Dear friends, and Vasilis in particular,

see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peergovernance#For_Historical_Inspiration and in particular the historical experiences in democracy it leads to:

  1. Athenian Democracy ; Foundations of Athenian Democracy
  2. Iroquois Confederacy‎‎
  3. European Medieval Democracy
  4. Viking Democracy
  5. Pirate Governance
  6. Paris Commune
I would really love to make this a collective research and study project for the P2P Foundation ..

This would involve making a bibliography, finding where the material can be found online, and then organizing some process to read and discuss together, eventually with the aim of publishing a book. We could take one year to brush up on the history; another year to study actual peergovernance and contemporary proposals (6 months each);

I feel that finding a renewal of democracy is really one of the crucial issues of our time.

However, I'd like someone to take the lead on this .. Vasilis, I was particularly thinking about you ...

Michel

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