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Fwd: Google Now Provides a Big Data View of the Ethereum Blockchain - CoinDesk
by Michel Bauwens 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Subject: Google Now Provides a Big Data View of the Ethereum Blockchain - CoinDesk To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> https://www.coindesk.com/google-now-provides-a-big-data-view-of-the-ethereu… -- -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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INSCI2018 Workshop 'The Future of Decentralized Governance'
by Francesca Musiani 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Dear colleagues, as part of the NEXTLEAP project's final steps, Harry Halpin and Ksenia Ermoshina are chairing the workshop The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption, Blockchains, and Personal Data https://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/internetsci2018/ in conjunction with the 2018 Internet Science conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. I'm on the program committee along with several colleagues from NEXTLEAP and beyond. Please consider submitting! Deadline September 25. Thanks and regards! Francesca -- Francesca Musiani (ph.d.) associate research professor (*chargée de recherche*), CNRS, ISCC <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/> associate researcher, i3, CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech vice-chair, CPT <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cp-t>, IAMCR academic editor, @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> on the web <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1960> | on twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Fwd: [Authoritarian-working-group] Populism Isn't The Problem | Boston Review
by Michel Bauwens 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nick Buxton <nick(a)tni.org> Date: Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [Authoritarian-working-group] Populism Isn't The Problem | Boston Review To: authoritarian-working-group(a)lists.tni.org < authoritarian-working-group(a)lists.tni.org> Thanks for forwarding Firoze. Am forwarding to others who were involved in some of TNI's discussions on this last year. Very good piece and interesting on the US history of the term (Farmers Alliance) On 02/09/18 04:12, Firoze Manji wrote: http://bostonreview.net/politics/jason-frank-populism-not-the-problem Populism Isn't The Problem August 15, 2018 Aug 15, 2018 *Image: A 1896 cartoon shows William Jennings Bryan as a populist snake swallowing the Democratic party mule/Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryan,_Judge_magazine,_1896.jpg>.* The concepts we use to frame our understanding of the political world are always implicated in the politics they purport to describe. They bring certain aspects of a political context into clear view while obscuring or concealing others entirely. For example, when advocates of the U.S. Constitution proclaimed themselves “Federalists” and labelled their opponents “Antifederalists,” they not only understated their own commitment to the consolidation of national power, they shifted the frame of the political debate towards appropriate institutional forms and away from post-revolutionary social conflicts between commercial elites and the newly enfranchised popular classes. This is a recurring theme in politics, but the nature of language and its relation to politics becomes particularly vivid—and urgent—in periods of crisis, when newly emergent political forms challenge “politics as usual” as well as the concepts we use to navigate that familiar terrain. These are periods that require us to be more reflective about the political categories we rely on: what they reveal and what they conceal. The charge of populism does not just muddy our understanding of critiques of the establishment. It inhibits our engagement with the deeper causes of democratic decline. So it is with “populism,” the go-to term for scholars and journalists alike to describe the emergent authoritarianisms of our time and the dangers they pose to liberal democracy. It is hard to keep track of the growing raft of conferences, symposia, books, and op-eds dedicated to explaining populism’s role in hastening democratic decline. The consonant titles—Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s *How Democracies Die* (2018), Yascha Mounk’s *The People vs. Democracy* (2018), William Galston’s *Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy* <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228922/anti-pluralism> (2018), and so on—reveal a widely shared thesis. As Jan-Werner Müller, one of the most eloquent advocates <http://bostonreview.net/politics/jan-werner-muller-populism> of the populist thesis, wrote in *What is Populism? *(2000), “The danger to democracies today is not some comprehensive ideology that systematically denies democratic ideals. The danger is populism—a degraded form of democracy that promises to make good on democracy’s highest ideals.” For Müller and other prominent advocates of the populist thesis (we can add David Frum and Cas Mudde to the above list), populism brings into focus the common danger posed to democracy by such disparate leaders as Trump and Chavez, Orbán and Morales, Erdoğan and López Obrador, and such disparate political movements and parties as Podemos and the Tea Party, Syriza and Alternative for Germany, the Five Star Movement and the National Front. But what do we make of a concept that can unite such ideologically polarized leaders, movements, and parties? As Roger Cohen argued in a recent *New York Times* op-ed <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/populism-language-meaning.html>, not much. He urged fellow commentators to drop the term because it has “become sloppy to the point of meaninglessness, an overused epithet for multiple manifestations of political anger.” The problem, however, is not simply ambiguity or the dismissive laziness of metropolitan elites who can’t seem to work up the energy to find more precise terms “to describe current political phenomenon.” The problem is not just conceptual imprecision so much as it is political obfuscation. The charge of populism does not just muddy our understanding of the particular claims made by antiestablishment leaders and movements, it inhibits our engagement with the more longstanding and persistent causes of democratic decline. The blanket accusation of populism polices the boundaries of ‘politics as usual’ and the parameters of legitimate and reasonable political speech. The charge of populism tells us at least as much about those making the charge as it does about their opponents, and in contemporary political contexts the inherent ambiguity of populism assumes clear polemical meaning when articulated from the embattled position of a once-hegemonic liberalism. The blanket accusation of populism polices the boundaries of “politics as usual” and the parameters of legitimate and reasonable political speech. Advocates of the populist thesis emphasize its authoritarian dangers while quietly pushing off stage the more enduring and structural sources of democratic decline such as the dramatic and growing inequalities of wealth and power that have defined the era of global neoliberalism, the marketization of once public goods and steady erosion of procedures of democratic accountability, and the unfettered role of money in political life that further guarantees the ongoing intensification of these processes. These more enduring sources of democratic decline—and the resulting dynamic devolution Antonio Gramsci elegantly termed, “catastrophic equilibrium”—have arguably led to the emergence of these authoritarian movements in the first place. The term populism conveniently facilitates this evasion. Roger Cohen is not alone. Most discussions of populism begin by noting the inherent ambiguity of the term, which led Richard Hofstadter, one of American populism’s greatest historians and critics, to title a 1967 conference paper, “Everyone is talking about populism—but no one can define it.” While most agree on populism’s ideological flexibility, the consensus falls apart around what distinguishes populism from other forms of politics. Is it a particular form of party organization and electoral mobilization, or is it a social movement and example of contentious politics? Is it a style of political rhetoric, or is it a coherent, albeit “thin-centered,” ideology? With all of the disagreement, it is not surprising that the most influential theorist of populism—the late Ernesto Laclau—placed ambiguity at its very center and argued that populist reason is equivalent to the logic of the “empty signifier.” Populism entered the English language to describe a political movement born of struggle against the oligarchic economic and political order of the first Gilded Age. Populism’s inherent ambiguity helps explain the often vague or catch-all use of the term in contemporary discussions, but more reflective accounts usually recognize that populism, while ideologically flexible, is not completely open. Populism is a discourse organized around a clear set of normative commitments. Most obviously, populism emerges from a commitment to popular sovereignty, to the modern legitimating idea that the people are the ultimate ground of public authority and that political appeal to that authority can transcend the formal institutions of democratic representation. Advocates of the populist thesis emphasize the populist claim to speak on behalf of a morally pure and unitary people against the ruling power of a corrupted and unrepresentative elite. The idea that the popular will can be identified beyond the institutions of the constitutional state sets the condition for populist leaders to claim the sole mantle of popular authority against all competing political factions. The central claim of populism, we are often told, is that only some of the people really are “the People” and that it is the populist leader who acts on their behalf. This fundamental claim engenders the illiberal democracy associated with populism and its rejection of basic elements of democratic pluralism. In power, populist appeals to absolute popular authority leads to the rejection of the separation of powers, judicial independence, legitimate political opposition, and other informal and formal norms of liberal constitutionalism. The personalization of politics, these commentators often argue, is not an accident of populism but essential to it, because it is only through the crusading populist leader that the people’s will can wreak its vengeance on the corrupted ruling elite and restore power to the people themselves. When considering this familiar portrait of populism and the dangers it poses to democracy, it is worth remembering that populism entered the English language to describe a nineteenth-century political movement born of struggle against the oligarchic economic and political order of the United States’s first Gilded Age. Twenty years before the People’s Party and William Jennings Bryan’s famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, the Farmers’ Alliance served as the egalitarian heart of U.S. populism. Throughout the 1880s, hundreds of thousands of men and women participated in