Top Ten P2P Trends of 2016
very early draft for publication January 4 2016
The Renewable Energy Revolution
Solar reached the tipping point, and is now the cheapest source of energy in 60 countries and counting, http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Fsolar-power-is-now-the-cheapest-energy-in-the-world&h=TAQHPxJOV
The Cooperative Economy in Rojava
Platform Cooperativism comes of age
big coop organizations moved to realizing they need to act
Civic and Commons Renaissance in western european cities
oikos report findings /
iaone report
jose ramos book
Municipal Coalitions in Spain and beyond
see Category:Urbanism for a slate of books
Naples and other rebel cities, see: City-Based Departments of the Commons
Municipal coalitions Bcomu, ahora madrid
Rebel Cities
jose ramos book , iaone report
The emergence of Super-Competent Democracies
Global Neo-nomadic infrastructures
Politisation of the Commons / Proliferation of Assemblies of the Commons
European Commons Assembly
post-capitalist debates (mason, inventing the future)
Commons Transition Coalition ; Assembly of the Commons
greater boston coop
Basic Income debate becomes mainstream
P2P Value report findings on really existing peer production communities
https://p2pvalue.eu/762-2/ .. full report at https://www.academia.edu/29210209/Commons_Based_Peer_Production_in_the_Information_Economy
Intro by Michel Bauwens: P2P Value is a landmark study because it is the first long (3-year) scientific study of 300+ peer production communities, and it largely confirms the ten years of empirical observations that form the basis of P2P Theory and the documentation in the P2P Foundation Wiki. Our team was also one of the 8 partners in the consortium. Here are some interesting findings, which I would like to highlight: 1. These communities are also ‘imaginary communities’ with specific values, i..e. they want to make the world a better place, i.e. they are ethical communities not just profit-maximising entities, and their identification is in global networks, not just the locales they are embedded in. This is historically important since it echoes the birth of nation-states as imaginary communities (see Benedict Anderson’s landmark book on this topic) 2. A majority of 78% of these communities are practicing, preparing and/or looking into open value or contributory accounting systems; again, this is significant since changes in accounting practices and philosophies have accompanied the great value regime transitions in the past 3. Reputation capital is a fictitious commodity that has an effective capacity to drive and allocate resources to these common projects. This document is therefore a must-read for the P2P and Commons community.
P2P Foundation research comes of age
havens center book
thermodynanmic efficiences research and DGML / Cosmo-localisation with fab city and sharon essay linkage
Technological Sovereignty, and the Commons Turn in Developement
Report from Inpact
Circular Finance of Terre des Liens
Commons turn of AFD
The year of the blockchain and cryptledger applications, but ALSO Open and contributory value accounting
boll report
DAO, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)