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 Hierarchy 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

SELECTED WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES

Alterglobalisation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterglobalisation

Co-Intelligence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-intelligence Collaborative Intelligence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_intelligence

Free Content, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content

Free software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software Free Software Foundation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation Free Software Movement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Movement Free Software Movement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement

Open Source Intelligence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligence Open Source Movement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_movement

Public Domain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Reputation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation

Smart Mobs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_mobs

Social Networking, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

Swarm Intelligence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_Intelligence

KEY RESOURCES

- Steven Clift monitors e-democracy initiatives, at 

http://www.publicus.net/e-government/

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

Public domains vs. the commons, For an investigation of the differences between the concepts, see the essays by James Boyle, at http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/boyle.pdf (The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain) and http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/foreword.pdf (The Opposite of Property)

This idea of a patronage economy, citing the work of Paul David, is discussed by John Willinsky in an article for First Monday, at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/willinsky//index.html

Research into Open Source as a collaborative social process, FLOSS-POLS, a EU-funded research project, claims it is the single largest knowledge base on open source usage and development worldwide; and its 'third track' examines the efficiency of open source as a system for collaborative problem-solving;, see at http://www.flosspols.org/ . The peer-reviewed journal First Monday dedicated a special issue to 'open source as a social process', at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_11/index.html

See in particular: Item1, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_11/lehmann/index.html This paper takes a closer look at FLOSS developers and their projects to find out how they work, what holds them together and how they interact; Item 2, on accountability in Open Source projects, at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_11/david/index.html

An evolutionary scheme for economics, by Wim Nusselder, see http://www.antenna.nl/wim.nusselder/schrijfsels/economics.htm

Coordination defined by Philippe Zafirian, at (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.zarifian/page122.htm)

The evolution of cooperation:“Evolution's Arrow also argues that evolution itself has evolved. Evolution has progressively improved the ability of evolutionary mechanisms to discover the best adaptations. And it has discovered new and better mechanisms. The book looks at the evolution of pre-genetic, genetic, cultural, and supra-individual evolutionary mechanisms. (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Review_Complexity.pdf)

Free sharing as an aspect of civilisation-building, at (http://www.peripheries.net/g-sagot1.htm ) Cooperation studies are well monitored by by Howard Rheingold and and a whole team of collaborators at the Smartmobs.com weblog.

Here's a summary of cooperation theories maintained by Paul Pivcevic of the http://www.cooperativeintelligence.org/ website.

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

Onion-like structure of authority in OS projects, (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/index.html )

See also an analysis of the relation between free software and capitalism, at http://www.oekonux.org/texts/marketrelations.html

Cognitive capitalism: Yann-Moulier Boutang in http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1656 ; See also http://www.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/labo/walras/Objets/New/20021214/YMB.pdf

Self-organisation and cooperation in cognitive capitalism, special issue of Solaris magazine, at http://biblio-fr.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/jelec/Solaris/d05/5introduction.html , http://biblio-fr.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/jelec/Solaris/d05/5link-pezet.html

An explanation of the concept of the general intellect, at http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=476

On the concept of Worldwide public goods, at http://www.upmf grenoble.fr/irepd/regulation/Lettre_regulation/lettrepdf/LR48.pdf ;

an overview of intellectual property regimes and their evolution, at http://www.upmfgrenoble.fr/irepd/regulation/Lettre_regulation/index.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;.

Tom Atlee is founder of The Co-Intelligence Institute, (http://www.co-intelligence.org) coined the term co-intelligence, which he usually defines as meaning what intelligence looks like when we take seriously the wholeness, co-creativity and interconnectedness of life. Collective intelligence is only one manifestation of co-intelligence. Others include multi-modal intelligence, collaborative intelligence, wisdom, resonant intelligence and universal intelligence.