Top Ten P2P Trends of 2016

very early draft for publication January 4 2016

The Renewable Energy Revolution

Solar reached the tipping point, and is now the cheapest source of energy in 60 countries and counting, http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Fsolar-power-is-now-the-cheapest-energy-in-the-world&h=TAQHPxJOV

http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/

The Cooperative Economy in Rojava

Platform Cooperativism comes of age

Platform Cooperativism 2016

big coop organizations moved to realizing they need to act

Civic and Commons Renaissance in western european cities

oikos report findings /

(includes growth of local currencies now at 13,000 in the world, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpE8UMMZa9w, 5:50 minutes)

iaone report

jose ramos book

Municipal Coalitions in Spain and beyond

see Category:Urbanism for a slate of books

Naples and other rebel cities, see: City-Based Departments of the Commons

Municipal coalitions Bcomu, ahora madrid

Rebel Cities

jose ramos book , iaone report

The emergence of Super-Competent Democracies

1. Pol.is
2. V-Taiwan Process
3. Civic Councils

Politisation of the Commons / Proliferation of Assemblies of the Commons

European Commons Assembly

post-capitalist debates (mason, inventing the future)

Commons Transition Coalition ; Assembly of the Commons

greater boston coop

P2P Value report findings on really existing peer production communities

https://p2pvalue.eu/762-2/ .. full report at https://www.academia.edu/29210209/Commons_Based_Peer_Production_in_the_Information_Economy

Intro by Michel Bauwens: P2P Value is a landmark study because it is the first long (3-year) scientific study of 300+ peer production communities, and it largely confirms the ten years of empirical observations that form the basis of P2P Theory and the documentation in the P2P Foundation Wiki. Our team was also one of the 8 partners in the consortium. Here are some interesting findings, which I would like to highlight: 1. These communities are also ‘imaginary communities’ with specific values, i..e. they want to make the world a better place, i.e. they are ethical communities not just profit-maximising entities, and their identification is in global networks, not just the locales they are embedded in. This is historically important since it echoes the birth of nation-states as imaginary communities (see Benedict Anderson’s landmark book on this topic) 2. A majority of 78% of these communities are practicing, preparing and/or looking into open value or contributory accounting systems; again, this is significant since changes in accounting practices and philosophies have accompanied the great value regime transitions in the past 3. Reputation capital is a fictitious commodity that has an effective capacity to drive and allocate resources to these common projects. This document is therefore a must-read for the P2P and Commons community.

P2P Foundation research comes of age

havens center book

thermodynanmic efficiences research and DGML / Cosmo-localisation with fab city and sharon essay linkage

Technological Sovereignty, Distributed Manufacturing, and the Commons Turn in Developement

Report from Inpact

Circular Finance of Terre des Liens

Commons turn of AFD

Fab City, https://blog.fab.city/co-creating-the-fab-city-poblenou-roadmap-at-ouishare-fest-barcelona-2016-afb418c5a151#.v5qvzbyzv

suggested illustration: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1250/1*y4i7Nmkx06l_asMjKSSSKg.png

The year of the blockchain and cryptledger applications, but ALSO Open and contributory value accounting

boll report

DAO, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)