<div dir="ltr">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>I will be seeing bernardo soon, as he is also arriving in Quito, see below for info on the important FLOK Society project,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bethany Horne</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bethanybhorne@gmail.com">bethanybhorne@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:41 PM<br>
Subject: Re: FLOK interview<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Here's the blog post (ignote the #anchor hyperlink, it's not active):<div>
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<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://floksociety.org/wp-admin/post-new.php#anchor1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">English version</a></em></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">El FLOK Society da la bienvenida al Ecuador al investigador belga Michel Bauwens, de la Fundaci�n P2P, quien arrib� a Quito el 17 de septiembre. Aqu� cooperar� durante el primer parcial del 2014 para ayudar a la transici�n fundamental que se propone el Ecuador.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Bauwens liderar� un equipo de investigaci�n que propone desencadenar y coordinar un proceso participativo a escala global�y de inmediata aplicaci�n nacional. Este proceso implicar�dise�ar el cambio de matriz productiva del pa�s hacia una sociedad del�conocimiento abierto y libre.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">La fundaci�n de Bauwens, Fundaci�n P2P, es un conjunto de acad�micos globales quienes investigan y documentan el cambio social hacia pr�cticas abiertas, compartidas, y del bien com�n en cada dominio de la actividad humana. La fundaci�n hace un especial enfoque en nuevas colaboraciones que emergen para crear conocimiento y c�digo abiertos, y colaboraciones para hacer dise�o abierto, hardware abierto, ciencia abierta, gobierno abierto, y el cambio hacia una agricultura y mec�nica abiertas, las cuales implican la posibilidad de incrementar la producci�n y la sostenibilidad de procesos agr�colas e industriales.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ecuador es el primer pa�s del mundo que se ha comprometido a la creaci�n de una econom�a del conocimiento abierto y el procom�n. Para transicionar hacia una sociedad del �Buen Saber�, lo cual es una extensi�n de la estrategia oficial de crear una sociedad del �Buen Vivir�, el Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), bajo la direcci�n del rector Carlos Prieto, ha iniciado un proceso estrat�gico.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">El grupo que lleva a cabo el proceso nos denominamos FLOK Society, y nuestro prop�sito es organizar un proceso-cumbre de talla internacional para marzo del 2013. All� se finalizar�n diez documentos madre estrat�gicos, que propondr�n pol�ticas de transici�n hacia una sociedad del Buen Saber. Las ideas ser�n presentadas al pueblo ecuatoriano mediante un proceso intensivo y participativo, similar al que se hizo para establecer la Constituci�n del 2008 y los ambiciosos Planes Nacionales, las cuales establecen gu�as para las pol�ticas de gobierno.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">El Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) es la idea de desistir del crecimiento econ�mico acumulativo sin sentido, para reemplazarlo con un crecimiento que directamente mejore el bienestar del pueblo ecuatoriano. As� mismo, el Buen Saber propone crear el espacio comunal de conocimiento abierto que har� posible el Buen Vivir. Las siglas �FLOK� representan �Free/Libre Open Knowledge� (Conocimiento Abierto y Libre, en ingl�s).</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Para comenzar a crear estas pol�ticas y documentos de transici�n, el IAEN ha involucrado a la comunidad mundial de hackers y al movimiento de software libre, adem�s se ha conectado con iniciativas �peer-to-peer� o �entre pares�, las cuales buscan crear un cuerpo de conocimiento con relaci�n directa a la producci�n agr�cola e industrial.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">La base de conocimientos que maneja la Fundaci�n P2P, de Bauwens, ha documentado procesos en marcha para crear nuevos marcos legales y pol�ticos en Se�l (Corea del Sur), San Francisco (EE.UU.) y en N�poles (Italia), adem�s en regiones como Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz (Austria), Sud�n del Sur, el Cabineto Digital de Rio del Sur, entre otros. Es una base de datos de 22,000 iniciativas globales de lo com�n; ha sido visitada m�s de 25 millones de veces; y atrae a m�s de 25,000 investigadores, estudiantes, activistas, usuarios y lectores a diario.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Adem�s, Bauwens es autor de Una Visi�n de Conjunto Sint�tica de una Econom�a Colaborativa. Es experto externo para la Academia Pontifical de Ciencias Sociales, miembro del Foro Hangwang en Chengdu que trabaja la sostenibilidad industrial, y est� involucrado en un proyecto de investigaci�n en la Universidad Leuphana acerca de la democracia l�quida digital. Como miembro fundador y socio del Commons Strategies Group, ayud� a organizar dos reuniones globales tratando el tema del procom�n (o bienes comunes), el �ltimo en mayo del 2013 en Berl�n enfocado al campo emergente de la econom�a de lo com�n.