From open access platforms to managed digital commons: how can we unleash the enormous value that distributed, autonomous production can create.
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David Bollier describes how the Commons (and Commons-based law) might be a force for reducing inequality
“In King John’s time, enclosure was mostly about the forest. Today it’s about everything, including life itself.” The Magna Carta and Law for the Commons.
The topic of the “deep dive”: Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism?
In September 2014, the Commons Strategies Group convened a three-day workshop in Meissen, Germany, of 25 policy advocates and activists from a variety of different economic and social movements. Part two of two.
The P2P economy needs bridges between cooperative culture and the organizational forms that can sustain it and advance the general well-being of society.
On December 4, 2012, I gave a talk at the American Academy in Berlin as part of a six-week residential fellowship there. I focused on the commons as “a new/old paradigm of governance,” making a survey of the topic in ways familiar to readers of this blog.
As the neoliberal revolution instigated by Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980 has spread, however, Polanyi has been rediscovered.
Behind the superficial public discussions about Bitcoin you’ll discover a software breakthrough that could change the future of commoning on open networks
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.