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Ich bin vom 30.10. bis 3.11. in Berlin bei der International Commons Conference.
Hotel Allegra, Albrechtstraße 17, 10117 Berlin http://www.albrechtshof-hotels.com/de/hotel-allegra/zimmer-und-preise.html GoogleMap Streams der Konferenz: http://www.boell.de/mediathek/mediathek-stream.html
morgens - Ankunft in der Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Vorbereitendes Treffen der Support Group Martin Pedersen, ein alter Bekannter aus Oekonux Tagen, erzählt von 2 Jahren in Amazonien und Peru. "Indiginous People Bioprojects climate change assessment" Und schon kommen auch alle anderen. Los gehts. Heftiges Schedule, wir werden uns 4-5 mal extra treffen in diesen Tagen. (kaum Ruhepausen möglich) 4 Kamerateams offiziell, 23 Medienvertreter. Streams.
Gemeingüter sind nicht, sie werden gemacht. Der Begriff ist sperrig: Gemeingüter oder das englische ‚Commons‘. Was verstehen wir darunter? Wir denken an Wasser, Luft oder Wissen – doch das sind Gemeinressourcen. Oft setzen wir sie mit Gemeingütern gleich. Doch es gibt einen wesentlichen Unterschied. Wasser ist eine Gemeinressource: Wird es als Flaschenwasser abgefüllt und verkauft, dann wird es zur Ware und nicht zum Gemeingut. Gemeingüter sind also nicht die Ressourcen selbst. Sie entstehen und erhalten sich durch ihre Nutzer und durch die Nutzungsregeln, die diese miteinander vereinbaren. Es gibt eine wachsende Gemeingüter-Bewegung: Sie vereint Menschen, die für freie Kultur, freie Software oder für das Recht auf Teilen des Saatguts streiten ebenso wie Menschen, die sich in der Transition-Town-Bewegung engagieren, für dezentrale Energieversorgung, ökologischen Wandel oder lokalisiertes Wirtschaften einsetzen. Und dafür, dass Gemeingüter dem Gemeinwesen nicht entzogen, nicht kommerzialisiert oder unwiederbringlich zerstört werden. Sie alle setzen darauf, dass Wohlstand durch Zusammenarbeit und Teilen entsteht und wächst. Dass geschützt und erhalten werden muss, was uns allen gehört. Dass es mehr gibt als Markt und Staat. Gemeingüter erhalten und immer wieder neu schaffen Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der sich die Politik an der Idee der Gemeingüter orientiert, statt am Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Was, wenn der Staat die Bürger aktiv dabei unterstützt, ihre Gemeingüter zu erhalten und immer wieder neu zu schaffen? Die Idee der Gemeingüter könnte Türöffner für eine konstruktive, zukunftsorientierte Debatte sein. Sie liefert weder ein fertiges Konzept, noch taugt sie für Ideologisierungen. Das ist ihre Stärke. 150 renommierte internationalen Expertinnen und Experten diskutieren das Wesen der Gemeingüter: Auf welchen Grundüberzeugungen beruht die Debatte? Welches politische Paradigma liegt ihr zugrunde? Und wie sieht eine Politik aus, die auf dem Konzept der Gemeingüter (commons) basiert?
http://www.boell.de/economysocial/economy/economy-agenda-international-commons-conference-10456.html
2 pm – 5 pm Commons alive: project visits in Berlin The meetings will allow for on-the-ground insights into different commons-based projects in Berlin. They vary greatly in the types of resources they manage, their institutional structures and legal rules. They connect to the market economy in different ways, and are driven by different concepts of solidarity. But all of them are thriving, functional commons.
Project 1: A womens housing and working project: Genossinnenschaft Schokofabrik eG Ich war bei den Krankenschwestern von der AKB und werde bei Gelegenheit einen Report schreiben.... um 18h geht die Sitzung des Support Comittee weiter.
8.30 – 9.30 am Registration
Barbara Unmüßig, President, Heinrich Böll Foundation
"we are not just talking about resources - we are talking about the way we organize around them"
David Bollier, Commons Strategies Group (CSG)
The Commons provides more than a critique of market oriented economy - it is a laboratory for solutions.
9.45 – 10 am Conference Design
Introduction of all Program Details, the innovatve Elements (like the Commonopolis Blind Date wall) Steering Comittee and Support Team etc. technical restrictions, organisation etc, the meaning of consolidation workshops and innovation workshops Streaming and Translation only in main room.
