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"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.

You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."

~ Buckminster Fuller ~

Welcome to the P2P Foundation

The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This website is our knowledge commons and it's collaboratively built by our community. Learn more...

Towards an Open and Autonomous Internet and Society

• Check out the FLOK Society project: Bauwens Joins Ecuador in Planning a Commons-based, P2P Economy
• Check out our directory of Open Hardware and Open Manufacturing Initiatives
• Check out the published work of P2P Lab

The Foundation Our Ideas About The Foundation [1] and its research Our Understanding of P2P Manifesto: P2P and Human Evolution The P2P Meme Map Best P2P Essays 1 2 Bibliography of Michel Bauwens on P2P Our Key Resources The P2P Blog What’s New in the Wiki Wiki RSS Feed Youtube video-feed Learning More P2P Bookstore P2P Foundation Participation in Scientific Symposia P2P Seminars & (Testimonials) Our Expert Database Watch this P2P lecture! Listen to this Podcast Read this Interview Who We Are Members Founders Wiki Active Contributors The P2P Lab Join our learning community! P2P Foundation Email Lists P2P Foundation RSS Feeds Topics We are looking for maintainers for our subject pages! Interested? The P2P Paradigms Peer Production via Open and Free Input Peer Governance via Participatory Processes Peer Property via Commons Output See also: Cooperation and Sharing The Three Aspects of Application in Society P2P Civil Society Approaches P2P Market Approaches P2P State Approaches The Peer-Driven Collaborative and Ethical Economy Collaborative Economic Practices Using New Open Company Formats Mutualizing Infrastructures with Open Business Models through Crowdfunding and P2P Finance based on P2P Value Metrics enabled through Legal Infrastructure and True P2P Technological Infrastructure using Shared Innovation Commons for Open and Distributed Manufacturing New P2P Culture Art Collective Intelligence Culture Education and Learning Group Facilitation Media P2P Relationships Spirituality Domains of Application Agriculture and Food Ecology and Sustainablity Economics Energy P2P Gaming and 3D Metaverses Geography and Mapping Labor Licensing Money and Finance Music Open Standards Policy Politics Science Security and Warfare Taxation Technology Transportation P2P Villages & Cities How P2P Influences Society Overview of P2P in Business Overview of P2P in Governance P2P and Intellectual Property Resources Case Studies Companies with P2P business models Conferences on P2P topics Courses: P2P Curricula Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version Events Calendar Individuals, Who's Who in P2P Licences: open and free licenses Maps Movements, P2P and commons-rriented org's Reference Research on P2P Resources and tools Standards Statistics on P2P trends Media Resources Articles on P2P topics Books on P2P topics Fiction with P2P themes Graphics to use in presentations Podcasts and Audio Webcasts and Video Special Individual Projects We're urgently looking for female-led projects for this space! Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy Allen Butcher's Community Economics Chris Cook's Open Capital approach Patrick Anderson's User Ownership Theory Péter Mázsa's Free Tax Project‎ Robert Searle's Transfinancial Economics Thomas Kalka's Key P2P Concepts Timothy Wilken's Synergic Projects Other P2P Foundation Projects Collaboration Platform Projects: cooperation for social action Core Peer-2-Peer Collaboration Principles - Initiator Ryan Lanham Distributed Manufacturing Collaborative Platforms: open design and distributed manufacturing platforms List of P2P Researchers - preparation for launch of a P2P Research Group List of European Policy Consultants - Celia Blanco Participatory Spirituality Conference P2P Cities: open cities P2P Public Intellectuals P2P Theory Books Languages Catalan-Language ; Chinese-Language - Croation-Language - Dutch-Language - French-Language - German-Language - Greek-Language - Hungarian-Language - Italian-Language - Latvian-Language - Malayalam-Language - Mongolian-Language - Polish-Language - Portuguese-Language - Romanian-Language - Russian-Language - Spanish-Language - Swedish-Language - Thai-Language - Serbian-Language Country Resources Africa Egypt Morocco Kenya South Africa Zimbabwe Arab Countries Asia Bangladesh Burma Cambodia China Hong Kong India Japan Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Taiwan Thailand Central and South America Argentina Brazil Chili Colombia Ecuador Mexico Peru Uruguay Venezuela Europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Netherlands Poland Portugal Russia Spain Sweden UK Ukraine North America Canada United States Oceania Australia New Zealand Our aims We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives. We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims: ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite); promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through excessive copyrights etc...). Can we help you? How to support us? How you can help us?; How To Contribute; How to Write for our Wiki; P2P Foundation Wiki Requested Articles We are conducting P2P Seminars to assist individuals, organizations and society at large in their efforts to adapt to the new participative world based on social innovation. See the Testimonials page for some reactions. 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