‘Wealth of Networks’
Tracks the emerging information-sharing, open-source cooperative sectors of economies in the USA, Canada, Europe, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and other countries. In this new sharing, cooperative economy, sectors are exchanging information, bartering and using new forms of currency in order to make their money stretch further. The Wealth of Networks balances the older competitive sectors based on money.
Relates to: Global Citizenship, Community Development Solutions, Beyond GDP, Partners/Links, EthicalMarkets.tv – The Money Fix and Money Innovation, Power of Yin, Articles by Hazel Henderson
P2P Foundation
The grand alliance for the commons: the task of 21 cy. politics In my writings on P2P Theory, I have a rather simple, but I believe true, formula to describe the crisis of the global system of neoliberal capitalism. (more…)
Defense of the Internet: European civil society organizes a protest action at the Summit of the EU Ministers of Culture
Individuals, artists and NGO's, including, among others, FCForum, eXgae, La Quadrature du Net, P2P Foundation, European Digital Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Scambioetico, Open Standards Alliance, Red SOStenible, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure Spain, Creative Commons Spain, have organized a coordinated protest campaign [...]
Today, Public = Online
Happy Sunshine Week! We have some very good news today in the fight to make government transparent and accountable. Right now, I'm up on Capitol Hill with a lot of Sunlight's staff to announce the Public Online Information Act. This new legislation will require Executive Branch agencies to publish all publicly available information on the [...]
Media Policy at the FCC
FCC Unveils Broadband Plan The FCC released its long-awaited national broadband plan -- a 360-page document that agency officials dubbed a "call to action" for extending low-cost, high-speed Internet service to all Americans by 2020. The technology blueprint outlines six long-term goals. David Hatch, National Journal Fast Internet Must Also [...]
P2P Foundation
Peer to peer cinema at Clip Kino “‘Clip Kino’ events are self-organised screening events of short video clips & documentaries found online. It aims to drag aspects of normalised ‘private’ activity - of viewing downloaded content on one’s own computer - into public space for screening, appreciation and debate. [...]
P2P Foundation Headlines
Debate on the for-free economy Michel Bauwens 2nd March 2010 The “for-free economy” was the subject of one of the four daily debates held Jan. 26-28 at the seminar to assess the WSF’s first 10 years in Porto Alegre. Maria Osava reports: “The field of “the gratis economy” or “freeconomics” is “expanding dramatically” [...]
Harmonic Humanity has a new idea…and it’s working
By guest blogger Joseph Jacques www.harmonichumanity.org They stand in front of the grocery store and on highway entrances. They are our nation’s homeless population. Over the last twenty years, homelessness has increased significantly in the US. On any given night, approximately 750,000 men, women, and children are homeless, many of them [...]
Newly Announced Speakers at Sustainable Brands 2010 to Lead Conversations, Best Practice Review Using “The Power of And”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sasha Fedulow Cohn & Wolfe Office: 415.365.8552 [email protected] Industry’s Leading Conference Explores Complex Issues Requiring Collaboration and Creativity during 4th Annual Event June 7–10, 2010 at the Monterey (CA) Conference Center SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 17, 2010 – [...]
P2P Foundation – From Owning to Flowing and Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
From Owning to Flowing Republished from Jean-Francois Noubel’s editorial on the underlying philosophy of the Metacurrency Project: “Our consumer society has built an ideology of accumulation. This is triggered by the scarce monetary system. Rather than sharing the stuff we need, we accumulate it in our basements, garages and backyards. [...]
P2P Foundation: From Owning to Flowing, Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
From Owning to Flowing Republished from Jean-Francois Noubel’s editorial on the underlying philosophy of the Metacurrency Project: “Our consumer society has built an ideology of accumulation. This is triggered by the scarce monetary system. Rather than sharing the stuff we need, we accumulate it in our basements, garages and backyards. [...]