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">En Marzo, la Fundaci�n P2P organiz� un�<a href="http://wikisprints.p2pf.org/?lang=es" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">�wikisprint� global de habla hispana</a>, con la ayuda del activista brasile�o Bernardo Gutierrez. Se registraron m�s de 500 individuos y colectivos, en 60 ciudades y 23 pa�ses, para trazar el mapa de las iniciativas abiertas, libres, peer-to-peer, procomunes y compartidas de la regi�n. Dio como resultado una red latinoamericana de activistas y acad�micos interconectados.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">El IAEN ha puesto confianza en que las conexiones forjadas entre la comunidad hacktivista internacional, el FLOK Society, y las redes globales e hispanas activas en la construcci�n de procomunes abiertos, ser� vital en crear una sinergia con los actores locales de la sociedad ecuatoriana, para lograr el gran reto que nos hemos propuesto como pa�s.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a name="14132cf00d565ec5_anchor1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></a>English version:</em></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The FLOK Society welcomes Michel Bauwens to Ecuador. Bauwens, a founder of the P2P Foundation, flew into Quito on Sept. 17 to begin collaborating towards a fundamental reimagination of Ecuador.�</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Bauwens will lead a research team that is proposing to unleash a participatory, global process with an immediate implementation in Ecuador. The process will remake the roots of Ecuador's economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge.�</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens will assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ecuador is the first country in the world which is committing itself to the creation of a open commons knowlege based society. In order to achieve the transition to a 'buen saber', or 'good knowledge' society, which is an extension of the official strategy towards a 'buen vivir'-based society, the Advanced Studies Institute (IAEN by its ]Spanish initials) in Quito, Ecuador, led by the rector Carlos Prieto, has initiated a strategic process, called the FLOK Society Project, which aims to organize a major international conference in March 2013, and will produce 10 strategic documents proposing transition policies towards the good knowledge society, which will be presented to the Ecuadorian citizens through intensive participatory processes, similar to those that took place for the establishment of the new Constitution and the ambitious National Plans, which set the guidelines for government policy.</p>
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<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">While Buen Vivir aims to replace mindless accumulative economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the wellbeing of the Ecuadorian people, Buen Saber aims to create the open knowledge commons which will facilitate such a transition. FLOK stands for 'Free Libre and Open Knowledge. In order to establish these transition policies and documents, IAEN has connected itself with the global hacker and free software movement, but also with its extension in the many peer to peer initiatives that directly aim to create a body of knowledge for physical production in agriculture and industry.</p>
</div><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The P2P Foundation knowledge base has also focused on documenting new policy and legal frameworks being set up by sharing cities such as Seoul, San Francisco, and Naples ; and regions such as Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz in Austria, South Sudan, the Cabineto Digital of Rio del Sur, and more. It's database of 22,000 global commons initiatives has been viewed nearly 25 million times and attracts 25,000 researchers, activists, users and readers on a daily basis.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">In March, the P2P Foundation organized a 'global hispanic wikisprint', with the help of Spanish-Brazilian activist Bernardo Gutierrez, in which more than registered 500 individuals and collectives, in more than 60 cities and 23 countries, mapped the open, p2p, sharing and commons initiatives in their region and areas of activities, resulting in a latin-american network of connected activists and scholars.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:22px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">IAEN believes that the connection between the hacktivism communities, the FLOK Society, and the global and hispanic networks active in constructing open commons will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian society, and will help us accomplish the mayor goal we have set for ourselves as a country.�</p>
