What is light (knowledge, design) becomes global; What is heavy (manufacturing) is local and shared In 1890 William Morris imagined a world free from wage slavery. Thanks to technology, his vision is finally within reach In a sense, the world has caught up with Morris. At the beginning of the 21st century, a new world […]
Estonia is trying to convert the EU to its digital creed
One country taking seriously the importance of digital infrastructure for the future of self-governance in the 21st Century. The country of e-residency wonders why others are more skeptical. ESTONIANS are among Europe’s least pious folk. Just 2% of the population attend services weekly in the medieval churches of Tallinn, or anywhere else. A growing number of […]
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.” Good things can happen when a crowd goes to work on trying to figure out a problem in journalism. At the same time, completely crowdsourced news investigations can go […]
Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature
A 62 page Deep Dive hosted by Commons Strategies Group in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and David Graeber. What is “value” and how shall we protect it? It’s a simple question for which we don’t have a satisfactory answer. For conventional economists and politicians, the answer is simple: value is essentially the same […]
