Spain
Resources in and on P2P developments in Spain
Please send your suggestions to michelsub2003 at yahoo dot com
Volunteers to maintain this page would be much appreciated. Thanks to Julen Iturbe-Ormaetxe [1]for the first suggestions. Julen has an excellent and thoughtfull blog covering P2P developments, with special attention to the cooperative economy and values.
The essay by Michel Bauwens, the Political Economy of Peer Production is partially translated by Robin Good of Master New Media at http://www.masternewmedia.org/es/2006/03/06/economia_basada_en_p2p_el.htm
More material is available in our Spanish-Language section, and you may also want to check the Delicous Tag P2P-Spain, where you'll find stories such as the use of SMS for mobilization in the March 2004 election (after the train bombings)
Selection by Julen Iturbe-Ormaetxe
Nodo 50 - Espai Alternatiu
URL = http://www.nodo50.org/torrent/spip/
Comment by Julen: It is written both some parts in catalonian language and some others in spanish. I translate some basic ideas:
"This is a project, a local political organization extremely experimental but emergent, that tries to build and to live according to new social realities. We are a group of people that configure a node of the organizational and personal networks that work coordinately at world level with the objective of achieving a more participative democracy. We act in order to develop new spaces in life, to avoid being treated as a market, to cooperate and support sinergies among us, to help ourselves together, to autoorganize ourselves, to develop authonomy and cooperation among people, to eliminate the cruel and nihilist competitiviness and the fragmentation that divides ones from others and that hides what is issential in human beings: our hope and our wish of an absolute democracy."
Redes Sociales
URL = http://www.alianzo.com/blogs/redessociales
"very focused on social software and networking"
J. Freire's Nomada blog
URL = http://nomada.blogs.com/jfreire/
"deals with many different subjects but sometimes talking about collaboration and new perspectives in general. It is well done and supported with many references."