Two Proposals Regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s Stock
With Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he will be giving away 99 percent of his Facebook stock, he is poised to join the legions of controversial moguls who have …
Platform Cooperativism as a Critique of Open-Source
I am a pretty assiduous digital commoner, for what it’s worth. I almost exclusively use free/libre/open-source software (hereafter FLOSS), evangelistically so. I try to practice open journalism. I’ve run and …
Starting Worker Co-op Businesses: Tools, Strategies, and Platforms for Success
Saturday, April 30, 2016, 12-4 pm Environmental Design Building, 1060 18th Street, Room 134 (across the street and two buildings down from Euclid Parking Garage) University of Colorado Boulder Register …
Co-Creating the Commons
What are the common resources that our community depends on? How do we nourish our commons? How do we protect them? On April 6, networks of commoners in and around …
On May 1, Join or Organize a Co-op DiscoTech Near You
This May Day, there will be an exciting new opportunity to build an Internet of ownership. MIT’s Co-Design Studio is calling for people to organize Co-op DiscoTechs—simultaneous events around the …
Michel Bauwens: “Media for a New World System”
April 5, 2016, 4 – 6 pm Norlin Library, Room M549 (fifth floor) University of Colorado Boulder RSVP on Facebook Livestream link Every five hundred years or so, the Western …