5 “As”
(Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in
the governance of the global commons for the benefit of humanity."
Fab.City Vault: from mutualisation of resources to sharing the outcome - Medium - 1 views
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Resource Sharing - Grounding the 21st Century Economy | Forward Foundation Blog - 3 views
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Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons - P2P Foundation - 0 views
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nondominium p2pfoundation *chriscook *markfrazier *elenorostrom *valnoraleister
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The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord with a transparent revenue-sharing formula
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Each representative would have power to exercise a veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager.
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Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources.
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Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the association members on the originally-agreed basis
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Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.
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Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries,
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the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under Condominium
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The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”
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"Areas recognized as being the heritage of mankind are defined by treaties as falling outside of nation-state jurisdiction and ownership, and are to be instead developed on a basis that benefits all human beings
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the combination of Elinor Ostrom’s economic governance strategies with nondominium legal structures can lead to a new basis for common pool resources to be developed on a basis benefiting all of humanity.
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Find People or Groups with Similar Interests Connect with people or groups in your area or other countries to share ideas, learn and support each other.
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Proposal - Food SFS-08-2014 - 1 views
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technological/practical as well as economic viability of an innovation idea/concept with considerable novelty to the industry sector
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In phase 2, innovation projects will be supported that address the specific challenge of Sustainable Food Security
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demonstrate high potential in terms of company competitiveness and growth underpinned by a strategic business plan
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Proposals shall be based on an elaborated business plan either developed through phase 1 or another means.
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The New Normal in Funding University Science | Issues in Science and Technology - 1 views
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Government funding for academic research will remain limited, and competition for grants will remain high. Broad adjustments will be needed
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systemic problems that arise from the R&D funding system and incentive structure that the federal government put in place after World War II
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unding rates in many National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) programs are now at historical lows, declining from more than 30% before 2001 to 20% or even less in 2011
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even the most prominent scientists will find it difficult to maintain funding for their laboratories, and young scientists seeking their first grant may become so overwhelmed that individuals of great promise will be driven from the field
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The growth of the scientific enterprise on university campuses during the past 60 years is not sustainable and has now reached a tipping point at which old models no longer work
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ederal funding agencies must work with universities to ensure that new models of funding do not stymie the progress of science in the United States
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The deeper sources of the problem lie in the incentive structure of the modern research university, the aspirations of scientists trained by those universities, and the aspirations of less research-intensive universities and colleges across the nation
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if a university wants to attract a significant amount of sponsored research money, it needs doctoral programs in the relevant fields and faculty members who are dedicated to both winning grants and training students
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Even though not all doctorate recipients become university faculty, the size of the science and engineering faculty at U.S. universities has grown substantially
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These strategies make sense for any individual university, but will fail collectively unless federal funding for R&D grows robustly enough to keep up with demand.
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At the very time that universities were enjoying rapidly growing budgets, and creating modes of operation that assumed such largess was the new normal, Price warned that it would all soon come to a halt
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the human and financial resources invested in science had been increasing much faster than the populations and economies of those regions
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growth in the scientific enterprise would have to slow down at some point, growing no more than the population or the economy.
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studies sounded an alarm about the potential decline in U.S. global leadership in science and technology and the grave implications of that decline for economic growth and national security
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Although we are not opposed to increasing federal funding for research, we are not optimistic that it will happen at anywhere near the rate the Academies seek, nor do we think it will have a large impact on funding rates
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universities should not expect any radical increases in domestic R&D budgets, and most likely not in defense R&D budgets either, unless the discretionary budgets themselves grow rapidly. Those budgets are under pressure from political groups that want to shrink government spending and from the growth of spending in mandatory programs
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The basic point is that the growth of the economy will drive increases in federal R&D spending, and any attempt to provide rapid or sustained increases beyond that growth will require taking money from other programs.
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The demand for research money cannot grow faster than the economy forever and the growth curve for research money flattened out long ago.
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The goal cannot be to convince the government to invest a higher proportion of its discretionary spending in research
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Getting more is not in the cards, and some observers think the scientific community will be lucky to keep what it has
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The potential to take advantage of the infrastructure and talent on university campuses may be a win-win situation for businesses and institutions of higher education.
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Why should universities and colleges continue to support scientific research, knowing that the financial benefits are diminishing?
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faculty members are committed to their scholarship and will press on with their research programs even when external dollars are scarce
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it is critical to have active research laboratories, not only in elite public and private research institutions, but in non-flagship public universities, a diverse set of private universities, and four-year colleges
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How then do increasingly beleaguered institutions of higher education support the research efforts of the faculty, given the reality that federal grants are going to be few and far between for the majority of faculty members? What are the practical steps institutions can take?
