We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society.

"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]

Towards an Open and Autonomous Internet and Society

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Open Everything, open access initiatives for every area of human life

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

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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Topics

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Key Topics

P2P and Business ; P2P Business Models ; Collaborative Economy

P2P and Governance

P2P, Copyright and Property

The P2P Paradigms

Open and Free Input

Participatory Processes ; Cooperation

Commons Output ; Sharing

The Three Aspects of Peer Production

Peer Production

Peer Governance

Peer Property & Licensing

The Three Aspects of Application in Society

P2P Civil Society Approaches

P2P Market Approaches

P2P State Approaches

P2P Infrastructures

Agriculture and Food

Open and Shared Design

Open and Distributed Manufacturing

Open Standards

P2P Education and Learning

P2P Energy

P2P Facilitation

P2P Media

P2P Money ; Peer Funding

P2P & Technology ; P2P Technological Infrastructure

Transportation

P2P Villages & Cities

P2P Domains

P2P Art

Collective Intelligence

Ecology and Sustainablity

Economics

P2P Gaming and Metaverses

Geography and Mapping

P2P Security and Warfare

P2P Spirituality, Philosophy and Metaphysics

P2P Taxation

P2P Resources

General P2P Resources

Case Studies

Companies with P2P business models

Conferences on P2P topics

Curricula

Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version

Events Calendar

Individuals, Who's Who in P2P

Movements, P2P and commons-rriented org's

Reference

Research on P2P

Resources and tools

Statistics on P2P trends

Media Resources

Articles on P2P topics

Books on P2P topics

Fiction with P2P themes

Graphics to use in presentations

Podcasts and Audio

Webcasts and Video

Special Individual Projects

Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy
Chris Cook's Open Capital approach
Christian Siefkes' Peer Economy
Jon Awbrey's Inquiry into Peer Educational Resources
Patrick Anderson's User Ownership Theory
Péter Mázsa's Free Tax Project‎
Robert Searle's Transfinancial Economics
Stan Rhodes' Peer Trust Network Project
Thomas Kalka's Key P2P Concepts
Timothy Wilken's Synergic Projects

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 Public Intellectuals
P2P Theory Books

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