Category:Post-Corporate

At the P2P Foundation, we see the institutional emergence of a commons economy through the following three social forms:

• at the heart of value creations are productive communities of contributors, paid or unpaid, that create shared resources i.e. commons

• around these shared resources, new forms of entrepreneurial coalitions form, that created added value for the market to create livelihoods for the commoners, which can take the form of Open Cooperatives, Platform Cooperatives

• the shared resources, and the conflict and convergence between productive communities and the enterpreneurial coalitions, are defended by For-Benefit Associations, like the FLOSS Foundations.

This wiki section focuses mostly on the new entrepreneurial coalitions and the productive communities (sometimes called neo-tribes) with whom they are connected.

Key concepts related to this are Phyles and Neo-Venetianist Networks, concepts developed by Las Indias. A fictional treatment can be found in the Diamond Age, a science fiction book by Neal Stephenson. The 'poor man's' equivalent may be found in the description of transmigrant networks in: "Etrangers de passage. Poor to poor, peer to peer d’Alain Tarrius Editions de l’Aube.

Among our favourites for the moment are:

• the Catalan Integral Cooperative, in Catalonia

• Enspiral, mainly based in New Zealand

• Ethos, based in the UK

• Fora do Eixo, in Brazil

• Las Indias, based in Spain

• Sensorica, based in Montreal

Associated organisations in this space are:

• the P2P Foundation itself

• the Ouishare network

• the Collaborative Technology Alliance