Collaborators of the P2P Foundation are conducting seminars to help individuals and organizations in their understanding of the challenges and opportunities of how P2P is changing society.

This can be done in the form of shorter lectures, half-day or full-day seminars.

Here is the basic outline of the subject matter of the Seminars by Michel Bauwens

We also have more Specialized Seminars.

Here's an overview of reactions to the ideas expressed in the seminars or writings, in the Testimonials page.

Please note, for those for whom academic credentials are important, that I have been accepted as a Primavery Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam in 2007, and as an outside expert for the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in 2008. However, my key life experiences are as a entrepreneur.

Statement of Intent by Michel Bauwens

If you are a business or institution, I will teach you how pioneering entrepreneurs are adapting and thriving in the participatory age.

But what I really want to do is to make the world a better place and convince you of the momentous political and social implications of a peer to peer oriented world.

As confirmed in this testimony:

"Michel Bauwens’ talk was great. He’s a good speaker and his topic was very engaging. By P2P he does NOT mean file sharing. I hope the presentation is available somewhere. It’s one of those kind of talks where you get excited that maybe we can change the world and make it better." (Reboot 9 participant)

List of seminars

We start listing the seminars as of September 2007; a first P2P-specific tour took place in April 2006 and brought us to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Cambridge, England, and Leuven, Belgium.

Before the move to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in March 2003, Michel Bauwens gave more than 70 lectures and seminars in about two dozen countries, on three themes: 1) internet business opportunities; 2) introduction to 'transhuman'technologies such as biotech, nanotech, and AI; 3) virtualization of information management.

Half-day or One-Day Seminars

English-language

7 December Telematica Instituut Enschede Mark de Jong <Mark.deJong@telin.nl>

Peer to Peer and the Ethical Economy

September 20, 2006, Seminar in Copenhagen, organized by Actics.com

Reference at http://www.computerworld.dk/art/35760?a=keyword&i=119

Reaction: [1]

Dutch-Language

Inleiding to Peer to Peer

Executive Master In Information Management, Organizer: Prof. Rik Maeas

2 seminars in September 2006, Amsterdam

URL = http://www.ienm.nl/

Peer to Peer en Sociale Innovatie, These Days Breakfast Seminar

September 2006, Antwerp, Belgium

URL = http://blog.thesedays.com/blog/2006/09/28/these-days-peer-to-peer-seminar-a-recap/

French-Language

Le mercredi 13 decembre pour YSIS-Paris 1 15h30 et 18h à la Maison des Sciences Economiques. Prof. Carlo Vercellone, Carlo.Vercellone@univ-paris1.fr

Le jeudi 14 Paris International Communications - American University of Paris with Professor Waddick Doyle and Athina Karatzogianni athina.k@gmail.com

le vendredi 15 décembre Compiègne Université de Technologie de Compiègne / Centre Pierre Guillaumat e-mail : Yann.Moulier-Boutang@utc.fr

Short Lectures

English-Language

7 December Amsterdam evening lecture Colby Stuart @ Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture , <colby@ifccc.org >

8 December Center for the Experience Economy

Info at [2]

8 December: Policy implications of the commons Porto, Portugal, for the Socialist International European meeting (Socialist MEP conference (Katerina, international@pasok.gr)

12 December Amsterdam, Open-Search workshop .

Peer to Peer, Intersubjectivity, Interdisciplinarity

For the International Association for Critical Realism August 11-13 in Tromse, Norway

Congress for Planetary Initiatives

August 2007, Utah, USA