Mark Jagdev's Posts - P2P Foundation2024-03-29T13:17:52ZMark Jagdevhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MarkJagdevhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1535010875?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1nf6t5izk7dod&xn_auth=noWild Law - The Documentarytag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2012-10-21:2003008:BlogPost:473682012-10-21T13:03:22.000ZMark Jagdevhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MarkJagdev
<p><span>We need to evolve our legal systems.. cc all commoners, peer to peer peeps, evolutionaries and everyone who sees this. Check the trailer out and support the creation of this timely documentary. Peoplefundit!!!!</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/" target="_blank">http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/…</a></p>
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<p><span>We need to evolve our legal systems.. cc all commoners, peer to peer peeps, evolutionaries and everyone who sees this. Check the trailer out and support the creation of this timely documentary. Peoplefundit!!!!</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/" target="_blank">http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/50671726">Wild Law – The Documentary</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user13850401">Fereshteh Ehsan</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/" target="_blank">http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/</a></p>The Future of Occupy is Published!tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2012-01-03:2003008:BlogPost:432732012-01-03T19:30:00.000ZMark Jagdevhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MarkJagdev
<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</strong><br></br> <br></br> <span>For several months, during the unfolding events of the Occupy movement, supporters, media and world observers have been wondering, '<em>where is this movement heading?</em>'</span><br></br> <br></br> <span>To help provide both a signpost and a compass for that question, The Future of Occupy collective, an international initiative supporting the movement’s self-reflection, is announcing the opening of its website. It is a virtual library of…</span></p>
<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</strong><br/> <br/> <span>For several months, during the unfolding events of the Occupy movement, supporters, media and world observers have been wondering, '<em>where is this movement heading?</em>'</span><br/> <br/> <span>To help provide both a signpost and a compass for that question, The Future of Occupy collective, an international initiative supporting the movement’s self-reflection, is announcing the opening of its website. It is a virtual library of actionable movement documents, blogposts, and a platform for conversations that matter. It provides the media, activists, academics, and an engaged public with one-stop access to information and insights about the future of the movement, as it emerges.</span><br/> <br/> <span>The Future of Occupy Collective is an open and expanding group of individuals from different parts of the world, inspired to bring their talents to serve the global Occupy movement by curating an online platform that mirrors its best thinking and most innovative practices. It brings into focus the news and views related to the movement’s identity, future, and strategy, scattered in various print and electronic media, including bloggers and websites sympathizing with Occupy.</span><br/> <br/> <span>On January 3rd, 2012, The Future of Occupy Collective announced the publication of the first issue of its newsletter, dedicated to the Future of Assemblies. As we enter the new year and the movement enters a new phase of its development, many sites are evicted or facing eviction. Continuing to hold General Assemblies, in one way or another, seems more important than ever, since they are one of the movement’s potent life-giving forces. That’s why we focus the first issue of the newsletter on them. You can find it here:</span></p>
<p><br/> <font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://thefutureofoccupy.org/thematic-issues/20121-the-future-of-assemblies/" target="_blank">http://thefutureofoccupy.org/thematic-issues/20121-the-future-of-assemblies/</a><br/></font> <br/> <span>The FoO Collective recognized the movement’s need to learn fast from its experience in order to remain a vibrant, living laboratory for overcoming the democracy deficiency of present social systems. There’s a section of the website focused on Movement Sense-Making, which says “Collaborative sensing and thinking is a crucial part of the movement and essential for boosting capabilities to the scale of transformation it seeks... Our aim is not to produce a uniform perspective on the future of the movement, but to present the diversity of existing views.”</span><br/> <br/> <span>The originator of the FoO site is the School of Commoning, an international group of commons educators, partnering with the </span><span>University of Notre Dame in the US, and other organizations. The FoO Collective is now an autonomous project and has members with no connection to the School of Commoning.</span><br/> <br/> <span>CONTACT in the </span><b>US: Mary Beth Steisslinger</b><span>, Contributing Editor</span><br/> <span> 1-412-916-8716 marybeth.steisslinger(at)gmail.com</span><span> </span><br/> <span>skype: marybeth.steisslinger</span><br/> <br/> <span>CONTACT in the </span><b>UK: George Pór</b><span>, Founding Editor</span><br/> <a target="_blank">+44 7780 181 865</a><span> team(at)</span><a href="http://thefutureofoccupy.org/" target="_blank">thefutureofoccupy.org</a><span> </span><span> </span><br/> <span>skype: georgepor</span><br/> <br/> <br/> <span>Notes to the Editor: </span></p>
