Hack for your Rights Hacker ethics understood as a simultaneous and global game in the search for structural changes in any area of society Comunes Collective Version 1.0 Our intention in this text is to extrapolate some ideas extracted from struggles and conquests in the digital world, and apply them in the search for change […]
Let’s take care of the Common Goods by participating If you see waste in a forest, you can inform the guard, but the ideal is to look after the forest between all of us. You can see rubbish in a forest and think, “how dirty” and do nothing about it, not even tell anyone. […]
Comunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to a) Encourage the protection and expansion of the Commons [1] through our actions. The Comunes approach has the Commons as central idea, using it as a guideline for its actions. It facilitates the discovery and construction of alternatives following a simple rule of three, and it encourages decentralized […]
Comunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to facilitating the use of free/libre web tools and resources to collectives and activists alike, with the hopes of encouraging the Commons. A quick summary of our initiatives is as follows: Web Tools & Services Ourproject.org is a web-based collaborative free content repository. It acts as a central location […]
Move Commons, one of the initiatives under the Comunes umbrella, has began to spread the word and will be presented in the following events: Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, Nov 3-5, Barcelona Medialab-Prado, Nov 25, Madrid Chaos Communication Congress, Dec 27-30, Berlin
(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 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 […]
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 […]