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=Short bio=
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Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab.
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Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He is also Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and core member of the P2P Foundation.


*contact:  vkostakis at cyber.harvard.edu  
*contact:  vkostakis at cyber.harvard.edu  
*google scholar [https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=GhIZ-iEAAAAJ&hl=en page]
*personal webpage: https://vkostakis.org/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
=Long bio=
 
Vasilis Kostakis is the Professor of P2P Governance within the [https://www.ttu.ee/institutes/ragnar-nurkse-department-of-innovation-and-governance/department-11/academic-staff-5/ Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance] at TalTech. He is also a Faculty Associate within the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/vkostakis Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society] at Harvard University, and a Visiting Professor within the [https://master.degrowth.org Institute of Environmental Science and Technology] at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Moreover, he is a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ([https://www.thersa.org RSA]).
 
He is the founder of the  [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/ P2P Lab] and has been the Research Coordinator of the [[P2P Foundation]], winner of the 2016 Golden Nica for Digital Communities.
 
In 2018, Vasilis was awarded [http://www.cosmolocalism.eu a four-year grant from the European Research Council], to study the convergence of the digital commons with local manufacturing technologies. Along with an interdisciplinary team of scholars, activists, and social entrepreneurs, Vasilis focuses on how to create an economy based on locally sustainable communities that are digitally interconnected.
 
He has written essays for several outlets such as the ''Harvard Business Review'' and ''Aeon''. His work has appeared in 13 languages.
 
Vasilis is also an artist.
 
=Recent research projects=
 
*Currently Vasilis is coordinating [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/archives/1119 the DGML project].
*See the [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/archives/992 2018-22 plans] of the P2P Lab.
 
=Fifteen selected academic publications=
*Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto (book). [https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/ forthcoming]
*The Convergence of Digital Commons with Local Manufacturing from a Degrowth Perspective: Two Illustrative Cases. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652616314184 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Journal-of-Cleaner-Production.pdf text]
*Digital Economy and the Rise of Open Cooperativism: The Case of the Enspiral Network. [http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/cQtJrUauKHrIGGYmMZtq/full site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pazaitis_et_al_2017.pdf text]
*Blockchain and Value Systems in the Sharing Economy: The Illustrative Case of Backfeed. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517307084 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Pazaitis_et_al_2017_TFSC.pdf text]
*Research on Degrowth. [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941 site] [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ju2o8r6kge93hq1/Annual%20Review.pdf?dl=0 text]
*Making (in) the Smart City: The Emergence of Makerspaces. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585316306980 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Telematics-Informatics-5.pdf text]
*In Defense of Digital Commoning. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350508417749887?journalCode=orga site] [https://www.dropbox.com/s/vt4elu4lus46gfz/Organization.pdf?dl=0 text]
*Design Global, Manufacture Local: Exploring the Contours of an Emerging Productive Model. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328715001214 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Futures.pdf text]
*Towards a Political Ecology of the Digital Economy: Socio-environmental Implications of Two Value Models. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422415300150 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Env-Innov-and-Soc-Trans.pdf text]
*Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy (book). [https://www.dropbox.com/s/1b0qewo850zupn8/Network%20Society%20%26%20Future%20Scenarios%20for%20a%20Collaborative%20Economy.epub?dl=0 ebook] [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/network-society-and-future-scenarios-for-a-collaborative-economy-vasilis-kostakis/?k=9781137415066 site] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy wiki]
*Open Source 3D Printing as a Means of Learning: An Educational Experiment in Two High Schools in Greece. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585314000343 site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Telematics-Informatics-2.pdf text]
*Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression: Two Cases from Greece. [http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/14/1461444813511929.abstract site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NMS.pdf text]
*Should Law Keep Pace with Technology? Law as Katechon. [http://bst.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/02/0270467615574330.abstract site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Bulletin-of-Science-Technology-Society.pdf text]
*Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. [http://sth.sagepub.com/content/38/6/773 site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/STHV.pdf text]
*Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585313000609 site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TI.pdf text]
 
=Ten selected op-eds=
*New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might @[https://hbr.org/2018/06/new-technologies-wont-reduce-scarcity-but-heres-something-that-might Harvard Business Review]
*Utopia is now @[https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-utopian-vision-of-william-morris-is-now-within-reach Aeon]
*Design global, manufacture local: a new industrial revolution? @[https://theconversation.com/design-global-manufacture-local-a-new-industrial-revolution-82591 TheConversation]
*Peer-to-peer production and the partner state @[http://www.redpepper.org.uk/peer-to-peer-production-and-the-partner-state/ RedPepper]
*Can blockchain, a swiftly evolving technology, be controlled? @[https://theconversation.com/can-blockchain-a-swiftly-evolving-technology-be-controlled-73471 TheConversation]
*Cooperativism in the digital era, or how to form a global counter-power @[https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/michel-bauwens-vasilis-kostakis/cooperativism-in-digital-era-or-how-to-form-global-counter-economy OpenDemocracy]
*Peer-to-peer: a new opportunity for the left @[https://roarmag.org/essays/peer-to-peer-bauwens-kostakis/ ROAR]
*A new post-capitalist ecosystem of value creation @[https://www.opendemocracy.net/michel-bauwens-vasilis-kostakis/new-post-capitalist-ecosystem-of-value-creation OpenDemocracy]
*Modern feudalism of the sharing economy @[http://www.technologist.eu/the-last-word-modern-feudalism-of-the-sharing-economy/ Technologist]
*Beyond bitcoin @[http://evonomics.com/beyond-bitcoin/ Evonomics]


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Latest revision as of 18:04, 20 November 2025

Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab.