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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Trade union research at Cardiff
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '16

18 May '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:52 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Trade union research at Cardiff To: Nw Labour discuss <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Begin forwarded message: *From:* Steve Davies <DaviesS27(a)CARDIFF.AC.UK> *Date:* 18 May 2016 11:50:46 GMT+2 *To:* CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Subject:* *Trade union research at Cardiff* *Reply-To:* Steve Davies <DaviesS27(a)CARDIFF.AC.UK> Dear Colleague You might be interested in our newly launched web site which carries results from research into unions and civil society being carried out at Cardiff University http://www.wiserd.ac.uk/unions It holds data on a range of relevant areas for labour academics, union officers and activists: · the most comprehensive statistical portrait of regional variations in trade union membership, presence and coverage in the UK undertaken to date. · Research notes on o understanding the official stats on union membership o the Labour Force Survey data on union membership o union membership among migrants · a look at trade union use of social media around the campaign on the recent anti-trade union legislation · a regular blog The site will grow as material is added during the course of the 3 year ESRC-funded research project and is intended to be a resource for union officers, activists and academics with an interest in the labour movement. Feel free to circulate to your contacts Regards Steve Dr Steve Davies School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, CARDIFF CF10 3WT, UK Tel: +44 (0) 29 20 874435 daviess27(a)cf.ac.uk _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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] Fwd: How The West Came To Rule - Authors meet Critics workshop at Nottingham, 7 June!
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '16

18 May '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:53 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: How The West Came To Rule - Authors meet Critics workshop at Nottingham, 7 June! To: Nw Labour discuss <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Begin forwarded message: *From:* Andreas Bieler <Andreas.Bieler(a)NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK> *Date:* 18 May 2016 15:28:05 GMT+2 *To:* CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Subject:* *How The West Came To Rule - Authors meet Critics workshop at Nottingham, 7 June!* *Reply-To:* Andreas Bieler <Andreas.Bieler(a)NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK> Dear all, This semester, the Marxism Reading Group of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at Nottingham University will celebrate its 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion, an 'Authors meet Critics' Workshop on the recent book *How The West Came To Rule <http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745336152&,%20http://www.plutob…>* by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancioğlu (Pluto Press, 2015) will take place at Nottingham University on 7 June, 2 to 5 p.m. in Room B1, Law and Social Sciences. This is building number 7 on the following map: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sharedresources/documents/mapuniversitypark.pdf The two authors will introduce the main argument of their book, followed by four current members of the reading group providing critical interventions and reflections. The authors will then have the chance to reply, before the discussion is opened up to the floor. Attending the workshop is free of charge and no registration is required. All are welcome. For more information on the reading group, see http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/how-west-came-to-rule-celebrati… Anniversary greetings from past members can be seen here: https://padlet.com/andreas_bieler/MRGendorsements And a list of all the books covered over the ten years of existence of the group is presented here: https://padlet.com/andreas_bieler/MRGtexts Yours, Andreas Prof. Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK-Nottingham NG7 2RD, Tel.: 0115-951 4492, FAX: 0115-951 4859, Twitter: @Andreas_Bieler Personal website: http://andreasbieler.net Trade union and global restructuring blog: http://andreasbieler.blogspot.com/ Latest book: http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/labour-and-transnational-action-in… This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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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a request: Please participate in this important p2p survey !!
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '16

18 May '16

Thanks for participating here at http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=18ce1f0b-ff26-42f9-9d00-9717cb006… -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: Commons Space, World Social Forum, Montreal 2016
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '16

18 May '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com> Date: 2016-05-17 15:17 GMT+07:00 Subject: Commons Space, World Social Forum, Montreal 2016 To: wsf2016(a)lists.p2pfoundation.net French below | Spanish coming soon. Commons Space, World Social Forum, Montreal 2016 ========================================== We invite you to participate in the Commons Space which will be hosted at the the World Social Forum 2016 taking place from the 9th to the14th of August in Montreal. This is a space for experimentation, exchange and construction of commons based alternatives. This space will welcome and support the strategic process of convergence of commoners and social movements throughout the WSF. Commons... ======== In 2009 at the Social Forum in Belem Chico Whitaker launched the Manifesto Reclaim the Commons which was adopted by members of the International Council of the WSF [ http://bienscommuns.org/signature/appel/index.php?a=du&c=nfg1de] Since then, social movements have adopted this cause. At the WSF in Dakar in 2011, Silke Helfrich reported on the increased visibility of workshops and activities sharing the theme of the commons.[ http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/wsf-dakar-shifting-from-the-log… ]. In 2012, the commons was the central slogan of the People's Summit in Rio calling "for Social and Environmental Justice in defense of the commons, against the commodification of life".[ http://rio20.net/en/propuestas/final-declaration-of-the-people%E2%80%99s-su…] Again in 2012 on International Earth Day in Montreal at one of the biggest rallies of the "Printemps érable" (Maple Spring) protesters carried signs, flags and banners calling for the protection of the commons from privatization. Ideas and practices based on Commons, P2P, Open Cooperativism continue to grow and are being developed by activists in many areas: Social Solidarity Economy, Collaborative & Sharing Economy, resistance to enclosure such as land grabs, defending water as a commons,Struggles against financialization and Climate change to name but a few. Activists find each other at events and festivals dedicated to the commons, like Afropixel (Dakar, 2012), Pixelache Festival (Helsinki,, 2014), Art of Commoning (Montreal, 2014), International Festival of the Commons (Chieri, Italy, 2015), Festival Temps des communs (Francophonie, 2015), CommonsFest (Athens, 2015), Procomun (Barcelona, 2016), and many more. With a shared ambition to make another world possible activists are working together to develop commons based policies that deepen citizen participation. In local assemblies and civic laboratories, new spaces for civic engagement based on the commons are emerging. Commons are playing a leading role in the development of new thinking essential to the renewal of democracy. * Sharing practices and building alliances for the defense and creation of the commons. * Developing and sharing commons based policies for cities, regions and countries. * Building a convergence of commoners through continued dialogue on shared causes and strategies with movements working on transition such as : Degrowth, Political Ecology, Social Solidarity Economy, etc. Self organized and distributed Commons Space ====================================== The Commons Space at the WSF in Montreal will be open for the duration of the forum to anyone or any organization that is concerned with the commons, and wants to organize a workshop or any activity. We propose a space in the spirit of the School of the Commons which aims at : * Documenting and disseminating knowledge on the Commons based on shared experiences and learning. * To concretely support the creation, reappropriation or conservation of existing and emerging commons through actions or projects based on mutual assistance and commitment. * To develop the practice of Commoning based on creative and collaborative skills and as a way of life. There will be an open and flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of activities and topics including both pre-programmed events and space for impromtu sessions. Most importantly we wish to invite you to participate in the assemblies and convergence sessions. The following topics have already been proposed: * Urban Commons/City as a Commons/Municipal Movements * The Common as a New Political Subject * Open/Platform Cooperativism The Commons Space will be open and distributed in Montréal, in collaboration with the co-working spaces in the city. Its headquarters will be located at ECTO, a co-working coop [www.ecto.coop] in the heart of creative Montreal. Other co-working spaces (Salon 1861, Temps libre) and inter-cultural places will host activities. The WSF is a unique opportunity to connect and work with activists from all over the world North/South/East/West to progress the cause of the Commons. This is an open call for proposals and activities. We invite you and your organisation to participate in co-organizing and facilitating the Commons Space. You can express your interest in participating and submit proposals for workshops, presentations, arts and cultural interventions simply by writing to the signatories of this announcement listed below. To participate in discussion and to keep informed as the program of activities develops you can sign up to our mailing list. http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016 [Looking forward seeing you in MTL] Frédéric Sultan [fredericsultan(a)gmail.com] Yves Otis [yves(a)percolab.com] Kevin Flanagan [kevin(a)p2pfoundation.net] - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ Elisabetta Cangelosi [betta.cangelosi(a)gmail.com] Alain Ambrosi [ambrosia(a)web.ca] Abdou Salam Fall [asfall(a)refer.sn] Monique Chartrand [direction(a)communautique.qc.ca] This is an initiative of Gazibo, Remix the Commons, Communautique, LARTES, percolab, P2P Foundation, VECAM, and supported by the Foundation for Human Progress. Espace des Communs/Commons Space/Espacio de los comunes =================================================== Espace des Communs, dans le cadre du Forum Social Mondial, Montréal 2016 Pendant toute la durée du Forum Social Mondial, soit du 9 au 14 août 2016, un Espace des Communs sera mis en place, voué à l'expérimentation, à l'échange et à la construction d'alternatives basées sur les communs. Cet espace se propose d'accueillir et de soutenir le processus de convergence stratégique des commoners et des mouvements sociaux tout au long du Forum. Communs en action Les communs ont fait leur apparition dans l’espace des Forum Sociaux en 2009 à Bélem lorsque Chico Whitaker a lancé un «  appel pour la récupération des biens communs  » qui sera repris par les membres du Conseil International [http://bienscommuns.org/signature/appel/?a=appel] Depuis cette date, les mouvements sociaux s'emparent de cette cause. A Dakar, au FSM 2011, Silke Helfrich témoigne de l’omniprésence du thème des communs au sein des ateliers et activités du Forum [ http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/wsf-dakar-shifting-from-the-log… ]. En 2012, le Sommet mondial des Peuples à Rio en fait un slogan central : « pour la justice sociale et écologique, contre la marchandisation de la vie et pour la défense des biens communs  » [ http://rio20.net/en/propuestas/final-declaration-of-the-people%E2%80%99s-su…] En 2012 encore, à Montréal, les communs sont sur les drapeaux de l'une des plus grandes manifestations du « Printemps érable » au Québec lors du jour de la Terre. Depuis, les idées et les pratiques basées sur le P2P, le coopérativisme ouvert et les communs sont montées en puissance. Elles sont portées par les militants engagés dans de nombreux domaines : économie sociale et solidaire, économie numérique basée sur le P2P, lutte contre l'accaparement des terres, défense de l'eau comme bien commun, lutte contre la financiarisation du monde, contre les changements climatiques et bien d'autres encore. Elles se retrouvent au centre d’événements et de festivals qu’ils leur sont dédiés, comme Afropixel (Dakar, 2012), Pixelache Festival (Helsinki, 2014), L’Art de l’en-commun (Montréal, 2014), Festival international des communs (Chieri, Italie, 2015), Festival Temps des communs (Francophonie, 2015), CommonsFest (Athènes, 2015), Procomun (Barcelone, 2016) et bien d’autres encore. De nouveaux espaces d'engagement civique appuyés sur les communs émergent enfin sous forme d'assemblées locales ou de laboratoires civiques. Les communs y jouent un rôle moteur pour penser et expérimenter le renouvellement de la démocratie. Les militants y partagent l'ambition de faire advenir des politiques basées sur les communs, la coopération des citoyens pour qu'un autre monde soit possible : Pour que soient partagées des pratiques et constitués des alliances autour de la défense et création des communs Pour que des politiques basées sur les communs émergent dans les villes, les régions et les pays Pour faire converger les commoners et poursuivre le dialogue avec les autres mouvements alternatifs de la transition (décroissance, écologie politique, économie sociale et solidaire, etc.) autour de causes et de stratégies communes. Un Espace des communs autogéré et distribué L’Espace des Communs, qui sera ouvert pendant le Forum Social Mondial de Montréal sera à la disposition de toute personne ou organisme, associé de près ou de loin au mouvement des communs, qui souhaite organiser un atelier, une session de travail ou une activité de réseautage. L’espace que nous proposons s’inscrit dans l’esprit des écoles des communs, en ayant pour de documenter et de diffuser le savoir sur les Communs à partir du partage de nos expériences et nos apprentissages, de soutenir concrètement les projets de constitution, de réappropriation et de conservation des communs, existants ou en émergence, par l’entraide et l’engagement, et de développer la posture de « commoner » par le développement les compétences créatives et collaboratives des personnes. L’Espace des Communs sera autogéré. Pas de programmation préalable, ni de thématiques imposées, mais bien un agenda ouvert et flexible permettant d’accueillir une variété d’activités et de sujets. Déjà quelques thèmes ont été proposés : Communs urbains Communs comme nouvelle sujet politique Coopérativisme ouvert et plateformes de coopération L’Espace des Communs prendra appui sur le réseau des espaces de travail partagé (coworkings) de Montréal. Son quartier général sera situé dans les locaux d’ECTO, coworking coop [www.ecto.coop] au cœur du Montréal créatif. D’autres espaces de coworking (Salon 1861, Temps libre) et de rencontres interculturelles pourront accueillir des activités. Le Forum social mondial est une occasion unique de rencontrer et de travailler avec des acteurs engagés du monde dans le développement des communs. Nous vous invitons à venir animer cet espace des Communs en soutenant sa réalisation, en organisant une activité ou en participant aux activités qui seront proposées. Vous pouvez le faire simplement en écrivant à l’un ou l’autre des signataires de ce message. Vous pouvez également vous abonner à la liste de diffusion que nous avons mise en place pour être tenu informé des développements du programme d'activités de l’Espace des communs : http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016 Au plaisir de vous rencontrer à Montréal! Frédéric Sultan [fredericsultan(a)gmail.com] Yves Otis [yves(a)percolab.com] Kevin Flanagan [kevin(a)p2pfoundation.net] - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ Elisabetta Cangelosi [betta.cangelosi(a)gmail.com] Alain Ambrosi [ambrosia(a)web.ca] Abdou Salam Fall [asfall(a)refer.sn] Monique Chartrand [direction(a)communautique.qc.ca] Une initiative de Gazibo, RemixtheCommons, Communautique, LARTES, Percolab et P2P Foundation, VECAM, soutenue par la Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme. -- https://twitter.com/flgnk Skype: kev.flanagan Phone: +353 87 743 5660 -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: [opennetcoalition] La Quadrature du Net leaves the state of emergency
by Michel Bauwens 17 May '16

