Commoners Global Network
- Keywords: interlinkage, interconnect, common-based network infrastructure, commoners, free open platform,
General information
What is it?
The purpose of the so called Commoners Global Network is to establish a virtual social network to enable communication and interlinkages between commoners and their own commons projects. It will enable the exchange of information, prototyping of new initiatives and generation of new networks of cooperation. It's design will be focused in the people that is in the platform, the creation of contents and the governance of the platform will be leaded by the community of users itself. No central control or central authority.
Using the power of the digital commons technologies we will base our technological resources on past existing experience, such as Free Software tools.
How?
We plan to start up the project with a group of commoners that are really committed with the idea that interconnection between experiences is an important resource. The support of a strong organisation of network will be desired in this initial phase. This organisation should have international level, human rights oriented, support the commons idea and have enought visibility to give to the CGN strong impact and presence.
When?
We would like to launch the platform in a coordinated way with some important worldwide event in the field of civil society, sustentaibility and commons oriented organisations. Good examples of this would be the Social World Forum, ICC 2011 or some global congress in 2012. NEED MORE SUGGESTIONS .
Why?
The most used social network tools such as Facebook or Linkedin are based in a corporate-business model. Big those services exists big private companies. Although the services they offer seems to be free of charge, they have a cost. A big one. As the technologist O'Reilly said once: "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product". A real commons oriented networks need to be setup and governed as a commons. Must be designed to enable commoning: cooperation, privacy, coworking, distributed, peer produced.
Proposal details
Platform capabilities
Some important features of CGN:
- Allow commoners display personal profile and experience
- Enables individuals, groups and orgs
- Really user friendly
- Low tech resources oriented (no high speed connection or dependent in modern-fancy software)
- Engage collective action and provides tools to enable it
- Total control of the information by the users
- Respect privacy.
- Promotes open content production
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