The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We are honored to invite you to participate to the call for papers for the first IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons) Thematic Conference on the Urban Commons, “The City as a Commons: Reconceiving Urban Space, Common Goods and City Governance”. It will take place in Bologna, Italy, on November 6-7, 2015. The conference is organized by LabGov – LABoratory …
I recently spoke at a conference, “Property and Inequality in the 21st Century,” hosted by The Common Core of European Private Law, an annual gathering of legal scholars, mostly from Europe. They had asked me how the commons might be a force for reducing inequality. Below are my remarks, “The Commons as a Tool for …
Continue reading “David Bollier: Commons as Tool for Sharing Wealth”
What We Share: A Commons- Intergroup takes off in the EU Parliament Sophie Bloemen of the Commons Network EXTRACT The intergroup can be understood as confirmation of the aspirations and discourse of the commons becoming a political force. In a way, the bottom-up movement is given a certain political legitimacy by the intergroup. . . …
10 Open Source Policies for a Commons-Based Society LIST ONLY 1 Education 2 Research 3 Purchasing 4 Patents 5 Data 6 Collaboration 7 Commons 8 Health 9 Economy 10 Systemic Change Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens. Open Government Graphic Below the Fold
LabGov Pioneers the Paradigm of City as Commons EXTRACT The goal is to build peer-to-peer platforms – physical, digital and institutional – to advance three main purposes: “living together (collaborative services), growing together (co-ventures), making together (co-production).” The CO-Mantova project may soon start a CO-Mantova Commons School.
Creative Commons Launches Program to Identify, Share Open Business Models Creative Commons is developing an “open business models initiative” aimed at showing how Creative Commons licenses are being used by businesses, not-for-profits, and governments. According to Paul Stacey, Creative Commons’ associate director of global learning, one of the most asked questions by entrepreneurs to the Creative …
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: Open Business Models by Creative Commons – Call for Participation”
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 Read full post.
