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"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 ~

Welcome to the P2P Foundation

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.

For a quick introduction see our 2015 summary 'What does the P2P Foundation do?'.

Watch this 20 min overview of our key proposals and introductory videos.



Recent Articles
Introduction to the Commons Transition.
Why We Need a New Kind of Open Cooperativism for the P2P Age
From the Communism of Capital to a Capital for the Commons

The Foundation Read: What the P2P Foundation Did in 2014 Our Ideas About The P2P Foundation and our Research Our Understanding of P2P P2P and Human Evolution: original manuscript from 2005 Screencast with an Overview of the Transformative Proposals of the P2P Foundation Four Introductory Videos The P2P Meme Map The Best P2P Essays 1 2 Bibliography of Michel Bauwens Bibliography for the Social Knowledge Economy Our Key Resources * new! : check out our Multi-Category Search for Combined Category Searching ! Explanations here! The P2P News Blog What’s New in the Wiki Wiki RSS Feed P2P Foundation RSS Feeds New: The P2P Foundation Calendar 2015 Join Our Learning Community! P2P Foundation Email Lists Twitter Facebook P2P Foundation IRC Channel Google+ Community Google+ Page Youtube Reddit Ning Learning More P2P Bookstore P2P Foundation Participation in Scientific Symposia P2P Seminars & (Testimonials) Our Expert Database Watch this P2P lecture! Listen to this Podcast Read this Interview Who We Are Members Founders Wiki Active Contributors P2P Lab, Greece Alliances of the P2P Foundation Ambassadors for the P2P Foundation Research Projects of the P2P Foundation P2P Foundation Legal Advisory Board Overview of P2P Transition Proposals Las Indias summarizes recent p2p thinking from the period 2012-2013 [1] a good summary of the triarchical proposal to simultaneously transform civil society, the market and the state [2] the key institutional concepts of the Partner State and Public-Commons_Partnership Transition proposals towards a Commons-oriented economy and society (part of a Bauwens' & Kostakis' forthcoming book) political organizing: 1) local change through civic Alliances of the Commons and Chamber of the Commons producing social charters to recreate local political majorities [3] ; 2) the global alliance of the commons at nation-state level and beyond [4] Topics We are looking for maintainers for our subject pages! Interested? The P2P Paradigms Peer Production via Open and Free Input Peer Governance via Participatory Processes Peer Property via Commons Output See also: Cooperation and Sharing The Three Aspects of Application in Society P2P Civil Society Approaches P2P Market Approaches P2P State Approaches Transitioning to a P2P Society The Peer-Driven Collaborative and Ethical Economy is based on Collaborative Economic Practices using new Open Company Formats that aim to Mutualize Infrastructures and create income through Open Business Models and find investments through Crowdfunding and P2P Finance based on P2P Value Metrics and Open Accounting that are enabled through new Legal Infrastructures and true P2P Technological Infrastructures. This necessitates the construction of Shared Innovation Commons for Open and Distributed Manufacturing New P2P Culture Art Collective Intelligence Culture Education and Learning Group Facilitation Media P2P Relationships Spirituality Domains Agriculture and Food Ecology and Sustainablity Economics Energy P2P Gaming and 3D Metaverses Geography and Mapping Labor Licensing Money and Finance Music Open Standards Policy Politics Science Security and Warfare Taxation Technology Transportation P2P Villages & Cities How P2P Influences Society Overview of P2P in Business Overview of P2P in Governance P2P and Intellectual Property Resources P2P Foundation Calendar 2015 Case Studies Companies with P2P business models Conferences on P2P topics Courses: P2P Curricula Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version Events 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 The Commons-Based Reciprocity License Mutual Coordination Economics Working Group Towards Open Cooperativism Our eBooks The Commons Transition project]: ebook and site Future Scenarios for the Collaborative Economy Our Printed Books English: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. By Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. Palgrave, 2014. 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. P2P Provisioning Systems Ten essential provisions for human life: Air Water Food Clothing Shelter Communication Information Transportation Health Care Energy Our aims 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 .....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 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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Thank you for making a donation. fEtAzqZkqaBXdYDeG9mjnJ6KUuaz1FHzM6 13E2PjtLwaN2tYdzPx4TjUzHTcH1hn12oH with Paypal. What our visitors are interested in Currently this wiki contains 44,345 content pages with 147615 total editions. 2278 registered users This wiki have been visited more than 23,511,999; our home page was visited 1,144,923 times. (updated September 04, 2012) See [5] and [6] for an insight into our influence through retweets. 15 most popular articles <TopTenPages offset=1>15</TopTenPages>