17 May '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <contact(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:05 AM Subject: [opennetcoalition] La Quadrature du Net leaves the state of emergency To: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net Press Release *Tags:* LA QUADRATURE DU NET, STATE OF EMERGENCY, SURVEILLANCE, FRANCE, MANUEL VALLS, FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE La Quadrature du Net — For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/la-quadrature-leaves-the-state-of-emergency <http://www.laquadrature.net/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=703&…> La Quadrature du Net leaves the state of emergency Paris, 17 May 2016 — *When faced with a wall, you need to know when to stop banging your head against it. After years of legal violence, defeats and steady erosion of fundamental rights, and confronted with an elected political body whose only logic is to reinforce the security apparatus, La Quadrature du Net has decided to stop wasting time trying to appeal to the reason of those who won't listen, and is now taking a new direction for its actions. * Law after law, anti-terror measures after state of emergency and increased surveillance, the institutional political space has petrified in the quest of its own maintenance that the point that it now seems unrealistic make the voice of the common interest heard in the coming months, any more than human rights and social justice, or indeed simply the voice of wisdom. Unless a surprise comes from social movements, the presidential campaign will only promise us the depressing display of a variety of dead-ends. Even on subjects outside the core interests of La Quadrature du Net, the parliamentary and political news are a perfect illustration of this. It is not the multiplication of consultation and other embryos of participative processes that will change the course as the political logic of former times will still prevail. For two years, civil society has been heavily consulted and heavily ignored on digital issues. The participative logic was constantly instrumentalised to hide the persistence of the grip of the administrative machine and lobbies. Day after day, at the same time, we witness a growing willingness from citizens to appropriate digital tools. To better defend one's privacy, to better protect one's fundamental rights against attacks or deficiencies of governments, the whole of society is full of expectations and as soon as a space opens, it dives into it. For several years, we have developed a core discourse on free speech, right to information or the balance of the infrastructures, whose effect and objective are to facilitate participation by individuals and organisations, beyond rigged parliamentarian and political debates. The continuous urgency to answer irresponsible or precipitated propositions coming from the government, political parties, or their spokespersons in Parliament stands in the way of in-depth reviews and proposals, and hampers our capacity to seize new social issues in the digital space. For all these reasons, we have decided to take a step back from legislative monitoring in France, at least until after the 2017 general elections.Nonetheless, through Les Exégètes Amateurs <http://www.laquadrature.net/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=704&…> in particular, we will keep up attacking through legal means the dangerous laws voted by the Parliament. However, we will not systematically respond to populist or surrealistic speeches of politicians, we will not get into fights in order to make those that govern us realise that they are slowing killing our freedoms under the guise of ensuring our (illusory) security. We will try instead to feed public debate through other means, without exhausting ourselves in daily battles against bureaucratic closed circles that give a deaf ear to experts and to the civil society. We remain hopeful that this open exchange of ideas may nonetheless feed the political programmes of those who still wish to reach the same objective as we do. We will not knock on the doors of political parties ahead of the elections, but we do hope that some will take inspiration from our work. We will write, we will publish, we will share. We will help our fellow citizens build a digital society that respects everyone's rights, whether by instructing people on digital security, by creating spaces for debate, by promoting Free software ideas and decentralised services, by participating in the creation of new Commons, by fostering and protecting freedom of speech, by feeding debates on copyright and the free circulation of culture and knowledge - that and many other things. We will strive even harder to create an engaged citizenship able to anticipate and face the Internet's legal and political issues. *Are we giving up? Not at all. Rather, we are refocusing, concentrating on efficiency, refusing to legitimise a political game growing less and less democratic, and need to act where we can still make a difference. * This is why we have decided to reorganise our internal activity. We will pay less attention to the French legal landscape and instead focus more on the common action of the movements currently emerging in other countries all through Europe. More thinking, open to external interventions and external skills that we do not yet have in our teams. More writing, more graphic production, more audio, more videos. Less work with the political world and more with the individuals who are willing to come with us in this new direction. We will spend more time doing meaningful awareness campaigns, developing participation, decentralising our actions and engaging our volunteers, all while being more independent from agendas that are not set by us. *We hope that by reorienting our action, we will convince even more people to come work with us to build a digital world worthy of a democratic society. We invite all the associations and groups with whom we work already, or who share our goals and observations, to support us and work with us to foster a richer public debate on these questions. So that we will be stronger in the legal and political battles we will have to fight tomorrow. * About La Quadrature du Net La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. >In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net <http://www.laquadrature.net/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=705&…> Press contact and press room contact(a)laquadrature.net – +33 (0)972 294 426 https://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room <http://www.laquadrature.net/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=706&…> *To unsubscribe, click here <http://www.laquadrature.net/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=176&qid=5974…>* *La Quadrature du Net60, rue des OrteauxParis, 75020* _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net https://lists.laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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] Declaration commons collaborative economy: Public policies recommendations to promote commons oriented models of the collaborative economy
by Michel Bauwens 17 May '16

