"Together we know everything, together we have everything"
Welcome to the P2P Foundation Wiki
The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This wiki is our knowledge commons. Our motto is "Together we know everything, together we have everything", i.e. pooling our resources through commons, creates prosperity for all. We document thousands of initiatives going in that direction on order to create "Hope with evidence".
The central question we address is the following:
* "How can we enable and encourage the formation of Global Cooperative Networks within the existing Global Adversarial Network? How could these bubbles form, grow, merge and eventually shift the whole civilisation towards a more cooperative generative process." (John Ringland [1])
For a quick introduction to the P2P Foundation see our new homepage. For an introduction to our worldview, see the Commons Transition Primer website.
Scroll down to browse through our various sections
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.
You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~
The Foundation
- What the P2P Foundation did in 2016
- What the P2P Foundation Did in 2015
- What the P2P Foundation Did in 2014)
The P2P Foundation consists of three subdivisions:
1. The knowledge commons, such as this wiki, our blog
2. A political and communication project: http://commonstransition.org
3. A P2P Lab, which is both a place and a network
Our Ideas
This is a summary of our key structural arguments for commons/p2p centric social change:
a. in capitalism there is a specific articulation of market/community (nation)/command (state) in which the market is dominant.
b. a commons-centric economy has a different articulation in which the communal mechanisms of pooling shared resources are dominant.
c. the commons-based processes are increasing in importance within capitalism facing systemic crises
d. It is possible to develop a strategy for deepening and expanding the weight of the commons-based processes (transvestment, etc.).
e. If sustained, such a strategy could ultimate erode the dominance of capitalism.
Find out more about our practice here:
Our Key Resources
* new! : check out our Multi-Category Search for Combined Category Searching ! Explanations here!
Learning More
Who We Are
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Topics
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The P2P Paradigms
See also:
The Three Aspects of Application in Society
- P2P Civil Society Approaches
- P2P Market Approaches
- P2P State Approaches
Hot Topics 'Right Now'
The Peer-Driven Collaborative and Ethical Economy
New P2P Culture
P2P Provisioning Systems
Providing the essential provisions for human life:
- Air Water Food
- Clothing and Products
- Energy
- Health Care
- Housing and Shelter
- Transportation
Other Domains of Application
How P2P Influences Society
P2P Perspectives
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Resources
Case Studies
Companies with P2P business models
Conferences on P2P topics
Courses: P2P Curricula
Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version
Events Calendar P2P Foundation Calendar
Individuals, Who's Who in P2P
Licences: open and free licenses
Maps
Movements, P2P and commons-oriented org's
Reference
Research on P2P
Resources and tools
Standards
Statistics on P2P trends
Media Resources
Articles on P2P topics
Books on P2P topics
Fiction with P2P themes
Graphics
Podcasts and Audio
Webcasts and Video
Special Projects
Theory Projects
P2P Foundation Theory Project
Our eBooks
Our Printed Books
- French: Sauver le monde. Vers une société post-capitaliste avec le peer-to-peer. Par Michel Bauwens et Jean Lievens. Les Liens qui Liberent, 2015.
- Dutch: De wereld redden. Met peer-to-peer naar een postkapitalistische samenleving. Van Michel Bauwens en Jean Lievens. Houtekiet, 2013.
Overview of P2P Transition Proposals
- Las Indias summarizes recent p2p thinking from the period 2012-2013 [3]
- a good summary of the triarchical proposal to simultaneously transform civil society, the market and the state [4]
- political organizing:
- 1) local change through civic Alliances of the Commons and Chamber of the Commons producing social charters to recreate local political majorities [5] ;
- 2) the global alliance of the commons at nation-state level and beyond [6]
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Our aims
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We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives.
We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims:
- ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite);
- promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through excessive copyrights etc...).
How to support us?
- How you can help us?; How To Contribute; How to Write for our Wiki; P2P Foundation Wiki Requested Articles
- Why is participation to the P2P Foundation not totally open?
- Important notice on COPYRIGHT: Fair Use Notice
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.....Our three strategic priorities for 2015-2016 are:
- stream 1: co-creating and catalyzing the alternative eco-system for open and cooperative peer production and reconstruction and economic and social power around the commons (this includes work on our Commons-Based Reciprocity License, Open Cooperativism and Phyles, and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions that co-produce commons)
- stream 2: recreating political voice and power, through bottom up Assemblies of the Commons and Chamber of the Commons that put forward social charters, AND through "top-down" progressive coalitions (through existing politics and parties) coalitions around the commons , i.e. 'the politics and policies of the commons', that continue our efforts to implement Commons Transition Plans.
- stream 3: creating synergies between cooperative peer production and sustainability, i.e. showing how a transition to the new mode of production, governance and ownership, can solve the ecological / climate crisis
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P2P Around The World
Here is a list of Country Categories. These categories list all pages that contain country relevant tags for example [[Category:Brazil]] will list all pages with the tag [[Category:Brazil]] in the wiki text. Categories and Pages are different. Categories are directory listings so we use country Pages for general information and discussion for example Brazil. For a listing of all country Categories AND Pages and a quick guide on how you can help build a directory of P2P activities around the world see Country Category.
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Partners
 
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See also: Our Wiki Neighbours
What our visitors are interested in
Currently this wiki contains
- 34,508 content pages with 112558 total editions.
- 2137 registered users
This wiki have been visited more than 45,155,264; our home page was visited 1,914,894 times. (updated April 19, 2017)
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