<div dir="ltr">this is the very last section of our report which will come out soon with the Boll foundation:<div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-14874809-e5de-7a04-9d45-5b69956a4cc4"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3.6. Towards a global infrastructure for commons-based provisioning</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have argued in this overview that we are in a conjuncture in which commons-based mutualizing is one of the keys for sustainability, fairness and global-local well-being. In this conclusion, we suggest a global infrastructure, in which cities can play a crucial role.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">See the graphic below for the stacked layer that we propose, which is described as follows:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The first layer is the cosmo-local institutional layer. Imagine global for-benefit associations which support the provisioning of infrastructures for urban and territorial commoning. These are structured as global public-commons partnerships, sustained by leagues of cities which are co-dependent and co-motivated to support these new infrastructures and overcome the fragmentation of effort that benefits the most extractive and centralized ‘netarchical’ firms. Instead, these infrastructural commons organizations co-support MuniRide, MuniBnB, and other applications necessary to commonify urban provisioning systems. These are the global “protocol cooperative” governance organizations.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The second layer consists of the actual global depositories of the commons applications themselves, a global technical infrastructure for open sourcing provisioning systems. They consists of what is globally common, but allow contextualized local adaptations, which in turn can serve as innovations and examples for other locales. These are the actual ‘protocol cooperatives’, in their concrete manifestation as usable infrastructure.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The third layer are the actual local (urban, territorial, bioregional) platform cooperatives, i.e. the local commons-based mechanisms that deliver access to services and exchange platforms, for the mutualized used of these provisioning systems. This is the layer where the Amsterdam FairBnb and the MuniRide application of the city of Ghent, organize the services for the local population and their visitors. It is where houses and cars are effectively shared.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The potential fourth layer is the actual production-based open cooperatives, where distributed manufacturing of goods and services produces the actual material services that can be shared and mutualized on the platform cooperatives.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-he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