17 May '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mayo Fuster Morell <mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu> Date: 2016-05-17 19:01 GMT+07:00 Subject: [members] Declaration commons collaborative economy: Public policies recommendations to promote commons oriented models of the collaborative economy To: P2P Value Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> Hola P2Pvalue Finally, the Launching of the Declaration for a commons collaborative economy: Public policies recommendations to promote commons oriented models of the collaborative economy Please help to spread the word though your channels and Ann Marie I would appreciate very much if you send it around from p2Pvalue accounts. Thank you. Mayo today going to Paris for the Ouishare event ENGLISH - CATALAN - SPANISH ENGLISH Launching of the Declaration for a commons collaborative economy: Public policies recommendations to promote commons oriented models of the collaborative economy We are please to announce the launching of version 0.3 of the Declaration for a commons collaborative economy. The Declaration aims first to highlight the importance to distinguish several models of collaborative economy -depending on the type of economy, technology and knowledge access that are based on- , as well as the relevance of a commons-oriented model within the collaborative economy. Second, to provide policy recommendations for the public administrations, generally, and specifically for the design process of regulatory guidelines engaged by the European Commission and Committee of Regions of the European Union. In this regard, the document provides more than 120 policies recommendations. The Declaration is the result of a process of co-creation of public policies which included several channels of online consultation and participation, and the debate at an international event that took place in Barcelona in March 2016, which gathered more than 400 experts, citizens and sector representatives, ending in this joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy. Complete version: http://procomuns.net/en/policy/ Summary of Declaration for a commons collaborative economy: Public policies recommendations to promote the commons oriented models of the collaborative economy Collaboration means Economy Collaboration in achieving shared objectives and the provision of goods and services that meet the needs of the population and ensure a decent life is, or should be, the purpose of the economy. The adoption of new information technologies and communication has greatly reduced coordination and collaboration transaction costs, generating a universe of new opportunities. Commons as a third productive model Commons-based production is accomplished by communities who work for mutual and collective benefit under the principles of participation and shared governance, resulting in collective property and open access resources and services. Commons is a third model that breaks with the binomial market-state notion, formed -allegedly- by the only two organizational models able to meet the needs of the population; it aspires to have a more respectful balance between the conventional replication system and that of a caring social economy, as well as looking after the Environment. The most renowned and highly successful cases are Free Software (which dominates over proprietary software in many fields, including for example Internet servers) and Wikipedia (a global leader in free knowledge and online participation), which demonstrated that the commons model can succeed and have more presence than traditional proprietary economic models in sectors where it operates. Commons-based production is growing at a fast pace, expanding into many areas. What economy do we want? Extractive and privative collaborative economy vs social, solidarity and commons economies Recently, we have seen the emergence and growth of hybrid models that adopt the same ethos and present organizational rationales that are similar to the collaborative commons economic model, based on principles of collaboration, but which in turn -at the same time- privatize other aspects and layers (that are privately owned and which do not allow people who contribute to intervene in its governance model). This is the case of Uber and Airbnb, multinational corporations based in Silicon Valley, which behave in the style of the prevailing globalized capitalist economic model, based on extracting profits through networked collaboration. The collaborative economy has been on the one hand readapted to a deepening process of economic models, driven primarily by profit and speculation (Internet as the new bubble, like real estate in the past), creating severe inequalities and loss of rights, and on the other hand, it is a reality that allowed the principles of a cooperative, social and solidarity economy to ascend and gain centrality, with great potential for economic transformation and innovative solutions for social and political exclusion problems, as well as environmental sustainability. It is time to choose what type of collaborative economy -and in the end what kind of economy- we want. An economic model for a different economy: from privatization to “commonification” The commons collaborative economy also represents a different public policy model. Organizational commons models can be an inspiration for public administrations, becoming more efficient and making better use of public resources, as well as opening new channels for the participation and activation of civil society in solving common problems and public needs through commons-private partnerships. It is a way of moving from prevailing privatization -within the globalization crisis cycle- to "commonification", through the involvement of citizens and democratic institutions in the provision and production of public goods and services, without having to fall into a private framework or state re-centralization, but via the activation of citizenship. Now is the time for promoting public policies for changes towards a commons based collaborative economy Now is the time for administrations and governments to join and strengthen this type of collaborative economy, ignoring the one that is appropriating its name, taking action to stop the enclosure of knowledge and digital commons. Now is the time because the emerging role of cities and municipalities as operating systems of change is coming together, as well as the need to advance towards shared solutions against inequalities, participation in and with institutions, testing of new formulas in which economic activity is understood in a holistic way and at the service of the people. The collaborative commons economy: what are we talking about? Guiding principles The guiding principles of the collaborative commons economy approach, and the things we can do, therefore, in order to address the initiatives designed to promote and foster a collaborative economy (taking into account the different actors involved) would be: What kind of economy? - One that seeks to provide a service or resource that is economically sustainable, without putting profit above the purpose of service or entering into speculative dynamics. - One that recognizes beyond monetary value through governance procedures adopted to ensure the control of value generated by users and community members. - One in line with company procedures related to the cooperative, social and solidarity economy, such as cooperative tradition and the third sector (e.g. foundations representing the community). - One which is attentive and responsible for externalities generated, both in terms of environmental and social reproduction. - One that includes principles of equality and justice in the development and distribution of work, focusing on the welfare of people in the governance of the community. What kind of knowledge? - Open knowledge through the use of open licenses (such as Creative Commons licenses). One that seeks to promote access and reclaim the resources generated through public or collective ownership. What kind of technology? - Technology options that favor the transparency, participation and freedom of citizens, taxpayers and users. In this sense, one based on free software, open standards and if possible on decentralized architectures. >From the Barcola group (Barcelona Col·laborativa) and the collaborative peer production initiatives under its umbrella, informed by the research developed by the Dimmons.net group at IN3-UOC and the P2Pvalue European Project, in connection with the procomuns.net conference (March 2016 Barcelona, which had more than 400 participants), and as a result of an open parallel process of participation in the co-design of public policies, we propose this set of recommendations, followed by specific measures: General principles - Economic policy: To support SMEs following the rationale of a cooperative economy, social solidarity and the companies with production and consumption patterns which take care of the environment, social reproduction and which are inclusive. This means adapting business methods and the role of the citizen as a producer in the collaborative commons economy . - Technology policy: To support free and decentralized technologies. - Political knowledge and innovation: To support open knowledge and ensure that innovation is funded by public funds available under free licenses. - Public policy (public administration / public services): To encourage the creation of partnerships between public administrations and the collaborative commons economy, within the strategy to move from privatization to "commonification". Among more than 120 proposals generated, these 10 measures below are an example of the ones with more support from participants at the procomuns.net event, which were prioritized and subsequently joined an extensive collection of policies in a working document which is available here <http://procomuns.net/en/policy/> <http://procomuns.net/en/policy/> http://procomuns.net/en/policy/ 1. Improving regulations for a commons collaborative economy: Explore new forms of legislation on legal / economic subjects, beyond multinational profit models, that promote participatory governance, a social mission and / or environmental sustainability. 2. Promote the incubation of new projects and initiatives in the collaborative commons economy: Create an incubator with physical and technological infrastructure designed for commons, and facilitate access to resources for collective commons entrepreneurship, which -apart from the positive social impact- would promote viable projects meeting the criteria of openness, reusability, transparency, etc. 3. Promote existing formulas or enhance new ones for financing commons initiatives: Create a call to fund innovative pilot projects co-financed by a match-funding model, which in turn creates a “pool” for projects with commons criteria, ultimately combining individual crowdfunding with seed funding, which multiplies each citizen’s input. 4. Adopting or reassigning the use of spaces and other public infrastructures for this sector: Enable joint management of workspaces and empty premises for the work and development of collaborative commons production projects, facilitating mobility and the sharing and promotion of sector professionals and stakeholders. 5. Change how public administrations operate internally on some fronts linked to commons: Conduct a pilot scheme in which public bodies and governments use community actors or services as commons companies, such as guifi.net infrastructures for digital communication. 6. Combat malpractice and corruption in government policy in the field of technology and knowledge: Mandatory registration of meetings and contacts with lobbyists and lobbyists representing the economic interests of large telecommunications and technology services corporations. 7. Assist in promoting cities and neighbourhoods in order to bring their economies and other related sectors closer: To promote a network of open manufacturing spaces, such as FabLabs, makerspaces, libraries, community centers and other municipal bodies or educational programs with municipal participation, focusing on economic recovery, reuse and stimulus. 8. Expand city brands in terms of the external visibility of local initiatives: Promote organic, social, repairable -with no planned obsolescence-, transparent, open and free source product seals. 9. Making sure investments in major technological events contribute to promoting local commons: Promoting conferences and major events in cities to give visibility and support to the collaborative commons economy, ensuring the promotion of open technology and local commons experiences. 