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 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 [https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Generative_Adversarial_Network_vs_Generative_Cooperative_Network])
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"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])
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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 ~
On market-commons institutional design: Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting. By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros. Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2016 [2]
On staying within the carrying capacity of the earth:The Thermodynamics of Peer Production: How mutualization through commons can bring our matter/energy footprint down in dramatic ways
Coming soon: On public-commons institutional design: The Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent.
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]
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...).
.....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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