long history of worker-owned cooperatives, EP Thompson and Robert Owen..." https://medium.com/@trebors/platform-cooperativism-vs-the-sharing-economy-2… _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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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