Dear friends, I will be seeing bernardo soon, as he is also arriving in Quito, see below for info on the important FLOK Society project, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bethany Horne <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:41 PM Subject: Re: FLOK interview To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Here's the blog post (ignote the #anchor hyperlink, it's not active): *English version <http://floksociety.org/wp-admin/post-new.php#anchor1>* El FLOK Society da la bienvenida al Ecuador al investigador belga Michel Bauwens, de la Fundación P2P, quien arribó a Quito el 17 de septiembre. Aquí cooperará durante el primer parcial del 2014 para ayudar a la transición fundamental que se propone el Ecuador. Bauwens liderará un equipo de investigación que propone desencadenar y coordinar un proceso participativo a escala global y de inmediata aplicación nacional. Este proceso implicará diseñar el cambio de matriz productiva del país hacia una sociedad del conocimiento abierto y libre. La fundación de Bauwens, Fundación P2P, es un conjunto de académicos globales quienes investigan y documentan el cambio social hacia prácticas abiertas, compartidas, y del bien común en cada dominio de la actividad humana. La fundación hace un especial enfoque en nuevas colaboraciones que emergen para crear conocimiento y código abiertos, y colaboraciones para hacer diseño abierto, hardware abierto, ciencia abierta, gobierno abierto, y el cambio hacia una agricultura y mecánica abiertas, las cuales implican la posibilidad de incrementar la producción y la sostenibilidad de procesos agrícolas e industriales. Ecuador es el primer país del mundo que se ha comprometido a la creación de una economía del conocimiento abierto y el procomún. Para transicionar hacia una sociedad del “Buen Saber”, lo cual es una extensión de la estrategia oficial de crear una sociedad del “Buen Vivir”, el Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), bajo la dirección del rector Carlos Prieto, ha iniciado un proceso estratégico. El grupo que lleva a cabo el proceso nos denominamos FLOK Society, y nuestro propósito es organizar un proceso-cumbre de talla internacional para marzo del 2013. Allí se finalizarán diez documentos madre estratégicos, que propondrán políticas de transición hacia una sociedad del Buen Saber. Las ideas serán presentadas al pueblo ecuatoriano mediante un proceso intensivo y participativo, similar al que se hizo para establecer la Constitución del 2008 y los ambiciosos Planes Nacionales, las cuales establecen guías para las políticas de gobierno. El Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) es la idea de desistir del crecimiento económico acumulativo sin sentido, para reemplazarlo con un crecimiento que directamente mejore el bienestar del pueblo ecuatoriano. Así mismo, el Buen Saber propone crear el espacio comunal de conocimiento abierto que hará posible el Buen Vivir. Las siglas “FLOK” representan “Free/Libre Open Knowledge” (Conocimiento Abierto y Libre, en inglés). Para comenzar a crear estas políticas y documentos de transición, el IAEN ha involucrado a la comunidad mundial de hackers y al movimiento de software libre, además se ha conectado con iniciativas ‘peer-to-peer’ o ‘entre pares’, las cuales buscan crear un cuerpo de conocimiento con relación directa a la producción agrícola e industrial. La base de conocimientos que maneja la Fundación P2P, de Bauwens, ha documentado procesos en marcha para crear nuevos marcos legales y políticos en Seúl (Corea del Sur), San Francisco (EE.UU.) y en Nápoles (Italia), además en regiones como Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz (Austria), Sudán del Sur, el Cabineto Digital de Rio del Sur, entre otros. Es una base de datos de 22,000 iniciativas globales de lo común; ha sido visitada más de 25 millones de veces; y atrae a más de 25,000 investigadores, estudiantes, activistas, usuarios y lectores a diario. Además, Bauwens es autor de Una Visión de Conjunto Sintética de una Economía Colaborativa. Es experto externo para la Academia Pontifical de Ciencias Sociales, miembro del Foro Hangwang en Chengdu que trabaja la sostenibilidad industrial, y está involucrado en un proyecto de investigación en la Universidad Leuphana acerca de la democracia líquida digital. Como miembro fundador y socio del Commons Strategies Group, ayudó a organizar dos reuniones globales tratando el tema del procomún (o bienes comunes), el último en mayo del 2013 en Berlín enfocado al campo emergente de la economía de lo común. En Marzo, la Fundación P2P organizó un “wikisprint” global de habla hispana<http://wikisprints.p2pf.org/?lang=es>, con la ayuda del activista brasileño Bernardo Gutierrez. Se registraron más de 500 individuos y colectivos, en 60 ciudades y 23 países, para trazar el mapa de las iniciativas abiertas, libres, peer-to-peer, procomunes y compartidas de la región. Dio como resultado una red latinoamericana de activistas y académicos interconectados. El IAEN ha puesto confianza en que las conexiones forjadas entre la comunidad hacktivista internacional, el FLOK Society, y las redes globales e hispanas activas en la construcción de procomunes abiertos, será vital en crear una sinergia con los actores locales de la sociedad ecuatoriana, para lograr el gran reto que nos hemos propuesto como país. *English version:* The FLOK Society welcomes Michel Bauwens to Ecuador. Bauwens, a founder of the P2P Foundation, flew into Quito on Sept. 17 to begin collaborating towards a fundamental reimagination of Ecuador. Bauwens will lead a research team that is proposing to unleash a participatory, global process with an immediate implementation in Ecuador. The process will remake the roots of Ecuador's economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge. In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens will assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes. Ecuador is the first country in the world which is committing itself to the creation of a open commons knowlege based society. In order to achieve the transition to a 'buen saber', or 'good knowledge' society, which is an extension of the official strategy towards a 'buen vivir'-based society, the Advanced Studies Institute (IAEN by its ]Spanish initials) in Quito, Ecuador, led by the rector Carlos Prieto, has initiated a strategic process, called the FLOK Society Project, which aims to organize a major international conference in March 2013, and will produce 10 strategic documents proposing transition policies towards the good knowledge society, which will be presented to the Ecuadorian citizens through intensive participatory processes, similar to those that took place for the establishment of the new Constitution and the ambitious National Plans, which set the guidelines for government policy. While Buen Vivir aims to replace mindless accumulative economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the