Revision as of 10:01, 4 September 2018

Short bio

Vasilis Kostakis is a Professor at Tallinn University of Technology and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and a core member of the P2P Foundation.

contact: vkostakis at cyber.harvard.edu
google scholar page

Long bio

Vasilis Kostakis is the Professor of P2P Governance within the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology. He is also a Faculty Associate within the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor within the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Moreover, he is a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

He is the founder of the P2P Lab and has been the Research Coordinator of the P2P Foundation, winner of the 2016 Golden Nica for Digital Communities.

In 2018, Vasilis was awarded a four-year grant from the European Research Council, to study the convergence of the digital commons with local manufacturing technologies. Along with an interdisciplinary team of scholars, activists, and social entrepreneurs, Vasilis focuses on how to create an economy based on locally sustainable communities that are digitally interconnected.

He has written essays for several outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and Aeon. His work has appeared in 13 languages.

Vasilis is also an artist.

Recent research projects

Currently Vasilis is coordinating the DGML project.
See the 2018-22 plans of the P2P Lab.

Fifteen selected academic publications

Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto (book). forthcoming
The Convergence of Digital Commons with Local Manufacturing from a Degrowth Perspective: Two Illustrative Cases. site text
Digital Economy and the Rise of Open Cooperativism: The Case of the Enspiral Network. site text
Blockchain and Value Systems in the Sharing Economy: The Illustrative Case of Backfeed. site text
Research on Degrowth. site text
Making (in) the Smart City: The Emergence of Makerspaces. site text
In Defense of Digital Commoning. site text
Design Global, Manufacture Local: Exploring the Contours of an Emerging Productive Model. site text
Towards a Political Ecology of the Digital Economy: Socio-environmental Implications of Two Value Models. site text
Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy (book). ebook site wiki
Open Source 3D Printing as a Means of Learning: An Educational Experiment in Two High Schools in Greece. site text
Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression: Two Cases from Greece. site text
Should Law Keep Pace with Technology? Law as Katechon. site text
Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. site text
Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. site text

Ten selected op-eds

New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might @Harvard Business Review
Utopia is now @Aeon
Design global, manufacture local: a new industrial revolution? @TheConversation
Peer-to-peer production and the partner state @RedPepper
Can blockchain, a swiftly evolving technology, be controlled? @TheConversation
Cooperativism in the digital era, or how to form a global counter-power @OpenDemocracy
Peer-to-peer: a new opportunity for the left @ROAR
A new post-capitalist ecosystem of value creation @OpenDemocracy
Modern feudalism of the sharing economy @Technologist
Beyond bitcoin @Evonomics

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-Vasilis Kostakis is a Senior Researcher at Tallinn University of Technology and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and a core member of the P2P Foundation.
+Vasilis Kostakis is a Professor at Tallinn University of Technology and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and a core member of the P2P Foundation.
 *contact:  vkostakis at cyber.harvard.edu
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 =Long bio=
-Vasilis Kostakis is a Senior Researcher within the [https://www.ttu.ee/institutes/ragnar-nurkse-department-of-innovation-and-governance/department-11/academic-staff-5/ Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance] at Tallinn University of Technology. He is also a Faculty Associate within the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/vkostakis Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society] at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor within the [https://master.degrowth.org Institute of Environmental Science and Technology] at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Moreover, he is a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ([https://www.thersa.org RSA]).
+Vasilis Kostakis is the Professor of P2P Governance within the [https://www.ttu.ee/institutes/ragnar-nurkse-department-of-innovation-and-governance/department-11/academic-staff-5/ Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance] at Tallinn University of Technology. He is also a Faculty Associate within the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/vkostakis Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society] at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor within the [https://master.degrowth.org Institute of Environmental Science and Technology] at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Moreover, he is a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ([https://www.thersa.org RSA]).
 He is the founder of the  [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/ P2P Lab] and has been the Research Coordinator of the [[P2P Foundation]], winner of the 2016 Golden Nica for Digital Communities.

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