10. Encourage and support the research and understanding of this phenomenon in order to move forward: Provide open access to public data on economic and social aspects, entrepreneurship, support actions, results, etc. (always respecting privacy regulations). <http://www.procomuns.net>www.procomuns.net Contact: info(a)dimmons.net CATALA Llançament de la Declaració per a una economia col·laborativa procomú: recomanacions de polítiques públiques per a promoure models procomuns orientats a l'economia col·laborativa. Estem encantats d'anunciar-vos el llançament de la versió 0.3 de la Declaració per a una economia col·laborativa procomú. La declaració té com a primer objectiu posar en relleu la importància a l’hora de distinguir entre els diferents models d'economia col·laborativa -bassats en funció del tipus d'economia, tecnologia i accés al coneixement-, així com la rellevància d’un model orientat als béns procomuns dins de l'economia col·laborativa. En segon lloc, per proporcionar recomanacions polítiques per a les administracions públiques, en general, i específicament pel procés en el disseny de les directrius reguladores empreses per la Comissió Europea i el Comite de les Regions de la Unió Europea. En aquest sentit, el document ofereix més de 120 recomanacions polítiques. La declaració és el resultat d'un procés de co-creació de polítiques públiques que van incloure diversos canals de consulta i participació a través de la xarxa i el debat en un esdeveniment internacional que va tenir lloc a Barcelona durant el mes de març de l’any 2016, que va reunir a més de 400 experts, ciutadans i representants del sector, que conclou en aquesta declaració conjunta de polítiques públiques per a l'economia col·laborativa. Versió complerta: http://procomuns.net/ca/politiques/ Resum: Declaració procomuns i propostes de polítiques per l’economia col·laborativa procomú a Barcelona Col·laboració és economia La col·laboració per la provisió de béns i serveis que cobreixen les necessitats de la població i garanteixen una vida digna és, i encara ho hauria de ser més, la finalitat del sistema econòmic. L’adopció de les noves tecnologies d'informació i comunicació ha reduït enormement els costos de coordinació i transacció de la col·laboració, obrint un univers de noves oportunitats. El procomú com a tercer model productiu La producció procomú es caracteritza per comunitats que col·laboren pel benefici mutu i col·lectiu sota principis de participació i govern conjunt del procés, que resulten en recursos i serveis de propietat col·lectiva o/i accés públic. És un tercer model que trenca el binomi Estat-Mercat com els dos únics models d'organització per cobrir les necessitats de la població, i que vol tenir un equilibri més respectuós amb el sistema de reproducció social i l’economia de les cures, així com el medi ambient. Els casos més coneguts i de gran èxit són el programari lliure (que domina per sobre del programari privatiu en molts camps de programari, com en el de servidors a Internet) o la Viquipèdia (referent global del coneixement lliure i la participació en línia), iniciatives on el model procomú pot arribar a tenir en la indústria en què opera més presència que models econòmics tradicionals i privatius d'empresa. La producció procomú està creixent ràpidament, expandint-se a moltes àrees. Barcelona i Catalunya com a referents internacionals Barcelona, i Catalunya, ha estat una regió clau a Europa en el desenvolupament d'aquest model procomú amb un important capital creatiu i d'innovació, comptant amb un gran potencial per a la consolidació d’un sector productiu robust i per a consolidar-se com a regió de referència al món. Quina economia volem? Economia col·laborativa extractiva i privativa versus economia social, solidaria i procomú Més recentment, hem vist l'aparició i creixement de models híbrids que adopten el mateix esperit i presenten lògiques d'organització similars al model d'economia col·laborativa procomú, basats en principis de col·laboració, però privatitzant altres aspectes (sense que les persones que contribueixin puguin intervenir en la seva governança i model de propietat privada). És el cas d’Uber o Airbnb, corporacions multinacionals amb base a Sillicon Valley, a l'estil dels models econòmics del capitalisme globalitzat imperant, basats en treure profit de la col·laboració en xarxa. L'economia col·laborativa ha estat per una banda, per tant, readaptada per un procés d'aprofundiment de models econòmics guiats fonamentalment pel lucre i l'especulació (Internet com a la nova bombolla, semblant a la immobiliària), generant greus desigualtats i pèrdua de drets, com per altra banda és una realitat que ha fet escalar i guanyar centralitat als principis de l’economia cooperativa, social i solidària, amb un gran potencial de transformació econòmica i per contribuir a resoldre problemes d'exclusió social o mediambientals. És el moment de triar quina economia col·laborativa, i a la fi, quina economia volem. Un model econòmic per a una altra política: de la privatització a la "commonificació" L'economia col·laborativa procomú també representa un model econòmic per a una altra política. Els models organitzatius procomuns poden constituir un model per fer les operacions de l’administració pública més eficients, i per fer un millor ús públic dels recursos, així com per a obrir més canals de participació i activació de la societat civil en la resolució de problemes comuns i necessitats publiques, a través de partenariats comuns-privats. Constitueix una via per passar de la privatització imperant, en el primer cicle de globalització econòmica de la crisi, a la "commonificació" amb la involucració de la ciutadania en la provisió i producció de béns i serveis públics, sense haver de caure en lògiques privades i sense que la seva implementació passi per la recentralització en l'Estat, sinó l'activació de la ciutadania. És el moment per promoure polítiques públiques pel canvi cap a l'economia col·laborativa procomú Ara és el moment d'acompanyar i potenciar des de les administracions aquest tipus d'economia col·laborativa, enfront d'una altra que se n'està apropiant el nom. Que les administracions actuïn per aturar l’encerclament del coneixement i el procomú digitals. És el moment perquè es dóna la coincidència de nous municipalismes i del rol emergent de les ciutats com a sistemes operatius del canvi, així com la necessitat d'avançar cap a solucions compartides davant de les desigualtats, la participació en i amb les institucions, i l'experimentació de noves fórmules on l'activitat econòmica sigui entesa de forma holística, i al servei de les persones. L’economia col·laborativa procomú: de què estem parlant? Principis guia Els principis guia de l'apropament d'economia col·laborativa procomú, i les preguntes que ens podem fer, per tant, a l’hora d’abordar la qüestió de quines iniciatives d’economia col·laborativa promoure i fomentar (des dels diferents actors implicats) en aquest nou ecosistema de l’economia social i digital, vindrien a ser: - Quina economia? - Aquella que busca donar un servei o recurs de manera sostenible econòmicament, sense posar el profit per sobre de la seva finalitat de servei o entrar en dinàmiques especulatives. - Aquella que reconeix valor més enllà del monetari i que adopta modalitats de governança que asseguren el control del valor generat o/i la seva direcció per part de la comunitat d’usuàries o membres. - En la línia de modalitats d’empresa lligades a l'economia cooperativa, social i solidària, com la tradició cooperativista, i el tercer sector, com per exemple fundacions amb representació de la comunitat. - Que és responsable amb les externalitats que genera, ja sigui en termes mediambientals o de reproducció social. - Quin coneixement? Coneixement obert amb la utilització de llicències lliures o de procomú (com les llicències Creative Commons). Aquell que busca afavorir l'accés i reapropiació als recursos generats i la propietat col·lectiva o pública. - Quina tecnologia? Opcions tecnològiques que afavoreixin la transparència, participació i llibertat dels contribuents i persones usuàries. En aquesta línia, basats en programari lliure, estàndards oberts i en la mesura que sigui possible en arquitectures descentralitzades. Des del grup impulsor de BarCola (“Barcelona Col·laborativa”) i les entitats de producció procomú que agrupa, informat per la recerca desenvolupada pel grup Dimmons.net al IN3-UOC i el projecte Europeu P2Pvalue, i com a resultat de la connexió amb les jornades Procomuns.net (Barcelona, març de 2016) en què van participar més de 400 persones, com a resultat d’un procés de cocreació de polítiques públiques obert de participació paral·lel i coherent amb el de les consultes del Pla d’Acció Municipal (PAM) de l’Àrea de Participació de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, proposem un seguit de recomanacions, seguides de mesures concretes per a les administracions, i concretament l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, per a què s’adoptin en estreta cooperació amb la societat civil, altres entitats interessades i el teixit productiu de la ciutat: Principis generals - Política econòmica: donar suport a petites i mitjanes empreses seguint la lògica de l'economia cooperativa, social i solidària, i d'aquelles empreses amb models de consum i producció que tinguin cura del medi ambient, la reproducció social i siguin inclusives. La qual cosa comporta la necessària adaptació de les modalitats d'empresa i el rol del ciutadà com a productor a l’economia col·laborativa procomú. - Política tecnològica: donar suport a tecnologies lliures i descentralitzades. - Política de coneixement i innovació: donar suport al coneixement obert, i garantir que la innovació finançada amb recursos públics estigui a disposició sota llicències lliures. - Política pública (administració pública/serveis públics): Incentivar la creació de partenariats entre administració pública i economia col·laborativa procomú. Dins de l'estratègia d'apostar per passar de la privatització a la “commonificació”. Com a mostra, entre més de 120 propostes generades aquestes són les 10 mesures amb més suport per part dels participants a les jornades de procomuns.net, que es van prioritzar i posteriorment sumar a un recull extens en un document de treball complet que es pot consultar des de <http://procomuns.net/ca/politiques/> <http://procomuns.net/ca/politiques/> http://procomuns.net/ca/politiques/ 1. Millora de regulacions per a l’economia col·laborativa procomú: estudiar noves formes de legislació sobre els subjectes jurídics/econòmics, més enllà de models multinacionals pel lucre, que posin per davant la governança participativa, la missió social i/o la sostenibilitat mediambiental. 2. Impulsar la incubació de nous projectes i iniciatives d’economia col·laborativa procomú: crear una incubadora amb infraestructura física i tecnològica pensada pel procomú, així com facilitat recursos per a l’emprenedoria col·lectiva procomú, que a banda de l’impacte social positiu promogui projectes viables que compleixin amb criteris d’obertura, reutilització, transparència, etc. 3. Fomentar fórmules existents o habilitar-ne de noves per al finançament de les iniciatives procomuns: fer una crida al finançament d’experiències pilot innovadores amb un model cofinançat (match-funding) que faci efecte crida de projectes amb criteris procomuns, combinant el micromecenatge individual amb l’efecte multiplicador d’un capital llavor que multipliqui cada aportació ciutadana. 4. Adoptar o reassignar l’ús d’espais i altra infraestructura municipal per al sector: Habilitar la gestió mancomunada d’espais de treball i locals buits per al treball i desenvolupament de projectes de producció col·laborativa procomú, facilitant la mobilitat, compartició, conciliació i impuls del sector entre professionals i interessats. 5. Canviar com opera internament l’Ajuntament en alguns fronts vinculats al procomú: realitzar una experiència pilot en què l’Ajuntament faci servir serveis d’actors o comunitats que funcionen com empreses procomuns, com ara guifi.net per a infraestructures de comunicació digital. 6. Combatre la mala pràctica de les administracions i la corrupció en l'àmbit de polítiques tecnològiques i de coneixement: Registre obligatori de reunions i contactes amb els lobbys o grups de pressió que representen interessos econòmics de les grans corporacions en telecomunicacions o serveis tecnològics. 7. Ajudar en la difusió local i per barris per apropar-ne sectors i altres economies afins: promoure una xarxa d’espais oberts de fabricació com els ateneus de fabricació, fablabs i espais maker, amb programes educatius, enfocats a la reparació i reutilització i incentius econòmics. 8. Ampliar el segell Barcelona en clau de visibilitat exterior de les iniciatives locals: promoure segells de producte ecològics, socials, sense obsolescència programada, reparables, transparents i de codi obert i lliure. 9. Que les inversions en grans esdeveniments tecnològics recaiguin en la promoció del procomú local: potenciar que els congressos i grans esdeveniments de Barcelona donin visibilitat i suport a l’economia col·laborativa procomú, i que se’n promogui per exemple la tecnologia oberta o donant (encara) més visibilitat a experiències locals rellevants. 