this interlacing and explicitly non-hierarchical network of cooperative organizations, which were active in forty-three states and territories. Far from a Caesarist politics of authoritarian personalism, U.S. populism was, as Lawrence Goodwyn writes: first and most centrally, a cooperative movement that imparted a sense of self-worth to individual people and that provided them with the instruments of self-education about the world they lived in. The movement gave them hope—a shared hope—that they were not impersonal victims of a gigantic industrial engine ruled by others but that they were, instead, people who could perform specific acts of self-determination. This populist experimentation with new democratic forms—and the sustained effort to understand and collectively address the impoverished conditions of their lives—defines U.S. populism’s radical democratic realism. The struggle to generate democratic power outside the established institutions of governance and to build a “cooperative commonwealth” gave birth to the concept of populism—an origins story that is erased in our contemporary preoccupations with “populism and democratic decline.” Indeed, in *What is Populism?* Müller somewhat awkwardly concedes that the “one party in U.S. history that explicitly called itself ‘populist’ was in fact not populist.” The point, however, is not to resolve the semantic ambiguity of populism by appealing to the authority of original meanings. Instead, while taking orientation from that history, we should examine how the charge of populism operates in contemporary political debates, especially the dangers to democracy it brings to light and those it conceals. Defenders of democracy cannot surrender the authority of the people without undermining the very goal they claim to be fighting for. By focusing on populism as the primary source of democratic decline, the economic and political developments that have most profoundly undermined democratic institutions and the meaning of democratic citizenship over the past forty years are obscured. Worse, populism has become the name given willy-nilly to all movements challenging these developments on behalf of a recovered sense of collective authority and political control, whether articulated from a racist and xenophobic right or a radically egalitarian left. Authoritarian attempts to centralize and expand the state’s executive power and wield it against “enemies of the people”—however defined by Trump, Erdoğan, Orbán, and others—should never be equated with the radically democratic institutional experimentalism of Podemos or the Farmers’ Alliance. More attention should be paid to how “the people” is envisioned by these different movements, and how they propose popular power to be democratically enacted. Designating populism as the term that best encapsulates the political dangers authoritarianism poses to democratic politics in so many parts of the world today has the additional and unfortunate consequence of suggesting that widespread resistance to these movements should not itself be populist, should not claim the mantle of “we the people” and engage in an antagonistic politics of who we are and what kind of collective power we should wield. This political movement need not recover and rally around the term populism—democratic socialism is also enjoying a new day in the sun—but it should openly recognize that a return to “politics as usual” may be insufficient to confront the full extent of the dangers democracies currently face. Defenders of democracy cannot surrender the authority of the people without undermining the very goal they claim to be fighting for. -- ----------------------------------------------------- NICK BUXTON Futures Lab/Communications/Online Learning m: +1 530 902 3772 e: nick(a)tni.org twitter: @nickbuxton skype: nickbuxton w: www.tni.org ----------------------------------------------------- Read my latest book, The Secure and the Dispossessed (November 2015)www.climatesecurityagenda.org CONNECT WITH TNI - Sign up to TNI's e-newsletters: http://www.tni.org/subscribe - TNI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TransnationalInstitute - TNI on twitter: https://twitter.com/TNInstitute _______________________________________________ Authoritarian-working-group mailing list Authoritarian-working-group(a)lists.tni.org https://lists.tni.org/mailman/listinfo/authoritarian-working-group -- 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: The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class? (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 6:27 PM Subject: The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class? (GTN Discussion) To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >From Paul Raskin <praskin(a)tellus.org> ------------------------------------------------------- Dear GTN, In 2018, our discussions have been focusing on key oppositional streams for building a systemic global movement: vivir bien, human rights, feminism, peace, and much more to come.