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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

2020-02-07

1,000 True Fans? Try 100

An emerging category of digital platforms is helping people to translate their skills and talents into businesses. But as the creator landscape evolves, the playbook needs updating. More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, New Business Models, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2019-12-01

The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability

  Which systems really deserve to be built? Which problems most need to be tackled? Who is best placed to build them? And who decides? We need genuine accountability mechanisms, external to companies and accessible to populations Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and lawyers. Exposés have […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, AI, Algorithms, Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Institutional Innovation, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-11-18

Against Economics

David Graeber reviews Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics  by Robert Skidelsky Mainstream economists nowadays might not be particularly good at predicting financial crashes, facilitating general prosperity, or coming up with models for preventing climate change, but when it comes to establishing themselves in positions of intellectual authority, unaffected by such failings, their […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Future of Money, New Economic Paradigm, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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