Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation to Speak in Galway Wed 4th May
Kevin Flanagan
Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation makes compelling arguments as to
why and how the collaborative power of the internet can help us
organise in new ways and how this can lead to a more democratic and
sustainable future.
I am delighted to have been able to invite Michel to take part in the
Mindfield Festival of Ideas which took place in Dublin at the weekend.
Now thanks to John Breslin, Michel will be following that up with a
public talk in DERI Galway tomorrow evening Wed 4th at 5.30pm.
For details see below or click the link for the flyer - http://bit.ly/jxmFw3
DERI is based in the IDA Business Park in Dangan.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Galway,+County+Galway,+Ireland&ll=53.290049,-9.07394&spn=0.001276,0.004823&t=h&z=18
Please pass this on to anyone you know might be interested in attending.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Best
Kevin Flanagan
Peer Production: From Open Business Models to a Commons-Oriented Economy
NEW HORIZONS
Date: 5:30 PM, Wednesday 4 May 2011
Location: DERI, NUI Galway
PUBLIC OPEN TALK
Commons-based peer production, as the generalization of the free
software mode of
production identified by Yochai Benkler, has steadily moved from open
knowledge and
software, to shared design practices that directy impact material
production. In this
process, a institutional solidification has been created that offers a
template for "open
business models", that are slowly eating their way in the world of
commerce. But the
implications of this powerful trend, now responsible for 1/6th of U.S.
GDP, are also
increasingly social and political, as they question the traditional
mechanisms of for-profit
companies and point to various alternative models. Hence, in a
conjuncture in which the
neoliberal model seems to fail more and more people, peer production becomes a
political topic, a call for a different political economy.
blog.p2pfoundation.net
Venue at http://deri.ie/about/contact
This talk is brought to you by:
DERI, NUI Galway: the world's largest Semantic
Web research institute (www.deri.ie)
New Tech Post: An online publisher of daily tech
articles, based in Galway (newtechpost.com)
ITAG: Information Tech Association of Galway,
representing Galway's ICT sector (www.itag.ie)