</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, 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">we just spoke, so here are some 'formulations', for you to use or not<div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Ecuador is the first country in the world which is committing itself to the creation of a open commons knowlege based society. In order to achieve the transition to a 'buen saber', or 'good knowledge' society, which is an extension of the official strategy towards a 'buen vivir'-based society, the Advanced Studies Institute in Quito, Ecuardo, led by the rector Carlos Prieto, has initiated a strategic process, called the FLOK Society Project, which aims to organize a major international conference in March 2013, and will produce 10 strategic documents proposing transition policies towards the good knowledge society, which will be presented to the Ecuadorian citizens through intensive participatory processes, similar to those that took place for the establishment of the new Constitution and the ambitious National Plans, which set the guidelines for government policy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While Buen Vivir aims to replace mindless accumulative economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the wellbeing of the Ecuadorian people, Buen Saber aims to create the open knowledge commons which will facilitate such a transition. FLOK stands for 'Free Libre and Open Knowledge. In order to establish these transition policies and documents, IAEN has connected itself with the global hacker and free software movement, but also with its extension in the many peer to peer initiatives that directly aim to create a body of knowledge for physical production in agriculture and industry. The FLOK Society project is being organized by XXXX</div>
<div><br></div><div>The project has also asked for the collaboration of Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation, who arrived in Quito on March 17, and will cooperate in Quito in the first semester of 2014, to assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes. The P2P Foundation knowledge base has also focused on documenting new policy and legal frameworks being set up by sharing cities such as Seoul, San Francisco, and Napels ; and regions such as Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz in Austria, South Sudan, the Cabineto Digital of Rio del Sur, and more. It's database of 22,000 global commons initiatives has been viewed nearly 25 million times and attracts 25,000 researchers, activists, users and readers on a daily basis. Michel Bauwens is also the author of a Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy, �an external expert for the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Hangwang Forum in Chengdu that works on industrial sustainability, and engaged in a research project for Leuphana University on digital liquid democracy. As a founding member and partner of the Commons Strategies Group, he co-organized two global meetings on the commons, the last one in May 2013 in Berlin was dedicated to the emerging field of Commons-oriented Economics.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On March 20 (DATE TO BE VERIFIED), the P2P Foundation organized a 'global hispanic wikisprint', with the help of Spanish-Brazilian activist Bernardo Gutierrez, in which more than registered 500 individuals and collectives, in more than 60 cities and 23 countries, mapped the open, p2p, sharing and commons initiatives in their region and areas of activities, resulting in a latin-american network of connected activists and scholars.</div>
<div><br></div><div>IAEN believes that the connection between the hacktivismt communities of the FLOK Society project, and the global and hispanic networks active in constructing open commons, will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian Society.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Bethany Horne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bethanybhorne@gmail.com" target="_blank">bethanybhorne@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><div>Hi Michel,<br><br></div>We haven't officially been introduced, but I have just been hired by the FLOK Society to help coordinate the communications side of things. I'm a� journalist. I'm Canadian by passport, but I've lived in Ecuador (in Guayaquil) many years, including most of my childhood. <br>
<br></div>I just arrived here in Quito today, and I'm also staying at Daniel's place, at least briefly.<br><div><div><br>The rest of the team has been crazy busy all day today, so I haven't run this by them, but there was talk about putting out a press release announcing your arrival in the country, to get some excitement going about the project. <br>
<br>Could you help me get this ball rolling by sending me any introductory information about yourself that I might have missed? I have read your profile on the P2P foundation website, and Wikipedia of course, but if there's anything in your experience that you think is especially relevant to what FLOK is proposing for itself, or makes good context or a good story detail, do point it out to me. <br>
<br></div><div>Also, it would be good to have some quotes from you about the project and Ecuador and why it has managed to capture your interest. I could interview you and we could talk about that,� and then I could glean quotations from that talk, or if you've written anything that could be used for that purpose, I could re-purpose it. I can translate anything you send into Spanish, or you can send it to me in Spanish, whatever you prefer. <br>
<br>Thoughts?<br><br></div><div>Looking forward to working with you,<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Bethany <br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div>
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