[P2P-F] The Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent has been delivered and accepted

[Michel Bauwens]

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Dear all, we have just finished crafting the first Commons Transition Plan
for the city of Ghent, which will be published officially next thursday, so
far in Dutch only but it will be translated into english later. It has been
accepted by the city officials and the red-green-blue coalition, and the
mayor has declared that this would be the way forward. The study is based
on 80 conversations with commoners, an extended questionnaire filled in by
70 projects, and 9 workshops on the different provisioning systems seen as
a commons as well as a workshop using the Commons Finance Canvas to explore
ethical and generative livelihoods.The commoners in Ghent (500 projects
have been identified) have also welcomed the proposal. This fall, a
Assembly of the Commons, not unlike procomuns.net or the french Assemblies
that alreadhy exist, will be organized for a dialogue with the city on how
to move forward on the basis of this report. Barcelona, along with Bologna,
Frome and others, have of course inspired that work, An appendix, written
by Vasilis Niaros of the P2P Lab, is a comparative study of the approches
of Bologna, Barcelona and others, for example, the Impetus Plan in BCN.
Yurek Onzia was the coordinator of the project, with myself as researcher.

The dutch-language press release is here: https://stad.gent/over-
gent-en-het-stadsbestuur/nieuws-evenementen/een-commons-transitie-plan-voor-
gent.

I have english presentation slides which can be obtained on request,

Vasilis in cc can also share the english language summary of european urban
commons approaches,

Michel Bauwens





On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Mayo Fuster Morell <mayo.fuster at eui.eu>
wrote:

> Procomuns is a forum for the cocreation of public policies for a
> commons-oriented collaborative economy. Collaborative policies for
> collaborative economy. A space for the codesign and development of
> proposals, and public-commons solutions for a commons collaborative
> economy.
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> The collaborative economy based on digital platforms is growing
> exponentially, creating challenges and opportunities. It has turned into a
> top priority for the political agenda around the world, and the involvement
> of citizenship is key, as well as the differentiation of models and to
> impulse of the commons model and platform cooperativism as an opportunity
> to democratize economy at a large scale.
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> This year 2017 is the year of the regulations of the collaborative
> economy: we will discuss with representatives of the European Parliament,
> the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council about which
> policies could support the commons, and we will define guidelines for
> cities. We will reflect with Yochai Benkler, expert in digital commons,
> on the deep transformations underway, as well as define strategies of
> passing from an oligarchical economy to open social economy. We will
> present resources for entrepreneurship, economic models and technologies
> for the scalability of initiatives, and co-design solutions for city
> challenges, regarding housing, care, precarity and exclusion.
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> 27 & 28 of June (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Barcelona Activa (C / Laguna
> 162-164) from 9am to 19pm every day, and final party at 28th at La T.
> Registration is open and free. .
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> Program: http://procomuns.net/ca/programa-2017/
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> Registration: http://procomuns.net/ca/inscripcio/
>




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Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org


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-- 
Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org


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