* Now, the spotlight turns to the working class, a change agent long central to social and economic justice struggles. After all, the industrial proletariat, pushed to the wall by the capitalist system, spawned a mighty movement able to win vital shop-floor concessions and social welfare protections. However, the very success of such reforms, along with harsh neoliberal counterblows and massive economic changes, has muted the militancy and solidarity of the labor movement in recent decades. Is it time, then, to bid farewell to the working class as a driver of transformation? Not so fast, argues Guy Standing in his new GTI essay, “The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class?” While rejecting anachronistic proletarian dreams, Guy examines the shifting class structure of contemporary global capitalism, and finds new bases for hope. Specifically, he believes the “precariat”—the growing army of workers leading precarious lives of insecure jobs and unpredictable futures—could crystallize into a new mass class for spearheading system change. True, some segments of the “precariat” (the word is a portmanteau of “precarious” and “proletariat”) may serve as fodder for reactionary politics, but others can lead the progressive challenge to the neoliberal order. Whatever you conclude about Guy’s controversial thesis, his essay is sure to stimulate thinking and challenge preconceptions. Please read it at www.greattransition.org/publication/precariat-transformative-class, and let the discussion begin! Comments are welcome through Sunday, SEPTEMBER 30. Over to you, Paul GTI Director * You may recall that this series kicked off at the end of 2017 with my framing paper, “How Do We Get There? The Problem of Action” ( www.greattransition.org/publication/how-do-we-get-there) The full GTN discussion of that paper is archived at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/201-how-do-we-get-there-the-p… . ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a comment on the GT Network Read all comments (or reply) at https://greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/207-the-precariat-today-s… Note: Expect a delay between posting and receiving your comment Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?
by Michel Bauwens 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ellen Brown <Ellen.Brown(a)publicbankinginstitute.org> Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:18 PM Subject: Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next? To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Hi, here is my latest article, posted on my blog -- Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next? <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> And here are some upcoming events where I'll be speaking, in case you're interested: California Vision 2020 <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> Conference, Sept. 20, 11 am, Sheratorn Grand Hotel, Sacramento Bioneers Conference <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…>, Oct. 20, 2:45 pm, San Rafael, CA Praxis Peace Institute, Oct. 23, 4:00 pm, Sonoma, CA Marin350.org, Oct. 19, Marin, CA, TBA Also. a recent podcast <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> with Sarah Westall. See the Public Banking Institute newsletter, here <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> . Best wishes, Ellen http://EllenBrown.com <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> http://PublicBankingInstitute.org <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> Unsubscribe <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> michel(a)p2pfoundation.net from this list. Update your profile <https://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1a9&i…> -- 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: Woohoo!!!! : Invitation to "Common Passion: Cooperation and Collaboration for Resilient Communities" with Michel Bauwens
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tirrania Suhood <tirrania(a)incollaboration.com.au> Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 4:08 PM Subject: Woohoo!!!! : Invitation to "Common Passion: Cooperation and Collaboration for Resilient Communities" with Michel Bauwens To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Here’s what I’ve been sending out today Michel! I’ve posted on Linkedin. Still to post on twitter and facebook. Hi there! I am delighted to invite you to two events on Monday 24th September that are being brought to you by InCollaboration in association with City of Parramatta, UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, Mercury Coop and Start Some Good, with support from many other individuals and organisations. The events will be held in City of Parramatta and City of Sydney. The theme of these two events is “Common Passion: Cooperation and Collaboration for Resilient Communities”, with Michel Bauwens The details and registration are as follows: 1. Common Passion Parramatta - Breakfast event - When; 8:00 - 9:00 am - Where; UNE, Parramatta - Cost; $ 30.00 - Included: Tea & coffee, light refreshments and networking on arrival from 7:45 am - Optional: Strategic Directions Workshop; 9:30 am - 11:30 am Register for Parramatta Breakfast event here <https://events.humanitix.com.au/common-passion-cityofparramatta> to secure your place 2. Common Passion Sydney - Evening event - When; 5:30 - 8:00 am - Where; Sydney Startup Hub, Wynyard - Cost; $ 40.00 - Included: Light refreshments and networking on arrival from 5:30 pm Register for Sydney evening event here <https://events.humanitix.com.au/common-passion-cityofsydney> to secure your place Come to “*Common Passion: Cooperation and Collaboration for Resilient Communities*”, to ... - meet Michel Bauwens an international speaker, founder of P2P Foundation, and renowned spokesperson for face-to-face and on-line communities for the common good and for the care for the Earth - be inspired by stories of true sharing economies and resilient communities, - challenge the mindsets and learn more about alternatives to the dominant business models - build and strengthen your network of diverse people engaging with sharing and cooperation economies - contribute to building a shared vision and identifying practical initiatives for you to participate in Here's some more details 1. *Common Passion