Top Ten P2P Trends of 2015
VERY FIRST DRAFT
1. Inspired by Enspiral: The further maturation of post-corporate entrepreneurial coalitions
We mentioned their emergence as one of the great trends of 2014, and they have mostly continued to grow and mature. Beyond the corporation, there are now these budding seed forms of post-corporate business eco-systems that creating livelihoods for productive communities and their commons, such as Enspiral with Loomio and the open hardware designs of Sensorica.
I visited Enspiral in their heartland of New Zealand, seeing them up close and I very much liked what I saw. Here's a good [1]description from Josef Davies-Coates:
"Enspiral is made up of three parts: The Enspiral Foundation, Enspiral Services and Startup Ventures. I’d say they’re the best current example of an Open Co-op, but how they actually describe themselves is as “a virtual and physical network of companies and professionals working together to create a thriving society” and as an “experiment to create a collaborative network that helps people do meaningful work.” A core part of their strategy is to open source their model. In short, not only are they doing almost exactly what United Diversity wants to do — they’re also building the open source tools actually needed to do it!
The Enspiral Foundation is the charitable company at the heart of the Enspiral network. It’s the legal custodian of assets held collectively by the network, and the entity with which companies and individuals have a formal relationship. Decisions are made using Loomio and budgets are set using Cobudget.
A network of professionals work together in teams to offer Enspiral Services, a range of business services under one roof. By default members pool 20% of their invoices into a collective bucket, 25% of which goes to the Foundation. Loomio and Cobudget are then used to decide how to spend the rest. For Startup Ventures, Enspiral works with social entrepreneurs to launch start-ups who then support the work of the Foundation, and Enspiral as a whole, through flexible revenue share agreements: ventures choose their own contribution rate, usually around 5% of revenue."
Check our wiki descriptions of Enspiral, Las Indias, Sensorica, Ethos, and Fora do Eixo.
Ouishare and other partners organized a seminar to examine these new practices this December, here is their video presentation reflecting the emergences of these practices, see at https://vimeo.com/142884370
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open_Company_Formats
2. The Collaborative Technology Alliance
and Synergie Numerique, https://journeesynergienumerique.hackpad.com/Rsum-Journe-synergie-numrique-iQ9qiuqFRrB
2. “Power to the People”!: The breakthrough of distributed renewable energy
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Energy
3. The City as a Commons: beyond the Bologna Regulation and the electoral victories of commons-centric city coalitions in Spain
barcelona, madrid, valencia saillans, frome, grenoble IASC conference and Christian Iaione Sharing Cities Network
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Urbanism
4. The inititiation of independent, civic, commons organisations
Assemblies of the Commons in Ghent, Toulouse and other places
Commons Transition Coalition in Melbourne
The french meetup
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Movements
5. The initiation of a legal tradition for the Commons
Post-Capitalism, by Paul Mason
The dossier by David Bollier
The book by Capra and Ugo Mattei
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Law
and For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category: (david's section)
6. Poc 21, OSCE Days and the open source circular economy
Poc21.cc
their movie
OSCE Days
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Sustainable_Manufacturing
7. Open cooperativism, platform cooperativism, and the 'real sharing economy'
The CSG report
The NYC conference
The Ouishare conference
Examples
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Cooperatives
8. The Emergence of Meta-Economic Networks
The Mutual Aid Network, Madison, Wisconsin
Encommuns.org
Solidarity Districts
9. The maturation of contributory and open value accounting and other commons tech
News from Sensorica
Bob Haugen and Mykorizal
Common Good Economy
Integral Accounting ?
The Collaborative Technology Alliance
Loomio
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Accounting
10. The mutual coordination economy: open sourcing the supply chain with or without the blockchain
The Provenance white paper
Talk about the blockchain
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Mutual_Coordination
11. From the basic income to Commonfare
The Saw-B report
Examples of commonfare
Planned basic income experiments in the Netherlands and Finland
For P2P Foundation documentation, see here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Solidarity