Welcome to the P2P Foundation

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

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

― Richard Buckminster Fuller

Towards an Open and Autonomous Internet and Society

Check out P2P-oriented Infrastructures
Check out our directory of Open Hardware and Open Manufacturing Initiatives
Check out our practical sections on Open Company Formats, Contributory Value Accounting and P2P Funding Methods

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

Learning More

Who We Are

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Topics

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The P2P Paradigms

Peer Production via Open and Free Input
Peer Governance via Participatory Processes
Peer Property via Commons Output

The Three Aspects of Application in Society

The Peer-Driven Collaborative and Ethical Economy

New P2P Culture

Domains of Application

How P2P Influences Society

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

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...).

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