Parramatta* - At this event a number of representatives from Cooperatives, NGO's, Social Enterprises and Local Council will be joining the discussion - Afterwards, you're welcome to join an optional *Strategic Directions Workshop *from 9:30 am - 11:30 am, where committed practitioners and those keen to get involved will workshop strategic opportunities for tangible collaboration and capacity building - 1. *Common Passion Sydney* - Join a gathering of diverse people from across Sydney who have personal interest and who represent different organisational models, to explore with Michel Bauwen, and each other, the challenges and opportunities in moving forward with sharing and cooperation economies, programs and projects - Jess Scully, Councillor, City of Sydney will open the event These events are part of an emerging strategy linking with other initiatives, programs and movements committed to common good and resilient communities. We thank our many additional collaborators and supporters including; *Western Sydney University, Social Change Central, University of New England, The Cooperative Life, Talkpoint, Incubator Coop, Shelter NSW, Collaboratory, Sydney Community Forum, Parramatta Climate Action Network, Pingala, **Community Minds, Sustain: The Australian Food Network and New Economy Network Australia*. Here's those links to register again; - Register for Parramatta breakfast event here <https://events.humanitix.com.au/common-passion-cityofparramatta> ; 8:00 am - 9:00 am - Register for Sydney evening event here <https://events.humanitix.com.au/common-passion-cityofsydney> ; 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm I look forward to seeing you there! Please do pass on through your networks. Tirrania Suhood, Founder/Director, InCollaboration Tel: 0413 230 486 E : tirrania(a)incollaboration.com.au www.incollaboration.com.au [image: thumbnail_Logo Incollaboration Untitled 3 (2)] The information contained in this email and any attached files is or may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, reliance, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any attached files is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender immediately by return email and delete all copies. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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a must: very well written overview of the coming climate / resource / ecological crisis and how they interact with each other
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

very important review article, I feel everyone should read this: https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [P2P+Comunes] Sharing Cities Summit 2018 Barcelona 12th-15th November 2018
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Join the Sharing Cities Summit 2018 Barcelona from 12th to 15th November 2018 www.share.barcelona The Sharing Cities Summit 2018 <http://www.share.barcelona/> will take place in Barcelona next 12th-15th November 2018. After the previous Summit editions in Amsterdam 2016 and New York 2017, this Summit edition will expand its scope and consist on a city government encounter, and also an event to gather all actors of the Sharing economy ecosystem, for co-creating the Sharing City framework and aligning the platform economy with the general common interest. Join us and let’s shape together the future of the sharing ecosystem! This year’s edition will be divided into different venues and moments. On the one hand, an encounter between Mayors and Vice Mayors from city governments from leading cities from around the world will take place on November 12th. The cities of Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Milan, Montreal, Toronto, Montevideo, Kobe, Vienna, Barcelona, Singapore, Seoul, Austin, Torino, Portland, Madrid and Valencia, among others, have confirmed or shown their intention to attend this edition. The encounter will focus on boosting concrete commons outcomes and collaboration measures in areas including: co-creating common principles for The Sharing City; collaborations between cities on the regulation and negotiation with large platforms that generate disruptive impacts in the city; promotion and occupation policies on platform models inclusive and beneficial for the general common interest; and, knowledge’s policies and a sharing open data platform between cities. In addition, the event will deal with innovative measures to differentiate digital platforms which are not built on truly collaborative models. On the other hand, a program addressed to all actors of the Sharing Ecosystem (city governments, companies, foundations, networks, and research centers) will take place on November 12th afternoon on a public meet up, and on November 13th-15th as part of the Smart City World Congress Expo. Smart City Expo World Congress <http://www.smartcityexpo.com> is the world leading encounter on cities technologies, gathering more than 700 cities and 18.000 participants. Participating at the Summit will be a great occasion to spread your organization’s mission, to network with other actors, and to build together a Sharing economy ecosystem! Would you like to join these activities, working groups and networking? Then join the ecosystem, and choose the way you want to participate to shape the Sharing Economy: just fill in this application and participate. <http://www.share.barcelona/join/> The call will be open until 10th September. Some of the options to participate are: * Contribute to a Sharing Cities Declaration. * Exhibition space of your project at an Open Meet up for a Commons oriented Sharing Economy, on 12th November afternoon at the DHub Museum. * Shared exhibition