[P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] an important synthetic manifesto from the P2P Foundation: the ten commandments of peer production and commons economics
Wouter Tebbens
wouter at freeknowledge.eu
Mon Oct 26 10:50:31 CET 2015
Excellent synthesis, Michel!
I'm wondering how many people are locally building up their open
cooperatives for the "collaborative economy", the sharing economy that
is truely being shared by the users.
With some friends we are discussing this in Barcelona and I'm afraid
that we are doing similar things in a dispersed way all around the world.
One of the things we need is a platform where people can be co-owners of
electric cars, share rooms or housing, for free or for a fee, or for
points, produce locally with digital fabrication tools, group buying,
crowdfunding, and so many shared services and resources.
After all we'd need a way to track reputation of the members, not built
in into some corporate controlled platform like FB, Google, Twitter, but
a distributed open standards based application.
keep in touch!
best,
Wouter
On 24-10-15 13:50, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> it is indeed very much a collective endeavour of all those pioneers in
> the productive communities ...
>
> all the material in the wiki is sourced to where it came from originally
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Orsan Senalp <orsan1234 at gmail.com
> <mailto:orsan1234 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Like to say wow Michel, at first sight, a very timely delivered
> result of intensive work!
> Looks like to me now we have an accessible and applicable global
> program for transnational systemic change.
> Congratulations to all contributed consciously and unconsciously in
> at least decade long walk!
> Best,
> Orsan
>
>
> On 23 Oct 2015, at 19:14, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net
> <mailto:michel at p2pfoundation.net>> wrote:
>
>>
>> The ten commandments of peer production and commons economics
>>
>>
>> /*For a mode of production and value creation that is free, fair
>> and sustainable!*/
>>
>>
>>
>> Michel Bauwens, Berlin, October 23, 2015, for the Uncommons conference
>>
>>
>>
>> As we have tried to show elsewhere, the emergence of
>> commons-oriented peer production has generated the emergence of a
>> new logic of collaboration between open productive communities who
>> created shared resources (commons) through contributions, and
>> those market-oriented entities that created added value on top or
>> along these shared commons.
>>
>>
>> This article addresses the emerging practices that should inspire
>> these entities of the 'ethical' economy. The main aim it to create
>> new forms that go beyond the traditional corporate form and its
>> extractive profit-maximizing practices of value extraction.
>> Instead of extractive forms of capital, we need generative forms,
>> that co-create value with and for the commoners.
>>
>>
>> I am using the form of commandments to explain the new practices.
>> All of them have already emerged in various forms, but need to be
>> generalized and integrated.
>>
>>
>> What the world and humanity, and all those beings that are
>> affected by our activities require is a mode of production, and
>> relations of production, that are “free, fair and sustainable' at
>> the same time.
>>
>>
>>
>> *OPEN AND FREE*
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Thou shall practice open business models based on shared
>> knowledge
>>
>>
>> Closed business models are based on artificial scarcity. Though
>> knowledge is a non- or anti-rival good that gains in use value the
>> more it is shared, and though it can be shared easily and at very
>> low marginal cost when it is in digital form, many extractive
>> firms still use artificial scarcity to extract rents from the
>> creation or use of digitized knowledge. Through legal repression
>> or technological sabotage, naturally shareable goods are made
>> artificially scarce, so that extra profits can be generated. This
>> is particularly galling in the context of life-saving or
>> planet-regenerating technological knowledge. The first commandment
>> is therefore the ethical commandment of sharing what can be
>> shared, and of only creating market value from resources that are
>> scarce and create added value on top or along these commons. Open
>> business models are market strategies that are based on the
>> recognition of natural abundance and the refusal to generate
>> income and profits by making them artificially scarce.
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this here at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Business_Models
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *FAIR*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. Thou shall practice open cooperativism
>>
>>
>> Many new more ethical and generative forms are being created, that
>> have a higher level of harmony with the contributory commons. The
>> key here is to choose post-corporate forms that are able to
>> generate livelihoods for the contributing commoners.
>>
>>
>> Open cooperatives in particular would be cooperatives that share
>> the following characteristics:
>>
>>
>> 1.
>>
>> they are mission-oriented and have a social goal that is
>> related to the creation of shared resources
>>
>> 2.
>>
>> they are multi-stakeholder governed, and include all those
>> that are affected by or contributing to the particular activity
>>
>> 3.
>>
>> they constitutionally, in their own rules, commit to co-create
>> commons with the productive communities
>>
>>
>> I often add the fourth condition that they should be global in
>> organisational scope in order to create counter-power to
>> extractive multinational corporations.
