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Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, P2P / Panarchy, PoliticsMichel Bauwens: P2P Commons Next Steps
Design, Economics/True Cost, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Proposed Next Steps for the emerging P2P and Commons networks
I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three institutional coalitions:
* The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons
* The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle »
* The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons
Robert Steele: Vimeo (15:12) Open Source Activist Tool-Kit
09 Justice, 11 Society, Access, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Governance, PoliticsAs presented to the workshop on Open Power, Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland OR, on 28 February 2015.
Learn more: OPEN POWER Home Page (Blog, Book, Docs, Videos)
Robert Steele: Vimeo (14:13) Electoral Reform 101
09 Justice, 11 Society, Access, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Governance, PoliticsAs presented to the workshop on Open Power, Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland OR, on 28 February 2015.
Learn more: OPEN POWER Home Page (Blog, Book, Docs, Videos)
Jean Lievens: Apps for Antwerp – From Open Data to Open Services
Access, Design
Apps for Antwerp: From Open Data to Open Services
Since 2012 the City of Antwerp is releasing open data and the datasets keep coming our way, but that is not all what Antwerp is releasing.
Phi Beta Iota: Event date is in the past but worthy of note in relation to location and scope.
Michel Bauwens: Professor Christian Iaione on the City as Commons
Crowd-Sourcing, Design, GovernanceInterviewed: Professor Christian Iaione on the City as Commons
A commons-based economy cannot thrive without appropriate institutions, especially those that represent a “partner state” approach. Professor Christian Iaione of LUISS University in Rome is a pioneer of such institutional innovation in Italian cities. I believe his work with the city of Bologna on Bologna's Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons is a breakthrough. This regulation allows citizen coalitions to propose improvements to their neighborhoods, and the city to contract with citizens for key assistance. In other words, the municipality functions as an enabler giving citizens individual and collective autonomy. More than 30 projects have already been approved in this context and dozens of Italian cities are adopting this regulation. Read more.