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<li>George Pór can be available for an interview by phone, skype or email, if need be.</li>
<li>To subscribe to<font color="#0000FF"> </font>the monthly The Future Occupy newsletter, click on the “Get Our Newsletter” button on the right margin of the FoO homepage:<font color="#0000FF"> <a href="http://thefutureofoccupy.org/" target="_blank">http://thefutureofoccupy.org/</a></font></li>
<li>To follow new blog posts on the FoO site as they appear, click on the “Follow Blog Via Email” link on the right margin of the FoO homepage: <a href="http://thefutureofoccupy.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000FF">http://thefutureofoccupy.org/</font></a></li>
</ol>School of Commoning: Upcoming Seminar with James Quilligan... read more & join the conversation!tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2011-09-16:2003008:BlogPost:355722011-09-16T07:30:00.000ZMark Jagdevhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MarkJagdev
<p>Dear fellow p2p advocates,</p>
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<div><p>Essential Details for your organizer: </p>
<p>Event: Seminar "Meet James Quilligan, commons theorist/activist and policy analyst"</p>
<p>Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011,</p>
<p>Time: 6:30 PM<span> </span></p>
<p><span>Location Address: Pimlico Academy, Lupus Street, SW1V 3AT</span>, <span>London</span>(<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lupus+Street%2C+SW1V+3AT%2C+London" target="_blank">map</a>) </p>
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<p>Our special event…</p>
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<p>Dear fellow p2p advocates,</p>
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<div><p>Essential Details for your organizer: </p>
<p>Event: Seminar "Meet James Quilligan, commons theorist/activist and policy analyst"</p>
<p>Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011,</p>
<p>Time: 6:30 PM<span> </span></p>
<p><span>Location Address: Pimlico Academy, Lupus Street, SW1V 3AT</span>, <span>London</span>(<a target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lupus+Street%2C+SW1V+3AT%2C+London">map</a>) </p>
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<p>Our special event entitled <strong>"Meet James Quilligan, commons theorist/activist and policy analyst"</strong> is less than two weeks away now! An event that will amplify our efforts to raise Commons Literacy for which we set up <a target="_blank" href="http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign">crowdfunding campaign here</a>. The aim of this campaign is to ensure that we can operate to deliver awareness raising and capacity building opportunities like this one, in and between an expanding community of growing commoners.</p>
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<p>I am personally very excited about this event because it presents a chance to hear and speak with a man the team and I at the School of Commoning consider a 'Remarkable Commoner'. I have had the pleasure of reading a number of James Quilligan articles and each one for me has been a journey into a true learning experience, serving to clarify and uncover many insights. This is just a snippet of the immense quality he brings to the Commons movement:</p>
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<p><em>"James Quillig</em><em>an has been an analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975. He has served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterrand, Edward Heath, Julius Nyerere, Lopez Portillo, Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, and Jimmy Carter. He has been an economic consultant for government agencies in 26 countries, including the United States. He has also served as an advisor for several United Nations programs and international<span> </span>development organizations..."</em> <span style="font-style: normal;"><em><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/James_Quilligan" target="_blank">See here for the extended profile</a></em></span></p>
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<p>To discover the key areas in which James will present his latest thinking on the Commons - <a href="http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/events/33072832/" target="_blank">find out here</a><a href="http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/events/33072832/" target="_blank"></a>!</p>
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<p>This is not only an event exploring the cutting edge thinking on managing our local and global commons it is also an event that will pay great attention to a true leader in the Commons field, an event that marks the <strong>2nd in our Series of Meetings with Remarkable Commoners</strong>, after the <a href="http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/school-spreads-its-wings-graceful-inaugural-flight-sets-successful-precedence" target="_blank">1st in the Series</a> with Michel Bauwens. I warmly encourage you to join us!</p>
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<p><strong>For accompanying materials, </strong>recommended by James himself, and a warm invite to our latest forum, open for people to <strong>start new discussions</strong> around any questions or insights that come to mind, then <a href="http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/messages/boards/thread/15913852" target="_blank">please click here</a>.</p>
