News – Jamaica launches new electronic procurement system <http://www.iadb.org/index.cfm?lang=EN&ealert=idbHome&ealertFrq=HA>[IDB]<http://www.iadb.org/index.cfm?lang=EN&ealert=idbHome&ealertFrq=HA><http://www.iadb.org/index.cfm?lang=EN&ealert=idbHome&ealertFrq=HA> July 31, 2015 – News Releases [http://services.iadb.org/wmsfiles/images/114×78/-35897.jpg]<http://www.iadb.org/en/news/news-releases/2015-07-31/new-electronic-procurement-system-in-jamaica,11217.html?WT.mc_id=NewsEmail_Short_11217&wtSrc=Email&wtType=Short&wtArticleID=11217> Jamaica launches new electronic procurement system <http://www.iadb.org/en/news/news-releases/2015-07-31/new-electronic-procurement-system-in-jamaica,11217.html?WT.mc_id=NewsEmail_Short_11217&wtSrc=Email&wtType=Short&wtArticleID=11217> The government of Jamaica announced today the launch of the country’s first electronic procurement platform: eTendering System. Read full article<http://www.iadb.org/en/news/news-releases/2015-07-31/new-electronic-procurement-system-in-jamaica,11217.html?WT.mc_id=NewsEmail_Short_11217&wtSrc=Email&wtType=Short&wtArticleID=11217> Read full article (Mobile Version)<http://www.iadb.org/mobile/news/detail.cfm?lang=EN&id=11217>
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez’s speech from the UN PGA’s High-level Event on Climate Change: 210,000+ views on YouTube, featured in Rolling Stone, and more.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez’s speech from the UN PGA’s High-level Event on Climate Change: 210,000+ views on YouTube, featured in Rolling Stone, and more. On 29 June 2015, President of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Sam K. Kutesa, hosted the High-level Event on Climate Change at UN Headquarters. …
Grandparents Climate Action Day
Washington, DC– Climate change is a reality that is upon us today, and accelerating; the time to act is now. Elders Climate Action (ECA) believes that by enacting strong legislation we can restore our climate for a livable future. On September 9 & 10, 2015 members of the largest voting …
Toward Regenerative Society: Plan for Rapid Transition – See more at: http://commonstransition.org/toward-regenerative-society-plan-for-rapid-transition#sthash.6uVSauQE.dpuf
The Commons Transition/P2P Foundation team was pleasantly surprised while reading the Center for Planetary Culture‘s Plan for Rapid Transition, authored by Daniel Pinchbeck. It is a thorough and inspiring overview for transitioning to a more sensible cognitive framework that holds many similarities to our own Commons Transition Plan, including its focus …
A call for platform cooperatives
Lots of important articles here on defining the differences between labor brokers like Uber and true cooperative sharing enterprises, Hazel Henderson,Editor “P2P Foundation” – 4 new articles A call for platform cooperatives Book of the Day: Conflicts in the Knowledge Society Can political movements become enabling movements ? Trebor Scholz …
P2P Foundation – 100 Women who are co-creating the P2P Society: Stephanie Rearick of the Mutual Aid Network
Click here to read this mailing online. “P2P Foundation” – 3 new articles 100 Women who are co-creating the P2P Society: Stephanie Rearick of the Mutual Aid Network Cooperatives are breaking into the domain of the sharing economy Pope Francis on the need for structural social change More Recent …
Inside the Pulse: New COO To Lead World Pulse Growth | CEO Receives Fellowships | World Pulse LIVE
Read what’s new and impactful at World Pulse! July 2015 INSIDE THE PULSE Your Quarterly World Pulse eNewsletter Speeding up women’s empowerment globally depends on linking collaborative networks. This quarter’s newsletter is testimony to World Pulse’s commitment to lead collaborations in order to achieve greater collective impact. We’re talking …
How General Solicitation and Technology Disrupt the Financial Services Industry
Wednesday, July 15 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS How General Solicitation and Technology are Disrupting the Financial Services Industry — Scott Andersen, a securities regulatory attorney focusing on crowdfunding, writes in to discuss how technology and the recently-approved practice of general solicitation are altering the capital raising …
Atmospherics from the FLOW P2P Workshop in Cape Town on 11 June 2015
On Thursday 11 June, Flow Africa hosted a conversation with Michel Bauwens in Cape Town, founder of the P2P Foundation and a leading theorist, writer, researcher and activist around the Commons, Peer Production, Copyfair, Cooperative economics, Distributed manufacture, and the Sharing and Collaborative Economy. The FLOW team first shared the …
Atmospherics from the FLOW P2P Workshop in Cape Town on 11 June 2015
On Thursday 11 June, Flow Africa hosted a conversation with Michel Bauwens in Cape Town, founder of the P2P Foundation and a leading theorist, writer, researcher and activist around the Commons, Peer Production, Copyfair, Cooperative economics, Distributed manufacture, and the Sharing and Collaborative Economy. The FLOW team first shared the …