area of your project at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2018, from 13th to 15th of November. * Shared stand to share information (ie, brochures) at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2018. * Inclusion at the Sharing Economy brochure and promotion through the official communication channels (programme, website, press, etc.) * Attend the Smart City Expo World Congress 2018 from 13th to 15th of November, with an special topic on Inclusive and Sharing cities. * Proposing an activity at the programe of the Agora space (debates, presentations and networking) at the exhibition stand of Smart City Expo World Congress 2018. * Foster relationships between platform, cities, civic society and research centers. You will find Summit updates on http://www.share.barcelona as well as more information about the official programme. You can also follow our latest news on Twitter <https://twitter.com/sharebcn2018>, Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/sharebcn2018/>and Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Sharing-Cities-Summit-Barcelona-2018-3353717369998…> . The organization of the Summit is the result of a joint effort between several actors, promoted by the City Council of Barcelona and the Dimmons <http://www.dimmons.net/> action-research group of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), with the collaboration of BarCola (a node of local actors promoter of Procomuns <http://www.procomuns.net>), Ouishare, Smart City Expo World Congress, Shareable and Sharing Cities Alliance. If you have any doubt, email us to info(a)share.barcelona and we will contact you asap. Let’s shape the Sharing Cities and build together a platform economy allied with the general commons interest! Sharing Cities Team -- 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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soon: the most advanced copyfair license ?
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

LIonel Maurel writes: In France, the CoopCycle project is the most advanced in the reflection on reciprocal licenses with a real political aim and the will to move towards an economic sphere for the Commons. They will soon publish a version of the PPL adapted to software that will be much more interesting than this Commons Clause. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/coopcycle/blog/170418/comment-proteger-le-logici… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: How we’re running better blameless postmortems
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lou Moore, CTO <info(a)codeforamerica.org> Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:34 PM Subject: How we’re running better blameless postmortems To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> During Summit I had the opportunity to hear from John Allspaw, and think about how to turn accidents into real investments in the future. <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> Tweet <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> Share <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> <http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76a48936f&id=0b6…> Forward <http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76a48936f&id=0b6…> *From Accident to Investment* We held our seventh annual Code for America Summit in June, and we were fortunate enough to have John Allspaw, Founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs and former CTO of Etsy, join us as a speaker. In his main stage talk, he introduced the concept of the blameless postmortem: knowing that software systems get increasingly complex over time, and acknowledging that complex systems fail, we must have a way of responding to those failures that leads to learning and continuous improvement. I had the opportunity hear more from John and think about how to turn accidents into real investments in the future. Read on to learn: - How to actively steer people away from explanations and remediations, and focus on learning by mining for descriptive details around the key junctures in the incident timeline. - The importance of re-introducing the purpose and guidelines of the meeting every time you start one. - How postmortem facilitation is a practice, and like with any other practice, training and repetition are key. You can find the full piece, From accident to investment: How to run better blameless postmortems <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…>, on the Code for America Blog. More stories from the CfA network: - Delivery-driven government: Principles and practices for government in the digital age <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> - Only new mistakes: Embracing failures while building digital service teams <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> - Government by the people: National Day of Civic Hacking <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> - Reshaping the criminal justice system, at scale <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/codeforamerica/how-were-running-better-blameless-postmor…> . This email was sent to michel(a)p2pfoundation.net. Why did I get this? <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> • Update your preferences <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76a489…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> . Code for America • 155 9th Street • San Francisco, CA 94103 • USA <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> <https://codeforamerica.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76…> -- 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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