Category:Collaborative Economy: Difference between revisions

The Collaborative Economy - Introduction compiled by Michel Bauwens gives a wide selection of references, typologies, and links to other articles.

Various definitions have been suggested for the Collaborative Economy - Concept. Wikipedia has an article on the Sharing economy, suggesting that the "Sharing economy is a term for a way of distributing goods and services, a way that differs from the traditional model of corporations hiring employees and selling products to consumers. In the sharing economy, individuals are said to rent or "share" things like their cars, homes and personal time to other individuals in a peer-to-peer fashion".

However, the definition of the Sharing Economy is generally taken to include platforms like AirBnB and Uber, which we now recognise as 'extractive'. Recently there is more general agreement within the community talking about the Commons that those kinds of platform are not in any deep way collaborative.

According to Google Trends, interest in the term peaked around 2016, which makes sense given the introductory material disseminated around 2012 to 2013. It is one of the terms, but by no means the only one in use, to describe the kind of economy that fits with the Commons, with the Transition Initiative etc.

Resources for Learning

Introductory

• Introduction to Open Source P2P Exchanges: Under 4 minutes video from around 2012. Exchanging goods and services through secure and trusted application without the need for currencies and intermediaries. The background to the Abundant Exchange platform. This is a really good intro to the idea of p2p exchanges. [1]
• Shane Hughes on the Collaborative Economy: 12 minute TEDx talk from 2013.
• Joe Justice on Rapid and Agile Industrial Development at Wikispeed: Video of about 10 minutes from 2011. How all the pieces of the new 'p2p' puzzle go together to develop secure and sustainable manufacturing in very rapid ways. More info via WikiSpeed.
• Historical record shows how intellectual property systematically slowed down innovation. Rick Falkvinge: Innovation Without IP - History
• Openness as a Competitive Advantage for Hardware and Manufacturing Eco-Systems. By Simone Cicero.

Deeper Study

• The four videos described in Four Future P2P Scenarios
• Report: A Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy. By Michel Bauwens, Nicolas Mendoza and Franco Iacomella, et al. Orange Labs and P2P Foundation, 2012. [2]
• Book: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. By Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• Work through the Collaborative Economy - Introduction.

Related Categories

• The Ethical Economy has a different emphasis.
• The Circular Economy may or may not be collaborative, but the values overlap.
• The Solidarity Economy is a less well used term, emphasising the political side.
• The Collaborative Economy is naturally involved with the Commons

Wider categories include:

• P2P Theory
• Economics