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17th July 2014</div><p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Ubuntu,'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px"></p><br style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Ubuntu,'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px">
<div class="" style="font-size:1.2em;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Ubuntu,'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">(note: this version was originally written at the request of Jay Wallsjasper of On the Commons, slightly expanded and updated on July 13; it’s a little more elaborate than the first informal assessment shared here before)</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Michel Bauwens:</p><p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">We’re nearing the end of June , the day of my departure from Quito and my direct involvement in the FLOK process, where I have been director of the research team. Many people have asked about my assessment of the results of the process. The FLOK process was a complex process and the assessment can only be complex as well.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">One of the first questions, and critiques, is about the relationship with the government itself.</p><p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">
Let us start with the general statement that there are only very imperfect governments in the world, and that power politics are everywhere difficult and rather unpleasant processes. Nevertheless, if we compare the achievements and workings of the government here, then Ecuador has made significant achievements since the advent of power of the Correa administration. The control over the state and the government by private business has been significantly reduced; state-led redistribution and infrastructure building has significantly improved the economic situation of most of its citizens. There have been significant improvements in poverty, literacy, education, crime, etc .. Political stability and popular endorsement of government policies are significantly higher than in the very unstable neoliberal period that preceded it. The state and many institutions have been modernized. The new press legislation has reduced corporate control and created a whole new sector of community-based radios and media outlets.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">On the other hand, there seems to be a growing schism between civil society actors and a government that was originally derived from it. The government has embarked on an extractivist policy against its own promises and plans (Yasuni), disbanded oppositional civil organisations like the Pachamama Foundation, and exerted pressures against critics in the press. There is a growing schism between the beautiful and enthusing political programs and principles as expressed in the Constitution and the National Plan, and the actual policies that are often contrary to it, and many of those that believed in these ideas are increasingly isolated in institutions like Senplades and Senescyt. They are losing power and influence. The radical sounding ‘neo-socialist’ language of the government is not matched by structural reforms that go into the direction of anything that is beyond capitalism. On the contrary, the real policies, even though to the left of European social-democracy, are essentially redistributionist and actually aim to create better conditions for capitalist development. The poor are less poor, a middle class is being created, but the economic policies do not fundamentally challenge the global political economy. The current direction seems to be towards more adaptation to the demands of the global system. But there is no doubt that the situation of the country and its people has improved.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">When we started the FLOK process, it was presented to us as a project that was strategic for the Ecuadorian government, as supported by the Ministry of Knowledge and the Secretariat of Innovation and would systematically move the country to a social knowledge economy, and that would be enthusiastically received by civil organisations. The reality we encountered was quite different. First of all, despite an intensive effort at participation, and many meetings with local groups, the general attitude of civic organisations was, though sympathetic for the aims of FLOK, at the same time distrustful of it as a government-sponsored project. The pressure for participation came from us, not from civil society.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Our experience with the government was very problematic from the start. First of all, because of factional fighting within and without the institution we were formally working for (IAEN), the staff of the project remained unpaid for 3-5 months, until the end of March, with an active and successful campaign to defund the FLOK. At one point, we were prepared to leave at the end of March because the funding had been cut, and we were all facing extremely challenging material situations. Once the factional fight was concluded with the departure of the rector who had initiated FLOK (Carlos Prieto), we were refunded, and funds were also liberated for the Buen Conocer Summit at the end of May. Our personal and collective situation dramatically improved from that point onwards.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Nevertheless, as research director of the FLOK team, in charge of a theoretically strategic project, I was at no time able to meet with any of our sponsoring ministers. All planned meetings (more than a dozen) between myself and Rene Ramirez and Guillaume Long, were systematically cancelled. The very day before the launch of the Buen Conocer Summit on May 27th, it transpired that the Minister of Knowledge had forbidden his staff to participate in the summit (he reversed this decision on that very last day); and that President Correa had not been aware of the FLOK process at all (I have this info from a person in the Communications Dept. of the President and several other witnesses).