10. Incentivar i donar suport a la recerca i comprensió del fenomen per a seguir avançant: generar accés lliure a dades públiques sobre aspectes econòmics i socials, emprenedoria, accions de suport, resultats, etc. (sempre amb respecte a normatives de privacitat i la permanència de dades). <http://www.procomuns.net>www.procomuns.net Contact: info(a)dimmons.net CASTELLANO Lanzamiento de la Declaración para una economía colaborativa procomún: recomendaciones de políticas públicas para promover modelos procomunes orientados a la economía colaborativa. Estamos encantados de anunciar el lanzamiento de la versión 0.3 de la Declaración para una economía colaborativa procomún. La Declaración tiene como primer objetivo poner en relieve la importancia a la hora de distinguir entre los diferentes modelos de economía colaborativa -basados en función del tipo de economía, tecnología y acceso al conocimiento-, así como la relevancia de un modelo orientado a los bienes procomunes dentro de la economía colaborativa. En segundo lugar, para proporcionar recomendaciones políticas para las administraciones públicas, en general, y concretamente para el proceso de diseño de las directrices reguladoras emprendidas por la Comisión Europea y el Comité de las Regiones de la Unión Europea. En este sentido, el documento ofrece más de 120 recomendaciones políticas. La Declaración es el resultado de un proceso de co-creación de políticas públicas que incluyeron varios canales de consulta y participación a través de la red y el debate en un evento de carácter internacional que tuvo lugar en Barcelona durante el mes de marzo del año 2016, que consiguió reunir a más de 400 expertos, ciudadanos y representantes del sector, que concluye en esta declaración conjunta de políticas públicas para la economía colaborativa. Versión completa: http://procomuns.net/es/politicas/ Declaración procomuns y propuestas de políticas para la economía colaborativa procomún La colaboración es economía La colaboración en la consecución de objetivos compartidos orientada a la provisión de bienes y servicios que cubren las necesidades de la población y para garantizar una vida digna es, y debería serlo aún más, el fin del sistema económico. La adopción de las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación ha reducido enormemente los costes de coordinación y transacción de la colaboración, abriendo un universo de nuevas oportunidades. El procomún como tercer modelo productivo La producción procomún se caracteriza por comunidades que colaboran por el beneficio mutuo y colectivo, bajo principios de participación y gobierno conjunto del proceso, que resultan en recursos y servicios de propiedad colectiva y/o de acceso público. Es un tercer modelo que rompe el binomio Estado-Mercado como los dos únicos modelos de organización para cubrir las necesidades de la población, y que aspira a un equilibrio más respetuoso con el sistema de reproducción social y la economía de los cuidados y con el medio ambiente. Los casos más conocidos y de gran éxito son el software libre (que domina por encima del privativo en muchos campos de software, como en el de los servidores en Internet) o la Wikipedia (referente global del conocimiento libre y de la participación en línea), iniciativas en las que el modelo procomún puede llegar a tener más presencia en la industria en la que opera que modelos económicos tradicionales y privativos de empresa. La producción procomún está creciendo rápidamente, expandiéndose a muchas áreas. ¿Qué economía queremos? Economía colaborativa extractiva y privativa versus economía social, solidaria y procomún Más recientemente, hemos visto la aparición y el crecimiento de modelos híbridos, que adoptan el mismo espíritu y presentan lógicas de organización similares al modelo de economía colaborativa procomún, basados en principios de colaboración, pero privatizando otros aspectos (sin que las personas que contribuyan puedan intervenir en su gobernanza y con un modelo de propiedad privada). Es el caso de Uber o Airbnb, corporaciones multinacionales con base en Silicon Valley, al estilo de los modelos económicos del capitalismo globalizado imperante, basados en lucrarse gracias a la colaboración online. La economía colaborativa ha sido, por un lado, readaptada por un proceso de profundización de modelos económicos guiados fundamentalmente por el lucro y la especulación (Internet como nueva burbuja, similar a la inmobiliaria), generando graves desigualdades y pérdida de derechos; y, por otro lado es una realidad que ha hecho escalar y ganar centralidad a los principios de la economía cooperativa, social y solidaria, con un gran potencial de transformación económica y para contribuir a resolver problemas de exclusión social y política, así como medioambientales. Es el momento de elegir qué economía colaborativa, y en definitiva, qué economía queremos. Un modelo económico para otra política: de la privatización a la “commonificación” La economía colaborativa procomún también representa un modelo económico para otra política. Los modelos organizativos de procomún pueden constituir un modelo para hacer más eficientes las operaciones de la administración pública y para hacer un mejor uso público de los recursos y para abrir más canales de participación y activación de la sociedad civil en la resolución de problemas comunes y de necesidades públicas, a través de partenariados comunes-privados. Constituye una vía para pasar de la privatización imperante, en el primer ciclo de globalización económica en crisis, a la "commonificación", con la involucración de la ciudadanía y de las instituciones democráticas en la provisión y producción de bienes y servicios públicos, sin tener que caer en lógicas privadas y sin que su implementación pase por la recentralización basada en el Estado, sino en la activación de esta misma ciudadanía. Es el momento para promover políticas públicas para el cambio hacia una economía colaborativa procomún Ahora es el momento de que las administraciones acompañen y potencien este tipo de economía colaborativa frente a otra que se está apropiando del nombre, de que las administraciones actúen para frenar el cerco al conocimiento y a los procomunes digitales. Ahora es el momento, porque se da la coincidencia de los nuevos municipalismos y del rol emergente de las ciudades como sistemas operativos del cambio, y también la necesidad de avanzar hacia soluciones compartidas frente a las desigualdades, la participación en y con las instituciones y la experimentación de nuevas fórmulas en las que la actividad económica sea entendida de forma holística y al servicio de las personas. La economía colaborativa procomún: ¿de qué estamos hablando? Principios guía Los principios guía del acercamiento a la economía colaborativa procomún y las preguntas que nos podemos hacer, por tanto, a la hora de abordar la cuestión de qué iniciativas de economía colaborativa promover y fomentar (desde los diferentes actores implicados) vendrían a ser: ¿Qué economía? - Aquella que busca dar un servicio o recurso de forma económicamente sostenible, sin poner el lucro por encima de su finalidad de servicio ni entrar en dinámicas especulativas. - Aquella que reconoce valor más allá del monetario y que adopta modalidades de gobernanza que aseguran control del valor generado y/o su dirección por parte de la comunidad de usuarias o miembros. - La que está en la línea de modalidades de empresa ligadas a la economía cooperativa, social y solidaria, como la tradición cooperativista, y el tercer sector (por ejemplo, fundaciones con representación de la comunidad). - La que es responsable con las externalidades que genera, ya sea en términos medioambientales o de reproducción social. - La que incluye principios de equidad y de justicia en el desarrollo y en la distribución del trabajo, centrándose en el bienestar de las personas y en la gobernanza de la comunidad. ¿Qué conocimiento? Conocimiento abierto con la utilización de licencias libres o de procomún (como las licencias Creative Commons). La que busca favorecer el acceso y la reapropiación de los recursos generados y la propiedad colectiva o pública. ¿Qué tecnología? Opciones tecnológicas que favorezcan la transparencia, la participación y la libertad de los contribuyentes, ciudadanos y usuarios. En esta línea, basadas en software libre, estándares abiertos y, en la medida de lo posible, en arquitecturas descentralizadas. Desde el grupo impulsor de Barcola (Barcelona Colaborativa) y las entidades de producción procomún que agrupa, informados por la investigación desarrollada por el grupo Dimmons.net del IN3-UOC y el proyecto Europeo P2Pvalue, y como resultado de las jornadas Procomuns.net (Barcelona, marzo de 2016) en que participaron más de 400 personas, y en las que se abrió un proceso de cocreación de políticas públicas en paralelo a las consultas del Plan de Acción Municipal (PAM) del Área de Participación del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, proponemos una serie de recomendaciones, seguidas de medidas concretas para las administraciones, para que se adopten en estrecha cooperación con la sociedad civil, otras entidades interesadas y el tejido productivo: Principios generales - Política económica: apoyar a pequeñas y medianas empresas, siguiendo la lógica de la economía cooperativa, social y solidaria, y a las empresas con modelos de consumo y producción que tengan cuidado del medio ambiente, la reproducción social y sean inclusivas, lo cual comporta la necesaria adaptación de las modalidades de empresa y del rol de la ciudadanía como productora en la economía colaborativa procomún. - Política tecnológica: apoyar las tecnologías libres y descentralizadas. - Política de conocimiento e innovación: apoyar el conocimiento abierto y garantizar que la innovación financiada con recursos públicos esté a disposición bajo licencias libres. - Política pública (administración pública/servicios públicos): incentivar la creación de partenariados entre la administración pública y la economía colaborativa procomún, en el marco de la estrategia de apostar por pasar de la privatización a la "commonificación". Como muestra, entre más de 120 propuestas generadas estas son las diez medidas con más apoyo por parte de los participantes en las jornadas de procomuns.net, que se priorizaron y posteriormente sumaron a una recopilación extensa en un documento de trabajo completo que se puede consultar desde <http://procomuns.net/es/politicas/> <http://procomuns.net/es/politicas/>http://procomuns.net/es/politicas/ 1. Mejora de regulaciones para la economía colaborativa procomún: estudiar nuevas formas de legislación sobre los sujetos jurídicos/económicos, más allá de modelos multinacionales de lucro, que antepongan la gobernanza participativa, la misión social y/o la sostenibilidad medioambiental. 2. Impulsar la incubación de nuevos proyectos e iniciativas de economía colaborativa procomún: crear una incubadora con infraestructura física y tecnológica pensada para el procomún y facilitar recursos para el emprendimiento colectivo procomún, que aparte del impacto social positivo promueva proyectos viables que cumplan con criterios de apertura, reutilización, transparencia, etc. 3. Habilitar fórmulas existentes o nuevas para la financiación de las iniciativas procomunes: hacer un llamamiento a la financiación de experiencias piloto innovadoras con un modelo cofinanciado ( match-funding) que provoque un efecto de llamada de proyectos con criterios procomún, combinando el micromecenazgo individual con el efecto multiplicador de un capital semilla que multiplique cada aportación ciudadana. 4. Adoptar o reasignar el uso de espacios y de otras infraestructuras municipales para el sector: habilitar la gestión mancomunada de espacios de trabajo y de locales vacíos para el trabajo y desarrollo de proyectos de producción colaborativa procomún, facilitando la movilidad, compartición e impulso del sector entre profesionales y personas interesadas. 5. Cambiar cómo opera internamente el Ayuntamiento en algunos frentes vinculados al procomún: Realizar una experiencia piloto en la que el Ayuntamiento utilice servicios de actores o comunidades que funcionan como empresas procomún, como guifi.net o similares para infraestructuras de comunicación digital. 6. Combatir la mala práctica de las administraciones y la corrupción en el ámbito de políticas tecnológicas y de conocimiento: registro obligatorio de reuniones y contactos con los lobbies que representan intereses económicos de las grandes corporaciones en telecomunicaciones o servicios tecnológicos. 7. Ayudar en la difusión local y por barrios para acercar sectores y otras economías afines: promover una red de espacios abiertos de fabricación, como ateneos de fabricación, FabLabs y “espacios maker”, con programas educativos, enfocados a la reparación y reutilización y von incentivos económicos. 8. Ampliar la visibilidad de la ciudad en clave de promoción exterior de las iniciativas locales: promover sellos de producto ecológicos, sociales, sin obsolescencia programada, reparables, transparentes y de código abierto y libre. 9. Que las inversiones en grandes eventos recaigan en la promoción del procomún local: potenciar que los congresos y grandes eventos de la ciudad den visibilidad y apoyo a la economía colaborativa procomún y que se promueva, por ejemplo, la tecnología abierta o se dé (todavía) más visibilidad a experiencias locales relevantes. 10. Incentivar y apoyar la investigación y comprensión del fenómeno para seguir avanzando: generar acceso libre a datos públicos sobre aspectos económicos y sociales, emprendimiento, acciones de apoyo, resultados, etc. (siempre con respeto a normativas de privacidad y a la permanencia de datos). <http://www.procomuns.net>www.procomuns.net Contact: info(a)dimmons.net -- «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» @Lilaroja «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Faculty Affiliated. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Director research on digital commons. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia. Researcher. Institute of Government and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. 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Toward a Global Realignment
by willi uebelherr 17 May '16

