P2P Governance, Politics, Social Movements

THEMATIC ISSUES OF P2P NEWS

P2P Economic Governance, tools, Issue 98 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p98

P2P and Economic Governance, theory, Issue 97 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p97

Multitudes, Issue 95 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p95

P2P Political Theory and Practice, Issue 93 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p93

Empire and Multitudes, Issue 92 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p92

Peer Governance, Issue 90 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p90

P2P and Cooperation, Issue 88 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p88

P2P Hierarch Theory, Issue 87 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p87

On the Commons, Issue 77 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p77

P2P Cooperation and Activism, Issue 76 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p76

ARTICLES

Summary of Internet Governance bodies by ACM's Ubiquity magazine. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.html

Grey Tuesday as an example of online music activism in action, at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/howard/index.html

Citizen Science, http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002974.html

Some other examples: distributed proofreading for Project Gutenberg, at http://www.pgdp.net/ ; Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm ; NASA Clickworkers, http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top ; SETI http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

Weblogs as a process of mass-amateurisation, not mass-professionalistion, at http://shirky.com/writings/weblogs_publishing.html

Blogs as 'the self in conversation', at (http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/transcript_weinberger1_050201/pfindex.html

MISCELLANEOUS

Panarchy, at http://www.panarchy.com

"Panarchy, and by extension this website, is not a normative model; it is a descriptive one. Panarchy is not a utopian vision, or an attempt to describe a rational or just world order. Panarchy may not be good or bad, but it is coherent and consistent. Like the Industrial Era, Panarchy demonstrates certain ways of perceiving and interacting with the world throughout its breadth and depth. Panarchy emerges from the analysis of broad patterns of change in the world, which leads to an understanding the dynamics of systems and holarchies. By applying those understandings across all strata of society, we arrive at a description of where civilization is heading -- thus, Panarchy.

Panarchy is the pattern of relations that characterizes and defines the next era in human civilization. The totality of these relations - political, economic, social - is what constitutes global governance in the next cycle of civilization. Mark Salter offers this definition: "Panarchy means an inclusive, universal system of governance in which all may participate meaningfully".

The Working Group on Internet Governance,, has issued a report on the topic of reform. The WGIG is a group of experts tasked by the United Nations to think about and come up with a report about Internet governance. See at http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/07/16/wgig_report.html

The report of the WGIG is here at http://www.wgig.org/docs/WGIGREPORT.pdf Visualisation of the four scenarios proposed at http://www.wortfeld.de/2005/07/wgig_report_understanding_it/

GNU Manifesto at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html .

The GPL license explained, at (http://news.com.com/Sprucing+up+open+sources+GPL+foundation/2100-7344_3-5501561.html?tag=nefd.lede)

An article about the 'copyleft attitude' and the emergence of the free art license, at http://infos.samizdat.net/article301.html

Richard Stallman on the free software principles: (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html )

French-language interview with Stallman: http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=214

Richard Stallman on why it is okay to charge for free software: (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html )

See also at http://www.opensource.org/ ; Background on the Open Source definition, by Bruce Perens, at http://www.perens.com/Articles/OSD.html