The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Four scenarios for the inevitable P2P Future P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and …
Open Content and Public Broadcasting: Future Business Models – YouTube Over 100 participants and industry leaders explore issues related to producing and distributing open access content across multiple public broadcasting platforms.The WGBH Educational Foundation, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hosts a conference on Open Content …
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An assessment of the FLOK process and why the P2P Foundation will not use the FLOK brand in the future (note: this version was originally written at the request of Jay Wallsjasper of On the Commons, slightly expanded and updated on July 13; it’s a little more elaborate than the first informal assessment shared here …
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Helene Finidori on FLOK Society and the Commons Here’s an excellent summary, written by our good friend Helene Finidori from the Commons Abundance Network, on FLOK Society’s historical significance for the Commons and P2P movements. The article was originally published in STIR magazine and Helene has kindly given us permission to republish it here. This column was …
ECUADOR INITIATIVE: Transition Proposals Toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society Sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Studies of Ecuador, carried out by the Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK) Society. Commons-oriented Productive Capacities 1 Executive summary 2 Introduction and focus: basic principles 2.1 The concept and forms of the knowledge economy 3 A critique of cognitive …
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Source: Michel Bauwens: Toward an Open Commons-Based Knowledge Society – Changing the Productive Matrix of Ecuador
ECUADOR INITIATIVE: Transition Proposals Toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society Sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Studies of Ecuador, carried out by the Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK) Society. Michel Bauwens PPT (8 Slides): Bauwens on Ecuador Open Commons Eight Slides Below the Line for Direct Viewing
