P2P Encyclopedia Book Project

Book publishing project of Michel Bauwens and Samuel Rose, with James Burke for illustrations and multimedia interventions.

Title and Justification

Title

MB: The Peer to Peer Encyclopedia

MB: The Peer to Peer Revolution

SubTitle

MB: A toolbook for a new life and a new society???

SR: An (Emerging?) New Way To Solve Human Problems

Table of Contents

Project One: The Book

Foreword by famous person

Introduction by Michel Bauwens and/or Samuel Rose

Part One: The Foundations: The Three Meta-Paradigms

Covers the principles involved

Chapter 1: Paradigm One: Everything shall be Open and Free What is "Open", and why? Open Source, Open Knowledge, Open Design, Open Futures, Open Data, Open Money, Open Access, Open Archives, Open Biology, Open Business, Open Organization, Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Hardware, Open Politics,Open Source Disaster Recovery, Open Standards, Open Textbooks This chapter could possibly offer some or all of the examples above. It should also discuss how making resources open and free for re-use allows for:

• More diverse perspectives in innovation (see: Mass Collaboration, Democratizing Innovation)

• Open processes up to all people involved in a system. When Open and/or free for re-use, managers, employees, and customers now can cooperate and collaborate and have a voice in the direction of decision making about change and innovation. Businesses have a direct line voice to fromn their customers and employees.

This chapter should also explain the the appropriate places that Open and free for re-use can thrive as a core part of a capitalistic business model, and examples such as IBM, Apple Mac OSX, Sun, etc cna be given.

Perhaps also a brief history of how "Open" emerged as a paradigm from people trying to create free software (reference Weber's The Success of Open Source), and how it is starting to come to be extended to many areas of human creation, both by existing institutions and by groups of individuals that come together to solve a problem.

Chapter 2: Paradigm Two: Participation shall be extended to all; and all shall collaborate

Chapter 3: Paradigm Three: Our common production shall remain common

Covers the Commons, the Public Domain

Chapter 4: Distributed Networks

Part Two: The P2P Processes

Chapter 5: Peer Production or the Sharing Economy

Covers free software/open source, the Wikipedia experiment, etc..; open hardware, open design

Chapter 6: Peer Governance or Absolute Democracy

Covers leadership/management of peer production projects specifically

Covers new forms of participative democracy generally

Chapter 7: Peer Property

Covers licenses such as the GPL/CC Licenses and property forms such as trusts, cooperatives, open capital

Part Three: The Applications

Chapter 8: Business and Economics

Chapter 9: Politics and Society

Chapter 10: Philosophy and Spirituality

Chapter 11: Art, music and creativity

Project Two: The DVD

The P2P Manuscript

The Document Vault

The Audio Vault

The Video Vault

Proposal For Possible Other Items To be Included

Prediction markets?

Grid Computing, P2P super computing (eg seti @ home) etc?