17 May '16

Dear friends, we have to know and understand our opponents. Therefore it is important to understand their strategic calculus. Die deutsche Uebersetzung: Auf dem Weg zu einer globalen Neuordnung www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=33386 many greetings, willi Manaus, Brasil Toward a Global Realignment Zbigniew Brzezinski 17.04.2016 www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignment/ As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture. Five basic verities regarding the emerging redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment. The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial power. But neither is any other major power. The second verity is that Russia is experiencing the latest convulsive phase of its imperial devolution. A painful process, Russia is not fatally precluded – if it acts wisely – from becoming eventually a leading European nation-state. However, currently it is pointlessly alienating some of its former subjects in the Islamic southwest of its once extensive empire, as well as Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, not to mention the Baltic States. The third verity is that China is rising steadily, if more slowly as of late, as America’s eventual coequal and likely rival; but for the time being it is careful not to pose an outright challenge to America. Militarily, it seems to be seeking a breakthrough in a new generation of weapons while patiently enhancing its still very limited naval power. The fourth verity is that Europe is not now and is not likely to become a global power. But it can play a constructive role in taking the lead in regard to transnational threats to global wellbeing and even human survival. Additionally, Europe is politically and culturally aligned with and supportive of core U.S. interests in the Middle East, and European steadfastness within NATO is essential to an eventually constructive resolution of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The fifth verity is that the currently violent political awakening among post-colonial Muslims is, in part, a belated reaction to their occasionally brutal suppression mostly by European powers. It fuses a delayed but deeply felt sense of injustice with a religious motivation that is unifying large numbers of Muslims against the outside world; but at the same time, because of historic sectarian schisms within Islam that have nothing to do with the West, the recent welling up of historical grievances is also divisive within Islam. Taken together as a unified framework, these five verities tell us that the United States must take the lead in realigning the global power architecture in such a way that the violence erupting within and occasionally projected beyond the Muslim world—and in the future possibly from other parts of what used to be called the Third World—can be contained without destroying the global order. We can sketch this new architecture by elaborating briefly each of the five foregoing verities. First, America can only be effective in dealing with the current Middle Eastern violence if it forges a coalition that involves, in varying degrees, also Russia and China. To enable such a coalition to take shape, Russia must first be discouraged from its reliance on the unilateral use of force against its own neighbors—notably Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic States—and China should be disabused of the idea that selfish passivity in the face of the rising regional crisis in the Middle East will prove to be politically and economically rewarding to its ambitions in the global arena. These shortsighted policy impulses need to be channeled into a more farsighted vision. Second, Russia is becoming for the first time in its history a truly national state, a development that is as momentous as it is generally overlooked. The Czarist Empire, with its multinational but largely politically passive population, came to an end with World War I and the Bolshevik creation of an allegedly voluntary union of national republics (the USSR), with power resting effectively in Russian hands, took its place. The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 led to the sudden emergence of a predominantly Russian state as its successor, and to the transformation of the former Soviet Union’s non-Russian “republics” into formally independent states. These states are now consolidating their independence, and both the West and China—in different areas and different ways—are exploiting that new reality to Russia’s disadvantage. In the meantime, Russia’s own future depends on its ability to become a major and influential nation-state that is part of a unifying Europe. Not to do so could have dramatically negative consequences for Russia’s ability to withstand growing territorial-demographic pressure from China, which is increasingly inclined as its power grows to recall the “unequal” treaties Moscow imposed on Beijing in times past. Third, China’s dramatic economic success requires enduring patience and the country’s awareness that political haste will make for social waste. The best political prospect for China in the near future is to become America’s principal partner in containing global chaos of the sort that is spreading outward (including to the northeast) from the Middle East. If it is not contained, it will contaminate Russia’s southern and eastern territories as well as the western portions of China. Closer relations between China and the new republics in Central Asia, the post-British Muslim states in Southwest Asia (notably Pakistan) and especially with Iran (given its strategic assets and economic significance), are the natural targets of Chinese regional geopolitical outreach. But they should also be targets of global Sino-American accommodation. Fourth, tolerable stability will not return to the Middle East as long as local armed military formations can calculate that they can be simultaneously the beneficiaries of a territorial realignment while selectively abetting extreme violence. Their ability to act in a savage manner can only be contained by increasingly effective—but also selective—pressure derived from a base of U.S.-Russian-Chinese cooperation that, in turn, enhances the prospects for the responsible use of force by the region’s more established states (namely, Iran, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt). The latter should also be the recipients of more selective European support. Under normal circumstances, Saudi Arabia would be a significant player on that list, but the current inclination of the Saudi government still to foster Wahhabi fanaticism, even while engaged in ambitious domestic modernization efforts, raises grave doubts regarding Saudi Arabia’s ability to play a regionally significant constructive role. Fifth, special attention should be focused on the non-Western world’s newly politically aroused masses. Long-repressed political memories are fueling in large part the sudden and very explosive awakening energized by Islamic extremists in the Middle East, but what is happening in the Middle East today may be just the beginning of a wider phenomenon to come out of Africa, Asia, and even among the pre-colonial peoples of the Western Hemisphere in the years ahead. Periodic massacres of their not-so-distant ancestors by colonists and associated wealth-seekers largely from western Europe (countries that today are, still tentatively at least, most open to multiethnic cohabitation) resulted within the past two or so centuries in the slaughter of colonized peoples on a scale comparable to Nazi World War II crimes: literally involving hundreds of thousands and even millions of victims. Political self-assertion enhanced by delayed outrage and grief is a powerful force that is now surfacing, thirsting for revenge, not just in the Muslim Middle East but also very likely beyond. Much of the data cannot be precisely established, but taken collectively, they are shocking. Let just a few examples suffice. In the 16th century, due largely to disease brought by Spanish explorers, the population of the native Aztec Empire in present-day Mexico declined from 25 million to approximately one million. Similarly, in North America, an estimated 90 percent of the native population died within the first five years of contact with European settlers, due primarily to diseases. In the 19th century, various wars and forced resettlements killed an additional 100,000. In India from 1857-1867, the British are suspected of killing up to one million civilians in reprisals stemming from the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British East India Company’s use of Indian agriculture to grow opium then essentially forced on China resulted in the premature deaths of millions, not including the directly inflicted Chinese casualties of the First and Second Opium Wars. In the Congo, which was the personal holding of Belgian King Leopold II, 10-15 million people were killed between 1890 and 1910. In Vietnam, recent estimates suggest that between one and three million civilians were killed from 1955 to 1975. As to the Muslim world in Russia’s Caucasus, from 1864 and 1867, 90 percent of the local Circassian population was forcibly relocated and between 300,000 and 1.5 million either starved to death or were killed. Between 1916 and 1918, tens of thousands of Muslims were killed when 300,000 Turkic Muslims were forced by Russian authorities through the mountains of Central Asia and into China. In Indonesia, between 1835 and 1840, the Dutch occupiers killed an estimated 300,000 civilians. In Algeria, following a 15-year civil war from 1830-1845, French brutality, famine, and disease killed 1.5 million Algerians, nearly half the population. In neighboring Libya, the Italians forced Cyrenaicans into concentration camps, where an estimated 80,000 to 500,000 died between 1927 and 1934. More recently, in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989 the Soviet Union is estimated to have killed around one million civilians; two decades later, the United States has killed 26,000 civilians during its 15-year war in Afghanistan. In Iraq, 165,000 civilians have been killed by the United States and its allies in the past 13 years. (The disparity between the reported number of deaths inflicted by European colonizers compared with the United States and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan may be due in part to the technological advances that have resulted in the more productive use of force and in part as well to a shift in the world’s normative climate.) Just as shocking as the scale of these atrocities is how quickly the West forgot about them. In today’s postcolonial world, a new historical narrative is emerging. A profound resentment against the West and its colonial legacy in Muslim countries and beyond is being used to justify their sense of deprivation and denial of self-dignity. A stark example of the experience and attitudes of colonial peoples is well summarized by the Senegalese poet David Diop in “Vultures”: In those days, When civilization kicked us in the face The vultures built in the shadow of their talons The blood stained monument of tutelage… Given all this, a long and painful road toward an initially limited regional accommodation is the only viable option for the United States, Russia, China, and the pertinent Middle Eastern entities. For the United States, that will require patient persistence in forging cooperative relationships with some new partners (particularly Russia and China) as well as joint efforts with more established and historically rooted Muslim states (Turkey, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia if it can detach its foreign policy from Wahhabi extremism) in shaping a wider framework of regional stability. Our European allies, previously dominant in the region, can still be helpful in that regard. A comprehensive U.S. pullout from the Muslim world favored by domestic isolationists, could give rise to new wars (for example, Israel vs. Iran, Saudi Arabia vs. Iran, a major Egyptian intervention in Libya) and would generate an even deeper crisis of confidence in America’s globally stabilizing role. In different but dramatically unpredictable ways, Russia and China could be the geopolitical beneficiaries of such a development even as global order itself becomes the more immediate geopolitical casualty. Last but not least, in such circumstances a divided and fearful Europe would see its current member states searching for patrons and competing with one another in alternative but separate arrangements among the more powerful trio. A constructive U.S. policy must be patiently guided by a long-range vision. It must seek outcomes that promote the gradual realization in Russia (probably post-Putin) that its only place as an influential world power is ultimately within Europe. China’s increasing role in the Middle East should reflect the reciprocal American and Chinese realization that a growing U.S.-PRC partnership in coping with the Middle Eastern crisis is an historically significant test of their ability to shape and enhance together wider global stability. The alternative to a constructive vision, and especially the quest for a one-sided militarily and ideologically imposed outcome, can only result in prolonged and self-destructive futility. For America, that could entail enduring conflict, fatigue, and conceivably even a demoralizing withdrawal to its pre-20th century isolationism. For Russia, it could mean major defeat, increasing the likelihood of subordination in some fashion to Chinese predominance. For China, it could portend war not only with the United States but also, perhaps separately, with either Japan or India or with both. And, in any case, a prolonged phase of sustained ethnic, quasi-religious wars pursued through the Middle East with self-righteous fanaticism would generate escalating bloodshed within and outside the region, and growing cruelty everywhere. The fact is that there has never been a truly “dominant” global power until the emergence of America on the world scene. Imperial Great Britain came close to becoming one, but World War I and later World War II not only bankrupted it but also prompted the emergence of rival regional powers. The decisive new global reality was the appearance on the world scene of America as simultaneously the richest and militarily the most powerful player. During the latter part of the 20th century no other power even came close. That era is now ending. While no state is likely in the near future to match America’s economic-financial superiority, new weapons systems could suddenly endow some countries with the means to commit suicide in a joint tit-for-tat embrace with the United States, or even to prevail. Without going into speculative detail, the sudden acquisition by some state of the capacity to render America militarily inferior would spell the end of America’s global role. The result would most probably be global chaos. And that is why it behooves the United States to fashion a policy in which at least one of the two potentially threatening states becomes a partner in the quest for regional and then wider global stability, and thus in containing the least predictable but potentially the most likely rival to overreach. Currently, the more likely to overreach is Russia, but in the longer run it could be China. Since the next twenty years may well be the last phase of the more traditional and familiar political alignments with which we have grown comfortable, the response needs to be shaped now. During the rest of this century, humanity will also have to be increasingly preoccupied with survival as such on account of a confluence of environmental challenges. Those challenges can only be addressed responsibly and effectively in a setting of increased international accommodation. And that accommodation has to be based on a strategic vision that recognizes the urgent need for a new geopolitical framework. *The author acknowledges the helpful contribution of his research assistant Paul Wasserman, and the scholarship on the subject of colonial brutality by Adam Hochschild, Richard Pierce, William Polk, and the Watson Institute at Brown University, among others. Zbigniew Brzezinski is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977-81. He is the author, most recently, of Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. --- Este email foi escaneado pelo Avast antivírus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Commons Space, World Social Forum, Montreal 2016
by Kevin Flanagan 17 May '16

