Jean Lievens: Access is the New Ownership

The Sharing Economy: Access Is The New Ownership A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that revenue in five key sectors of the sharing economy could reach $335 billion by 2025. PwC identifies five main sectors affected by the sharing movement: Travel, car-sharing, finance, staffing, and audio/video streaming.

Michel Bauwens: Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014

Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014 1. Reaching of the tipping point for (distributed) renewable energy 2. The rise of open cooperatives and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions 3. The emergence of cryptoledger applications and a crypto-currency for the commons 4. Cities and Countries of the Commons

Yoda: Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism

Way ahead, this is. Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy The Bad: Sascha Lobo and Martin Kenneyrecently introduced the term platform capitalism, which I’d define in reference to subcontracting and rental economies with big payouts going to small groups of people. Occupations that cannot be off-shored, the pet walkers or home cleaners, are now subsumed …

INTERVIEW: TheDailyBell Grills Robert Steele

Former CIA Spy Robert Steele Wants to Strangle Leviathan With ‘Open Source’ Governance With Anthony Wile TheDailyBell– June 29, 2014 The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Robert Steele SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Bell-Rings-Steele