The following is a meditation on the strategic phases in the construction of a peer to peer world by Michel Bauwens at the P2P Foundation
What have we been doing in the last few years, and what should we be doing next? Here is a list of major undertakings, some well under way, some barely begun. All need to be done, are interdependent on each other, but need to be done ‘at the same time’, though there is a certain maturation effect which may need to take place to move from one phase or priority to another. Finding out these interdepencies and choosing amongst those priorities is a matter of debate, strategising, and practical experience.
In sort it covers the following thoughts.
- use the existing infrastructures for immaterial exchange for personal and social autonomy
- change those infrastructures itself away from centralized and corporate control
- use the existing infrastructrures, and the new p2p-transformed ones, to change the very infrastructure of production of material goods, making it more sustainable in the process
- change the property structures of the infrastructure and means of production in the process
- raising of political awareness and expression as a means of overcoming opposition
- transform the infrastructures so that the abundance of immaterial sharing can co-exist with the sustainability of the planet, and the demands for equity and social justice
Read the original at The New Year’s Message of the P2P Foundation: What Digital Commoners Need To Do
