Re: [GNU/consensus] Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons

[Svetlina Dragova]

Thanks for your quick reply!

The program is applicable for NGOs as well.

BR, 
Svetlina

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On Tue, 12/15/15, Samer <address@hidden> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [GNU/consensus] Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons
 To: "Svetlina Dragova" <address@hidden>
 Cc: address@hidden
 Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 8:17 PM
 
 Hey
 Svetlina,
  Thanks
 for sharing this great initiative. 
 Glad you are
 interested! Are you
 going to participate on the CCC conference in Hamburg
 between 27-30Dec this year?
 
 I'd be happy to speak with you.
 
 I'm sorry, I won't be in CCC
 this year. I'm now in Madrid and from February I'll
 be in Boston.  You could
 attend to this self-oranized session: 
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Session:Bringing_free-as-in-freedom_to_social_networks:_what,_why,_and_how
 
 and also organize your own session.
 
 
 
 I want to ask you something - is it possible to have an
 internship in your organization via this program:
 
 http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/index.php
 
 with ideas like this: 
https://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-decentralization-roadmap/
 My organization is a nonprofit
 public university, and I'm afraid that program is just
 for
 enterprises.  Cheers!
 
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 On Sun, 12/13/15, Samer <address@hidden>
 wrote:
 
 
 
  Subject: [GNU/consensus] Call for Papers: Decentralizing
 the Commons
 
  To: address@hidden
 
  Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015, 9:29 PM
 
 
 
  Dear
 
  all,
 
 
 
  I think that the
 
  following call might be of interest to some members of
 the
 
  list. Please, feel free to disseminate it
 
  (thanks!):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Call
 
  for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons
 
  We
 
  are witnessing today a steady growth in the impact of
 
  user-generated content and peer-production on the
 so-called
 
  sharing or collaborative economy. These emergent
 practices
 
  are an indicator of radical changes in the mode of
 
  production in an age of ‘prosumerism’, characterized
 by
 
  two main trends. On the one hand, corporations such as
 
  Google, Uber or Facebook are capturing the value created
 by
 
  the actors contributing to the collaborative economy, in
 a
 
  way that has been described by some scholars as an
 
  exploitation of free labour. On the other hand,
 projects
 
  such as Wikipedia or GNU/Linux are emblematic of a new
 model
 
  of production that relies on the contribution of many
 
  individuals collaborating to a collective project that
 is
 
  not owned by any given entity but rather by the community
 as
 
  a whole (Commons-Based
 
  Peer Production or CBPP). These individuals organise
 
  themselves  without relying on traditional hierarchical
 and
 
  mercantile organisational structures, to produce a set
 
  of commons resources
 
  which are made freely available to the public for use
 and
 
  reuse. In the last few years, CBPP has expanded beyond
 the
 
  field of software and encyclopedias to also cover the
 realms
 
  of  information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware
 
  (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation
 (Couchsurfing,
 
  BeWelcome) and currency (Bitcoin, Altcoins).
 
  The
 
  concept of decentralisation is a key
 
  requisite for the protection of thesecommons — from
 their
 
  governance system, including the allocation  of power
 and
 
  functions in the organisation of labour; to the
 
  characteristics of the socio-technical means  of
 
  collaboration, in terms of both the underlying
 technical
 
  infrastructure and the ownership structure of such
 
  infrastructure. Despite the original design of the
 Internet
 
  as a decentralized network, with
 
  the advent of the Web 2.0, centralized
 
  (and often proprietary) platforms — typically driven
 by
 
  corporate interests —  have progressively taken over
 the
 
  web.
 
  These centralized choke-points can be used by governments
 to
 
  increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden
 
  revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt,
 Syria,
 
  or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities
 of
 
  activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now
 
  become clear that it is not enough to develop
 
  free/libre/open source (FLOSS)alternatives,
 
  if we do not as well endeavor to re-decentralize the
 
  Internet.
 
  Newdecentralized software tools
 
  may ultimately be useful to support the operation and
 the
 
  long-term sustainability of CBPP communities.
 
  In
 
  view of this, we organised the second FLOSS4P2P
 
  workshop (@Fablab
 
  London, supported by P2Pvalue),
 
  gathering a wide spectrum of people working
 ondecentralized FLOSS projects
 
  that could help or support the activities of peer
 production
 
  communities.
 
  Given the success
 
  of the workshop,
 
  we would like to prepare a book in collaboration with
 
  the Institute
 
  of Network Cultures (on
 
  the model of the former MoneyLab
 
  Reader)
 
  to explore the topic of decentralisation in
 thecommons sector.
 
  We
 
  welcome proposals from academics, activists, researchers
 and
 
  practitioners interested in exploring the topic from a
 wide
 
  set of perspectives, ranging  from computer science,
 
  engineering, sociology, philosophy, organisational
 theory,
 
  cultural studies, digital studies, etc. Contributions
 can
 
  cover a variety of topics, including tools for
 grassroots
 
  communities, commons-based peer production,
 
  both online and offline wikis, maker culture, activism,
 
  hacktivism, free culture, citizen science and
 hospitality
 
  exchange. Contributions can take a variety of formats,
 e.g.
 
  a story, a sci-fi tale, a comicstrip, a manifesto, a
 
  critical essay, an interview, a study, a poem, a
 
  conversation, a debate, a combination of the
 
  former… we
 
  would like you to experiment and surprise us!
 
  We
 
  invite you to submit
 
  an initial abstract (max.
 
  750w; count each image as 200w, if any) explaining your
 idea
 
  by January
 
  30, 2016.
 
  Examples of possible topics are:
 
  Dynamics
 
  of (de)centralization in
 
  CBPP communitiesDecentralized software
 
  applications for online/offline
 
  communitiesDecentralized solutions to
 
  tackle specific communities
 concernsGuidelines
 
  for developers and/or researchersComparison
 
  of centralized/decentralized processes in
 
  CBPP (e.g. decision-making, infrastructure ownership,
 value
 
  generation, value distribution)Practical
 
  experiences around centralized/decentralized structures
 (in
 
  the form of stories, research, interview,
 
  etc.)
 
  The
 
  more compelling ideas will be selected to be included in
 the
 
  book.
 
  Please upload
 
  your contribution using the following Easychair
 
  link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floss4p2p
 
  If
 
  you have further questions about the expected content,
 
  format, etc. do not hesitate to let us know. We look
 forward
 
  to hearing about your ideas!
 
 
 
  Primavera De FilippiSamer
 
  HassanDavid
 
  Rozas
 
 
 
  -- 
 
  Samer |address@hidden| http://samer.hassan.name
 
  "We are the ones we have been waiting
 
  for" (June
 
  Jordan)
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 
 Samer |address@hidden | http://samer.hassan.name
 "We are the ones we have been
 waiting for" (June Jordan)