P2P Research Cluster
Proposal
By Smari McCarthy, November 3, 2009:
"Interested in launching a P2P Research Cluster?
The idea is to form research clusters at universities all over the place
to study participatory models, crowdsourcing, distributed algorithms,
peer-to-peer culture, viable business models and anything else that relates
to the emergent ecology of the global brain.
Modern life has many trends and concepts such as free software, the
Pirate Bay, open access, Creative Commons, censorship, 3D printing, crowd
wisdom, online activism, digital fabrication, blogs, microblogging, social
networking, direct democracy, and so on. Those who have studied any of
these cannot help but come across the others in turn. Yet currently this
world of collaborative communities remains relatively unmapped and the
world of complexity behind it has only been gazed at through the tunnel
vision of the failing industrial, economical and social models that have
been used for the past two hundred years.
This is by nature a very inter-disciplinary concept and here at the
University of Iceland I've invited people from all faculties to join in."
