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

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)

Gender and Race; diversity and p2p

Analysis

Steve Bosserman:

"In consideration of your request, I would offer that historians will look back on 2016 as the year when the forces of change aligned to begin the world's final drive into a post-capitalist reality. Each of us have our preferred evaluative methods to note this occasion. My primary indicators concerned the ongoing and pervasive presence of certain human behaviors which I considered essential to precipitate such an onslaught:

1) Commitment by individuals and groups to systems, processes, and tools that enable people to meet their basic needs where they are so they do not resort to destroying the environment, emigrating / seeking refuge elsewhere, or resorting to radicalism or nihilism

2) Adoption of acknowledgement systems that assume each person has value to offer regardless of circumstances and recognize those occasions when each person contributes the value they have

3) Match of distributed governance structures to population centers (nodes) so that residents have the authority to localize their knowledge commons, manage their resource flows (sources to sinks), and ultimately, meet their basic needs

4) Connections of distributed population centers (nodes) into regional and global economic networks wherein residents can exchange ideas, share experiences, refresh their knowledge commons, and restore the sources of their localized resource flows

The political, diplomatic, economic, societal, and environmental events of 2016 have provided the catalyst to launch what's next in an irreversible and inevitable way. While the list of Top Ten Trends for 2016 you've compiled thus far and will no doubt rigorously refine, is excellent, I submit there's a larger contextual drama playing out that the composite listing does not fully address. And that is that 2016 represents the year when the world turned the corner on its future and from here on out we're building what's next more than we're perpetuating what is or what was." (Facebook, January 2017 [2])

Further response by steve: https://github.com/stevebosserman/timebanking-matters/blob/master/why-is-2016-a-pivotal-year.md

Top Ten P2P Trends of 2016

Contents

The Trends

The P2P Infrastructural Revolutio continuesn

The Cooperative Economy in Rojava

Platform Cooperativism comes of age

Civic and Commons Renaissance in western european cities

Municipal Coalitions in Spain and beyond

The emergence of Super-Competent Democracies

Localization vs Global Neo-nomadic infrastructures

Localization arguments by Steve Bosserman

Global Tribes

Subsidiarity of Material Production

Politisation of the Commons / Proliferation of Assemblies of the Commons

Basic Income debate becomes mainstream

P2P Value report findings on really existing peer production communities

P2P Foundation research comes of age

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

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

Gender and Race; diversity and p2p

Analysis

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