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change the current model of providing large startup packages when a faculty member is hired and then leaving it up to the faculty member to obtain funding for the remainder of his or her career
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universities invest less in new faculty members and spread their internal research dollars across faculty members at all stages of their careers, from early to late.
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national conversation about changes in startup packages and by careful consultations with prospective faculty hires about long-term support of their research efforts
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Many prospective hires may find smaller startup packages palatable, if they can be convinced that the smaller packages are coupled with an institutional commitment to ongoing research support and more reasonable expectations about winning grants.
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Smaller startup packages mean that in many situations, new faculty members will not be able to establish a functioning stand-alone laboratory. Thus, space and equipment will need to be shared to a greater extent than has been true in the past.
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construction of open laboratory spaces and the strategic development of well-equipped research centers capable of efficiently servicing the needs of an array of researchers
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Collaborative proposals and the assembly of research teams that focus on more complex problems can arise relatively naturally as interactions among researchers are facilitated by proximity and the absence of walls between laboratories.
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The more likely trajectory of a junior faculty member will evolve from contributing team member to increasing leadership responsibilities to team leader
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nternal evaluations of contributions and potential will become more important in tenure and promotion decisions.
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relationships with foundations, donors, state agencies, and private business will become increasingly important in the funding game
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Further complicating university collaborations with business is that past examples of such partnerships have not always been easy or free of controversy.
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some faculty members worried about firms dictating the research priorities of the university, pulling graduate students into proprietary research (which could limit what they could publish), and generally tugging the relevant faculty in multiple directions.
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University faculty and businesspeople often do not understand each other’s cultures, needs, and constraints, and such gaps can lead to more mundane problems in university/industry relations, not least of which are organizational demands and institutional cultures
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n addition to funding for research, universities can receive indirect benefits from such relationships. High-profile partnerships with businesses will underline the important role that universities can play in the economic development of a region.
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Universities have to see firms as more than just deep pockets, and firms need to see universities as more than sources of cheap skilled labor.
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We do not believe that research proposed and supervised by individual principal investigators will disappear anytime soon. It is a research model that has proven to be remarkably successful and enduring
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However, we believe that the most vibrant scientific communities on university and college campuses, and the ones most likely to thrive in the new reality of funding for the sciences, will be those that encourage the formation of research teams and are nimble with regard to funding sources, even as they leave room for traditional avenues of funding and research.
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Town Hall meetings are designed to give voice to everyone within a community. Town Hall Online allows any and all members of the community to ask questions, voice their opinions and vote on issues of mutual concern. Discussion topics are self-contained engagement modules that can include attachments like documents, videos, links and more. They provide a written record of the conversation and include the ability for community members to vote and be counted on individual issues. Town Hall Online topics are organized by categories created by community members and/or moderators, which can be modified anytime, as needed. Best of all, with one click, any individual discussion topic can be shared to Facebook, LinkedIn or any of more than 200 social networks, so sharing the discussion with others outside your immediate community is quick, easy and effective. It's the ultimate in building consensus and getting the word out.
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“We have a crazy plan and what we’re going to do is create a crypto-currency that is backed by those shares. Then we’re going to distribute the currency to the community through some reasonably fair way that reflects the contributions of community. That is one of the more complex subproblems we have to figure out.”
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""We have a crazy plan and what we're going to do is create a crypto-currency that is backed by those shares. Then we're going to distribute the currency to the community through some reasonably fair way that reflects the contributions of community. That is one of the more complex subproblems we have to figure out.""
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The basic orientation of p2p theory towards societal reform: transforming civil society... - 1 views
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in a capitalist system, ‘civil society’ is not directly productive of the goods and services that we need to survive, live and thrive
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everything that needs to be made, has to be designed through collaborative innovation in the first place
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Both civil society and the notion of citizenship can be criticized for being insufficiently inclusionary, and therefore as ‘mechanisms of exclusion’.
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consisting of shared depositories of knowledge, code and design; the communities of contributors and users of such commons
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democratically governed by all participants and stakeholders in such commons
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civil society is the locus of the shared abundance of value creation, and the place for the continual dialogue regarding the necessities of common life.
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democratically decide
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the ‘common good’ of society as a whole
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The difference is that the commons where the immaterial value is created are positioned in a field of abundance characteristic for non-rival or anti-rival goods; while the for-benefit associations are responsible for the sometimes contentious allocation of rival infrastructures.
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Whereas the commons themselves are plurarchies based on permissionless contribution, forking and other rights guaranteeing the diversity of contributions and contributors; the for-benefit associations are democratically governed.
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true reform of the private sector and the corporate form.
