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"Together we know everything, together we have everything"


WELCOME TO THE P2P FOUNDATION WIKI

The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying,
researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad
sense. This wiki is our knowledge commons. Our motto is "Together we know
everything, together we have everything", i.e. pooling our resources through
commons, creates prosperity for all. We document thousands of initiatives going
in that direction on order to create "Hope with evidence".

The central question we address is the following:

* "How can we enable and encourage the formation of Global Cooperative Networks
within the existing Global Adversarial Network? How could these bubbles form,
grow, merge and eventually shift the whole civilisation towards a more
cooperative generative process." (John Ringland [1])


For a quick introduction to the P2P Foundation see our new homepage. For an
introduction to our worldview, see the Commons Transition Primer website.

Scroll down to browse through our various sections

"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change
the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called." ~
Buckminster Fuller ~




Watch this 20 min overview of our key proposals and introductory videos.





See our mandala graphic on the Role of the Commons in Civilizational Transitions



Source: With thanks to graphic artist Juliane Höhle ; twitter = @JulianeHoehle;
and Leif Ostman, Uppsala University and Katrien Van Poeck, RUG-CDO.
















Recent Articles and Publications


Our book: Bauwens, M., Kostakis, V., & Pazaitis, A. (2019). Peer to Peer: The
Commons Manifesto (Book), London: Westminster University Press. Available as
free e-book & low-cost paperback at:
https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book33
Introduction to the Commons Transition.
Why We Need a New Kind of Open Cooperativism for the P2P Age
From the Communism of Capital to a Capital for the Commons
Recent Reports:

 * Introduction to Commons Economics, By Michel Bauwens and Rok Kranjc [2].
 * P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a
   Socially Just Circular Society. By Michel Bauwens and Alex Pazaitis. Foreword
   by Kate Raworth. P2P Foundation, June 2019. [3]
 * On market-commons institutional design: Value in the Commons Economy:
   Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting. By Michel Bauwens and
   Vasilis Niaros. Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2016 [4]
 * On staying within the carrying capacity of the earth: The Thermodynamics of
   Peer Production: How mutualization through commons can bring our
   matter/energy footprint down in dramatic ways


Policy Reports:

 * On public-commons institutional collaboration at the city level: The Commons
   Transition Plan for the City of Ghent. Update: Mutualizing Urban Provisioning
   Systems, By Michel Bauwens and Rok Kranjc

 * National knowledge commons at the state level: Full text of the research plan
   and project for the Ecuadorian government in 2014: Commons Transition Plan
   (FLOK version)

 * Trans-local and Trans-national institutions, still missing in our repertoire,
   but we are working on it! See: Michel Bauwens and Robert Conan Ryan on
   Developing Autonomous Commons Magisteria


THE FOUNDATION

 * Read':

 1. Prophets and Advocates of Peer Production. By George Dafermos. [5].
    Excellent introduction to the role of the P2P Foundation in the context of
    the re-emergence of a commons movement that is linked to digitally-enabled
    self-organization.

 1. Digital Commons: Cyber-Commoners, Peer Producers and the Project of a
    Post-Capitalist Transition. By George Dafermos. [6]: Excellent introduction
    to the theoretical and strategic work of the P2P Foundation.


For Beginners:

 * Commons Transition and P2P Primer. Primer: Commons Transition and P2P: A
   Primer. By Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Stacco Troncoso and Ann-Marie
   Ultratel: An introduction to the commons and peer to peer dynamics.


The P2P Foundation consists of autonomous but internetworked initiatives:

 1. The knowledge commons, such as this wiki, a blog, and a network of half a
    dozen FB groups where we do a pluralistic curation of p2p/commons
    developments.
 2. The P2P Foundation Research Network, coordinated by Jose Ramos, which
    focuses on monitoring and activating research.
 3. An official non-profit, chaired by Evi Swinnen, in Ghent, Belgium. (The
    original 'Foundation', established in Amsterdam, is in the process of being
    transferred to our research network)

Thanks to Javier Arturo Rodriguez for the technical help in maintaining this
wiki, and for the huge editorial assistance by Simon Grant.