wellbeing of the Ecuadorian people, Buen Saber aims to create the open knowledge commons which will facilitate such a transition. FLOK stands for 'Free Libre and Open Knowledge. In order to establish these transition policies and documents, IAEN has connected itself with the global hacker and free software movement, but also with its extension in the many peer to peer initiatives that directly aim to create a body of knowledge for physical production in agriculture and industry. The P2P Foundation knowledge base has also focused on documenting new policy and legal frameworks being set up by sharing cities such as Seoul, San Francisco, and Naples ; and regions such as Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz in Austria, South Sudan, the Cabineto Digital of Rio del Sur, and more. It's database of 22,000 global commons initiatives has been viewed nearly 25 million times and attracts 25,000 researchers, activists, users and readers on a daily basis. In March, the P2P Foundation organized a 'global hispanic wikisprint', with the help of Spanish-Brazilian activist Bernardo Gutierrez, in which more than registered 500 individuals and collectives, in more than 60 cities and 23 countries, mapped the open, p2p, sharing and commons initiatives in their region and areas of activities, resulting in a latin-american network of connected activists and scholars. IAEN believes that the connection between the hacktivism communities, the FLOK Society, and the global and hispanic networks active in constructing open commons will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian society, and will help us accomplish the mayor goal we have set for ourselves as a country. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>wrote:
we just spoke, so here are some 'formulations', for you to use or not
Ecuador is the first country in the world which is committing itself to the creation of a open commons knowlege based society. In order to achieve the transition to a 'buen saber', or 'good knowledge' society, which is an extension of the official strategy towards a 'buen vivir'-based society, the Advanced Studies Institute in Quito, Ecuardo, led by the rector Carlos Prieto, has initiated a strategic process, called the FLOK Society Project, which aims to organize a major international conference in March 2013, and will produce 10 strategic documents proposing transition policies towards the good knowledge society, which will be presented to the Ecuadorian citizens through intensive participatory processes, similar to those that took place for the establishment of the new Constitution and the ambitious National Plans, which set the guidelines for government policy.
While Buen Vivir aims to replace mindless accumulative economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the wellbeing of the Ecuadorian people, Buen Saber aims to create the open knowledge commons which will facilitate such a transition. FLOK stands for 'Free Libre and Open Knowledge. In order to establish these transition policies and documents, IAEN has connected itself with the global hacker and free software movement, but also with its extension in the many peer to peer initiatives that directly aim to create a body of knowledge for physical production in agriculture and industry. The FLOK Society project is being organized by XXXX
The project has also asked for the collaboration of Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation, who arrived in Quito on March 17, and will cooperate in Quito in the first semester of 2014, to assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes. The P2P Foundation knowledge base has also focused on documenting new policy and legal frameworks being set up by sharing cities such as Seoul, San Francisco, and Napels ; and regions such as Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz in Austria, South Sudan, the Cabineto Digital of Rio del Sur, and more. It's database of 22,000 global commons initiatives has been viewed nearly 25 million times and attracts 25,000 researchers, activists, users and readers on a daily basis. Michel Bauwens is also the author of a Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy, an external expert for the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Hangwang Forum in Chengdu that works on industrial sustainability, and engaged in a research project for Leuphana University on digital liquid democracy. As a founding member and partner of the Commons Strategies Group, he co-organized two global meetings on the commons, the last one in May 2013 in Berlin was dedicated to the emerging field of Commons-oriented Economics.
On March 20 (DATE TO BE VERIFIED), the P2P Foundation organized a 'global hispanic wikisprint', with the help of Spanish-Brazilian activist Bernardo Gutierrez, in which more than registered 500 individuals and collectives, in more than 60 cities and 23 countries, mapped the open, p2p, sharing and commons initiatives in their region and areas of activities, resulting in a latin-american network of connected activists and scholars.
IAEN believes that the connection between the hacktivismt communities of the FLOK Society project, and the global and hispanic networks active in constructing open commons, will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian Society.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Bethany Horne <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Michel,
We haven't officially been introduced, but I have just been hired by the FLOK Society to help coordinate the communications side of things. I'm a journalist. I'm Canadian by passport, but I've lived in Ecuador (in Guayaquil) many years, including most of my childhood.
I just arrived here in Quito today, and I'm also staying at Daniel's place, at least briefly.
The rest of the team has been crazy busy all day today, so I haven't run this by them, but there was talk about putting out a press release announcing your arrival in the country, to get some excitement going about the project.
Could you help me get this ball rolling by sending me any introductory information about yourself that I might have missed? I have read your profile on the P2P foundation website, and Wikipedia of course, but if there's anything in your experience that you think is especially relevant to what FLOK is proposing for itself, or makes good context or a good story detail, do point it out to me.
Also, it would be good to have some quotes from you about the project and Ecuador and why it has managed to capture your interest. I could interview you and we could talk about that, and then I could glean quotations from that talk, or if you've written anything that could be used for that purpose, I could re-purpose it. I can translate anything you send into Spanish, or you can send it to me in Spanish, whatever you prefer.
Thoughts?
Looking forward to working with you,
-Bethany
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