Commons Transition Initiative

Description

By Giuseppe Feola and Sylvia Jaworska:

"Commons transition (CT) (Commons Transition 2015) “implies developing policies that create common value and facilitate open, participatory input across society, prioritizing the needs of those people and environments affected by policy decisions over market or bureaucratic considerations”. The aim of CT is to realize an egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable society by basing society on the commons. The commons represent a mode of societal organization that evolve away from the competitive market State and centrally planned systems. CT has acquired a global orientation although it originally emerged from the ‘Free/Libre Open Knowledge’ project funded by the Ecuadorian Government to inform a strategy for a ‘social knowledge economy’ in line with alternative visions of prosperity such as Buen Vivir. Central to CT is the re-conception and re-alignment both of traditional commons and cooperative thinking and practice, into new institutional forms that prefigure a new political economy of cooperative commonwealth. This in turn is based on a simultaneous transition of civil society, the market, and the organization and role of the State." (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0631-9)

More Information

Check our Category Page for Commons Transition, i.e. projects that are specifically or more loosely related to a commons-oriented transition for our political economy, society, and civilizational model.

For more Commons Transition-specific resources, please visit our related projects:

• Commons Transition Home Page Contains a general overview on Commons Transition Strategies, articles, videos and a blog. It is the landing page for the Commons Transition Platform.
• Commons Transition Stories Browse through our selection of featured essays, interviews and texts on Commons Transition projects and related initiatives.
• The Commons Transition Wiki The Commons Transition Strategies Wiki is a database for policy papers and proposals related to Commons Transition.