Rodger Mattlage
Rodger Mattlage Rodger Mattlage is a civic innovator and advocate for participatory governance, cooperative practices, and social change. He is actively involved in Sociocracy For All, applying his expertise in information systems strategy to advance inclusive and effective decision-making processes. Rodger is also the creator of The Triad of Commoning, an interactive visualization tool that […]
P2P Foundation
P2P Foundation Since 2005, the P2P Foundation has been researching, cataloging and advocating for the potential of P2P and Commons-based approaches to societal and consciousness change. It is a non-profit organization and global network dedicated to advocacy and research of commons-oriented peer to peer (P2P) dynamics in society. P2P is an abbreviation of “peer to […]
Open Source Ecology
Open Source Ecology The vision of Open Source Ecology is a world of collaborative design – for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global […]
Living Earth Community
Living Earth Community Living Earth Community is an evolving knowledge commons and global project launched by the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology that invites people to recognize Earth as a vibrant, interconnected community of life, where organic, inorganic, and elemental subjects each have ways of knowing, being, and participating in the whole. Drawing from […]
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens Michel Bauwens is Belgian theorist in the emerging field of peer-to-peer (P2P) collaboration, writer, and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. Bauwens founded the P2P Foundation, a global organization of researchers working in open collaboration in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has authored a […]
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Elinor Ostrom transformed our understanding of how people can govern shared resources—like fisheries, forests, water systems, and digital or social commons—through cooperation rather than relying solely on centralized authority or privatization. Her empirical research debunked the long‑held notion of the “tragedy of the commons” by showing that communities around the world can design […]
David Bollier
David Bollier David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who has devoted more than 20 years to exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He is the Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Functional […]