Title: The Five Commons - An invitation to 21st Century wealth-generating ecologies
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ref: FF-2010-4-19

Introduction

 

The Five Commons constitutes an evolving vision of the emerging 21st Century economy. Each of the five commons represents a key area in which transition is apparent.

 

The Forward Foundation hopes that by sharing this vision, people will find clues and insights into new ways of structuring human activity and sustainable living.

 

The Five Commons ( http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons )

My colleague Sam Rose and I will be speaking at this event:

Media Ecologies & Post-Industrial Production Conference
& launch of the P2P Research Group (an independent collective allied with the P2P Foundation)

University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009

At this event, we will discuss the emergence and proliferation of a new form of production and value creation: peer production, where communities of producers work to create (free) software/hardware and/or (open) content accessible to everyone. Within peer production, producers create products within a ‘commons’ or shared space, which can be used and modified by others who then return the product, thus improved, to the common pool. Producers often operate as a cooperative ecology between communities as well as the companies that create market-based spin-offs from that same commons.

Website: http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/sssi/p2p/