>>
>>
>> Cooperatives are one of the potential forms that commons-friendly
>> market entitities could take. We see the emergence of more open
>> forms such as neo-tribes (think of the workings of the Ouishare
>> community), or more tightly organized neo-builds, such as
>> Enspiral.org <http://Enspiral.org>, Las Indias or the Ethos
>> Foundation. Yet more open is the network form chose by the
>> Sensorica open scientific hardware community, which wants to more
>> tightly couple contributions with generated income, by allowing
>> all microtasked contributions in the reward system, through open
>> value or contributory accounting (more below).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open_Company_Formats
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. Though shall practice open value or contributory accounting
>>
>>
>> Peer production is based on distributed tasks, freely contributed
>> by a open community-driven collaborative infrastructure. The
>> tradition of salaries based on fixed job description may not be
>> the most appropriate way to reward those that contribute to such
>> processes. Hence the emergence of open value accounting or
>> contributory accounting. As practiced already by Sensorica, this
>> means that any contributor may add contributions, log them
>> according to project number, and after peer evaluation is assigned
>> 'karma points'. When income is generated, it flows into these
>> weighted contributions, so that every contributor is fairly
>> rewarded. Contributory accounting, or other similar solutions, are
>> important to avoid that only a few contributors more closely
>> related to the market, capture the value that has been co-created
>> by a much larger community. Open book accounting insure that the
>> (re)distribution of value is transparent for all contributors.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Accounting
>>
>>
>> 4. Thou shall insure fair distribution and benefit-sharing
>> through Copyfair licensing
>>
>>
>>
>> The copyleft licenses allow anyone to re-use the necessary
>> knowledge commons on the condition that changes and improvements
>> are added to that same commons. This is a great advance, but
>> should not be abstracted from the need for fairness. When moving
>> to physical production which involves findng resources for
>> buildings, raw materials and payments to contributors, the
>> unfettered commercial exploitation of such commons favours
>> extractive models. Thus the need to maintain the knowledge
>> sharing, but to ask reciprocity for the commercial exploitation of
>> the commons, so that there is a level playing field for the
>> ethical economic entities that do internalize social and
>> environmental costs. This is achieved through copyfair licenses
>> which while allow full sharing of the knowledge, ask for
>> reciprocity in exchange for the right of commercialization.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Licensing
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 5. Thou shall practice solidarity and mitigate the risks
>> through Commonfare practices
>>
>>
>> As one of the strong results of financial and neoliberal
>> globalization, the power of nation-states has gradually weakened,
>> and there is now a strong and integrated effort to unwind the
>> solidarity mechanisms that were embedded in the welfare state
>> models. As long as we do not have the power to reverse this slide,
>> it is imperative that we reconstruct solidarity mechanisms of
>> distributed scope, a practicde which we could call 'commonfare'.
>> Examples such as the Broodfonds (NL), Friendsurance (Germany) and
>> the health sharing ministriesj (U.S.), or cooperative entities
>> such Coopaname in France, show us the new forms of distributed
>> solidarity that can be developed to deal with the risks of life
>> and work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Solidarity
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *SUSTAINABLE*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 6. Thou shall use open and sustainable designs for an open
>> source circular economy
>>
>>
>> Open productive communities insure maximum particiation through
>> modularity and granularity. Because they operate in a context of
>> shared and abundant resources, the practice of planned
>> obsolesence, which is not a bug but a feature for
>> profit-maximizing corporations, is alien to them. Ethical
>> enterpreneurial entities will therefore use these open and
>> sustainable designs and produce sustainable good and services.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design
>>
>>
>>
>> 7. Thou shall move beyond an exclusive reliance on imperfect
>> market price signals towards mutual coordination of production
>> through open supply chains and open book accounting
>>
>>
>> What decision-making is for planning, and pricing is for the
>> market, mutual coordination is for the commons!
>>
>>
>> We will never achieve a sustainable 'circular economy', in which
>> the output of one production processes is used as an input for
>> another, with closed value chains and which every cooperation has
>> to be painfully negotiated in the conditions of lack of
>> transparency. But enterpreneurial coalitions who are already
>> co-dependent on a collaborative commons can create eco-systems of
>> collaboration through open supply chains, in which the production
>> processes become transparent, in through which every participant
>> can adapt his behaviour based on the knowledge available in the
>> network. There is no need for over-production when the production
>> realities of the network become common knowledge.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Mutual_Coordination
>>
>>
>>
>> 8. Thou shall practice cosmo-localization^1
>> <#1509619d87aeffa3_sdfootnote1sym>
>>
>>
>> “What is light is global, and what is heavy is local”: this is the
>> new principle animating commons-based peer production in which
>> knowledge is globally shared, but production can take place on
>> demand and based on real needs , through a network of distributed
>> coworking and microfactories. Certain studies have shown that up
>> to two-thirds of matter and energy goes not to production, but to
>> transport, which is clearly unsustainable. A return to relocalized
>> production is a since qua non for the transition towards
>> sustainable production.
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable_Manufacturing
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 9. You shall mutualize physical infrastructures
>>
>>
>> Platform cooperatives, data cooperatives and fairshares forms of
>> distributed ownership can be used to co-own our infrastructures of
>> production.
>>
>>
>> The misnamed sharing economy from AirBnB and Uber shows the
>> potential of matching idle resources. Co-working, skillsharing,
>> ridesharing are examples of the many ways in which we can re-use
>> and share resources to dramatically augment the thermo-dynamic
>> efficiencies of our consumption.
>>
>>
>> In the right context of co-ownership and co-governance, a real
>> sharing economy can achieve dramatic advances in reduced resource
>> use. Our means of production, inclusive machines, can be
>> mutualized and self-owned by all those that create value.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this
>> athttp://p2pfoundation.net/Category:
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable_Manufacturing>Sharing
>>
>>
>> 10. You shall mutualize generative capital
>>
>>
>> Generative forms of capital cannot rely on a extractive money
>> supply that is based on compound interest that is due to
>> extractive banks. We have to abolish the 38% financial tax that is
>> owed on all goods and services and transform our monetary system,
>> and substantively augment the use of mutual credit systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thou shall find more information on this at
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peerfunding
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 1 <#1509619d87aeffa3_sdfootnote1anc>The concept is from Jose
>> Ramos, http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Cosmo-Localization
>>
>>
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>>
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