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2014/03/282014/03/28

Jean Lievens: Francine Mestrum on Promoting the Social Commons

Francine Mestrum on Promoting the Social Commons “All major international development organisations, from the World Bank over the ILO and the European Commission, plan to promote social protection in all developing countries. This may seem bizarre, since, at the same time, social protection mechanisms are being dismantled in the region where they first came about: …

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2014/03/11

Jean Lievens: LOOMIO – building public infrastructure tool for decision-making, held in the commons

BRING LOOMIO TO THE WORLD LOOMIO is free and open-source software for anyone, anywhere, to participate in decisions that affect them. “The world needs a better way to make decisions together. #Loomio is building it. You can help: http://thndr.it/1kaQhmy” We’re a small team of open-source developers, facilitators and activists in New Zealand. On Tuesday March 11, …

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2014/02/122014/02/12

Ecuador Initiative: Commons-Oriented Productive Capacities

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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2014/02/102014/02/10

Gordon Cook: Telecommunications Infrastructure as Commons Local Self-Determination

PDF (154 Pages): PART I: Do-It-Ourselves Telecommunications: Guifi.net Commons Coming to US from Catalonia – In Spain & US We Are Now Building Network Infrastructure Held as Commons Background on why the public must take back control of the communications infrastructure while providing universal free access to all. Background on guifi.net in Spain and Kansas …

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2014/02/10

Graphic: Open Commons Enabling Practices

Source: Michel Bauwens: Toward an Open Commons-Based Knowledge Society – Changing the Productive Matrix of Ecuador

2014/02/102014/02/12

Ecuador Initiative: 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

2014/01/28

Jean Lievens: Michel Bauwens on the democratization of the means of monetization — commons licenses that demand reciprocity!

Michel Bauwens on the democratization of the means of monetization In this new work, Michel continues to propose powerful ideas that not only demonstrate his capacity for synthesis, but more importantly, his capacity to articulate ideas that facilitate points of convergence between broad sectors that are sympathetic to the ideas of production based on the …

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