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POLICIES FOR A COMMONS TRANSITION

These policy documents are designed to enable real world practices towards a society based on shared material and knowledge commons. The plans contained here, although originally created for Ecuador's FLOK Society Project have been adapted to be non-region specific. We share them to give an overview of the many precedents and possibilities pointing to a fairer societal order, and inspire civil society collectives at the local, regional, national and global levels to adapt them to their particular contexts.

Commons Transition Policy Papers

• Commons Transition Plan by Michel Bauwens
• Public Policy for a Social Knowledge Economy by John Restakis
• Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing by George Dafermos

TOWARDS A PARTNER STATE

The Partner State is the concept whereby public authorities play a sustaining role in the 'direct creation of value by civil society', i.e. sustains and promotes commons-based Peer Production.

1. Introduction to the Partner State
2. Transition Proposal Towards a Commons Oriented Economy
3. Three Competing Societal and Economic Models in the Age of Peer Production
4. The New Triarchy
5. Phyles
6. Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses
7. Open Cooperativism

See all Commons Transition Strategies

CASE STUDY 1: Ecuador's FLOKSociety Project

All the policy papers produced for Ecuador's FLOKSociety project between September 2013 and May 2014. Authors include Michel Bauwens, John Restakis, George Dafermos and Janice Figueiredo:

• FLOK Research Plan
• Overall View to the FLOK's investigative streams

Streams

1. Human Capabilities
2. Commons-oriented Productive Capacities
3. Social Infrastructure and Institutional Innovation
4. Open Technical Infrastructures
5. Common's Infrastructure for Collective Life

CASE STUDY 2: The Catalan Integral Cooperative

The Catalan Integral Cooperative (or CIC) functions as a political project seeking to tie together consumer and labor initiatives. The CIC’s objective is to generate a self-managed post-capitalist society based on P2P principles and environmental and social realities.

The CIC decided to adapt the transition plan originally written for Ecuador's FLOKSociety project in the Summer of 2014.

• About the Catalan Integral Cooperative
• CIC Commons Transition Plan
• CIC Commons Transition New Proposals

RELATED PROJECTS

Transnational Related Projects

• The P2P Foundation
• Share the World's Resources
• Sustainable Economies Law Center
• Faircoop
• Post Growth Institute
• OpenState.cc

Browse through all the Transnational Related Projects

Glocal Related Projects

• Category:P2P Lab
• Category:CIC

Browse through all the Glocal Related Projects

Operational Commons Legislations.

Resources on Commons Transition

The Commons Transition Wiki is a workspace and repository for Commons-Transition related documents, case studies and policy papers. Related online resources include

• Commons Transition Home Page Contains a general overview on Commons Transition Strategies, articles, videos and a blog. It is the landing page for the Commons Transition Platform.
• The P2P Foundation Wiki Is the world's largest online resource for P2P and Commons oriented knowledge. The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices.
• The Commons Transition Wiki is free and open content licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC -BY -NC -SA ).