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Under conditions of the rule of capital, for-profit corporations are beholden to work for the interests of the shareholders. This format allows for the accumulation of capital, but also indirectly of political power, through the power of money to influence politics and politicians. For-profit corporations are part of a system of infinite growth and compound interest, must continuously compete with other corporations, and therefore, also minimize costs. For-profit corporations are designed to ignore negative environmental externalities by avoiding to pay the costs associated with them; and to ignore positive social externalities, also by avoiding to pay for them. In terms of sustainability, corporations practice planned obsolescence as a rule, because while the market is a scarcity allocation mechanism, capitalism itself is a scarcity maintenance and creation mechanism. Anti-sustainable practices are systemic and part of the DNA of the for-profit corporation.
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Under conditions of peer production, design and innovation moves to commons-based communitiies, which lack the incentive for unsustainable design; products are inherently design for sustainability, and the production process itself is designed for openness and distribution.
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designed to make the commoners and the commons themselves sustainable, by not ‘leaking’ surplus value to external shareholders
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mission-oriented, community supportive, sustainability-oriented corporate forms, that operate in the marketplace but do not themselves reproduce capitalism.
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surplus value stays within the commons, allows its autonomous social reproduction, and sustains the commoners
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because commons and their communities are themselves specific, and do not automatically take into account the common good of society as a whole .
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A Partner State functions center around enabling and empowering social production and abandons some of the paternalistic aspects of the welfare state by focusing on strengthening the possibilities of autonomy.
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Engaging For the Commons - Global Pull Platform - Helene Finidori - 0 views
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"activating" human agency and political will and addressing the root causes for power unbalance and resistance to change is at the heart of tomorrow's paradigm shift.
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action-oriented strategy and process methodology for generating engagement, accountability and outcomes in the political, economic, social and environmental spheres, which may contribute to enable this activation.
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treated as social objects: the nodes around which social networks are created, conversations and repeated interactions are initiated, new territories explored, meaning and intents shared, learning achieved.
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will yield conversations, knowledge flow, and feedback loops beneficial to learning, progress visualization, and evaluation
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Select or refer designated actors to acknowledge or request their engagement and action at various levels
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The New Sacred « Dynamics of Myth - 0 views
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We have to both overcome the hold of the old mythology and gain adoption of the new. What drives adoption of a meaningful cultural phenomenon?
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largely driven by the church and government institutions which we don’t necessarily want to recreate, right?
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The Authority establishes a values framework, a ruling hierarchy directs and stewards the sacred content, and a host of intermediaries that carry it out to the faithful consumers.
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All around us there’s a collapse of the legitimacy of authorities, with much cynicism from the population. There’s never been a greater need for sacred content that can be trusted and deemed legitimate. How to achieve it without authorities? This is where we have to pivot our minds. We have to replace the dynamics of its creation within the authority with something else. This slide suggests an alternative:
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We can create a values framework using collaborative culture techniques like community mythology projects. Out of these come sacred content that is legitimate because we created it according to shared values and a collective conscience. We have to put in place processes and rituals to establish, enshrine and communicate it.
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Open Source 3-D Printed Nutating Mixer - Appropedia, the sustainability wiki - 0 views
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"As the open source development of additive manufacturing has led to low-cost desktop three-dimensional (3-D) printing, a number of scientists throughout the world have begun to share digital designs of free and open source scientific hardware. Open source scientific hardware enables custom experimentation, laboratory control, rapid upgrading, transparent maintenance, and lower costs in general. To aid in this trend, this study describes the development, design, assembly, and operation of a 3-D printable open source desktop nutating mixer, which provides a fixed 20° platform tilt angle for a gentle three-dimensional (gyrating) agitation of chemical or biological samples (e.g., DNA or blood samples) without foam formation. The custom components for the nutating mixer are designed using open source FreeCAD software to enable customization. All of the non-readily available components can be fabricated with a low-cost RepRap 3-D printer using an open source software tool chain from common thermoplastics. All of the designs are open sourced and can be configured to add more functionality to the equipment in the future. It is relatively easy to assemble and is accessible to both the science education of younger students as well as state-of-the-art research laboratories. Overall, the open source nutating mixer can be fabricated with US$37 in parts, which is 1/10th of the cost of proprietary nutating mixers with similar capabilities. The open source nature of the device allow it to be easily repaired or upgraded with digital files, as well as to accommodate custom sample sizes and mixing velocities with minimal additional costs."
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Ceramic Network - Let your data flow - 2 views
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IoPA organization tech level web3 identity network ecosystem Ceramic's permissionless data streaming you can store streams of information and ever-changing files directly on the decentralized web - share updates with anyone in world
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"HerpMapper is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization designed to gather and share information about reptile and amphibian observations across the planet. Using HerpMapper, you can create records of your herp observations and keep them all in one place. In turn, your data is made available to HerpMapper Partners - groups who use your recorded observations for research, conservation, and preservation purposes. Your observations can make valuable contributions on the behalf of amphibians and reptiles."