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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Multitude Project: The stateless economy and the local aconomy

Multitude Project: The stateless economy and the local aconomy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The Multitude movement enters a new era, where its processes can be supported by truly p2p infrastructuresBitcoin is now a well-known symbol of a new breed of value exchange systems, called cryptocurrencies, money without the bank, stateless money, a new currency that looks and feels like your ATM card, but it is entirely decentralized, under the control of those who use it.

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Open Infrastructures for Water Management - P2P Foundation

Open Infrastructures for Water Management - P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

"Water has always been considered either a public good (in most cases) or a private one when it is appropriated to generate economic value, for instance in bottled water. Only at very local scales, water users communities have created institutions that manage water as a common pool resource as has been extensively documented by the work of Elinor Ostrom. The basic problem with water is that it is, by nature, a multi-scale resource: water is used for many purposes and managed at many different levels (local, regional, national, international). It is also multidimensional, its management requires dealing with social, economic, hydrological and climatic data, which is difficult to collect and usually not shared and coordinated among different institutions and scales.

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