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Michel Bauwens, founder of the peer-to-peer foundation, gives a description of the overview of the transformation proposal. The three key responses we see from the world in crisis can be grouped as the movements around Sustainability, Openness and Solidarity, gives the starting blocks, working into the bridges between them, the political structures (both local and global) and the economic enablement required to assist the transition.
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Flow workshop Cape Town, June 11,2015 more info www.flowafrica.org
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Solar, biomass and wind energy systems are popping up all over the country and feeding clean energy into the strained electrical grid
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ECO ATLAS is the ethical directory to accommodation, restaurants, activities, products and services in South Africa.
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The headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is now complete and being inaugurated in Quito, Ecuador on 5 and 6 December 2014.
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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.
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A Johannesburg energy management company has integrated bitcoin wallets into its smart meters.
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"The world’s worst internet law" is going all out to destroy our online freedoms -- here’s how to protect your privacy and save the internet.
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On Thursday 11 June, Flow Africa hosted a conversation with Michel Bauwens in Cape Town, founder of the P2P Foundation and a leading theorist, writer, researcher and activist around the Commons, Peer Production, Copyfair, Cooperative economics, Distributed manufacture, and the Sharing and Collaborative Economy. The FLOW team first shared the work they have been doing to Foster Local Well-being in both the Bergrivier Region, Western Cape and Kokstad, KwaZulu Natal followed by a brief introduction into the Bergrivier region and its challenges by the municipal manager, Hanlie Linde. Michel then took the room on a mind-expanding journey through P2P and the Commons.
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The FLOW PROGRAM is an exciting new transdisciplinary research project of the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) of the University of Cape Town (UCT) that is funded by the South African National Treasury and Meshfield.
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Not long ago, dusk was a time of unease for the people of Magadi, a village in Kenya’s Kajiado County. As the sun set, farmers began worrying about their cattle, easy prey for hyenas and leopards. Children lit fires to finish their schoolwork, filling homes with smoke. Now as darkness falls, lights flick on across …
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South African doctors have a proud tradition of medical firsts. The first heart transplant took place here, CAT scans were invented here and so was the 'cryoprobe' — a frozen needle used in cataract surgery. When they're not first, they can be pretty close: two years ago, an infant with 80 percent burns received one of the first skin grafts using tissue grown from her own stem cells.
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While South Africans have been doing it for ages in the form of Stokvels and saving schemes, the internet is bringing the tradition to the rest of the world. Peer to peer lending platforms are digital money market places that match borrowers directly with lenders, removing the bank as a middle man, and many players in the industry are predicting that these may be the long overdue challenger to mainstream banking.
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Civil society groups in Cape Town, South Africa, protested against the Protection of State Information Bill, dubbed the secrecy bill. Local and international critics saw the bill as a pretext for covering up state corruption. Photo: Africa Media Online/Sara Gouveia
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