The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here’s a TedX talk that was just released which shares more details on the concept of many-to-many: Gandhi 3.0 (slides here). For more context, Designing for Generosity speaks more about ServiceSpace values and its implications. Also here some downsides: From Sharing Economy to Gift Ecology
Transitioning to a Commons-Based Society Background on the FLOK Project Michel Bauwens: The National Plan of Ecuador recognizes and stresses that the global transformation towards knowledge-based societies and economies requires a new form for the creation and distribution of value in society. The National Plan’s central concept is the achievement of ‘Buen Vivir’ (Sumak Kawsay) …
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Consumers: ‘We don’t need our stuff’ By Bruce Horovitz USA Today, May 12, 2014 Consumers across the globe say they want less stuff. Half of them say they’d happily live without most of the items they own in a global survey of 10,574 adults ages 16 and up in 29 nations. The survey, titled “The New …
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Communities: the institutions of the 21st century? An interview with Rachel Botsman Since her influential book about how collaborative consumption is changing the way we live, Rachel Botsman has been a leading actor in the collaborative economy and stimulated important debates about its future. OuiShare Fest Co-chair Francesca spoke to her about her vision of …
People Are Sharing in the Collaborative Economy for Convenience and Price Jeremiah Owyang Below Graphic: Partnered with Vision Critical, Crowd Companies (the association I started for big brands in the collaborative economy) surveyed over 90,000 people to find out why they share goods, services, space, transportation, and money. A dissection of the largest study in …
DOC (11 Pages): FIVE-R-Brief-School-World-Brain-OSE-2.3R LEVEL ONE BRIEFING I have three ideas that can rapidly enhance your: • Rank among all universities • Research power among faculty • Relevance as evaluated by alumni, students, and prospects • Revenue in terms of endowments, grants, contracts, and fees • Real Estate value.
The Rise of Anti-Capitalism Jeremy Rifkin New York Times, 15 March 2014 We are beginning to witness a paradox at the heart of capitalism, one that has propelled it to greatness but is now threatening its future: The inherent dynamism of competitive markets is bringing costs so far down that many goods and services are …
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