My view on peer production
By Jakob Rigi, associate professor, Central European University. I would like to formulate briefly my view on peer production, first introducing in what consists and secondly its implications. Peer...
View ArticleIs science compatible with peer production?
By Eduard Aibar, associate professor and researcher, UOC-IN3 Science has often been described by many sociologists as a collective enterprise. Most scientific research is done in collaboration, and...
View ArticleCollective intelligence vs connected intelligence
By Derrick de Kerckhove, professor, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, and IN3 visiting professor. Talking about peer production is talking about connectivity, in the way peers connect to...
View ArticleAn example of how Internet allows us to collaborate in amazingly new ways
By Don Tapscott, innovative thinker, writer, lecturer, CEO at The Tapscott Group1. Let me tell you the story of Rob McEwen. He's my neighbor. He moved across the street from us, and he held a cocktail...
View ArticleLessons from Linux: the future is collaboration
By Jim Zemlin, executive director, the Linux Foundation1. Linus Torvalds was named the 17th most influential person of the century by Time magazine. Maybe you’ve never heard of him but you’ve probably...
View ArticleA ten-step guide to approach the light bulb challenge
By David Cuartielles, Arduino co-founder and teacher at Malmö University. Step one: take a close look at the problem. Step two: walk in circles for half an hour thinking about what could possibly go...
View ArticleTowards a peer society based on the commons
By George Dafermos, research coordinator, FLOK Society; and research associate, P2P Foundation. If the previous decade brought the business embrace of Linux, free software and the knowledge commons of...
View ArticleDo Something, Even if it’s Wrong
By Joe Brockmeier, principal cloud & storage analyst, Red Hat. Ask about open source, and no doubt you’ll be immediately told about the benefits of distributed collaboration. People from all over...
View ArticleKnowledge should be free
By Katherine Maher, Chief Communications Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. Knowledge should be free, open, and collaborative. This is the idea at the heart of Wikipedia. It is what has made Wikipedia the...
View ArticleThe recipe for additive innovation
By Dale Dougherty, founder of Make: magazine and creator of Maker Faire. The maker culture might not be something totally new, but recently, and thanks to the advancements made in the technological...
View ArticleShifting trends on how we work
By Pablos Holman, hacker, futurist and inventor, Intellectual Ventures Lab. Can we learn something about how the open source communities work? Could their collaborative way be somehow extrapolated into...
View ArticleOne white middle-class man
By Mayo Fuster, researcher, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3-UOC). Head of the P2PValue project and faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Mayo Fuster relies on...
View ArticleCollaboration is key for changing the light bulb
By Diego Isabel, founder, Global Hub for the Common Good. A social entrepreneur and change-maker, as he defines himself, Diego Isabel sees in the light bulb question a metaphor about the possibility to...
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