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How can I take part in the Commons Transition? in [https://primer.commonstransition.org/1-short-articles/1-8-how-can-i-take-part-in-the-commons-transition primer.commonstransition.org] | How can I take part in the Commons Transition? in [https://primer.commonstransition.org/1-short-articles/1-8-how-can-i-take-part-in-the-commons-transition primer.commonstransition.org] | ||
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"The economy needn't be a war, it can be a commons. … The commons is a conscious implementation of reciprocal altruism. Reciprocal altruists, whether human or ape, reward those who cooperate with others and punish those who defect. A commons works the same way. A resource such as a lake or a field, or a monetary system, is understood as a shared asset. The pastures of medieval England were treated as a commons. It wasn't a free-for-all, but a carefully negotiated and enforced system. People brought their flocks to graze in mutually agreed-upon schedules. Violation of the rules was punished, either with penalties or exclusion." | |||
Douglas Rushkoff's book "Team Human" [https://www.shareable.net/blog/5-shareable-excerpts-from-douglas-rushkoff-new-book-team-human Shareable] | |||
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A Possible [[Philadelphia]] on [https://vimeo.com/130214100 Vimeo] | |||
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'''2019''' | |||
'''Sep 13''' Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners! <ref>[https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/plunder-commons-compensate-commoners/ openDemocracy]</ref> | |||
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'''Apr 29''' [[Arts, sport and culture]]: Building a fair art market in a sharing economy <ref>[https://www.shareable.net/building-fair-art-market-sharing-economy/ Shareable]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''2018''' | '''2018''' | ||
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[[Italy]]: What Italian cities can teach us about how to establish urban commons - and their value, Nov 19 <ref>[https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2018/11/22/urban-commons-italian-lessons The Altternative UK]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
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[[Europe]]: Shared Spaces: New Paper on Urban Commons, Nov 16 <ref>[http://www.commonsnetwork.org/news/shared-spaces-new-paper-on-urban-commons/ Commons Network]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
Strengthening and protecting what matters most by @CassieRobinson, Nov 2 <ref>[https://medium.com/@cassierobinson/strengthening-and-protecting-what-matters-most-c0c7bc53f4db Medium]</ref> | |||
Creating the everyday commons: The need to consider space in sharing initiatives, Nov 1 <ref>[https://www.shareable.net/blog/creating-the-everyday-commons-the-need-to-consider-space-in-sharing-initiatives Shareable]</ref> | Creating the everyday commons: The need to consider space in sharing initiatives, Nov 1 <ref>[https://www.shareable.net/blog/creating-the-everyday-commons-the-need-to-consider-space-in-sharing-initiatives Shareable]</ref> |
Revision as of 15:34, 25 September 2019
What communities can do
What are the commons?Commons should be understood as a dynamic, living social system — any resource that can be used by many could inspire people to organize as a commons. The key questions are whether a particular community is motivated to manage a resource as a commons, and if it can come up with the rules, norms, and sanctions to make the system work. Is there a clear example of a commons-based business?The internet provider Guifi.net in Catalonia shows how commons can create a new paradigm of organizing and producing. This bottom-up, citizen-driven project has created a free, open, and neutral telecommunications network based on a commons model. This is how it works: People put Wi-Fi nodes on their rooftops, which is extended and strengthened each time a new user adds a node to the network. Currently, Guifi.net's broadband network has more than 30,000 active nodes and provides internet access to more than 50,000 people. The project started in 2004 when residents of a rural area weren't able to get broadband internet access due to a lack of private operators. The network grew quickly over the whole region, while the Guifi.net Foundation developed governance rules that define the terms and conditions for all users of the network.
The example shows that in creating any commons, it is critical that the community decides that it wants to engage in the social practices of managing a resource for everyone's benefit. In this sense "there is no commons without commoning." This underscores that commons is not only about shared resources — it is mostly about the social practices and values that we devise to manage them. In what areas are commons active?Examples of commons can be found today in different areas:
It is interesting to consider the improbable types of common-pool resources that can be governed as commons. Surfers in Hawaii, catching the big waves at Pipeline Beach have organized themselves in a collective to manage how people use a scarce resource: the massive waves. In this sense, they can be considered a commons: they have developed a shared understanding about the allocation of scarce use of rights. Is commons a new idea or are there examples from the past?From a historical perspective, commons were an essential part of the economical and social system of rural societies before modernization took place. People in rural areas depended upon open access to the commons (forests, fields, meadows), using economic principles of reciprocity and redistribution. When common grounds were enclosed and privatized, many migrated to cities, becoming employees in factories and individual consumers, and lost the common identity and ability of self-governance. The modern liberal state separated production (companies) from governance (politics), while in the commons system these were an inseparable entity. In industrial capitalist societies, the market with its price mechanism became the new central organizing principle of society. How do privatization and enclosure affect the commons?Nowadays massive land grabs are going on