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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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The Commons Transition Plan is waiting for its next iteration, in which the knowledge commons are not the only commons to be considered a priority, but would be rather seen as a more general, fully physical, transformation towards a commons economy... 
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(note: this version was originally written at the request of Jay Wallsjasper of On the Commons, slightly expanded and updated on July 13; it’s a little more elaborate than the first informal assessment shared here before)
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The nine-month effort in Ecuador to develop a new vision and policy architecture for commons-based peer production is coming into much sharper focus. To refresh your memory on this project, the Government of Ecuador last year commissioned the FLOK Society (FLOK = “Free, libre, open knowledge”) to come up with a thoughtful plan for enabling every sector of Ecuador to be organized into open knowledge commons, to the maximum degree possible. The project has now released a transition plan accompanied by more than a dozen policy frameworks for specific social and economic domains.
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I am leaving Ecuador tomorrow after a rich but difficult experience with many up and downs … (one of the downs being is that we are leaving the country with still 2.5 months of salary due); though the summit was a success in terms of its own dynamic, we discovered that the president of the country didn’t even know of the existence of the FLOK, and that one of our funding ministers even blocked his officials from attending until one day before the summit .. 15 attempts to talk with our two funding ministers about a supposedly strategic effort went unheeded .. nevertheless, there are also good sides: one is that lower level officials, those that feel the need to remain faithful to the ideals of the civic revolution, are enthusiastic and are working on pilot projects; the other is a number of civic movements intent on continuing the effort such as our friends at Diabluma and the associated rural-urban coalition; amongst the most inspiring efforts is that of Mario Andino, the mayor of Sigchos, the third poorest district in Ecuador, who just bought a 2,200 ha. domain to experiment with open agriculture, and that is at least partially a direct result of our interventions, this will happen with or without the government … and then we leave a cultural and political legacy in terms of the ideas; here is a sample reaction that I received, and that makes me very happy:
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Michel Bauwens tells us the opportunities and challenges of the FLOK Society - Free, libre, open-knowledge society-, a project founded by three government institutions in Equador, which aim is to make a transition to an open-knowledge common society.
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PRESS RELEASE Buen Conocer Summit innovates in the creation of public policies from free and open paradigms Buen Conocer Summit held in Quito during M...
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The National Plan of Ecuador recognizes and stresses that the global transformation towards knowledge-based societies and economies requires a new form for the creation and distribution of value in society. The National Plan’s central concept is the achievement of ‘Buen Vivir’ (Sumak Kawsay) or ‘good living’; but good living is impossible without the availability of ‘good knowledge’, i.e. ‘Buen Conocer’ (‘Sumak Yachay’). The third national plan for 2013-2017 explicitly calls for a open-commons based knowledge society[1].
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It sounds as if Ecuador is not yet a Christmas fairy story. The rights of nature, the principle of Buen Vivir – and the commitment to open knowledge — are indeed signs of hope. But they must co-exist for now with a diversity of actors with different agendas and approaches.
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This May June edition of the Cook Report looks at Ecuador and the context for the FLOKsociety project.
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Video produced to participate in a conference organized in India, Beyond The Human, invited by Rick Carlson.
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The president of Ecuador is doing what he can to show South America that there is a viable alternative to the existing capitalist system that extracts all value and does not share that value with the people who produced the value in the first place.
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▶ Michel Bauwens - Nuevos Modelos de Interacción entre la Sociedad Civil, Estado y Mercado - YouTubeSuperintendencia de control del Poder de Mercado XXII Seminario Internacional: El Estado, la Sociedad Civil y el Mercado Ético Nuevos Modelos de Interacción ...
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Michel Bauwens reflects on the highly innovative qualities of Ecuador's FLOK Society project while offering ideas on how to transcend its local context.
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We never complained. We did never consider that Michel was an Stalinist, or that he had censored us. This is the commons, this is copyleft land: you are free to use, remix, copy, modify and distribute. No need to insult, no need to complain, no possibility for censorship. And we love that!
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In 2013, the Government of Ecuador launched a major strategic research project to “fundamentally re-imagine Ecuador” based on the principles of open networks, peer production and commoning. Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation would be leading the research team for the next ten months, and seeking to “remake the roots of Ecuador’s economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge.”
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Michel explains what the FLOK Society is and how it can help Ecuador to become a p2p and commons-oriented society. At the end of May the proposed policies of FLOK will be presented amongst politicians from Ecuador and the whole of South America as well as civic society.
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The nine-month effort in Ecuador to develop a new vision and policy architecture for commons-based peer production is coming into much sharper focus. To refresh your memory on this project, the Government of Ecuador last year commissioned the FLOK Society (FLOK = “Free, libre, open knowledge”) to come up with a thoughtful plan for enabling every sector of Ecuador to be organized into open knowledge commons, to the maximum degree possible. The project has now released a transition plan accompanied by more than a dozen policy frameworks for specific social and economic domains.
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During our ongoing research, we have witnessed how the principles of Open Knowledge are being applied in almost all areas of our society. We have seen how software developers are considering Open Source as a serious model for releasing their products, how governments are sharing their data to bring more transparency or even how non-proprietary machinery designs are revolutionising agriculture, just to name a few examples. As the map on the top of our website shows, those initiatives are happening all-over the world, however they do happen mostly independently.
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Today a summit starts in Quito, Ecuador that will discuss ways in which the country can transform itself into an open commons-based knowledge society. The team that put together the proposals is led by Michel Bauwens from the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives. What is the background to this plan, and how likely is it that it will bear fruit? With the hope of finding out I spoke recently to Bauwens.
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From
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The nine-month effort in Ecuador to develop a new vision and policy architecture for commons-based peer production is coming into much sharper focus. To refresh your memory on this project, the Government of Ecuador last year commissioned the FLOK Society (FLOK = “Free, libre, open knowledge”) to come up with a thoughtful plan for enabling every sector of Ecuador to be organized into open knowledge commons, to the maximum degree possible. The project has now released a transition plan accompanied by more than a dozen policy frameworks for specific social and economic domains.
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Michel Bauwens es el director de la investigación de FLOKsociety, un proyecto del IAEN-UPE para pensar las dinámicas emancipadoras que puedan surgir de la nueva matriz productiva. En la entrevista Bauwens recalca la función del proyecto FLOKsociety en definir nuevas posibilidades de organización del marco productivo del Ecuador hacia un desarrollo justo y sustentable de la economía social del conocimiento en el país.
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- An interview with Michel Bauwens, research director for FLOKSociety.org. FLOKSociety is a research project for the government of Ecuador, that aims to create a policy and legal framework for the transition towards a social knowledge economy or a "open commons-based knowledge society". The FLOKSociety.org project is a cooperation between the Coordinating Ministry of Human Talent and Knowledge, SENESCYT and the IAEN postgraduate institute for public servants, where the project team is located.
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“The global economy treats nature and material resources as if they were infinite, and knowledge as if it was scarce. We have to swap those two around”. (Michel Bauwens). Audio interview below the fold. - See more at: http://www.doorsofperception.com/development-design/ecuador-open-knowledge-and-buen-vivir-interview-with-michel-bauwens/#sthash.GSPyE7dZ.91zulMMh.dpuf
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