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 [1] Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. - Margaret Mead [2] A peer is not an equal -- for there are no equals -- the peer is the one who appears in the public square, and by virtue of the public square, be it the polis of the streets or of the nets, and who appears as one who contributes, contests, collaborates, has a stake in the shared and made world precisely in her difference from others who also appear and associate in company. The ethos of politics, peer-to-peer, which is one and the same as the ethos of democratization, is always the interminable dynamic of equity-in-diversity. [3] - Dale Carrico The richest collection of free modes available anywhere in the net and on the planet. - Franz Nahrada Open Everything Open Hardware Directory An extensive catalog of all things open. P2P in a Nutshell an easy way to discover the ideas of the P2P Foundation, compiled by Mauro Bieg. 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...). Can we help you? How to support us? How you can help us?; How To Contribute; How to Write for our Wiki; P2P Foundation Wiki Requested Articles 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. And here is a version of our slide presentation at Slideshare Support the P2P Foundation by buying your books at our Bookstore Why is participation to the P2P Foundation not totally open? Important notice on COPYRIGHT: Fair Use Notice Our Platform
The Foundation Our Ideas About The Foundation [4] Our Understanding of P2P Manifesto: P2P and Human Evolution The P2P Meme Map Best P2P Essays 1 2 Bibliography of Michel Bauwens on P2P Our Key Resources The P2P Blog What’s New in the Wiki Wiki RSS Feed Our Newsletter Learning More P2P Bookstore P2P Seminars & (Testimonials) Our Expert Database Watch this P2P lecture! Listen to this Podcast Read this Interview Who We Are Our Founders Active Contributors Internal Wiki Pages Check them out here Join our learning community! P2P Foundation Email Lists P2P Foundation RSS Feeds	Topics We are looking for maintainers for our subject pages! Interested? Key Topics P2P and Business ; P2P Business Models P2P and Governance P2P, Copyright and Property The P2P Paradigms Open and Free Input Participatory Processes Commons Output Sharing The Three Aspects of Peer Production Peer Production Peer Governance Peer Property & Licensing P2P Infrastructures Agriculture and Food Open and Shared Design Open and Distributed Manufacturing Open Standards P2P Education and Learning P2P Energy P2P Facilitation P2P Media P2P Money ; Peer Funding P2P & Technology ; P2P Technological Infrastructure Transportation P2P Villages & Cities P2P Domains P2P Art Collective Intelligence Ecology and Sustainablity P2P Gaming and Metaverses Geography and Mapping P2P Music P2P Policy P2P Politics P2P Relationality P2P Science P2P Security and Warfare P2P Spirituality, Philosophy and Metaphysics P2P Taxation	P2P Resources General P2P Resources Case Studies Companies with P2P business models Conferences on P2P topics Curricula Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version Events Calendar Individuals, Who's Who in P2P Reference Research on P2P Resources and tools Statistics on P2P trends Media Resources Articles on P2P topics Books on P2P topics Fiction with P2P themes Graphics to use in presentations Podcasts and Audio Webcasts and Video Special Individual Projects Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy Chris Cook's Open Capital approach Christian Siefkes' Peer Economy Jon Awbrey's Inquiry into Peer Educational Resources Patrick Anderson's User Ownership Theory Péter Mázsa's Free Tax Project‎ Robert Searle's Transfinancial Economics Stan Rhodes' Peer Trust Network Project Thomas Kalka's Key P2P Concepts Timothy Wilken's Synergic Projects Other P2P Foundation Projects Collaboration Platform Projects: cooperation for social action Core Peer-2-Peer Collaboration Principles - Initiator Ryan Lanham Distributed Manufacturing Collaborative Platforms: open design and distributed manufacturing platforms List of P2P Researchers - preparation for launch of a P2P Research Group List of European Policy Consultants - Celia Blanco Participatory Spirituality Conference P2P Cities: open cities P2P Theory Books
Languages Chinese-Language - Dutch-Language - French-Language - German-Language - Greek-Language - Italian-Language - Malayalam-Language - Mongolian-Language - Polish-Language - Portuguese-Language - Russian-Language - Spanish-Language - Swedish-Language - Thai-Language Country Resources Africa Egypt Morocco Kenya South Africa Zimbabwe Arab Countries Asia Bangladesh Burma Cambodia China Hong Kong India Japan Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Taiwan Thailand Central and South America Argentina Brazil Chili Colombia Ecuador Mexico Peru Uruguay Venezuela Europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Netherlands Poland Portugal Russia Spain Sweden UK Ukraine North America Canada United States Oceania Australia New Zealand What we are interested in On November 27, 2009, our wiki contained 9,395 content pages, which have been viewed 9,297,763 times; our home page was visited 445,138 times. The P2P Foundation has reached a 'highly influential' status according to Topsy's influence metrics, i.e. part of the 2% most retweeted via Twitter. See [5] and [6]. Our Most Popular Topics Product Hacking ‎(69,999 views) Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation ‎(29,461 views) Commons ‎(14,521 views) P2P Energy Economy ‎(12,451 views) Open Access ‎(9,622 views) Transfinancial Economics ‎(9,046 views) Reputation ‎(8,549 views) Global Villages ‎(8,362 views) Crowdsourcing ‎(8,223 views) Open Data ‎(8,016 views) Long Tail ‎(7,700 views) Crowdfunding ‎(7,433 views) Abundance vs. Scarcity ‎(6,937 views) Peer Governance ‎(6,929 views) Open Money ‎(6,921 views) P2P Energy Grid ‎(6,886 views) Peer to Peer ‎(6,849 views) Open Source Hardware ‎(6,798 views) Creative Commons ‎(6,666 views) Mesh Networks ‎(6,558 views) Open Design ‎(6,386 views) Collective Intelligence ‎(6,234 views) Desktop Manufacturing ‎(5,936 views) Peer Property ‎(5,926 views) P2P TV ‎(5,923 views) Partners Friends and partners: Appropedia ; Espians ; Fing ; Global Village Network ; Global Swadeshi ; Hipatia ; The Hub ; Institute for Distributed Creativity ; Oekonux ; Open Source Ecology ; OpenKollab ; openMaterials ; Open Manufacturing ; openp2pdesign.org ; P2P Research Group ; Platoniq ; United Diversity; Entrepreneur Commons; Re-public; Ethical Markets TV See also: Our Wiki Neighbours