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Quote page 109 of this PDF It is now clear that users often innovate, and that they often freely reveal their innovations. But what about informal cooperation among users? What about organized cooperation in development of innovations and other matters? The answer is that both flourish among user-innovators. Informal user-to-user cooperation, such as assisting others to innovate, is common. Organized cooperation in which users interact within communi- ties, is also common. Innovation communities are often stocked with use- ful tools and infrastructure that increase the speed and effectiveness with which users can develop and test and diffuse their innovations.

Peter Kropotkin demonstrated in tis book that the evolution of society is not only governed by natural selection (Social Darwinism defended by sociologist Herbert Spencer), but also by cooperation and mutual aid.

"Objective This horizontal ERA-NET proposal is cutting across several themes in the Cooperation Programme: Theme 2 (Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology), Theme 3 (Information and Communication Technologies) and Theme 6 (Environment including Climate Change). The overall strategic objective - also beyond the time frame of the ERA-NET proposal - is a contribution to increase quality, effectiveness and efficiency of national research programmes within Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Robotics for a competitive, sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture." German partner: BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR ERNÄHRUNG, LANDWIRTSCHAFT UND VERBRAUCHERSCHUTZ

We should get inspiration of this book which explains how Fab lab, DIWO and web culture will transform society Jeremy Rifkin. The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, Palgrave Macmillan 2011.

Here a Ted conference of Jeremy Rifkin, a very popular American economist, writer, public speaker and political advisor. He also wrote a book about the empathetic cracteristic of the deep human nature: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness In a World In Crisis, 2010

A book about how web culture and wikinomics will produce behavioural changes on industrial development Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Atlantic Books, 2008

Anthropologists have prooved that human beens can give and have empathy for the others. THE GIFT, Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies by MARCEL MAUSS Cohen & West, London, 1966 Quote page 27: "Social life is a constant give-and-take; " gifts are rendered, received and repaid both obligatorily and in one's own interest, In magnanimity, for repayment of services, or as challenges or pledges. We here set down a few of the most important forms they take."