OUR IDEAS

The theoretical foundations are based on the work of Michel Bauwens and others.

See:

 * Sources of P2P Theory
 * What You Should Read To Understand the Commons
 * See the specialized sections in this wiki:

 1. Category: P2P Theory
 2. Category: P2P Hierarchy Theory
 3. Category: P2P Class Theory


Find out more about our practice here:

 * About The P2P Foundation and our Research
 * Our Understanding of P2P
 * Our Guiding Principles
 * P2P and Human Evolution: original manuscript from 2005
 * Screencast with an Overview of the Transformative Proposals of the P2P
   Foundation
 * Four Introductory Videos
 * The P2P Meme Map
 * The Best P2P Essays 1 2
 * Bibliography of Michel Bauwens
 * Bibliography for the Social Knowledge Economy


OUR KEY RESOURCES

* new! : check out our Multi-Category Search for Combined Category Searching !
Explanations here!

 * The P2P News Blog
 * What’s New in the Wiki
 * Wiki RSS Feed
 * P2P Foundation RSS Feeds


JOIN OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY!

 * P2P Foundation Email Lists
 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * Youtube


LEARNING MORE

 * P2P Bookstore
 * P2P Foundation Participation in Scientific Symposia
 * P2P Seminars & (Testimonials)
 * Our Expert Database
 * Watch this P2P lecture!
 * Listen to this Podcast
 * Read this Interview


WHO WE ARE

 * Members
 * Founders
 * Legal and Advisory Boards
 * P2P Lab, Greece
 * Alliances of the P2P Foundation
 * Research Projects of the P2P Foundation


INTRODUCTION TO P2P THEORY

This video series was done, with excellent technical conditions, at Lignan
University in Hong Kong, at the behest of Prof. Kin Chi Lau and colleagues,
during the months of January 2019:

 * E-Lecture 1: Introduction to peer to peer and the commons,
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glRE-J9xFbQ
 * E-Lecture 2: The interaction between the commons and the market,
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdftpR-7fA
 * E-Lecture 3: Public-commons cooperation,
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXIwdUJ-1E
 * E-Lecture 4: Distributed ledgers and shared supply chains,
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suI7e0aNetg
 * E-Lecture 5: The spirituality and ethics of peering and commoning,
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7t2-xadpCI
 * Michel Bauwens -- Life and Thought,
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgI_TLgqdts


TOPICS

We are looking for maintainers for our subject pages! Interested?


THE P2P PARADIGMS

 * Peer Production via Open and Free Input
 * Peer Governance via Participatory Processes
 * Peer Property via Commons Output

See also:

 * Cooperation and Sharing


THE THREE ASPECTS OF APPLICATION IN SOCIETY

 1. P2P Civil Society Approaches
 2. P2P Market Approaches
 3. P2P State Approaches

 * Transitioning to a P2P Society


HOT TOPICS 'RIGHT NOW'

 * the commons are essential to stay within the carrying capacity of the planet:
   Thermodynamic Efficiencies
 * we need to measure positive/negative social and ecological externalities: P2P
   Accounting
 * what pricing is to markets and decisions to planning, mutual coordination is
   to a commons-based economy: Mutual Coordination
 * Commons-based policies for Urban Commons


THE PEER-DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE AND ETHICAL ECONOMY

 * is based on: Collaborative Economic Practices
 * using new: Open Company Formats
 * that aim to: Mutualize Infrastructures
 * and create income through: Open Business Models
 * and find investments through: Crowdfunding and P2P Finance
 * based on: new P2P Value Metrics and Open Accounting
 * that are enabled through new: Legal Infrastructures
 * and true: P2P Technological Infrastructures.
 * The above necessitates the construction of Shared Innovation Commons
 * for Open and Distributed Manufacturing


