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Commons Transition, Illustrated – Our New Web Primer - The new Commons Transition Primer website makes the ideas of the Commons and P2P accessible and attractive to commoners and communities worldwide.
Can the Commons offer a renewed vision for Europe? - A conversation with Sophie Bloemen (Commons Network), Iva Cucik (Belgrade don’t drown Initiative) and Stacco Troncoso (P2P Foundation).
Organizing and Governing the Commons: A Coop-Commons Multilevel Dialogue with Municipalities and Labour - Facilitating the convergence cooperatives, social and solidarity economy, commons (and open source and collaborative platforms), cities and trade unions.
“Think global, print local”: A case study on a commons-based publishing and distribution model - 'Information wants to be free', a famous dictum reads: are there alternatives to the profit-driven models of translating, publishing and distributing books?
Commons in the time of monsters: How P2P Politics can change the world, one city at a time - Can Commons and P2P practices offer viable solutions for our present and future social, political and ecological crises? This is the story of how it's done.
Commons Transition and P2P: a Primer - Digital magazine download on the Commons and P2P, how they interrelate and how a Commons transition could reinvigorate work, politics, production, and care.
From Platform to Open Cooperativism - Two movements mesh cooperative traditions with the digital revolution: Platform Cooperativism, and Open Cooperativism. How do they relate?
Susana Martín Belmonte on de-commodification and abundance - An interview with Spanish economist Susana Martín Belmonte on her work on monetary reform, commons-oriented P2P systems and future economies.
Stacco Troncoso on Digital Communities and P2P - Stacco Troncoso defines P2P, the Commons and how they inter-relate, while distinguishing generative P2P interactions from other, more harmful, contexts
This is how people power wins an election: the story of Ahora Madrid - How do you win an election? According to Ahora Madrid’s activist councillors, the key is keeping it real - with real openness and participation.
P2P Foundation receives the Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Award - The P2P Foundation is very honoured to have received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica 2016 for Digital Communities. Read my brief report here.
P2P Foundation: Concentrated Knowledge for All - The P2P Foundation is this year’s recipient of the Golden Nica in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Communities category, find out more in this interview with Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel.
Interviewed: Stacco Troncoso on Loomio, Guerrilla Translation and the P2P Foundation - "Guerrilla Translation was inspired by the P2P Foundation. We tried to imagine how to apply all of what an Open Coop should be, but applied to translation."
Think Global, Print Local and licensing for the Commons - The Peer Production License (PPL) allows cooperatives and solidarity-based collectives, but not corporations, to monetize cultural works.
The Commons Collaborative Economy explodes in Barcelona - In Procomuns 2016 it is well understood that the “Sharing Economy” is a flawed model, while the Commons Collaborative Economy is a totally different game.
Stacco Troncoso on the origins of Guerrilla Translation - Guerrilla Translation co-founder, Stacco Troncoso talks about GT in "La Aventura del Saber", a Spanish TV program.
Guerrilla Translation – 2014 Ouishare Award Winners - Out of some 130 or so nominees, Guerrilla Translation won, along with our friends in Common Libraries, Symba and two other very interesting projects.
Guerrilla Translation’s Story and Founding Principles - Guerrilla Translation was created to share ideas between communities and to allow translation, which has become heavily corporatised, to share the values inherent in collaborative art and creativity.
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