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<p>In the Spirit of Commoning </p>
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<p>Mark Jagdev</p>
<p>School of Commoning CIC</p>
<p><em>Driving the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign">Campaign for Commons Literacy</a></em></p>
</div>School of Commoning Announces - a New Commons Video and Seminartag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2011-09-13:2003008:BlogPost:352922011-09-13T10:22:22.000ZMark Jagdevhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MarkJagdev
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1558509381?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1558509381?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="250"></img></a> The School of Commoning has just published “Voices from the Commons,” a new video you can find here at the home page of the <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign?a=135439"><span class="s2">Campaign for Commons Literacy</span></a></span><span class="s3">. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"> …</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1558509381?profile=original"><img class="align-right" width="250" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1558509381?profile=RESIZE_320x320"/></a>The School of Commoning has just published “Voices from the Commons,” a new video you can find here at the home page of the <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign?a=135439"><span class="s2">Campaign for Commons Literacy</span></a></span><span class="s3">. </span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It brings into focus some of the most essential and evocative questions about the commons, addressed by such eminent commons thinkers/activists as Silke Helfrich, Michel Bauwens, and James Quilligan, as well as our School of Commoning team. The video quality can be improved and it will, but the rich content makes it worth watching even in this early release.<br/> <br/> Please note also that we are organizing a seminar on “Managing the Local and Global Commons” led by James Quilligan, near the end of this month, 27th of September, which will be live webstreamed for those who are not based in London. For more information and to register for this event please visit our Meet-Up site -</span><span class="s3"> <a href="http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/events/33072832/"><span class="s2">School of Commoning Events</span></a>. </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Warm wishes from the <i>School of Commoning Team</i></span></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br/></font></p>Announcing the Birth of the School of Commoning! Open to All and Co-Learning Togethertag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2011-05-22:2003008:BlogPost:264722011-05-22T10:00:00.000ZMark Jagdevhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MarkJagdev
<p>Dear P2P members and interested parties...</p>
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<p>George Por, Anna Betz, myself and others have co-founded the School of Commoning as an online and offline forum for commons education based in London. We have established ourselves as a Community Interest Company under UK law. Our motto... Education for Commons Culture & Social Renewal. So what does that look like in our aims, vision, purpose, principles and what we can offer? Lets briefly explore together these essential…</p>
<p>Dear P2P members and interested parties...</p>
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<p>George Por, Anna Betz, myself and others have co-founded the School of Commoning as an online and offline forum for commons education based in London. We have established ourselves as a Community Interest Company under UK law. Our motto... Education for Commons Culture & Social Renewal. So what does that look like in our aims, vision, purpose, principles and what we can offer? Lets briefly explore together these essential characteristics of our fledgling school...</p>
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<p><strong>Aims</strong></p>
<p>We are aiming commons education to people, organizations, and communities, who can enhance their well-being by jointly cultivating and managing their common pool of resources, need to learn/discover/develop effective distinctions, tools and methods for doing so. The Commons is a rapidly growing social, cultural, and economic life form; supporting its development requires the development of new capabilities and perspectives, individual and collective.</p>
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<p>The educational offers of the School of Commons provide a framework for understanding both historical and contemporary Commons issues. More importantly, they provide both practical and conceptual knowledge, tools and methods that commoners can use for building and protecting their commons.<br/><br/><strong>Vision</strong><br/>We acknowledge and respect the inherent indivisibility of humanity as a whole. Thinking, sensing and acting from the vantage point of that inherent unity, we align with the emergence of a better future for all.<br/><br/>We envision a world, where domination is replaced by partnering and commoning as the mainstream way of organising work, learning, and social life. There, grounded in the consciousness of inherent unity, organisations are responsive to the whole, including their members, stakeholders, the noosphere, the biosphere, and future generations.<br/><br/>It is a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. People work in democratic workplaces free of fear and exploitation, in all public, private, and commons enterprises. Work as creative self-expression is not the privilege of the few, anymore. All social institutions are designed and function to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all.<br/><br/>Economy, politics, culture, and community life revolve around cultivating a diverse variety of commons institutions. A flourishing market plays an important but not the central role. The locus of freedom, innovation, and creativity shifted from it to the Commons.</p>
