Top Ten P2P Trends of 2015

VERY FIRST DRAFT

1. Inspired by Enspiral: The further maturation of post-corporate entrepreneurial coalitions

We mentioned their emergence as one of the great trends of 2014, and they have mostly continued to grow and mature. Beyond the corporation, there are now these budding seed forms of post-corporate business eco-systems that creating livelihoods for productive communities and their commons, such as Enspiral with Loomio and the open hardware designs of Sensorica.

I visited Enspiral in their heartland of New Zealand, seeing them up close and I very much liked what I saw. Here's a good [1]description from Josef Davies-Coates:

"Enspiral is made up of three parts: The Enspiral Foundation, Enspiral Services and Startup Ventures. I’d say they’re the best current example of an Open Co-op, but how they actually describe themselves is as “a virtual and physical network of companies and professionals working together to create a thriving society” and as an “experiment to create a collaborative network that helps people do meaningful work.” A core part of their strategy is to open source their model. In short, not only are they doing almost exactly what United Diversity wants to do — they’re also building the open source tools actually needed to do it!

The Enspiral Foundation is the charitable company at the heart of the Enspiral network. It’s the legal custodian of assets held collectively by the network, and the entity with which companies and individuals have a formal relationship. Decisions are made using Loomio and budgets are set using Cobudget.

A network of professionals work together in teams to offer Enspiral Services, a range of business services under one roof. By default members pool 20% of their invoices into a collective bucket, 25% of which goes to the Foundation. Loomio and Cobudget are then used to decide how to spend the rest. For Startup Ventures, Enspiral works with social entrepreneurs to launch start-ups who then support the work of the Foundation, and Enspiral as a whole, through flexible revenue share agreements: ventures choose their own contribution rate, usually around 5% of revenue."

Check our wiki descriptions of Enspiral, Las Indias, Sensorica, Ethos, and Fora do Eixo.

Ouishare and other partners organized a seminar to examine these new practices this December, here is their video presentation reflecting the emergences of these practices, see at https://vimeo.com/142884370

* For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open_Company_Formats

2. The Collaborative Technology Alliance: making the alternative P2P infrastructure interoperable

While it is too early to predict how successful this effort will be, I consider the meeting and the launch of this alliance, which brings together post-corporate alliances like Enspiral and a dozen others, to be a pivot. The aim is not to compete with hacker alternatives to Facebook, but simply to make already used technology, like Loomio and Co-Budget for Enspiral, interoperable with each other. This is definitely the most realistic strategy to arrive at a interconnection of ethical and non-netarchical technologies.

A similar initiative is growing in France and the francophone world, under the name Synergie Numerique, https://journeesynergienumerique.hackpad.com/Rsum-Journe-synergie-numrique-iQ9qiuqFRrB

• For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P Infrastructure

3. From commons in the city to The City as a Commons: poltical commons transitions at the city level

This year the IASC, the venerable scholarly association which continues the work of Elinor Ostrom, held a memorable conference that sealed the evolution from paying attention to commons in the city, to actually seeing the whole city as a commons. The work of Christian Iaione and his team at LabGov, responsible already for the Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, is exemplary for this trend, which is expanding in a number of other Italian cities. This parallels the historic wins of the commons-oriented municipal coalitions in a number of Spanish cities, such as the En Comu coalition in Barcelona. In Saillans, France, and Frome, UK, with their Flatpack Democracy Toolkit, civic coalitions displaced the political parties, and the big win of a progressive coalition Grenoble, was also a vindication of citizen-centric attitudes by the political parties in the coalition.

* For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Urbanism

4. The launch of independent, commons-centric civic organisations

I called for this about three years ago, but they are finally emerging.

A proto-Assembly of the Commons has been operating in Ghent, Belgium; and on the occasion of a big francophone city festival on the commons (Villes en Commun), Toulouse and a few other french cities launched Assemblies of the Commons. A Europe-wide Assembly meeting is planned at the EU-level. In Chicago, a Chamber of the Commons was launched, and just this month, a Commons Transition Coalition for Melbourne and other places in Australia. This means that commoners will increasingly learn to have a political and social voice.

* For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Movements

5. The initiation of a legal tradition for the Commons

Post-Capitalism, by Paul Mason

The dossier by David Bollier

The book by Capra and Ugo Mattei

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Law

and For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category: (david's section)

6. Poc 21, OSCE Days and the open source circular economy

Poc21.cc

their movie

OSCE Days

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable_Manufacturing

7. Open cooperativism, platform cooperativism, and the 'real sharing economy'

The CSG report

The NYC conference

The Ouishare conference

Examples

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Cooperatives

8. The Emergence of Meta-Economic Networks

The Mutual Aid Network, Madison, Wisconsin

Encommuns.org

Solidarity Districts

9. The maturation of contributory and open value accounting and other commons tech

News from Sensorica

Bob Haugen and Mykorizal

Common Good Economy

Integral Accounting ?

The Collaborative Technology Alliance

Loomio

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Accounting

10. The mutual coordination economy: open sourcing the supply chain with or without the blockchain

The Provenance white paper

Talk about the blockchain

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Mutual_Coordination

11. From the basic income to Commonfare

The Saw-B report

Examples of commonfare

Planned basic income experiments in the Netherlands and Finland

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Solidarity

2. “Power to the People”!: The breakthrough of distributed renewable energy

For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Energy