NEW P2P CULTURE

 * Art
 * Collective Intelligence
 * Culture
 * Education and Learning
 * Group Facilitation
 * Intelligence
 * Media
 * P2P Relationships
 * Spirituality


P2P PROVISIONING SYSTEMS

Providing the essential provisions for human life:

 1. Air Water Food
 2. Clothing and Products
 3. Energy
 4. Health Care
 5. Housing and Shelter
 6. Transportation


OTHER DOMAINS OF APPLICATION

 * Community Economics
 * Ecology and Sustainablity
 * Economics
 * P2P Gaming and 3D Metaverses
 * Geography and Mapping
 * Labor
 * Licensing
 * Money and Finance
 * Music
 * Open Standards
 * Policy
 * Politics
 * Science
 * Security and Warfare
 * Taxation
 * Technology
 * P2P Villages & Cities


HOW P2P INFLUENCES SOCIETY

 * Overview of P2P in Business
 * Overview of P2P in Governance
 * P2P and Intellectual Property


P2P PERSPECTIVES

 * The Post-Growth Perspective
 * The Post-Capitalist Perspective
 * The Post-Corporate Perspective





RESOURCES

Case Studies

Companies with P2P business models

Conferences on P2P topics

Courses: P2P Curricula

Encyclopedia : New! Mini-version

Events Calendar P2P Foundation Calendar

Individuals, Who's Who in P2P

Licences: open and free licenses

Maps

Movements, P2P and commons-oriented org's

Reference

Research on P2P

Resources and tools

Standards

Statistics on P2P trends


MEDIA RESOURCES

Articles on P2P topics

Books on P2P topics

Fiction with P2P themes

Graphics

Podcasts and Audio

Webcasts and Video


SPECIAL PROJECTS

 * The Commons-Based Reciprocity License
 * Mutual Coordination Economics Working Group
 * Towards Open Cooperativism





CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THE PULSATION OF THE COMMONS

A ongoing study of what macrohistorians have learned about the overall evolution
of humanity, life, and the cosmos, in order to understand the role of the
commons in human history:

Here is our resource base:

Annotated Bibliography on Civilizational Analysis

Cycles

Patterns

Scenarios for the Future

Civilizational and Ecological Collapse

Biophysical Basis of Human Civilization





THEORY PROJECTS

P2P Foundation Theory Project

 * General P2P Theory
 * P2P Hierarchy Theory
 * P2P Class Theory
 * Integral Theory








OUR EBOOKS

 * Bauwens, M., Kostakis, V., & Pazaitis, A. (2019). Peer to Peer: The Commons
   Manifesto (Book), London: Westminster University Press. Available as free
   e-book at: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book33.
 * The Commons Transition project]: ebook and site
 * Future Scenarios for the Collaborative Economy





OUR PRINTED BOOKS

 * English: Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. By
   Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. Palgrave, 2014.

 * English: Bauwens, M., Kostakis, V., & Pazaitis, A. (2019). Peer to Peer: The
   Commons Manifesto (Book), London: Westminster University Press.

Available as low-cost paperback at:
https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book33.

 * French: Sauver le monde. Vers une société post-capitaliste avec le
   peer-to-peer. Par Michel Bauwens et Jean Lievens. Les Liens qui Liberent,
   2015.

 * Dutch: De wereld redden. Met peer-to-peer naar een postkapitalistische
   samenleving. Van Michel Bauwens en Jean Lievens. Houtekiet, 2013.


OVERVIEW OF P2P TRANSITION PROPOSALS

This is a summary of our key structural arguments for commons/p2p-centric social
change:

 1. in capitalism there is a specific articulation of market/community
    (nation)/command (state) in which the market is dominant.
 2. a commons-centric economy has a different articulation in which the communal
    mechanisms of pooling shared resources are dominant.
 3. the commons-based processes are increasing in importance within capitalism
    facing systemic crises
 4. It is possible to develop a strategy for deepening and expanding the weight
    of the commons-based processes (transvestment, etc.).
 5. If sustained, such a strategy could ultimate erode the dominance of
    capitalism and create a new post-capitalist and commons-centric society.