</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Whatever the reasons for this state of affairs, the only realistic conclusion is that this was not considered as a strategic project. To this day, because we were unable to have conversations with our nominal sponsors, we can ony speculate as to the real motivations.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Nevertheless, we have to look at the positive aspects of the government’s involvement as well. First of all, the project was indeed funded, and nowhere else in the world could it have taken place at this stage. Second, we operated in total freedom: the research team was entirely free in its research and proposals, with zero interference. Third, and this is very important for the future of our recommendations, there has been distinct enthusiasm for the aims and process of the FLOK from lower level officials in several governmental institutions, with concrete efforts to fund and carry out important pilot projects.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">And , even though the pressure and social basis of the FLOK process was weak in civil society, there was nevertheless a quite intense participatory process. 24 provincial workshops were held with actors from civil society; several multi-day visits to poorer communities were organized with intense mutual exchanges; participatory lectures were held in different institutions with high interest and attendance; workshops were held in various universities. All this input was integrated in the first drafts of our proposals. (An open letter to global commoners also yielded several dozen proposals). The highlight was a stay in Sigchos, the country’s third poorest district, where we met an enthusiastic mayor (Mario Andino) and a supportive local assembly of the people eager to apply open agricultural projects. This gave us a clear indication that with dynamic leadership, the local people that matter (mostly indigenous and farmers), where totally behind the key ideas of a transition to a commons-based society, and endorsed its logic and potential. The second phase of the participatory process entailed open commentary on digital comments, yielding many useful suggestions. But finally, what was very important was the success of the Buen Conocer summit May 27 to 30. The combination of local civic invitees, committed pubic officials, and foreign guests led to a very enthusiastic social dynamic in which the FLOK proposals were substantially improved.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">One of the key lessons though is that we have to abandon the romantic idea that we can ‘hack a country’. A country, and its people, are not an executable program. For future projects, it will be necessary to ascertain with more due dilligence, the maturity of both the political will and the social basis of such a transition. Commons transition programs should be embarked upon as a more clear co-production process , and not undertaken as political gamble. Commons transition should be bottom-up supported processes, enabled and facilitated by supportive public authorities (or without them if that support is not forthcoming).</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">One of the important lessons of the project is how not to administer it in the future. The administrative process was a purely hierarchical one, with personalistic and secretive control of the budget and decisions. The research team was entirely shut out of the design and organisation of the Summit for example. Simple requests for information were not looked kindly upon and were seen as interference. People who disagreed with management did not just have to arbitrarily and unilaterally leave the project, without any due process, but were maligned and subject to active disinformation campaigns involving charges of spying etc … I was subjected to public threats to publish private emails in order to discourage any independent evaluation, which is what prompted to add this specific paragraph about the internal workings of the FLOK process. Engagements to third parties were routinely changed and unilaterally adapted created all kinds of embarassements towards those parties and endangering our trust and reputational capital. There was a regular use of private and public intimidation, including a threat of physical intimidation during the very summit, including against members of the research team to discourage them from sharing their point of view on the public discussion list. Strategically mistaken decisions, such as the defunding of the spanish translation of the Commons Transition Plan, were made from narrow political reasons. Such practices clearly should not have a place in future projects and are one of the reasons the P2P Foundation will not use the FLOK moniker and ‘brand’ in future Commons Transition projects. We believe our internal practices should be prefigurative of the kind of society we are aiming for and not in contradiction to it. This is how the research team functioned, and in the future, it is how a whole project should function. Our aim here therefore is not to inflame conflicts, but rather to warn third parties of a potential systemic flaw in the approach to such projects: authoritarianism can have no place in open and participatory transition projects.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Nevertheless, despite the problems and failures in Ecuador, along with the relative success we tried to describe above, we can hope that seeds of new thinking about transformation have been sown, and that some pilot projects will be successfully carried out.