The Foundation for P2P Alternatives

We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society. Overview · Editing · Questions · Help · How to Contribute Contents · Categories · Featured content · A–Z index Our Platform We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives. The Wiki Click here to see What's New in the P2P Wiki Have a look at the profile of our Active Contributors or that of our Founders Blogs Read our public face, our blogs in English and in French, Other Publications and Media(including interviews) Our latest thematic Newsletter with its Topic Index The P2P Meme Map : our visualization of the P2P conceptual universe Watch a Webcast Interview; Listen to a podcast by Michel Bauwens on Peer to Peer; or read this extensive interview with Richard Poynder, or this one with Nik Baerten for Panopticon See our WikiNode, a collection of related Wiki's from the friends of the P2P Foundation How we can help you We are conducting P2P Seminars to assist individuals, organizations and society at large in their efforts to adapt to the new participative world based on social innovation. See the Testimonials page for some reactions. We can also consult you on how to apply these principles through social technologies involved into a possible project you may be working on. How you can support us Expand the Wiki or write for one of our blogs You can help us develop this wiki. All you need to do is sign up for a wiki account and contribute. Currently this is mainly an english-language platform with some larger contributions in other languages. Contact us if you want to help. We also especially appreciative for contributors working on English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Chinese and Thai. (not that we are saying no to anyone outside that group, just that we would like to build a greater concentration in these languages right now.) We also are always open to writers wanting to contribute to the blogs in english or french. Funding Also funding would be welcome as we are a completely voluntary organization and as any of you may guess, we are starting to run up some costs in maintaining our servers and making events, publications and discussions possible. Books Support the this foundation by buying books on related subjects at our Bookstore The Foundation About The Foundation Our Understanding of P2P Our blog in English and French The P2P Meme Map The P2P Foundational Manifesto Other Foundational Essays Who We Are - Founders Our Expert Database P2P Seminars Topics Open Music Practices Open Standards Concepts Panarchy Concepts P2P Audiovisual Concepts P2P Business Concepts P2P Collaborative Concepts P2P Cultural Concepts P2P Facilitation Concepts P2P Gaming Concepts P2P Governance Concepts P2P Intellectual Property Concepts P2P Learning Concepts P2P Media Concepts P2P Monetary Concepts P2P Policy Concepts P2P Political Concepts P2P Relational Concepts P2P Science Concepts P2P Spiritual Concepts P2P Technological Concepts P2P Resources Articles Books Case Studies Companies Conferences Curricula Encyclopedia Fiction Graphics Individuals Interviews Movements Podcasts (Podcasts in Dutch) Reference Research Resources Webcasts Working Projects MBA on Participatory Economics P2P Toolkit Commons Network Online Book Projects P2P Encyclopedia Book Project; The Ethical Economy Book Project Languages Chinese-Language - Dutch-Language French-Language- Thai-Language - Spanish-Language - Italian-Language - Portuguese-Language Country Resources Africa Morocco Zimbabwe Asia Burma China Hong Kong India Japan Malaysia Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Taiwan Thailand Central and South America Argentina Brazil Chili Peru Uruguay Venezuela Europe Finland France Germany Greece Italy Netherlands Spain UK North America Canada Australia New Zealand What we are interested in The Open and Free Paradigm Tags on the open paradigm: 1. The Access Paradigm: A2K Access to Knowledge, Access to Health; 2. The Open Paradigm: Open Access, Open Archives, Open Biology, Open Business, Open Business Process Initiative, Open Content, Open Cores, Open Courseware, Open Data, Open Design, Open Document Format, Open Documentaries, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Fiction, Open Fuures, Open GeoData, Open Hardware, Open Health, Open Infrastructure, Open Knowledge, Open Learning, Open Media Standards, Open Money, Open Music Business Models, Open Networked Learning Model, Open Organization,Open Politics, Open Social Networking Standards; Open Space Technology, Open Spectrum, Open Spreadsheets, Open Standards, Open Textbooks; 3. The Open Source Paradigm: Open Source, Open Source Architecture, Open Source Biotechnology, Open Source Car, Open Source Disaster Recovery, Open Source Drug Discovery, Open Source Ecology, Open Source Economics, Open Source Hardware, Open Source Industrial Design, Open Source Initiative, Open Source Leadership, Open Source Licenses, Open Source Parking, Open Source Record Label, Open Source Religion, Open Source Research, Open Source Telephony, Open Source Virtual Worlds, Open Source Warfare, Open Source Yoga Tags on the free paradigm: Free Cinema initiative, Free Content Definition, Free Culture movement, Free Goods as Civilization Building, Free Hardware Design, Free Labour, Free Maps, Free Music Philosophy, Free Software Business Models, Free Software Principles The Participatory/P2P Paradigm Tags on the P2P paradigm: Peer to Peer, Peer to Peer Theory , Peer Production, Peer Production - Immanence vs. Transcendence, Peer Governance, Peer Property, Peer Banking, Peer to Peer Exchanges, Panarchy, the Sharing Economy, the Gift Economy, P2P Capitalism, P2P Microfinance Tags on the collaborative paradigm: Co-Counselling, Co-Intelligence, Co-production, Co-Research, Collaboration, Collaboration Theory, Collaborative Defense, Collaborative Filtering, Collaborative Moderation, Collaborative Photojournalism, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Community Supported Manufacturing, Community Wireless, Cooperation Studies, Cooperative Capitalism, Cooperative Content Distribution Model, Cooperative Inquiry, Coordination Format, Coordination Theory Tags on the participatory paradigm: Participation Capture, Participative Epistemology, Participatory Culture, Participatory Democracy, Participatory Journalism, Participatory Panopticon, Participatory Spirituality, Participatory Urban Planning, Participatory Video; see also Citizen Dialogue and Deliberation, Customer-Controlled Networks, Customer-build Network Infrastructures, User-centered Innovation, Web 2.0.; and also: Citizen Engineers, Citizen Journalism, Citizen Ownership, Citizen Science; and finally: Social Capital, Social Commerce, Social Economy, Social Entrepreneur, Social Knowledge; Social Media, Social Physics, Social Software, Social Software Culture, Socialization of Innovation The Commons Paradigm Tags on the Commons paradigm: The Commons, the Tragedy of the Commons, the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons, the Cornucopia of the Commons, the Circulation of the Common, Commons-based Political Production, the Global Integral-Spiritual Commons, Information Commons, the Public Domain, Enclosure, General Public License, Creative Commons, Trust, Social Dilemmas, Wireless Commons, the Book Commons, the Genome Commons, the Science Commons The Network Paradigm Tags on the Distribution paradigm: Customer-build network infrastructures, Customer-Controlled Networks, Desktop Manufacturing, Diffuse Innovation, Distributed Computing, Folksonomies, the Long Tail, Mass Amateurization, Mesh Networks, the Pro-Am Movement, Prosumers, Smart Mobs, Swarming, User-Capitalized Networks, User-centered Innovation, User-driven Advertizing, User Filtered Content, Viral Communicators, Tags on the network paradigm: network sociality, network neutrality, relational spirituality, social networks, connectionism, viral marketing, memetics