<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Michael Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjamal10@gmail.com">mjamal10@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey Michel,<div><br></div><div>The article is up. Enjoy</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.beyondone.org/index.php?pagetitle=article&aid=83" target="_blank">http://www.beyondone.org/index.php?pagetitle=article&aid=83</a></div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Michael</div></font></blockquote><div><br>Thanks Michael, I will excerpt in about 10 days!<br><br><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="P2P_and_Deliberative_Democracy_approaches_compared">P2P and
Deliberative Democracy approaches compared</span></h2>
<p>Michael Brooks:
</p><p>"Michel Bauwens, an independent writer and researcher based in
Chiang Mai, Thailand, articulates an open peer-to-peer (P2P) politics
that extends the practices of open information cultures to a broader
political project. P2P politics builds on a model of deliberative
democracy, and a culture where there is a dynamic interplay of all three
sectors: private, commons, and government. Could this approach
transcend an ossified debate on progress by shifting the debate into new
terrain?
</p><p>P2P culture has generated tremendous value in the development of
the Internet. Projects such as Linux, open source codes and the open
architecture of the net have been built on a communal openness that
supports the market transactions found online. Bauwens argues that P2P
carries with it an implicit political agenda; a political agenda that
protects and expands on the open space created in the P2P economy and a
new model of social infrastructures that sustain independent P2P
workers.
</p><p>Bauwens articulates an integrative and transcending progress
narrative. He embraces the critiques of Illich and Schumacher and
follows many of their political leads, however his P2P theory is
grounded in the global information economy; the most current trend in
the consumer dream. Bauwens supports many activists, and social and
financial innovation movements recognizing that they are in sync with
his P2P mission. P2P theory is both a process of re-localization, as
advocated by the counter-progress theorists, and deep global
integration, as articulated by the most optimistic visions of social and
informational technologies.
</p><p>�Deliberative democracy theorists are fascinated by ways of
deepening democracy and turning it into a practice beyond simply voting.
They advocate for creating a community context and practice for solving
collective problems and addressing policy challenges.�
</p><p>Deliberative democracy theorists are fascinated by ways of
deepening democracy and turning it into a practice beyond simply voting.
They advocate for creating a community context and practice for solving
collective problems and addressing policy challenges. The deliberative
democrats mirror a P2P ethic in the civic sphere. Archon Fung, a
deliberative democracy theorist based at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government, argues that deliberative democracy is about how communities
can best position themselves to sustainably solve problems. Fung
contrasts two primary conceptions of democracy with the goal of the
deliberative process:
</p><p>The first is majority rule. On this conception, a society is
democratic when collective decisions reflect the views of the most
numerous. The second is accomplishment. On this less common view, a
democratic society is one that has the power to achieve the common aims
of its citizens
</p><p>Part of this process, according to Fung, is how we establish and
agree on what those goals are. Deliberative theorists focus in practice
on creating forums where community members can come together in a
spirit of mutual respect and engage in substantive policy discussions.
For example, some Scandinavian countries have experimented with citizen
input on budget and other key priorities. Even China has developed
certain receptivity to deliberative decision-making, according to Mark
Leonard�s reporting in What Does China Think.
</p><p>Both P2P and deliberative theorists ask a lot of us. Both
approaches want us to play a substantive role in shaping our economic,
cultural and political lives. Illich and Schumacher wanted the same.
They opposed �outsourcing� value creation and social bonds to large
bureaucracies outside of grounded communities. Integrating modes of
progress will access a broader range of human capacity and inclination
than those proposed by the consumer dream. However, the counter-progress
critique is being validated in some of the most globally integrated,
complex and abstract aspects of the world economic system. Integrated
progress asks us to open our perception of who we are in community,
markets, relationships, decision-making and politics."</p>�</div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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