The P2P economy needs bridges between cooperative culture and the organizational forms that can sustain it and advance the general well-being of society.
While no account of a conference can be fully comprehensive, we believe that this report can serve as a useful guide to people interested in the commons as a robust, growing movement.
At a small workshop outside of Paris, France, twenty-two of us – mostly Europeans except for two of us – got together to discuss the economics of the commons from an on-the-ground perspective.
In 2012 a group of seventeen commons activists from throughout Asia – India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand and other countries – met in Bangkok to have a wide-ranging discussion about the future of the commons, especially in fighting neoliberal economics and policy.
The Latin America Deep Dive on the Commons was held in Mexico DF in November 2012. The event gathered a variety of researches and civil society organizers from various parts of the South American sub-continent to reflect on the Commons in everyday practice.