Hybrids, Assemblages & Tahrir Square at CityCamp Brighton (video presentation) Introduction to Health Commons. The Health Commons. It’s time to bring the same efficiencies to human health that the network brought to commerce and culture. And to do that, it takes a Commons. Visit the Health Commons’ Web site. “An Introduction to Health Commons” by John Wilbanks Science Commons’ John Wilbanks lays out the argument for the Health Commons – how the existing drug discovery process is broken, and where to look for inspiration in how to fix it. Read More For our complete vision, please read Health Commons: Therapy Development in a Networked World – an introduction and overview, by John Wilbanks and Marty Tenenbaum. The Health Commons: Solving the Health Research Puzzle The pharmaceutical industry is at a crossroads. The time has come to change the way we cure disease.
The Health Commons Vision Imagine a virtual marketplace or ecosystem where participants share data, knowledge, materials and services to accelerate research. What is Health Commons? The Health Commons is too complex for any one organization or company to create. CTheory.net. The Political Economy of Peer Production Michel Bauwens Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed networks, a new human dynamic is emerging: peer to peer (P2P). As P2P gives rise to the emergence of a third mode of production, a third mode of governance, and a third mode of property, it is poised to overhaul our political economy in unprecedented ways.
This essay aims to develop a conceptual framework ('P2P theory') capable of explaining these new social processes. Peer to Peer P2P does not refer to all behavior or processes that takes place in distributed networks: P2P specifically designates those processes that aim to increase the most widespread participation by equipotential participants. P2P processes: The Infrastructure of P2P The Characteristics of P2P. Turn Your Coworking Space Into a Sharing Hub. Coworking spaces are environments in which mobile professionals can make connections and collaborate on creative projects.
Studies confirm that shared workspaces increase worker productivity and happiness, and benefit the surrounding community as well. But are completed to-do lists and well-supported freelancers the only ways coworking can impact the workforce, and thereby the larger economy? We think not. In anticipation of the pre-SxSWi Global Coworking Unconference coming up next month, let's envision a coworking community that embraces other aspects of a sharing lifestyle in addition to collaborative work. Although I hate the phrase, coworkers are the "low hanging fruit" when it comes to adopting collaborative behaviors.
Coworkers already trust each other, and understand the benefits, both quantifiable and not, that comes from pooling resources, ideas, and space. Bike/Ride/Car Sharing Image via Werkheim-Hamburg Cohousing Image via Indy Hall Food/Gardening Image via Flickr/seo_gun.
We Think. P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm. How to create your own innovation lab v1. Response to White House Request for Input: What Are the Most Effective Web Tools for Public Participation? In December, the White House issued a request for input regarding the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan. Their list of seven questions included one on e-participation. To jog your memory, here it is once again: What are the most effective forms of technology and web tools to encourage public participation, engage with the private sector/non-profit and academic communities, and provide the public with greater and more meaningful opportunities to influence agencies’ plans? The following response was intended to be a group collaboration between various practitioners, researchers and other thought leaders in the field of e-participation and online engagement, mainly from the U.S. but welcoming contributions from abroad.
Despite the very short notice, Intellitics was able to host an informal call on December 16 that drew 14 attendees and expressions of interest from several others. Thank you to everyone who showed up. We enjoyed a refreshing conversation. Michel Bauwens: A peer-to-peer economy. This interview is part of an exclusive series Paper.li is doing with the CulturaDigital.Br festival in Rio. Paper.li is CulturaDigital.Br’s media partner and is bringing our community a taste of the keynote speakers’ talks ahead of the event.
Peer-to-peer originated in technology… but can it help transform society? Michel Bauwens, leading P2P advocate, tells Paper.li that Yes, it can. Michel Bauwens is an academic, former dotcom entrepreneur and information management pioneer who coined the idea of the ‘cybrarian’. These days, he is pretty prominent as founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives, which works with global researchers to study peer to peer trends with the aim of proposing strategies for political and social change. Above all, it’s a relational dynamic in which people exchange not with each other as individuals, but with a commons. Models born from accepting shared innovation commons, limiting intellectual property rents and monopolies.
There are two ways to get involved.