10:25 am – 11:45 pm An Overview of the Commons as a Transformation-Paradigm
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, President, International Association for the Study of the Commons, USA Grew up in rural South India "within the commons". When pumpset thechnologies came in and richer farmers had access to ground water, the enclosed the water commons in a "race to the bottom". The commons were not recognized then. Shared resources: Water, Forests, Pastures, Biodiversity (1000 varieties of bnative potato in Peruvian community) etc. "Everything above the scale of an individual requires coordination" What is clasified as Public lands are often managed by their inhabitants by property agreements. "Common property has also been critiques, as least as back as Aristotle". Hardins analogy is incorrect. There are many commons that have been managed successfuly over many years, up to millenium. Move to either privatise or nationalize the commons, excluding communities that had intimate knowledge, rules and norms for their usage. Eleanor Ostrom -> Design Principles for the commons. Very important is that users themselves develop rules and they are not imposed on them from the outside. The real tragedy of the commons is that they are little understood and valued. Value is not measured.But India figured out that the value delivered by community forests was twice the foreign investments. People who live with these resources have special knowledge, it is not even easy to pull them out, leads to more resilience. Commons are the social glue. Privatisation of group ranches in Kenya led to 96% decline of farm labour!! We need the social interaction as well as the physical goods that commons provide! 4 principles
Lets move to correct university curricula! Instead of having Garret Harding as self -fulfilling prophecy, lets enter a transformational paradigm of the commons!
Michel Bauwens, Peer2Peer Foundation, Belgium/Thailand
"We are entering a third revolution in human productivity"
Abundance instead of scarcity plurarchy of possibilities instead of democracy Commons as new centerpiece of economy Common can cooperate better and communicate than capital. Capitalism versus market. Need to transform Business, networks and the state.
Discussion:
11:45 AM
1 "Which are the fundamental & key principles of generative commons?" Assignments of World Cafe table hosts and notice on giving feedback to F.Nahrada, Benedikt Aretz and Martin Pedersen
12 – 2 pm Lunch, networking & CommonoPolis Commonopolis is an open space – close to the place we 'll have lunch and dinner - where each participant can present its work, projects and publications, and can share ideas, broaden networks and continue conversation. Pinboards, tables and some online-facilities will be available.
Host: David Bollier
2 – 3 pm The Commons as a challenge for classical economic patterns & thinking and a new narrative of the 21 century
The Commons offers a powerful critique to classical economic thinking and a public discourse that enshrine the market as the only serious system for meeting human needs. Its critique is not just intellectual, but practical: There has always been a cornucopcia of natural, cultural and social common pool resources and there is a cornucopcia of self-organised Commons – as ancient as community irrigation and as contemporary as the Internet. They are demonstrating that people can successfully manage shared resources over the long term for the benefit of all. As a new (or newly discovered) paradigm of governance, the Commons has the potential to address multiple crises – economic, environmental, social, civic – while confronting the larger „growthist“ paradigm.
There are many questions and uncertainties about actualising the Commons as a new narrative, however. It´s relationship to the market and the state need to be re-imagined. And if the commons is going to supplant the market in certain respects, people must be open for developing new means for reproducing their livelihoods. Therefore, they need appropriate policy support and physical infrastructure. Unlike the market order, which is build upon strict separations between production and reproduction, individual and collective interests or the social and the ecological, the Commons seeks to bridge these divisions and bring them into closer alignment. But that will be impossible unless we first invent a coherent new narrative and policy framework that can be readily understood.
The question is: Can the commons be a new, promising narrative for the 21st Century? Keynotes & Debate
Alberto Acosta, Economist, FLACSO, Ex-President of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador: Yasuní-ITT Initiative, an opportunity to rethink the world
2007 hat die ecuadorianische Regierung vorgeschlagen, das Erdölvorkommen des ITT-Feldes (Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini) im Nationalpark Yasuní (Amazonasgebiet) für immer unter der Erde zu belassen, um die einzigartige Biologische Vielfalt zu erhalten und die nicht kontaktierten indigenen Völker, die in diesem Gebiet leben, zu respektieren. Als Gegenleistung verlangte die Regierung einen internationalen solidarischen "Ausgleichsbetrag", der mindestens 50% des entgangenen Gewinns abdecken soll. (Eigentlich: Solidaritätsbeitrag für gemeinsame internationale Ziele im Rahmen der Bekämpfung des Klimawandels, Erhalts der Artenvielfalt und nachhaltigen menschlichen Entwicklung).
Philippe Aigrain, La Quadrature du Net – Sopinspace, France: New economical foundations for the commons 9 possible schemes:
2. ??? 3. Abschöpfung von Reichtum zur Finanzierung von Commons 4. Kredits 5. Voluntary resource pooling 6. compulsory resource pooiing 7. Public Trust 8. 9. Basic income
Can we imagine an economy that would be compatible with the commons? What support infrastructure would the commons need? What policy mechanisms and resource pooling are necessary to maintain the commons?
