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"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.

You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."

~ Buckminster Fuller ~

Welcome to the P2P Foundation

The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This website is our knowledge commons and it's collaboratively built by our community. Learn more...

Towards an Open and Autonomous Internet and Society

• Check out the FLOK Society project: Bauwens Joins Ecuador in Planning a Commons-based, P2P Economy
• Check out our directory of Open Hardware and Open Manufacturing Initiatives
• Check out the published work of P2P Lab

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The Foundation

Our Ideas

1. About The Foundation [1] and its research
2. Our Understanding of P2P
3. Manifesto: P2P and Human Evolution
4. The P2P Meme Map
5. Best P2P Essays 1 2
6. Bibliography of Michel Bauwens on P2P

Our Key Resources

• The P2P News Blog
• What’s New in the Wiki
• Wiki RSS Feed
• P2P Foundation RSS Feeds

Join Our Learning Community!

• P2P Foundation Email Lists
• Google+ Community
• Google+ Page
• Youtube video-feed
• Twitter
• Facebook
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Learning More

1. P2P Bookstore
2. P2P Foundation Participation in Scientific Symposia
3. P2P Seminars & (Testimonials)
4. Our Expert Database
5. Watch this P2P lecture!
6. Listen to this Podcast
7. Read this Interview

Who We Are

• Members
• Founders
• Wiki Active Contributors
• The P2P Lab

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Topics

We are looking for maintainers for our subject pages! Interested?

The P2P Paradigms

1. Peer Production via Open and Free Input
2. Peer Governance via Participatory Processes
3. Peer Property via Commons Output

See also:

• Cooperation and Sharing

The Three Aspects of Application in Society

1. P2P Civil Society Approaches
2. P2P Market Approaches
3. P2P State Approaches

The Peer-Driven Collaborative and Ethical Economy

1. Collaborative Economic Practices
2. Using New Open Company Formats
3. Mutualizing Infrastructures
4. with Open Business Models
5. through Crowdfunding and P2P Finance
6. based on P2P Value Metrics
7. enabled through Legal Infrastructure
8. and True P2P Technological Infrastructure
9. using Shared Innovation Commons for Open and Distributed Manufacturing

New P2P Culture

1. Art
2. Collective Intelligence
3. Culture
4. Education and Learning
5. Group Facilitation
6. Media
7. P2P Relationships
8. Spirituality

Domains

1. Agriculture and Food
2. Ecology and Sustainablity
3. Economics
4. Energy
5. P2P Gaming and 3D Metaverses
6. Geography and Mapping
7. Labor
8. Licensing
9. Money and Finance
10. Music
11. Open Standards
12. Policy
13. Politics
14. Science
15. Security and Warfare
16. Taxation
17. Technology
18. Transportation
19. P2P Villages & Cities

How P2P Influences Society

1. Overview of P2P in Business
2. Overview of P2P in Governance
3. P2P and Intellectual Property

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Resources

Case Studies

Companies with P2P business models

Conferences on P2P topics

Courses: P2P Curricula

Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version

Events Calendar

Individuals, Who's Who in P2P

Licences: open and free licenses

Maps

Movements, P2P and commons-rriented org's

Reference

Research on P2P

Resources and tools

Standards

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

We're urgently looking for female-led projects for this space!

1. Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy
2. Allen Butcher's Community Economics
3. Chris Cook's Open Capital approach
4. Patrick Anderson's User Ownership Theory
5. Péter Mázsa's Free Tax Project‎
6. Robert Searle's Transfinancial Economics
7. Thomas Kalka's Key P2P Concepts
8. Timothy Wilken's Synergic Projects

Other P2P Foundation Projects

1. Collaboration Platform Projects: cooperation for social action
2. Core Peer-2-Peer Collaboration Principles - Initiator Ryan Lanham
3. Distributed Manufacturing Collaborative Platforms: open design and distributed manufacturing platforms
4. List of P2P Researchers - preparation for launch of a P2P Research Group
5. List of European Policy Consultants - Celia Blanco
6. Participatory Spirituality Conference
7. P2P Cities: open cities
8. P2P Public Intellectuals
9. P2P Theory Books

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Languages

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Country Resources

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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

What our visitors are interested in

Currently this wiki contains

• 44,605 content pages with 148483 total editions.
• 2278 registered users

This wiki have been visited more than 23,511,999; our home page was visited 1,144,923 times. (updated September 04, 2012)

See [2] and [3] for an insight into our influence through retweets.

15 most popular articles

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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

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