We welcome you to listen to this inspirational talk with MICHEL BAUWENS, he is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, organizers of major global conferences on the commons and economics.
In this conversation (part 1) we talked about Michel's P2P Foundation, the commons, our crisis and how to overcome them, Nation States, usage of data, the accountability of our financial systems, cosmo-localisation, open-sourcing, the transition, smart contracts, commons centric economics, the language of the ants, feedback-loops, how 2021 is a pivot year, are investors waking up?, his motivation to become a change-maker and the basis for change and revolution, ownership on data and new types of institutions and governance which are not Nation States, Napoleon, and our ingrained habits.
Note: See episode 7 for part 2.
Your Hosts: Robert Schram & Gabor Kiss
Sound-production: Robert_DK
Thank you for listening :-)