We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society.
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - Buckminster Fuller [1]
never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.
- Margaret Mead [2]
P2P in a Nutshell
an easy way to discover the ideas of the P2P Foundation, compiled by Mauro Bieg.
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Our aims
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We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives.
We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims:
- ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite);
- promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through excessive copyrights etc...).
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Can we help you? How to support us?
- How you can help us?; How To Contribute; How to Write for our Wiki; P2P Foundation Wiki Requested Articles
- We are conducting P2P Seminars to assist individuals, organizations and society at large in their efforts to adapt to the new participative world based on social innovation. See the Testimonials page for some reactions. And here is a version of our slide presentation at Slideshare
- Support the P2P Foundation by buying your books at our Bookstore
- Why is participation to the P2P Foundation not totally open?
- Important notice on COPYRIGHT: Fair Use Notice
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Our Platform
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The Foundation
Our Ideas
- About The Foundation
- Our Understanding of P2P
- Manifesto: P2P and Human Evolution
- The P2P Meme Map
- Best P2P Essays 1 2
- Bibliography of Michel Bauwens on P2P
Our Key Resources
- The P2P Blog
- What’s New in the Wiki
- Wiki RSS Feed
- Our Newsletter
Learning More
- P2P Bookstore
- P2P Seminars & (Testimonials)
- Our Expert Database
- Watch this P2P lecture!
- Listen to this Podcast
- Read this Interview
Who We Are
- Our Founders
- Active Contributors
- Our Wiki Neighbours
- Commons Network
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Topics
We are looking for maintainers for our subject pages! Interested?
Key Topics
P2P and Business
P2P and Governance
P2P, Copyright and Property
P2P Infrastructures:
Open and Shared Design
Open and Distributed Manufacturing
Open Standards
P2P Education and Learning
P2P Energy
P2P Facilitation
P2P Money
Sharing
Under construction:
Peer Production
Peer Governance
Peer Property
The Commons
Other Subjects
Agriculture and Food
Collective Intelligence
P2P Art
P2P Ecology
P2P Gaming and Metaverses
P2P Geography
P2P Media
P2P Music
P2P Policy
P2P Politics
P2P Relationality
P2P Science
P2P Security and Warfare
P2P Spirituality
P2P Technology
P2P Villages
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P2P Resources
Articles on P2P topics
Books on P2P topics
Case Studies
Companies with P2P business models
Conferences on P2P topics
Curricula
Encyclopedia
Events Calendar
Fiction with P2P themes
Graphics to use in presentations
Individuals, Who's Who in P2P
Interviews with P2P practitioners and thought leaders
Movements advocating P2P
Podcasts and Audio
Reference
Research on P2P
Resources and tools
Statistics on P2P trends
Webcasts and Video
Individual Projects
- Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy
- Michel Bauwens' Chiang Mai Commons project
- Christian Siefkes' Peer Economy
- Chris Cook's Open Capital approach
- Stan Rhodes' Peer Trust Network Project
- Patrick Anderson's User Ownership Theory
- Robert Searle's Transfinancial Economics
- Thomas Kalka's Key P2P Concepts
Other P2P Foundation Projects
- Collaboration Platform Projects: cooperation for social action
- Core Peer-2-Peer Collaboration Principles - Initiator Ryan Lanham
- Distributed Manufacturing Collaborative Platforms: open design and distributed manufacturing platforms
- List of P2P Researchers - preparation for launch of a P2P Research Group
- List of European Policy Consultants - Celia Blanco
- Participatory Spirituality Conference
- P2P Cities: open cities
- P2P Theory Books
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Check out the Interpreters Cooperative!
Chinese-Language - Dutch-Language - French-Language - German-Language - Greek-Language - Italian-Language - Malayalam-Language - Mongolian-Language - Portuguese-Language - Russian-Language - Spanish-Language - Swedish-Language - Thai-Language
Country Resources
What we are interested in
On November 27, 2009, our wiki contained 9,395 content pages, which have been viewed 9,297,763 times; our home page was visited 445,138 times. The P2P Foundation has reached a 'highly influential' status according to Topsy's influence metrics, i.e. part of the 0.2% most retweeted via Twitter. See [3] and [4].
Our Most Popular Topics
- Product Hacking (69,999 views)
- Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation (29,461 views)
- Commons (14,521 views)
- P2P Energy Economy (12,451 views)
- Open Access (9,622 views)
- Transfinancial Economics (9,046 views)
- Reputation (8,549 views)
- Global Villages (8,362 views)
- Crowdsourcing (8,223 views)
- Open Data (8,016 views)
- Long Tail (7,700 views)
- Crowdfunding (7,433 views)
- Abundance vs. Scarcity (6,937 views)
- Peer Governance (6,929 views)
- Open Money (6,921 views)
- P2P Energy Grid (6,886 views)
- Peer to Peer (6,849 views)
- Open Source Hardware (6,798 views)
- Creative Commons (6,666 views)
- Mesh Networks (6,558 views)
- Open Design (6,386 views)
- Collective Intelligence (6,234 views)
- Desktop Manufacturing (5,936 views)
- Peer Property (5,926 views)
- P2P TV (5,923 views)
Partners
               
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