The Foundation for P2P Alternatives

We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society. Our platform About the website you are reading right now. It is a wiki, which means you can also contribute, see how to contribute. Our public face, the Weblog, read the latest P2P news! Our Newsletter : a weekly thematic newsletter on peer to peer developments. Topic Index to the individual articles of P2P News, with external links provided The P2P Meme Map : our visualization of the P2P conceptual universe Listen to a podcast by Michel Bauwens on Peer to Peer Overview of Participatory Media developments : a table giving access to autonomous media; The Open Media Directory gives access to collections of legal and podsafe content to be used in podcasts and webcasts. See our WikiNode, a collection of related Wiki's from the friends of the P2P Foundation
The Foundation About The Foundation Our Understanding of P2P The P2P Weblog The P2P Meme Map The P2P Foundational Manifesto Other Foundational Essays Who We Are - Founders Our Expert Database	Topics Open Standards Concepts P2P Audiovisual Concepts P2P Business Concepts P2P Collaborative Concepts P2P Cultural Concepts P2P Facilitation Concepts P2P Gaming Concepts P2P Governance Concepts P2P Intellectual Property Concepts P2P Learning Concepts P2P Media Concepts P2P Policy Concepts P2P Political Concepts P2P Spiritual Concepts P2P Relational Concepts P2P Technologies, Infrastructure, Media, Social Software	P2P Resources Articles Books Case Studies Companies Conferences Curricula Encyclopedia Graphics Individuals Interviews Movements Podcasts Reference Research Resources Webcasts
Working Projects MBA on Participatory Economics P2P Toolkit Commons Network Book Project Languages Dutch-Language French-Language- Thai-Language - Spanish-Language - Italian-Language - Portuguese-Language Country Resources Africa Morocco Zimbabwe Asia Burma China India Japan Malaysia Pakistan Philippines South Korea Thailand Central and South America Argentina Brazil Peru Venezuela Europe Finland France Germany Greece Italy Netherlands Spain UK North America Canada Australia New Zealand What we are interested in The Open and Free Paradigm Tags on the open paradigm: A2K Access to Knowledge, Open Access, Open Archives, Open Biology, Open Business, Open Content, Open Courseware, Open Design, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Hardware, Open Knowledge, Open Money, Open Organization,Open Politics, Open Source, Open Source Disaster Recovery, Open Standards, Open Textbooks The Participatory/P2P Paradigm Tags on 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 Tags on 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 Tags on 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; and finally: Social Capital, Social Commerce, Social Economy, Social Entrepreneur, Social Knowledge; Social Media, Social Physics, Social Software, Social Software Culture, Socialization of Innovation 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: Desktop Manufacturing, Diffuse Innovation, Folksonomies, Mass Amateurization, the Pro-Am Movement, the Long Tail, Prosumers, Smart Mobs, Swarming, User-Capitalized Networks, User-driven Advertizing, Viral Communicators, Distributed Computing, Mesh Networks Tags on the network paradigm: network sociality, network neutrality, relational spirituality, social networks, connectionism, viral marketing, memetics