The Foundation for P2P Alternatives

We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society. Our platform About the website you are reading right now. It is a wiki, which means you can also contribute, see instructions below. Our public face, the Weblog, read the latest P2P news! Our Newsletter : a weekly thematic newsletter on peer to peer developments. Topical Index : index to the individual articles of P2P News, with external links provided The P2P Meme Map : our visualization of the P2P conceptual universe Overview of Participatory Media developments : a table giving access to autonomous media; The Open Media Directory gives access to collections of legal and podsafe content to be used in podcasts and webcasts. See our WikiNode, a collection of related Wiki's from the friends of the P2P Foundation Technorati Profile
The Foundation AboutAbout The Foundation Our Understanding of P2P The P2P Weblog The P2P Meme Map The P2P Foundational Manifesto Other Foundational Essays Who We Are - Founders Our Expert Database	Topics Open Standards Concepts P2P Business Concepts P2P Collaborative Concepts P2P Cultural Concepts P2P Facilitation Concepts P2P Gaming Concepts P2P Governance Concepts P2P Intellectual Property Concepts P2P Learning Concepts P2P Media Concepts P2P Policy Concepts P2P Political Concepts P2P Spiritual Concepts P2P Relational Concepts P2P Technologies, Infrastructure, Media, Social Software	The Resources P2P Articles P2P Books P2P Case Studies P2P Companies P2P Conferences P2P Curricula P2P Encyclopedia P2P Graphics P2P Individuals P2P Interviews P2P Movements P2P Podcasts P2P Reference P2P Research P2P Resources P2P Webcasts
Working Projects MBA on Participatory Economics P2P Toolkit Commons Network Languages Dutch-Language French-Language- Thai-Language - Spanish-Language - Italian-Language - Portuguese-Language Country Resources Africa Asia Burma India Malaysia Pakistan Philippines South Korea Central and South America Argentina Brazil Peru Europe Finland Germany Greece Netherlands Spain UK North America Canada What we are interested in The Open and Free Paradigm Tags on the open paradigm: A2K Access to Knowledge, Open Access, Open Archives, Open Biology, Open Business, Open Organization, Open Courseware [1], Open Content, Open Design, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Hardware, Open Money, Open Politics,Open Source,Open Source Disaster Recovery, Open Standards, Open Textbooks The Participatory/P2P Paradigm Tags on the P2P paradigm: Peer to Peer [2] , Peer Production[3], Peer Governance, Peer Property, Peer Banking, Peer to Peer Exchanges, Panarchy, the Sharing Economy, the Gift Economy, P2P Capitalism, P2P Microfinance Tags on the collaborative paradigm: Co-Counselling, Co-Intelligence, Co-production, Co-Research, Collaboration, Collaboration Theory, Collaborative Defense, Collaborative Filtering, Collaborative Moderation, Collaborative Photojournalism, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Community Supported Manufacturing, Community Wireless, Cooperation Studies, Cooperative Capitalism, Cooperative Content Distribution Model, Cooperative Inquiry, Coordination Format, Coordination Theory Tags on the participatory paradigm: participatory politics, deliberation and dialogue, customer-controlled networks, customer-built network infrastructures, participatory culture, participatory democracy, participatory spirituality, social software, social media, participatory panopticon, user-centered innovation, Web 2.0 The Commons Paradigm Tags on the Commons paradigm: The Commons, the public domain, General Public License, Creative Commons, Trusts, Information Commons, Digital Commons, the Tragedy of the Commons, the Cornucopia of the Commons, social dilemmas, Wireless Commons The Network Paradigm Tags on the Distribution paradigm: desktop manufacturing, diffuse innovation, mass amateurization, the Pro-Am movement, folksonomies, the long tail, citizen journalism, citizen science, prosumers, smart mobs, swarming, user-capitalized networks, user-driven advertizing, viral communicators, distributed computing, meshworks, mesh networks Tags on the network paradigm: network sociality, network neutrality, relational spirituality, social networks, connectionism, viral marketing, memetics How to Contribute To avoid bot spam, registration is currently restricted. To contribute : First learn more About the p2pFoundation Then read our Writing Style Guide Also read the Wiki Syntax Help Email us your name, login and password Wait a few days for processing... receive you credentials. As a members, Login and edit this Wiki. Want to create your own MediaWiki? Check out this introduction [4] Help Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.