17 May '16

#Announcement In French below# Commons Space, World Social Forum, Montreal 2016 ========================================== We invite you to participate in the Commons Space which will be hosted at the the World Social Forum 2016 taking place from the 9th to the14th of August in Montreal. This is a space for experimentation, exchange and construction of commons based alternatives. This space will welcome and support the strategic process of convergence of commoners and social movements throughout the WSF. Commons... ======== In 2009 at the Social Forum in Belem Chico Whitaker launched the Manifesto Reclaim the Commons which was adopted by members of the International Council of the WSF [ http://bienscommuns.org/signature/appel/index.php?a=du&c=nfg1de] Since then, social movements have adopted this cause. At the WSF in Dakar in 2011, Silke Helfrich reported on the increased visibility of workshops and activities sharing the theme of thecommons.[ http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/wsf-dakar-shifting-from-the-log… ]. In 2012, the commons was the central slogan of the People's Summit in Rio calling "for Social and Environmental Justice in defense of the commons, against the commodification of life".[ http://rio20.net/en/propuestas/final-declaration-of-the-people%E2%80%99s-su… ] Again in 2012 on International Earth Day in Montreal at one of the biggest rallies of the "Printemps érable" (Maple Spring) protestors carried signs, flags and banners calling for the protection of the commons from privatization. Ideas and practices based on Commons, P2P, Open Cooperativism continue to grow and are being developed by activists in many areas: Social Solidarity Economy, Collaborative & Sharing Economy, resistance to enclosure such as land grabs, defending water as a commons,Struggles against financialization and Climate change to name but a few. Activists find each other at events and festivals dedicated to the commons, like Afropixel (Dakar, 2012), Pixelache Festival (Helsinki,, 2014), Art of Commoning (Montreal, 2014), International Festival of the Commons (Chieri, Italy, 2015), Festival Temps des communs (Francophonie, 2015), CommonsFest (Athens, 2015), Procomun (Barcelona, 2016), and many more. With a shared ambition to make another world possible activists are working together to develop commons based policies that deepen citizen participation. In local assemblies and civic laboratories, new spaces for civic engagement based on the commons are emerging. Commons are playing a leading role in the development of new thinking essential to the renewal of democracy. * Sharing practices and building alliances for the defense and creation of the commons, * Developing and sharing commons based policies for cities, regions and countries, * Building a convergence of commoners through continued dialogue on shared causes and strategies with movements working on transition such as : Degrowth, Political Ecology, Social Solidarity Economy, etc. Self organized and distributed Commons Space ====================================== The Commons Space at the WSF in Montreal will be open for the duration of the forum to anyone or any organization that is concerned with the commons, and wants to organize a workshop or any activity. We propose a space in the spirit of the School of the Commons which aims at : * Documenting and disseminating knowledge on the Commons based on shared experiences and learning. * To concretely support the creation, reappropriation or conservation of existing and emerging commons through actions or projects based on mutual assistance and commitment. * To develop the practice of Commoning based on creative and collaborative skills and as a way of life. There will be an open and flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of activities and topics including both pre-programmed events and space for impromtu sessions. Most importantly we wish to invite you to participate in the assemblies and convergence sessions. The following topics have already been proposed: * Urban Commons/City as a Commons/Municipal Movements * The Common as a New Political Subject * Open/Platform Cooperativism The Commons Space will be open and distributed in Montréal, in collaboration with the coworking spaces in the city. Its headquarters will be located at ECTO, a coworking coop [www.ecto.coop] in the heart of creative Montreal. Other coworking spaces (Salon 1861, Temps libre) and inter-cultural places will host activities. The WSF is a unique opportunity to connect and work with activists from all over the world North/South/East/West to progress the cause of the Commons. This is an open call for proposals and activities. We invite you and your organisation to participate in co-organizing and facilitating the Commons Space. You can express your interest in participating and submit proposals for workshops, presentations, arts and cultural interventions simply by writing to the signatories of this announcement listed below. To participate in discussion and to keep informed as the program of activities develops you can sign up to our mailing list. http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016 [Looking forward seeing you in MTL] Frédéric Sultan [fredericsultan(a)gmail.com] Yves Otis [yves(a)percolab.com] Kevin Flanagan [kevin(a)p2pfoundation.net] - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ Elisabetta Cangelosi [betta.cangelosi(a)gmail.com] Alain Ambrosi [ambrosia(a)web.ca] Abdou Salam Fall [asfall(a)refer.sn] Monique Chartrand [direction(a)communautique.qc.ca] This is an initiative of Gazibo, Remix the Commons, Communautique, LARTES, percolab, P2P Foundation, VECAM, and supported by the Foundation for Human Progress. Espace des Communs/Commons Space/Espacio de los comunes Espace des Communs, dans le cadre du Forum Social Mondial, Montréal 2016 Pendant toute la durée du Forum Social Mondial, soit du 9 au 14 août 2016, un Espace des Communs sera mis en place, voué à l'expérimentation, à l'échange et à la construction d'alternatives basées sur les communs. Cet espace se propose d'accueillir et de soutenir le processus de convergence stratégique des commoners et des mouvements sociaux tout au long du Forum. Communs en action Les communs ont fait leur apparition dans l’espace des Forum Sociaux en 2009 à Bélem lorsque Chico Whitaker a lancé un «  appel pour la récupération des biens communs  » qui sera repris par les membres du Conseil International [http://bienscommuns.org/signature/appel/?a=appel] Depuis cette date, les mouvements sociaux s'emparent de cette cause. A Dakar, au FSM 2011, Silke Helfrich témoigne de l’omniprésence du thème des communs au sein des ateliers et activités du Forum [ http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/wsf-dakar-shifting-from-the-log… ]. En 2012, le Sommet mondial des Peuples à Rio en fait un slogan central : « pour la justice sociale et écologique, contre la marchandisation de la vie et pour la défense des biens communs  » [ http://rio20.net/en/propuestas/final-declaration-of-the-people%E2%80%99s-su…] En 2012 encore, à Montréal, les communs sont sur les drapeaux de l'une des plus grandes manifestations du « Printemps érable » au Québec lors du jour de la Terre. Depuis, les idées et les pratiques basées sur le P2P, le coopérativisme ouvert et les communs sont montées en puissance. Elles sont portées par les militants engagés dans de nombreux domaines : économie sociale et solidaire, économie numérique basée sur le P2P, lutte contre l'accaparement des terres, défense de l'eau comme bien commun, lutte contre la financiarisation du monde, contre les changements climatiques et bien d'autres encore. Elles se retrouvent au centre d’événements et de festivals qu’ils leur sont dédiés, comme Afropixel (Dakar, 2012), Pixelache Festival (Helsinki, 2014), L’Art de l’en-commun (Montréal, 2014), Festival international des communs (Chieri, Italie, 2015), Festival Temps des communs (Francophonie, 2015), CommonsFest (Athènes, 2015), Procomun (Barcelone, 2016) et bien d’autres encore. De nouveaux espaces d'engagement civique appuyés sur les communs émergent enfin sous forme d'assemblées locales ou de laboratoires civiques. Les communs y jouent un rôle moteur pour penser et expérimenter le renouvellement de la démocratie. Les militants y partagent l'ambition de faire advenir des politiques basées sur les communs, la coopération des citoyens pour qu'un autre monde soit possible : Pour que soient partagées des pratiques et constitués des alliances autour de la défense et création des communs Pour que des politiques basées sur les communs émergent dans les villes, les régions et les pays Pour faire converger les commoners et poursuivre le dialogue avec les autres mouvements alternatifs de la transition (décroissance, écologie politique, économie sociale et solidaire, etc.) autour de causes et de stratégies communes. Un Espace des communs autogéré et distribué L’Espace des Communs, qui sera ouvert pendant le Forum Social Mondial de Montréal sera à la disposition de toute personne ou organisme, associé de près ou de loin au mouvement des communs, qui souhaite organiser un atelier, une session de travail ou une activité de réseautage. L’espace que nous proposons s’inscrit dans l’esprit des écoles des communs, en ayant pour de documenter et de diffuser le savoir sur les Communs à partir du partage de nos expériences et nos apprentissages, de soutenir concrètement les projets de constitution, de réappropriation et de conservation des communs, existants ou en émergence, par l’entraide et l’engagement, et de développer la posture de « commoner » par le développement les compétences créatives et collaboratives des personnes. L’Espace des Communs sera autogéré. Pas de programmation préalable, ni de thématiques imposées, mais bien un agenda ouvert et flexible permettant d’accueillir une variété d’activités et de sujets. Déjà quelques thèmes ont été proposés : Communs urbains Communs comme nouvelle sujet politique Coopérativisme ouvert et plateformes de coopération L’Espace des Communs prendra appui sur le réseau des espaces de travail partagé (coworkings) de Montréal. Son quartier général sera situé dans les locaux d’ECTO, coworking coop [www.ecto.coop] au cœur du Montréal créatif. D’autres espaces de coworking (Salon 1861, Temps libre) et de rencontres interculturelles pourront accueillir des activités. Le Forum social mondial est une occasion unique de rencontrer et de travailler avec des acteurs engagés du monde dans le développement des communs. Nous vous invitons à venir animer cet espace des Communs en soutenant sa réalisation, en organisant une activité ou en participant aux activités qui seront proposées. Vous pouvez le faire simplement en écrivant à l’un ou l’autre des signataires de ce message. Vous pouvez également vous abonner à la liste de diffusion que nous avons mise en place pour être tenu informé des développements du programme d'activités de l’Espace des communs : http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016 Au plaisir de vous rencontrer à Montréal! Frédéric Sultan [fredericsultan(a)gmail.com] Yves Otis [yves(a)percolab.com] Kevin Flanagan [kevin(a)p2pfoundation.net] - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ Elisabetta Cangelosi [betta.cangelosi(a)gmail.com] Alain Ambrosi [ambrosia(a)web.ca] Abdou Salam Fall [asfall(a)refer.sn] Monique Chartrand [direction(a)communautique.qc.ca] Une initiative de Gazibo, RemixtheCommons, Communautique, LARTES, Percolab et P2P Foundation, VECAM, soutenue par la Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme. -- https://twitter.com/flgnk Skype: kev.flanagan Phone: +353 87 743 5660

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community asset based development
by Michel Bauwens 16 May '16

16 May '16

http://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/ http://www.nurturedevelopment.org/about-abcd/ Our ambition is to support the proliferation of inclusive, bottom up, community driven change. We aim to achieve this by supporting local communities and supportive mediating/civic organisations to create the conditions where any neighbourhood can identify, connect and mobilise its assets to the benefit of the whole community. ABCD challenges the traditional deficit-based approach that tries to solve urban and rural development problems by focusing on the needs and deficiencies of individuals, neighbourhoods, towns, villages, etc. ABCD demonstrates that local assets (people, physical assets etc.) and individual strengths are key to ensure sustainable community development, and that people have a life of their own choosing. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: [global social commons discussion] WSF2016 Montreal Programme
by Michel Bauwens 16 May '16

16 May '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francine Mestrum <mestrum(a)skynet.be> Date: Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:05 PM Subject: [global social commons discussion] WSF2016 Montreal Programme To: globalsocialcommons-discussion(a)lists.openfsm.net These are the workshops we registered for the upcoming WSF in Montreal. Please let us know who will be there and able/willing to attend/speak at our workshops: 1. The common as a new political subject (Transform!, Global Social Justice, … ?) The question of the Common is often raised for water, land, the oceans, the forests… In recent years there is increasing interest for social commons such as healthcare, education and other social services. This point is also discussed in the context of the social and solidarity economy and it has become an important part of alternatives to a commodified society, built on private property In this workshop we want to see how the issue of the Common is looked at in different countries and continents. What are the common points of these experiences? 2. The social commons (Global Social Justice, Transform!, Network for Transformative Social Protection, Social Forum on Health and Social Security … ?) Global Financial Institutions are now promoting their kind of ‘social protection’: a minimalist programme, targeted on the poor, with purely economic objectives and totally compatible with neoliberalism. Till now, all over the world, most reactions are limited to a defence of the status quo, that is the old welfare states. However, these old systems do not satisfy all current needs anymore, especially with the important changes in the economic system. In this workshop, we want to discuss two alternatives: social commons on the one hand, a participatory and democratic way to decide on social protection, and the universal basic income, a simple system of equal allowances for all. 3. Universal health and social security systems (Social Forum on Health and Social Security, Global Social Justice, Network for Transformative Social Protection, … ?) In spite of all current changes in the way of thinking on social protection, the ‘old’ way of organizing the achievement of all economic and social rights can still be further improved, especially since the newest trends promoted by global financial institutions are aimed at targeting the poor. How can we promote universal health care? How to raise awareness on the need of this universalism and how to organize it? In this workshop will be discussed the experiences with the political laboratories organized in Latin America. All the best, Francine -- Archive: http://openfsm.net/projects/gsc/lists/globalsocialcommons-discussion/archiv… To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to globalsocialcommons-discussion(a)lists.openfsm.net. Please contact globalsocialcommons-discussion-manager(a)lists.openfsm.net for questions. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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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