Crowdfunding: Democratizing Investment for Entrepreneurs. Posted by Tom Kalil and Doug Rand on November 04, 2011 at 05:38 PM EDT Yesterday, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 407-17, the House of Representatives passed a bill supported by President Obama that would allow small companies to raise capital through “crowdfunding.” Crowdfunding is essentially raising little bits of money from a big group of people over the Internet. The Internet has made it easier for political candidates and charitable organizations to turn lots of small contributions into large dollars, and in recent years some entrepreneurs have found success raising money this way to grow some very innovative companies. But unless the money collected is a pure donation, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) probably has to get involved. That’s not a bad thing – we rely on the SEC and state regulators to protect investors against fraud and ensure a smoothly functioning marketplace.
Keith Community Partnership. Category:Relational. This section monitors the shift from individualism to relationality as the central factor of social life. Welcome to the Ecozoic Era! * I (Michel Bauwens) fully endorse this as the spiritual theory behind an integrative p2p theory for social and personal change: A P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality. By Joe Corbett. Cooperativity is fundamental ... There is no dictator in cell regulation, no first among equals, no master regulator, no top-down system of governance. - Toby J. We are emerging from a long dominator era into one that demands mutuality. . - Sally Goerner, The Emerging Science and Culture of Integral Society What kind of human relationships arise in a peer to peer context? This section examines topics related to p2p-oriented views of relations, which are, and true to the p2p tradition, inventive and exploratory.
Only the 4 first columns of the P2P Encyclopedia concepts have been ported at this stage. See also: Video: See also: Category:Peergovernance. "Peer production, peer governance, peer property", Excerpt of Article by Michel Bauwens - link : "Peer to peer social processes are bottom-up processes whereby agents in a distributed network can freely engage in common pursuits, without external coercion. It is important to realize that distributed systems differ from decentralized systems, essentially because in the latter, the hubs are obligatory, while in the former, they are the result of voluntary choices.
P2P social processes more precisely engender: 1) Peer Production: wherever a group of peers decided to engage in the production of a common resource 2) Peer Governance: the means they choose to govern themselves while they engage in such pursuit 3) Peer Property: the institutional and legal framework they choose to guard against the private appropriation of this common work; this usually takes the form of non-exclusionary forms of universal common property" 1. 2. Typology of Commons Regulation. iDea is a novel early stage funding concept. Innovation Dipole Entrepreneurial Assessment (iDea) iDea is a novel Entrepreneurial Assessment and early stage funding/incubating framework that can be implemented by Governments and/or Institutions, which is based on Innovation Dipole web centric Crowd Sourced peer selection process.
Entrepreneurs iDea framework supplies all the necessary means like, initial assessment, financing, mentoring, incubating and networking that allowing, regardless of the country’s entrepreneurial environment using Crowd Sourcing techniques, entrepreneurs, inventors, researchers, creative persons and business developers in a total transparent and democratic way, to freely elect best ideas, mix and match in order to commercialize these ideas and innovate and all that without lengthy and useless "to be revised", business plans.
While on the same time totally eliminates the burden of fundraising, by removing all imposed barriers, like unwilling investors, committees of experts, own capital clause and such. How do we achieve harmony?
Category:Policy. Our economy prospers when the Internet is equally open to every good idea. Our democracy flourishes when all ideas can get an equal hearing. Our culture is enriched when anyone can create a song, a movie, a book, or manifesto. - David Weinberger [1] The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them - Albert Einstein [2] Dedicated to the Peer Production of Public Policy and the results of such processes. Introduction by James Quilligan: Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes. [4] This category focuses on proposals to promote the P2P, Open/Free, and Commons-related agenda, in the existing political and institutional systems. The P2P Foundation is sympathetic to the proposals of the Pirate Party as well as the Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web. These pages will also include records on activist campaigns. In the related pages on Standards we define the technical requirements for an open and free internet. 1.