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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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jean lievens
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Last year, following a very brief visit to The Anarchist Bookfair, I went to a squat in Hackney. Quite an impressive squat, a crumbling Georgian mansion, a Grade II listed building. In one corner c...
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My thesis is that all these things that we are describing are the seed of a new political economy, of a new system of civilization.
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From an art group based in Berlin and Budapest, this version of the classic board game focuses on collaboration, not competition. Players work together to make sure things like public space, clean air, and clean water are maintained for everyone.
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OuiShare Fest is an international gathering in Paris of sharing economy pioneers, enthusiasts and organizers. This year’s fest, which ran May 20-22, featured panels, presentations and discussions that explored numerous aspects of the sharing economy, collaboration, technological developments, and human connectedness. Here are 10 of the top presentations, as chosen by our friends at OuiShare. 1. Nick Grossman: Bringing Collaborative Platforms to Market
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Adam W. Parsons of www.sharing.org, writing for dissidentvoice.org, provides a clear explanation of the encroaching enclosure of the commons and tendency for existing social relationships to become monetized, ironically under the monicker of the ‘sharing economy’, and suggests ways in which true P2P sharing matrices can be strengthened.
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On a bitingly cold and rainy November evening last year, I was in a pickle: I’d taken a city bus to CoCo, the coworking space where I office in downtown Minneapolis, and was seemingly stuck without an efficient option for getting to Birchwood Café, where I would meet friends for dinner, three miles away. That is until I remembered my new membership with car2go, a car-share service that had recently won a contract with the city of Minneapolis. I quickly located a vehicle using car2go’s mobile app and, my despair vanishing, dashed out of the building in search of the blue and white smart car parked only a few blocks away.
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Eager for the sharing economy to bloom in Vancouver, Chris Diplock, co-founder of the Vancouver Tool Library, designed the first research project to measure and report on people’s interest in the sharing economy at a municipal scale. He called it The Sharing Project. Diplock’s primary goals were to understand Vancouverites’ attitudes toward sharing, to measure the demand for shared assets in the city, and to highlight opportunities for growth within the sharing economy.
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