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">Indeed, the FLOK project also has a global impact, and I am quite optimistic about this. First of all, this is the first time that an integrated Commons Transition Plan has been crafted, representing a new political and policy orientation towards achieving a post-capitalist society based on shared knowledge, that has both a theoretical underpinning, and fifteen concrete legislative frameworks. This means that from now on, a concrete third way that is different from both statism and neoliberalism, does exist and can be discussed. Despite the local difficulties of the process, we believe that because of the relative legitimacy and credibility involved in a national project, the commons transition is now a geo-political fact, it’s a historical pivot. This assessment is confirmed by the consistent interest that is expressed towards the project, with inquiries of cities and regions as to the possibility of other transition projects. The FLOK is now both a participatory and scientific research process, and a already existing body of work, that can be creatively adapted (and changed, or abandoned altogether), in other locales. The emerging commons, sharing, and p2p movements can now be more than concrete local practice of grassroots communities, they can become a force for social change at the political and policy level.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">The value of the experience in Ecuador, with all the people that contributed to it, is that it signifies a new beginning, the creation of a new social imaginary about commons oriented transition towards a sustainable and more just society. The clock is now ticking, and the arrow of time cannot be reversed. We are beginning to find a politics and policy for the 21st century. This is not a minor achievement and I am proud I have been able to contribute to it.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">I urge people to have a serious look at the Commons Transition Plan, and to think about the new political concepts that are the expression of the nascent and growing global commons movement.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">The proposals are here at <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan">http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan</a>.</p><p style="line-height:1.5em;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">
Let’s improve them continuously and produce a pattern language for successful social change.</p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">this is the more expanded evaluation of the flok process, to be published on the 17th after a review of the typo's,<div>
<br></div><div>I long hesitated about the assessment of the internal process, but after showing it internally in the network, most people find it important that this is shared as well,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">ok, if you resend me the text you want to be clarified (you can do it privately), I'll see what I can do,<div>
<br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:14 AM, peter waterman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Michel:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
Thanx for posting this. I would not, however, want to post it further (or even see it further posted) since it would require considerable inside knowledge to make sense of it. I myself cannot do so, tho I do have some background knowledge of Ecuador and a sceptical posture towards the '21st century socialist', or whatever, process occurring there.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">So, I am wondering whether you would not be able to 'translate and improve'* your own account. That would mean making the information available to the wider community - even if this is taken only to be the NetLab and p2p lists. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">P<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">*this is the phrase on a poster advertising a performance in Yiddish of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', in an isolated Jewish community of 19thC Poland. It was signed by the translator, Shmuel Cohen.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Örsan Şenalp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com" target="_blank">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Michel, many thanks for this detailed response.<br>
<br>
Actually my intention was posting on the networked labour list only<br>
the personal or official reports coming from or about the FLOK project<br>
which you led it's research part and concluded last month in Ecuador.<br>
<br>
As for the request you replied below, actually I meant to address the<br>
impotence of adopting open or participatory budgeting practise in<br>
general. Otherwise did not mean to question anybodies' integrity or<br>
so. I believe, as you do, for building p2p or distributed ethical<br>
economies figuratively, and for especially these kind of projects this<br>
is an essential point.<br>
<br>
Besides, in my opinion, it may be useful for those who are on the<br>
networked labour list so not very much aware of the exchanges going on<br>
about the project process so on; so who were not able to read the<br>
whole email in which I made the request from you and others. If you<br>
agree and find it useful or necessary to give a brief background<br>
please feel free. So it is up to you.<br>
<br>
Thanks again,<br>
Orsan<br>
<br>
<br>
On 7 July 2014 06:43, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Orsan, you write:<br>
><br>
> <To avoid any negative impact for all the sides, I would humbly suggest,<br>
> especially in terms of financial aspects, providing full transparency (Flok,<br>
> P2P-F, Cook Consultancy, Ecuadorean ministries so on). And without<br>
> practicing a sort of participatory budgeting, IMHO, there will always be<br>
> shadows of doubts and questions hanging on these kinds of<br>
> state-capital-funded projects.><br>
><br>
> Orsan, the budget was highly secretive and tightly controlled by the flok<br>
> mgt team; in fact, AD was removed (though they are claiming he removed<br>
> himself, so I'm not sure), largely because he tried to get a regular and<br>
> open budget done controlled by the institution. It was the key area of<br>
> contention and why he has been called a spy.<br>
><br>
> Here is my guesswork:<br>
><br>
> * the project was tri-funded by the Min of Knowledge, the Senescyt<br>
> innovation secretariat and the IAEN institution<br>
><br>
> * the entire process with wages may have reached $400k , with an additional<br>
> $300k plus for the summit<br>
><br>
> The wage issue was highly contentious, from before I reached the project.<br>
> The rector wanted to pay intl' level wages to foreign researchers, and this<br>
