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1 Scaffolding (supporting from the bottom up) a failing USD (or other National Currencies used as units of account ). Consider a scenario where the local currency is fluctuating: by creating a commitment pool with assets denominated in both national currency, communities can retain purchasing power and ensure continued access to essential goods, thus scaffolding the national economy.
- Our Story
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- Structure and Governance of The P2P Foundation
- What Other People Are Saying About Us
- Evolution of The P2P Foundation
- Key Theses on P2P Politics
The P2P Foundation (officially, The Foundation for P2P Alternatives) is a non-profit organization and global network dedicated to advocacy and research of commons-oriented peer to peer (P2P) dynamics in society. P2P is an abbreviation of “peer to peer”, sometimes also described as “person to person” or “people to people”. The essence of P2P is this...
The P2P Foundation was conceived to help people, organizations and governments transition towards commons-based approaches to society through co-creating an open knowledge commons and a resilient, sustainable human network. Between the paradigms of the network and the organization, the P2P Foundation exists as an ‘organized network’ which can facil...
We are a pluralist network, actively documenting, researching, and promoting peer to peer alternatives. Our cultural and political aims include 1. Ending biosphere destruction and working towards its regeneration by abandoning dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite...
The P2P Foundation infrastructure of production and governance currently consists of three different aspects: 1. Legal:A formal foundation registered in the Netherlands with 4 operational hubs dedicated to organizing, advocacy, research and the facilitation of a knowledge commons. 1. People: An expanding network of activists and researchers working...
Franz Nahrada GIVE - Global Villages Lab, Austria:Sam Rose:Natalie Pang:Kevin CarsonInterview of Michel Bauwens by V. Sasi Kumar: "Michel Bauwens was in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in December 2008, to participate in the Free Software Free Society conference and talked about the work of the Foundation. In this interview, done through email after his return to Thailand, Michel speaks about how he decided to leave his job and start ...
Michel Bauwens: Written in 2007: "1. Our current world system is marked by a profoundly counterproductive logic of social organization: a) it is based on a false concept of abundance in the limited material world; it has created a system based on infinite growth, within the confines of finite resources b) it is based on a false concept of scarcity ...
* Article / Report: Commitment Pooling - An Economic Protocol Inspired by Ancestral Wisdom. By William O. Ruddick - Founder of Grassroots Economics Foundation, 2024 URL = () "a protocol that GrE is developing for resource coordination. The paper theorizes ...
WAMOTOPIA 2023: From December 16, 2023, to January 1, 2024, Wamians will jointly undertake a profound exploration of the future world, weaving a spectacular emergence, a prototype society of the future in Chiang Mai. In August 2022, a group of Web3 ...
Description. "Since its original publication 1999, this foundational book has become a classic in its field. This second edition, Code Version 2.0, updates the work and was prepared in part through a wiki, a web site allowing readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-revision of a popular book. Code counters the common belief that ...
Consilience Definition: “In science and history, consilience is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions. That is, when multiple sources of evidence are in agreement, the conclusion can be very strong even when none of the individual sources of evidence is significantly so on its own
Open Cores (movement) = "a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement" URL = http://www ...