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<p><strong>Purpose</strong></p>
<p>The purpose of the School of Commoning, as a Community Interest Company, is to carry on activities that benefit society, namely, to enhance individual and collective competences in the protection, governance, and cultivation of commons.<br/><br/>We help people, organisations, and social systems become more competent and co-intelligent in improving the quality of life for all, by developing better practices for strengthening and governing the Commons as an autonomous partner to the private and public sectors.<br/><br/>We do that by developing and delivering educational, media, networking, and "serious game" projects that promote the Commons, and inspire others to do the same.</p>
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<p><strong>Principles</strong><br/><br/>1. Commoning<br/><br/>Our originating principle, by which all others are infused, is commoning. The verb “to common” refers to the ensemble of social practices used by commoners in the course of managing shared resources and reclaiming the commons. Commoning is always built upon a “network of social relationships that arise from the implicit expectations that we will take care of each other and on a shared understanding that some things belong to all of us and must be used in a sustainable and equitable way - which is the essence of the commons itself.” (Julia Ristau, co-director of On the Commons)<br/><br/>When commoning becomes a conscious choice as an expression of the inherent connectedness of humanity as a whole, it will be possible to meet all our challenges responsibly, creatively and meaningfully, by acting from the whole “we” rather than the "I/me" or an exclusive "we/my group".<br/><br/>We work with our members, associates, clients, and other stakeholders in full commitment to their realizing their highest potential.<br/><br/>The following principles are inspired by the first:<br/><br/>2. We organise ourselves in ways that foster relationships, participation, creativity, learning and development.<br/><br/>3. We welcome and appreciate creative friction coming from the beyond-ego expression of our diverse talents, experiences, and learning paths.<br/><br/>4. We continually enhance the collective intelligence of the Company and its ecosystem, and seek collective wisdom to guide it.<br/><br/>5. We foster collaboration and co-evolution with all commons, movements of transition to a sustainable world, and other potential allies.<br/><br/>Honoring those principles, we contribute to human and social evolution towards greater complexity, connectivity, and integration at higher levels of harmony and well-being.</p>
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<p><strong>Products/Offerings</strong></p>
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<p>Series of Meetings with Remarkable Commoners <br/><br/>The following products are under development:<br/><br/>The Commoning Game<br/>Introduction to Commons Building and Governance (workshop)<br/>Towards a Commons of Well-being and Health Commons (workshop)<br/>Creating Educational Commons (workshop)<br/>The Political Economy of Commons (workshop)</p>
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<p><strong>Whats Next?</strong></p>
<p>Check our soon coming website for ongoing conversations emerging out of our co-learning, but in the meantime you can read and co-create at the P2P Foundation wiki page here: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/School_of_Commoning">http://p2pfoundation.net/School_of_Commoning</a> and our Facebook Page (see below).</p>
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<p>In addition to the announcements made on my ning profile here, referring to events, blog posts and other matters concerning the School, If you find our work with the School of Commoning worth supporting, please help us in spreading the word about it, by:</p>
<p>- blogging or tweeting about it<br/>- letting your friends know of the URLs of our page on Facebook and Twitter</p>
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<p>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/School-of-Commoning/131824216892007">http://www.facebook.com/pages/School-of-Commoning/131824216892007</a></p>
<p>Twitter: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/#!/CommoningSchool">https://twitter.com/#!/CommoningSchool</a></p>
<p>Website: Under Construction (check back for announcements of its birth too)</p>
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<p>We look forward to commoning with all of you and co-creating a more sustainable, just and thrivable world! In summing up that commoning is the act of co-creation or care-taking and governance of common goods, in mutually supportive relationships. I would like to leave with a question: where do you see the opportunities for commoning existing in your life already? What is needed to recognize and/or create and strengthen commons in your life?..</p>