> was not taken well by the locals. On the other hand, the institution payed<br>
> some people very well who never showed up, and trying to get rid of them is<br>
> one of the causes that caused him the loss of his job. The ratio of staff to<br>
> students is incredibly skewed at the IAEN but I can't remember the ratio,<br>
> but much more staff than students.<br>
><br>
> My understanding is that most of the research team got $4k and I got $5.x as<br>
> 'director'. There is no doubt that this is well paid, but it is still less<br>
> for a month than a private consulting gets for a day. So, if the FLOK is a<br>
> genuine transition project, that was not outside of decency. There is a lot<br>
> of discussion about the other salaries, which are shrouded in secrecy. One<br>
> of the most often expressed critiques directed at me and the research team:<br>
> how can you guys make so much noise when you are paid so well, 'aren't you<br>
> ashamed'; on the other hand, 'flok mgt works tirelessly for nearly nothing'.<br>
> This is the mythology, used again and again, but I'm not sure it is the<br>
> truth; from very good accounting sources, I was informed that they earned<br>
> four times their claims, but I can't prove this. But as I've learned not to<br>
> trust anything said coming from the flok mgt, I tend to give credence to my<br>
> source.<br>
><br>
> As for me, yes, I was well paid, after living under the minimum wage for<br>
> seven years. We had to pay our own tickets, rent and rent guarantees, all<br>
> internal job-related travels, and because of the length of the engagement, I<br>
> had to bring my family for two months (this was a stated condition of my<br>
> employment, even if I had to finance it myself). Because of the structurally<br>
> late payments, I had to pay 40% more for these tickets, and on average,<br>
> since we all had to take loans, 20% interest fees. So, just to say, despite<br>
> appearances, none of us got rich from this, and we worked tirelessly, in<br>
> very tough circumstances, 12 to 14 hours a day, including many weekend days.<br>
> So, we are certainly not victims, privileged for sure, but not getting rich<br>
> on this assignment either. Neither of us asked for anything, we accepted an<br>
> invitation with its conditions, so I think the whole wage controversy is<br>
> really a side issue.<br>
><br>
> I'm not suggesting any budget malfeasance, the opacity of the budget was<br>
> exclusively an issue of political control. You should also take into account<br>
> that due to the structural non-payment, the flok mgt had to make superhuman<br>
> efforts for the project to merely survive. Two full-time staff were engaged<br>
> just to speed up our payments (they achieved a 6 week average delay due to<br>
> superhuman efforfts): I was told, but can't verify this, that 26 signatures<br>
> were needed each month for each wage, a sign of terrible bureaucracy. (while<br>
> I critique the hierarchical aspects of the mgt process we should not forget<br>
> the extreme structural stress they were facing day in day out).<br>
><br>
> Also, apart from the real work, we were forced to produce partly fictitious<br>
> 'products', taking 2-3 working days to produce, as proof of our work. These<br>
> had to be delivered 10 days before the end of each month, hence having a 10<br>
> day 'future narrative' included. You have no idea of the level of<br>
> dysfunctional bureaucracy that was prevalent. This is not exclusively a flok<br>
> and IAEN problem, as the young and mosty precarious Prometheo researchers<br>
> also are routinely not paid for the first four months of their work. Unless<br>
> you have strong reserves to withstand such delays, I would not recommend any<br>
> foreigner to work as a scholar in Ecuador for the moment. But if you have<br>
> reserves and go for the experience and engagement with local people, it's<br>
> worthwhile, it's a spectacular place. The structural situation in Ecuador is<br>
> that most of the education funding goes to Yachai, a rather terrible<br>
> neoliberal experiment in a green desert, signing secret deals with<br>
> Microsoft, etc .. There is really nothing there, and won't be, for a very<br>
> long time. While the existing universities are being underfunded, this<br>
> artificial place, which will be structurally incapable of atracting the<br>
> creative class (even richard florida thinks it's a terrible idea), is<br>
> getting all the attention and funding. It's a little bit like the anti-FLOK<br>
> project, though funded by the same Ministry, one of the many contradictions<br>
> of the project and the political situation in Ecuador. Just as it was<br>
> impossible to find a single civic mvt with a positive view of the government<br>
> (at least amongst the 70 we spoke with); it was equally impossible to find a<br>
> single university administrator or scholar that supported the current<br>
> education policy. It's part of the divorce between the intellectual class<br>
> and the government that I discussed earlier,<br>
><br>
> Michel<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record<br>
> of previous communication, proposals, etc ..<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>
><br>
> Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br>
><br>
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<li><b><font size="1"><font color="#ff0000"><a href="http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Interface-1-2-pp255-262-Waterman.pdf" target="_blank"></font></font></span></font><font color="#000000">Needed: a Global Labour Charter Movement<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><font color="#000000"> <font color="#ff0000">(2005-Now!)<br>
</a></font></font></b></li><li><b><font size="1"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/under-against-beyond/" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.into-ebooks.com" claiming to be</b></font> Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised Capitalism </a>(2011) <font color="#ff0000">Almost 1,000 pages of Working Papers, free, from the 1980's-90's</font>.</font></font></font></b></li>
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