 * A good introductory video: Michel Bauwens Explains the Great Value-Shift of
   Our Time
 * Las Indias summarizes recent p2p thinking from the period 2012-2013 [7]
 * a good summary of the triarchical proposal to simultaneously transform civil
   society, the market and the state [8]
 * the key institutional concepts of the Partner State and
   Public-Commons_Partnership
 * Transition proposals towards a Commons-oriented economy and society (part of
   a Bauwens' & Kostakis' forthcoming book)
 * political organizing:
   * 1) local change through civic Alliances of the Commons and Chamber of the
     Commons producing social charters to recreate local political majorities
     [9] ;
   * 2) the global alliance of the commons at nation-state level and beyond [10]


OUR AIMS

We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and
commons-oriented initiatives.

We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer
alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims:

 1. ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous
    conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the
    assumption that natural resources are infinite);
 2. promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting
    conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the
    assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through
    excessive copyrights etc...).

How to support us?

 1. How you can help us?; How To Contribute; How to Write for our Wiki; P2P
    Foundation Wiki Requested Articles
 2. Why is participation to the P2P Foundation not totally open?
 3. Important notice on COPYRIGHT: Fair Use Notice

.....Our three current strategic priorities are:




 * stream 1: co-creating and catalyzing the alternative eco-system for open and
   cooperative peer production and reconstruction and economic and social power
   around the commons (this includes work on our Commons-Based Reciprocity
   License, Open Cooperativism and Phyles, and ethical enterpreneurial
   coalitions that co-produce commons)




 * stream 2: recreating political voice and power, through bottom up Assemblies
   of the Commons and Chamber of the Commons that put forward social charters,
   AND through "top-down" progressive coalitions (through existing politics and
   parties) coalitions around the commons , i.e. 'the politics and policies of
   the commons', that continue our efforts to implement Commons Transition
   Plans.




 * stream 3: creating synergies between cooperative peer production and
   sustainability, i.e. showing how a transition to the new mode of production,
   governance and ownership, can solve the ecological / climate crisis


P2P AROUND THE WORLD

Here is a list of Country Categories. These categories list all pages that
contain country relevant tags for example [[Category:Brazil]] will list all
pages with the tag [[Category:Brazil]] in the wiki text. Categories and Pages
are different. Categories are directory listings so we use country Pages for
general information and discussion for example Brazil. For a listing of all
country Categories AND Pages and a quick guide on how you can help build a
directory of P2P activities around the world see Country Category.

EUROPE

Albania Austria Belgium Belarus Bosnia Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus
Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy
Latvia Macedonia Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovenia
Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Scotland Wales Ukraine

NORTH AMERICA

Canada USA Mexico

CARIBBEAN

Cuba

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa_RicaEcuador El Salvador
Nicaragua Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela

MIDDLE EAST

Arab Countries Bahrain Israel Iraq Jordan Lebanon Palestine Qatar Turkey Syria

AFRICA

Egypt Kenya Mali Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa South Sudan Tanzania
Tunisia Togo Uganda Zimbabwe

ASIA

Bangladesh Burma Cambodia China Hong Kong India Japan Malaysia Nepal Pakistan
Philippines Singapore South Korea Taiwan Thailand

OCEANIA

Australia New Zealand





P2P WIKI BY LANGUAGE CATEGORY

* Page d'accueil francophone pour le wiki

* Materiaux Francophones

Catalan-Language ; Chinese-Language - Croation-Language - Dutch-Language -
French-Language - German-Language - Greek-Language - Hungarian-Language -
Italian-Language - Latvian-Language - Malayalam-Language - Mongolian-Language -
Polish-Language - Portuguese-Language - Romanian-Language - Russian-Language -
Serbian-Language - Spanish-Language - Swedish-Language - Thai-Language


PARTNERS




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See also: Our Wiki Neighbours

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