Benjamin Peters is assistant professor of communication at the University of Tulsa, and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. His latest book is How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (2016). You can read an excerpt here.
A key element of the Fair-Coop vision is a cryptocurrency, Faircoin, which has been designed to adapt the block-chain technology of Bitcoin with a more socially constructive design.
"The biggest unsolved, but acknowledged, problem is getting the resources to build platforms that can compete with venture capital-funded platforms. ... The answer can be simple. The Black Star Coop brewery and restaurant in Austin, Texas, is owned by its customer-members while the workers manage it."
Verohallitus on antanut tähän päätökseen perustuvan ohjeen (19.2.2004 Dnro 350/40/2004), jonka mukaan liittymismaksusta, jota ei palauteta, olisi maksettava arvonlisävero.
"A more eclectic theoretical framework is proposed as a step aimed at grasping the complexity of the Internet commons. It attempts to integrate new concepts developed in various disciplines of social sciences (economics, sociology, history, anthropology) with the mainstream theory of the commons, which developed from the neo-institutional perspective. Among those new concepts and theories, the most important are general purpose technologies (GPT), network externalities, positive free riding, the concept of shareable goods, the architecture of participation, peer production, and the gift economy. " (ur Abstract)
the CrowdCamp Workshop at CHI in Austin, Texas. The workshop was structured a lot like a hackathon, with the objective being to work in teams to produce projects, papers, or research. a proposal made by Niki Kittur, who suggested that we envision how crowdsourcing and distributed work contribute to solving grand challenges, such as economic inequality and the ongoing impact of the 2008 financial crisis
"a catalyst for collaboration among libraries, archives, museums and other cultural memory organizations." Educopia Institute 1230 Peachtree Street, Suite 1900 | Atlanta, Georgia