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Sharing is a basic component of human interaction, and is responsible for strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being. [1] It can also be seen as a way of building a sense of community particularly via the process of sharing food, but also by a variety of other activities such as ridesharing or co-housing. It can be argued that sharing strengthens the resilience of local economies. Sharing programs have even be divised for whole cities.
What communities can do
- Cohousing schemes
- develop a ShareFest or similar annual event
- encourage equipment sharing and develop tool & all other kinds of community resource libraries
- help build the digital commons, for example share information and knowledge on CASwiki and Appropedia
- hold a potluck, bring and share food (or other stuff) events
- little free libraries or Mini library
- organise co-purchasing clubs
- promote collaborative consumption
- set up toy libraries
- set up community book exchanges, promote book crossing
- set up co-working spaces
- skill sharing events or programmes
- support land rights movements
Commons
The traditional idea of a commons allows for sharing within a community. Customs and laws enabled the commons to be protected.
- The commons is a general term referring to the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.
- Today, the commons are also understood within a cultural sphere. These commons include literature, music, arts, design, film, video, television, radio, information, software and sites of heritage. The crowdsourcing movement and among others Wikipedia are examples of the production and maintenance of common goods by certain communities in the form or videos, music, or encyclopedic knowledge that can be freely accessed by anyone without a central authority. Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons is avoided among others by community control and trading status and attention of individual authors within the Wikipedia community.
- Stewardship
- Caring for the commons is an act of individual stewardship (long-term care for a given resource for the benefit of oneself and others including the resource itself) and collective trusteeship. It is the very essence of being ‘whole’, the fundamental basis of interdisciplinarity. It is one of the few ways we have to acknowledge our debt to the past generations, and to embody our link to future generation. It shows we believe in ourselves as an enduring civilization, not an economy.
- Caring for the commons means more than just regulating. Caretakers are needed, that is, a system nurturing societal cooperation, sharing of goods and thoughtfulness of generations to come. It entails establishing norms that reduce free riding and hold communities together. For our generation seems to be moving beyond viewing commons only as a norm, and taking action to enable and protect them in all spheres of our lives.
Sharing economy
The sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the peer-to-peer economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical resources. It includes the shared creation, production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services by different people and organisations. These systems take a variety of forms, often leveraging information technology to empower individuals, corporations, non-profits and government with information that enables distribution, sharing and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services. A common premise is that when information about goods is shared, the value of those goods may increase, for the business, for individuals, and for the community.
The sharing economy encompasses a wide range of structures including for-profit, non-profit, barter and co-operative structures. Share-based offerings are based on a set of values that often includes trust, transparency, economic empowerment, creative expression, authenticity, community resilience and human connection. W
Mesh economy
The Mesh economy encompasses public and private sector organizations and firms working within the various realms of the sharing economy, the peer economy, the collaborative economy and the circular economy. The shift from defining unused value as waste to defining it as an opportunity to create value from more efficient resource use is the common factor among all mesh economy organizations. The understanding that information technology enables excess capacity in human capital to be more efficiently deployed to solve social and environmental challenges as articulated by Clay Shirky in his 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is an important influence. W
Government-mediated sharing
Public goods such as public transport and public open space are typically provided by a government using tax funds. This enables the provision of common goods and services which (due to the free rider problemW are not easily provided for by individuals or civil society).
Sharing cities
Sharing Cities network, Shareable
See also: Seoul, South Korea
Resources
- The Ultimate Guide To Organizing a Skillshare, from Shareable
- How to start a tool library in your community
- How to Organize a ShareFest, Shareable
- How to start a Library of Things, Shareable
- Sharing Vouchers
- see also United States#Sharing
- Wikipedia: List of tool-lending libraries
Funding
16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library In Your Town, July 2015 Shareable
Maps
Sharing Cities network, Shareable
Video
See also
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Community currencies, sustainable community action
- Community resources
- Ethical consumerism
- Food, sustainable community action
- Free stuff
- Localism
- Mini library
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- Ride sharing
- Sustainable transport via community action
- Towards sustainable economies
- Commons (category)
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Sharing, Sharing economy, Land rights movements (category)
Sharewiki, a wiki about sharing.
External links
- BeWelcome, describes itself as an "open-source, independent network, built by volunteers."
- BookCrossing
- On the Commons – dedicated to exploring ideas and action about the commons—which encompasses natural assets such as oceans and clean air as well as cultural endowments like the Internet, scientific research and the arts.
- The Peer to Peer Foundation
References
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