[P2P-F] Fwd: We should own the internet

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: The Democracy Collaborative <nextsystem at democracycollaborative.org>
Date: Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:00 AM
Subject: We should own the internet
To: <michel at p2pfoundation.net>


Making digital infrastructure democratic; a plan for saving small
businesses; community wealth building post-COVID-19
The latest from The Next System Project
*How we make our digital infrastructure democratic*
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“The global spread of COVID-19 has shone a bright spotlight on both the
vital need for reliable high-speed internet and the inadequacies of the
for-profit, corporate model in delivering it,” begins a new joint report by
The Democracy Collaborative and the British think tank Common Wealth. The
report details a set of policies that can be enacted in both the United
States and the United Kingdom based on “new approaches to ownership and
control” of the digital infrastructure that underpins the 21st-century
economy. These include treating the wireless spectrum, cloud
infrastructure, and the rollout and maintenance of fiber optic connections
and 5G wireless as vital 21st-century public goods, underpinned by
democratic ownership and governance.
Read the report...
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*“We Should Own the Internet”: *In *In These Times
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=a5fef07456&e=8155f3738d>,*
research
director Thomas M. Hanna and Isaiah J. Poole write that it is time to stop
treating high-speed internet as a privately sold luxury commodity and
instead consider it public infrastructure—and that means taking it out of
the hands of corporations and putting it under democratic and public
control.
Read the article...
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*A strategy for saving small businesses*
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Instead of relying on the widely criticized and problematic “paycheck
protection program” designed to prop up small businesses and their workers,
The Democracy Collaborative's vice president Marjorie Kelly and research
director Thomas M. Hanna call in *Next City* for the creation of “local
economy preservation funds.” These holding companies would acquire an
ownership interest in distressed businesses and hold it until the business
can be returned to health under some form of local, worker or community
ownership. This would be a way to save local businesses at scale, while
also creating a more equitable and democratic economy out of the ashes of
the old.
Read more in Next City...
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*Community wealth building post-COVID-19*
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Democracy Collaborative President Ted Howard and Centre for Local Economic
Strategies CEO Neil McInroy explain in a one-hour discussion with
Bloomberg's Stephanie Flanders how in both the United States and the United
Kingdom community wealth building strategies are offering a better way
forward to a post-COVID-19 economic revival. “This is a time when community
wealth building is more relevant than ever,” Howard says, as we think about
building more localized and decentralized supply chains that can also be
made more democratically owned. Says McInroy: “Community wealth building is
here, it’s on hand, it’s ready and willing to step up to the plate and help
with this new economy we’ve got to build and get us through this crisis.”

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on our website, thenextsystem.org
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