---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Heike Loeschmann <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:15 AM Subject: Info for the event on the 8th to be shared through your networks To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Cc: Joanna Barelkowska <[email protected]> Friends, After attending a number of events prior and during the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig I will be back in Berlin for a lecture/round table talk on September 8th from 2 pm to 5 pm hosted by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung at Schumannstraße 8, Berlin. In the first half of 2014, three Ecuadorian institutions funded research for a *first integrative transition towards a social knowledge economy* or in other words, a society with an economy oriented around common pools of shareable knowledge. This participatory project produced the *first generic Commons Transition Plan* and* 15+ specific policy proposals* in various domains such as open education, open agriculture, biocommons etc. * Here is the project wiki that feeds you with a lot of information, *(*http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan <http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan> , *but I will present at first for those who are not having the time to dive deeply into it before. I will elaborate on the project design, the process, the outcome and the future prospects of the laid out plan. I propose to discuss questions such as the following and many more that you feel are pressing related issues: How can we evaluate the encounter between proposals such as the Partner State and the commonification of public services and an actual really existing state? What where the limitations of this first transition experience and what can we learn for the future ? The next iteration of such a commons transition plan will take place in Catalonia in the spring of 2015, where the proposed institutions will be directly civic in nature, and designed to sustain the production of material commons. Despite ist limitations, the FLOK experience may signal a shift towards progressive policies and political coalitions that are no longer focused on statist solutions, but on an orientation towards the Commons. How realistic is such a scenario and can it save Europe from a potential shift to the radical right ?" It would be great if you have time and join. We can arrange for a nice lineup on that day since Jeremy Rifkin is giving a public lecture at the Allianz Forum. We could walk over to the Pariser Platz together after the event. See info below. To arrange the setting for the event and also to have some finger foot after my round and before Rifkins, the Boell Team needs to plan a bit and it would therefore be nice if you just drop a line to Joanna Barelkowska at [email protected] to indicate your interest to attend. Thanks and look forward to see you in the 8th. Very best, Michel Allianz Lecture The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism Monday, September 8, 2014 – 6:00 p.m. Jeremy Rifkin Allianz Distinguished Visitor, American Academy in Berlin; Founder and President, The Foundation on Economic Trends; Founder, Third Industrial Revolution; and Author Words of Welcome by Professor Dr. Volker Deville, Head of Representative Office Berlin, Allianz SE Moderated by Reinhard Karger Company Spokesman, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; and President, German Society for Information Science and Practice Location: Allianz Forum, Pariser Platz 6, 10117 Berlin Please find the official invitation with more detailed information attached. In cooperation with Campus Verlag -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/