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Michel Bauwens: Four Scenarios for the Collaborative Economy. Michel Bauwens on the pitfalls of start-up culture. Our second extract from the transcript of the C-Realm Podcast Bauwens/Kleiner/Trialogue, Michel Bauwens talks about the disconnect between young idealistic developers and the business models many of them default to, unaware that there’s better options. I’d like to start with outlining the issue, the problem around the emergence of peer production within the current neoliberal capitalist form of society and economy that we have. We now have a technology which allows us to globally scale small group dynamics, and to create huge productive communities, self-organized around the collaborative production of knowledge, code, and design. But the key issue is that we are not able to live from that, right? The situation is that we have created communities consisting of people who are sometimes paid, sometimes volunteers, and by using open licenses, we are actually creating commonses – think about Linux, Wikipedia, Arduino, those kinds of things.

Amazon Wants To Include Peer-to-Peer Payments In Its “Real World” PayPal Competitor. Earlier today, the WSJ published a report on how Amazon is building a Kindle-based point-of-sale payments service for local merchants using technology it picked up via its Gopago acquisition –something we actually reported on back in December. In fact, this looks like just part of what Amazon has in mind. The e-commerce giant is also developing a solution for person-to-person payments — bypassing banks and other payment networks — putting it in even closer competition with P2P payment giant PayPal. The P2P payment system, as it’s being conceived, would have a mobile component to it, and it would be cloud-based, so presumably usable over desktop, too.

Those Amazon phones we and others keep talking about could be coming soon — the latest that we’ve heard, by the way, is that they may get announced in the next 60 days and ship this summer. Building in a P2P service to sweeten the deal, and help differentiate the phones from the rest of the pack, could be a smart move. Developing world. Twister | P2P microblogging platform. We want to replace YouTube, Dropbox, Facebook, Spotify, ISPs, and more with decentralized apps based on proof of bandwidth. We need developers. Welcome to Bitcloud.

Peer Property. "the outcome of the process (of Peer Production) is a collective good. In the industrial era, cooperation, typically in a corporate setting, resulted in a proprietary product owned by the company. But, in the network age, cooperation becomes what Benkler calls “commons-based peer production," and it is the production of this commons, i.e. what is held in common, that erodes the foundations of old-fashioned property. " By Paul Hartzog at Peer Property is a concept coined by Michel Bauwens to indicate the innovative nature of legal forms such as the General Public License, the Creative Commons, etc... Whereas traditional forms of property are exclusionary ("if it is mine, it is not yours"), peer property forms are inclusionary.

It is from all of us, i.e. also for <you>, provided you respect the basic rules laid out in the license, such as the the openness of the source code for example. Michel Bauwens: 1. 2. 3. Bifo. Characteristics of P2P. 3.3.C. Beyond Formalization, Institutionalization, Commodification Observation of commons-based peer production and knowledge exchange, unveils a further number of important elements, which can be added to our earlier definition and has to be added to the characteristic of holoptism just discussed in 3.4.B. In premodern societies, knowledge is ‘guarded’, it is part of what constitutes power. Guilds are based on secrets, the Church does not translate the Bible, and it guards its monopoly of interpretation.

With the advent of modernity, and let’s think about Diderot’s project of the Encyclopedia as an example, knowledge is from now on regarded as a public resource which should flow freely. Again, peer to peer appears as a radical shift. If there are formal rules, they have to be accepted by the community, and they are ad hoc for particular projects. A second important aspect is de-institutionalization. Please note my semantic difficulty here. Logic of the Market versus the Logic of the Commons. Also see Festivalism Source: The Commons: Year One of the Global Commons Movement by Silke Helfrich (29. Januar 2011) Silke Helfrich: "The market has a well-developed and aggressively promoted story about how material wealth is created. Market logic is based on the assumption that we are basically a homo oeconomicus – striving to maximize our own benefits. The commons has yet to develop its own grand narrative. The commons is about building robust and resilient communities.

The commons follows a logic of inclusion and aims at social control over resources and productive means. Part of the ‘commons movement’ constantly tackles the issue of ecological security, others don’t. At a first glance, this may look like a fuzzy storyline. The market and Nation-State as well as their conglomerations are built upon different beliefs. Or take one of the favorite strategies of international cooperation for development: Securing private land titles. That means: Regarde le capitalisme tomber à l'ère de la production Open Source. « Le logiciel libre, l’innovation partagée et la production collaborative menacent le capitalisme tel que nous le connaissons. » C’est ainsi que Michel Bauwens résume son propos dans les colonnes du site d’Aljazeera. Le menace vient du fait qu’à l’aide d’Internet nous créons beaucoup plus de valeur d’usage (qui répond à nos besoins) que de valeur d’échange (qui se monétise facilement[1] Menace pour les uns, opportunité et espoir pour les autres… La question à 100 milliards de dollars de Facebook : Le capitalisme survivra-t-il à « l’abondance de valeur » ?

The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive ‘value abundance’? Michel Bauwens - 29 février 2012 - Aljazeera (Traduction Framalang/Twitter/Fhimt.com : Lambda, vg, goofy, fcharton, btreguier, HgO, Martin, bu, pvincent, bousty, pvincent, deor, cdddm, C4lin, Lamessen et 2 anonymous) Le logiciel libre, l’innovation partagée et la production collaborative menacent le capitalisme tel que nous le connaissons. Ce débat n’est pas nouveau.