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2020-04-20

Why Common Ownership Is a Route to Social Transformation

The case for despair is made. Now let’s start to get out of the mess we’re in. “to be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” With one breath, the friends of power told us that global capitalism was a dynamic, disruptive force, the source of constant innovation and change. With […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Commons, Commons-Based Peer Production, Digital Commons, Future of Democracy, Future of Economy, Future Political-Economies, Knowledge Commons, Market-as-Commons Leave a Comment

2020-04-14

How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic

Taiwan’s Initial Success Is a Model for the Rest of the World The guiding principle was not top-down control but mutual respect and cooperation. Privacy was carefully protected, and the movements of an individual were not visible to others. This approach supported an astonishing degree of social coordination, which reduced transmission. And despite being an […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Commons, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Future Economy, Future of community, Future of Democracy, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-04-05

The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours

Across the world, Covid-19 has triggered community action on a vast scale. It’s a powerful riposte to both government and private money There is no guarantee that this resurgence of collective action will survive the pandemic. We could revert to the isolation and passivity that both capitalism and statism have encouraged. But I don’t think […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Commons-Based Peer Production, Digital Commons, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, digital public commons, Future of community, Self-Governance, Self-Organization, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-03-01

Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible

This is the Ostrom Memorial Lecture I gave on 9 October of last year for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Here is the video. (The intro starts at 8 minutes in, and my part starts just after 11 minutes in.) I usually speak off the cuff, but this time I wrote it out, originally in outline form*, which is germane […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Digital Commons, digital culture, Digital Democracy, Digital Ecologies, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Future, values, Values to Value, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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