Category: Commons

Egypt protesters managing the Commons

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In times of crisis, the Commons cannot be forgotten. In fact, they become more essential than ever. In the recent uprising in Egypt, protesters have taken over Cairo and other cities. The brutal state police, overwhelmed by the situation, is not anymore trying to “maintain order” and for several days has simply left. In fact, […]

How cognitive surplus will change the world

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Clay Shirky: “Cognitive surplus (…) represents the ability of the world’s population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects (…) The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. (…) Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn’t […]

Researching The Commons

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(Español) The Commons keep attracting the interest of researchers from multiple perspectives. A very interesting example of this is the Quality Commons workshop that took place a few days ago (28/29 of Jan 2010) in Paris.

The Nobel Foundation recognises the importance of The Commons

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The Nobel of Economy of this year was considered as a pretty special one. It was shared by Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Ostrom is the first woman to receive such prize. But more importantly, Ostrom’s prize has been an unexpected surprise to the public as well as to economists and analysts, since most […]

Manifest for the recovery of common goods of humanity

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The enclosure movement in England during the 15th and 16th centuries limited the access to land and its benefits to its owners, thus making it inaccessible to the public as it had been traditionally. This initiated the process of the privatization of common human necessities. Subsequently, the world was ruled under the logic of the […]