The Foundation for P2P Alternatives

We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - Buckminster Fuller 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 maxim: 1) 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); 2) 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 et...). Can we help you? How to support us? How To Contribute 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. Support the P2P Foundation by buying your books at our Bookstore Our Platform
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Languages Chinese-Language - Dutch-Language - French-Language - Greek-Language - Italian-Language Mongolian-Language - Portuguese-Language - Spanish-Language - Swedish-Language - Thai-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 Ireland Italy Netherlands Spain Sweden UK North America Canada Australia New Zealand What we are interested in The Open and Free Paradigm Topic list related to 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 Futures, 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 Topic list related to 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 Topic list related to 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 Topic list related to 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 Topic list related to 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; 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 Topic list related to the "social turn": Sociable Media, Social Bookmarking, Social Capital, Social Cognitive, Social Commerce, Social Currencies, Social Dilemmas, Social Economy, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Finance, Social Knowledge, Social Media, Social Network Analysis, Social Network Site, Social Physics, Social Policy Bonds, Social Protocols, Social Software, Social Software 3.0, Social Software Culture, Socialization of Innovation