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Michel Bauwens: Interview on Empowering Citizens with ICT

Book: RedVolution: El poder del ciudadano conectado. Empodera.org This book contains both Spanish and English-language essays and interviews. This is the text we contributed, based on an email interview. Interview with Michel Bauwens Tell us a little about you I’m the founder of the P2P Foundation, a global research collaborative on the collaborative economy and …

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Michel Bauwens: Emergence, Crisis, Replacement

Emergence, Crisis, and Replacement of the Era of Decentralized Networks “Technology, and particularly communications technology, generates the conditions of possibility for changes in power structures. Daniel R. Headrick argues in The Tools of Empire that 19th century European imperialism, which at one point controlled three quarters of the surface of the Earth, only became possible …

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Michel Bauwens: The Sharing Economy – Conversation with Links

El Correo de las Indias English edition The “Sharing Economy,” the “economy of the commons,” deserves and needs a point of reference equivalent to the large institutions of European social theory. Via GAIA: Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration Production, not consumption; Economics of the Commons, not Sharing Economics For a “Somewhere School of Sharing Economics” …

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Michel Bauwens: Interview on Person to Person Alternatives

  An interview with Michel Bauwens founder of Foundation for P2P Alternatives | www.furtherfield.org It’s a commonplace now that the peer-to-peer movement opens up new ways of creating relating to others. But you’ve explored the implications of P2P in depth, in particular its social and political dimensions. If I understand right, for you the phenomenon …

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Michel Bauwens: Renewables Changing Energy Market in 5 Years

Michel Bauwens How renewables will change electricity markets in the next five years Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser Science Direct, 3 June 2012 Abstract Photovoltaic (PV) cells, onshore wind turbines, internet technologies, and storage technologies have the potential to fundamentally change electricity markets in the years ahead. Photovoltaic cells are the most disruptive energy technology as they allow …

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Michel Bauwens: The commons law project: A vision of green governance

The commons law project: A vision of green governance Republished from David Bollier: (the original has links to the source material) “For the past two years or more, I’ve been working on a major research and writing project to try to recover from the mists of history the bits and pieces of what might be …

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