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"Consensus decision-making is a group decision making process that seeks the consent, not necessarily the agreement of participants and the resolution of objections. Consensus is defined by Merriam-Webster as, first, general agreement, and second, group solidarity of belief or sentiment. It has its origin in the Latin word cōnsēnsus (agreement), which is from cōnsentiō meaning literally feel together."

"Consensus democracy is the application of consensus decision-making to the process of legislation in a democracy. It is characterised by a decision-making structure which involves and takes into account as broad a range of opinions as possible, as opposed to systems where minority opinions can potentially be ignored by vote-winning majorities.[1]"

"Sociocracy is a system of governance, using consent-based decision making among equivalent individuals and an organizational structure based on cybernetic principles.[1] The most recent implementation of sociocracy by Gerard Endenburg,[2] also known as Circular Organizing, was developed as a new tool for governance of private enterprise, but has been adopted in many different kinds of organizations including public, private, non-profit and community organizations as well as professional associations."

"E-democracy is a combination of the words electronic and democracy. In an evolving political and technological landscape here on Earth, many are fighting over the definition of this term. But a logical definition adheres to the word itself: a democracy that has "electronic" characteristics. E-democracy does not equal e-government, but is a form of it. It does not equal "wikigovernment" but is a form of it. Of course, defining "e-democracy" can be just as difficult as defining democracy when you get down to brass tacks. But because the Internet connects millions of people and can be a tool for governance, e-democracy has the potential to become one of the first forms of large-scale direct democracy on Earth. Canada and Sweden are now both trying to enact forms of this system of government, by working within the traditional political process to elect e-democracy friendly politicians, with the ultimate goal of overhauling the entire system of their nations' governments. Sweden's party Aktiv Demokrati aims to build a genuine direct democracy; Canada's Online Party has taken a milder approach with citizens in a more advisory capacity."

"Meritocracy, in the first, most administrative sense, is a system of government or other administration (such as business administration) wherein appointments and responsibilities are objectively assigned to individuals based upon their "merits", namely intelligence, credentials, and education,[1] determined through evaluations or examinations. The "most common definition of meritocracy conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests."[2] Supporters of meritocracies do not necessarily agree on the nature of "merit", however they tend to agree that "merit" itself should be a primary consideration during evaluation. In a more general sense, meritocracy can refer to any form of government based on achievement. Like "utilitarian" and "pragmatic", the word "meritocratic" has also developed a broader definition, and can be used to refer to any government run by "a ruling or influential class of educated or able people.""

"Democracy is a contact sport that everyone should play. Contrary to what we've been taught, it is not a spectator sport. It was specifically designed for amateurs and when professionals take over, they only ruin the game."

Movie as manifesto about postscarcity

An interesting analysis about the growth of Open/Free/CreativeCommons project in the last years. The two Graphics are very interesting!!! 400 milions !!!!

Stats about impressive growth of work under CreativeCommons licenses. A good scheme to show how it is growing. "Approximate Minimum Total CC Licensed Works as of December 2010: 400+ million "

Concerning socio-technical networks, Canadian Socioeconomist Benoît Lévesque: "Le potentiel d'innovation et de transformation de l'économie sociale : quelques éléments de problématique", CRISES, Avril 2006 Quote: "En somme, les innovations résulteraient de processus sociaux, soit d'interactions et d'échanges d'informations entre personnes, scientifiques, entrepreneurs, financiers, hommes politiques, usagers, clients formant ainsi des réseaux sociotechniques." "L'innovation pourrait donc être comprise en termes de processus inscrits dans des systèmes sociaux d'innovation. Outre le fait qu'elles mettent bien en lumière le caractère social et collectif de toute innovation, les notions de système et de processus peuvent être très utiles pour établir des passerelles entre les innovations et les transformations sociales (Boyer, 1991)." Quote

Concerning DIWO Lab, André Gorz is a very very relevant european philosopher: André Gorz, La sortie du capitalisme a déjà commencé Écologica, Galilée, 2008

Jean Paul Sartre quoting French philosopher Jules Lequier "developing, and by developing, developing itself, and being only what we actually do"

Concerning the abstraction of industrialized objects and devices, here the quote of German Sociologist Max Weber in Politics as a Vocation, 1919. Quote: "Unless he is a physicist, one who rides on the streetcar has no idea how the car happened to get into motion. And he does not need to know. He is satisfied that he may 'count' on the behavior of the streetcar, and he orients his conduct according to this expectation; but he knows nothing about what it takes to produce such a car so that it can move. The savage knows incomparably more about his tools".

A great list of FreeHardware projects, on a googledoc, that anyone can update

Vinck Dominique. Les objets intermédiaires dans les réseaux de coopération scientifique. Contribution à la prise en compte des objets dans les dynamiques sociales. In: Revue française de sociologie. 1999, 40-2. pp. 385-414. This paper explains the importance of "intermediate tools" as mediator of social relations, how it embeder the links among parties. Really useful to justify our consortium and a DIWO Lab environment.

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."

iceScrum is the free platform for your agile developments

Elinor Ostrom received the 2009 Nobel Price in Economic for her work on the Commons. She showed how common resources - forests, fisheries, oil fields or grazing lands, can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies.

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation, Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel, November 2009, Revised August 2010