When it
comes to advancing goals, objectives, and agendas, groups that are well
organized, and consequently well funded, will eventually triumph over the
unorganized, underrepresented, and underfunded.
these groups network across the social, cultural, and political divide in
shoring up mutual interests (business, corporate, and labor) to advance their
agenda of a world without borders.
I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep
emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked
environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to
distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms
and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals
successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse
cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either
market prices or managerial commands.