P2P Talk at Occupy London's Tent city, December 10

[Michel Bauwens]

Introduction to P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm of change

When: Sat, December 10, 10am – 11am

 To succeed in social change, I believe we need 3 things.

 * a genuine mass movement. As the first native movement and great hope of the digital age that is what #ows is all about.

* concrete alternatives that can change our lives and allow us to live our values right now. This is what commons-based peer production provides – a new way of producing value.

* the ability to be able to stop bad policies, and propose new ones that allow alternatives to survive and thrive, for which we need true democratic processes.

A ‘commons’ rather than ‘market state’ orientation is a fruitful way to think about solving humanity’s problems in a new way.

Michel Bauwens is founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives , a global collaborative researching peer production that maps the thousands of p2p projects being created to achieve mutual alignment and a growing counter economy that can co-exist and perhaps even supersede the today’s dysfunctional one. He is also a partner of the Commons Strategies Group which seeks to seed conversations around the new commons paradigm.

[Josef Davies-Coates]

I managed to find the info elsewhere, the event is in the University Tent next to the info tent in front of St Paul's

[Josef Davies-Coates]

Where exactly will this talk be taking place? in the Tent University in front of St Paul's? or the one in Finsbury Square? Or at the Bank of Ideas?

[Michel Bauwens]

it won't be possible for me, sorry for that, my time in the uk is too short this time!

[Nicholas Ripley]

Occupy Birmingham would welcome a discussion on p2p if anyone is available to.