in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Investors and national governments are snapping up land that people have used for generations. All over the world, all aspects of life are being monetized with the expansion of private property rights: water, seeds, biodiversity, the human genome, public infrastructures, public spaces in cities, culture, and knowledge. What is the importance of digital commons?The internet has been an arena for experimentation and innovation, precisely because there is no legacy of conventional institutions to displace. Entire new modes of creative production have arisen on the internet that are neither market-based nor state-controlled. Open-source software, Wikipedia, and Creative Commons licenses have emerged as a new way of production that is nonproprietary and based on the collaboration of widely distributed, loosely connected individuals who cooperate with each other. Prior to the rise of the web, commons were usually regarded as little more than a curiosity of medieval history or a backwater of social science research. Now that so many people have tasted freedom, innovation, and accountability of open networks and digital commons, there is no going back to the command-and-control business model of the 20th century. The full disruptive potential of this profound global cultural revolution is still ahead. What role can commons play in the actual economic and institutional crises?The commons offers a powerful way to re-conceptualize governments, economics, and global policies at a time when the existing order is incapable of reforming itself. The most urgent task is to expand the conversation about the commons and to ground it in actual practice. The more that people have personal, lived experiences with commoning of any sort, the greater the public understanding will be. In a quiet and evident way, the commons can disclose more and more spaces in our everyday life in which we can create, shape, and negotiate our lives. What are the differences between commons and markets?Commons: Rely on people's altruism and cooperation Commons: stewardship of resources Commons: individuals and collectives mutually reinforce each other Commons: shared, long-term, non-market interests How can I take part in the Commons Transition?How can I take part in the Commons Transition? in primer.commonstransition.org ResourcesQuotes"The economy needn't be a war, it can be a commons. … The commons is a conscious implementation of reciprocal altruism. Reciprocal altruists, whether human or ape, reward those who cooperate with others and punish those who defect. A commons works the same way. A resource such as a lake or a field, or a monetary system, is understood as a shared asset. The pastures of medieval England were treated as a commons. It wasn't a free-for-all, but a carefully negotiated and enforced system. People brought their flocks to graze in mutually agreed-upon schedules. Violation of the rules was punished, either with penalties or exclusion." Douglas Rushkoff's book "Team Human" Shareable VideoA Possible Philadelphia on Vimeo |
News and comment2019 Sep 13 Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners! [1] Apr 29 Arts, sport and culture: Building a fair art market in a sharing economy [2] 2018 Italy: What Italian cities can teach us about how to establish urban commons - and their value, Nov 19 [3] Europe: Shared Spaces: New Paper on Urban Commons, Nov 16 [4] Strengthening and protecting what matters most by @CassieRobinson, Nov 2 [5] Creating the everyday commons: The need to consider space in sharing initiatives, Nov 1 [6] City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source, Jan 12 [7] 2017 Ghent: The City Taking the Commons to Heart, Nov 25 [8] 9 Awesome Urban Commons Projects in Ghent, Aug 17 [9] Ghent's Quick Rise as a Sustainable, Commons-Based Sharing City, Aug 9 [10] Pennsylvania: Civic Commons: Spreading opportunity to the whole city, Jul 10 [11] Citizens data initiative: Sharing Cities: Using Urban Data to Reclaim Public Space as a Commons, Jun 5 [12] Can Commons Thinking Break into the European Mainstream? Jun 2 [13] Five Practical Guidelines for Achieving a Commons Transition, May 17 [14]
Food news: Patterns of Commoning: Farm Hack: A Commons for Agricultural Innovation, May 15 [15] Commons Governance as a Means and an End, May 15 [16] see also: South Korea, California, Massachusetts Creative Commons' New Strategy for a Collaborative Organizational Structure, May 10 [17] Error in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
Commons Transition and P2P: a Primer, May 9 [18] Cities as a commons: Sharing vision, resources and power - Cities for People, May 4 [19] Berlin: The Urban Common Spaces That Show Us We Belong to Something Larger, May 3 [20] Nine Key Political Propositions for Building the Commons, May 5 [21] Excerpt from Creative Commons' Upcoming Book — 'Made with Creative Commons', May 1 [22] Our biggest report yet: State of the Commons 2016, Apr 28 [23] Point d’étape Chambre des Communs de Lille, Apr 15 [24] The Future of the Commons is an Open Planet, Laura Hilliger, Apr 7 [25] Italy: The Nidiaci Garden of Florence, an Oasis of Commoning in a Busy City, Mar 28 [26] Greece: The Greek Left Takes Stock of the Commons, Mar 1 [27] Dispatches from the Commons Assembly, Feb 1 [28] What the P2P Foundation did in 2016, Jan 18 [29] How Can We Redesign Cities as Shared Spaces? Jan 9 [30] What is the Commons Transition? Jan 6 [31] 2016 Slovenia adds water to constitution as fundamental right for all, Nov 18 [32] 10 Ways to Accelerate the Peer-to-Peer and Commons Economy, Aug 1 [33] The Sustainability Commons: Using Open Source Design to Address Climate Change, Jun 8 [34] The Commons Collaborative Economy explodes in Barcelona, Apr 18 [35] Error in widget Vimeo: Unable to load template 'wiki:Vimeo'
Creative Commons' Radical Plan to Bring Joy to the Commons, Mar 23 [36] 2014 Regional Food Commons as a Systemic Answer, March 18 [37] See also
Interwiki linksWikipedia: Commons Commons Transition Wiki, database for policy papers and proposals related to Commons Transition External links
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Header photo of Ballard Sunday Farmers' Market in Seattle, Washington, by Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons.
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