3 – 4 pm Speed project presentation of exciting commons projects
Moderation: Beatriz Busaniche
Project 1: Open Hardware: Arduino, Massimo Banzi, Italy
Project 2: Commons – Spaces of the Poor: FES, Jagdeesh Rao, India
Project 4: Traditional Knowledge Commons: Natural Justice, Gino Cocchiaro, Australia/South Africa / TECHNISCHE PANNE /
Project 5: Reputation Based Exchange Commons: Digital Trust Platform, John Clippinger, The Law Lab, Harvard University, USA
Project 6: Digital Cultural Commons: José Murilo, Ministry of Culture, Brazil
Project 7: Urban Commons: Transition Town Movement, Gerd Wessling, Germany
Project 8: Credit Commons: Thomas Greco, USA
Project 3: Housing Commons: Mietshäusersyndikat, Axel Burkhardt, Germany (entfällt) 4pm: Entscheidung Track 2 und 3
4 – 4.15 pm Coffee Break
4.15 – 5.30 pm World-Café (3 x 25 minutes)
1 "Which are the fundamental & key principles of generative commons?" siehe Berichte hier: http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference/WorldCafe
5.30 – 6 pm Rhythm is a commons, A join-in concert
6 - 7.30 pm Dinner, Networking & CommonoPolis from 6:30 HARVEST with Benedikt and Martin
7.30 – 10 pm Public Event: The Commons as the Template of Our Future
In a world dominated by predatory markets and unresponsive governments, the commons is emerging as an attractive alternative form of governance, resource management and social equity. It can be seen in free software, countless digital commons, indigenous people's social charters, community managed water, alternative currencies, Transition Towns, and countless other examples. In this public event, a distinguished panel of leaders in the commons movement addresses the larger political and economic implications of the commons, as well as the new cultural ethic that is emerging worldwide. Special attention will be paid to the challenges that must be overcome in developing a "commons sector" and the future of the movement. Keynotes
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Minister of National Patrimony (MNP), Ecuador
Replies
Richard Pithouse, Rhodes University, poor people’s movement activist, South Africa
Moderation: Christiane Grefe, Die ZEIT, Germany
9 – 9.15 am Recap and Day 2 Preview
Diskussion über Vorgangsweise - ist diese Konferenz nicht auch "Fast Food"? Ich bin bei Stream III- siehe unten!
Parallel Sessions Stream II & III
9.15 – 10.30 am The Commons challenges the market/state duopoly The history of industrial society is one of subsumption of civil society under the dominance of both the market and the state, with a regular pendulum swing between periods of stronger regulatory states (the welfare state paradigm of social democracy and the New Deal, as well as the soviet and fascist state forms), and period of 'market-dominated' states (the corporate welfare state of neoliberalism). However, both the market and state are suffering from a strong systemic crisis, particularly since the meltdown of 2008, it seems that civil networks are undergoing somewhat of a resurgence, under the guise of trends such as the emergence of peer production, the resurgence of the commons paradigm, and a return to sharing practices and infrastructures. Stream II will evaluate the significance of this trend for the autonomy of civil movements itself, for the market and the state, and for the local and global governance issues generated by this new triarchical situation. Keynote and discussion James Bernard Quilligan, Chairman of the Secretariat, Global Commons Trust, USA Global citizens, social charters, and multilateralism 2.0: what are the conditions for the emerging global commons?
11 – 12.30 pm Consolidation workshops
A flourishing commons sector requires a new set of rights and institutions. In this session we examine the emergence of new social charters, open licenses, access rights, the general demand for openness and transparency as well as the need for equality in the new opportunities being created, the aim is to identify the set of (design) principles which allow for a commons-based making of rules, guidelines, laws and institutions. Kickoff speakers:
Denis Jaromil Rocio, free software programmer and media artist, Italy/Netherlands: Technical conditions for free infrastructures
Since it is unlikely that the State will wither away, and yet the commoners are inventing new modes of governance and autonomy for themselves, what should be the proper interrelationship of the Commons and the State? What differential principles and design mechanisms might apply at different levels of governance, but specifically, at the global level? Kickoff speakers:
Benjamin Coriat, Paris Nord University, France
Professor Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues have shown the effectiveness and versatility of natural resource commons in various contexts. But how might the lessons of that scholarship be combined with popular activism and politics, and build support for commons as a respected policy option for protecting and managing natural resources? What are some of the most promising design paradigms for such commons? What are some of the more intriguing emerging commons for managing natural resources?"
Kickoff speaker:
Frank van Laerhoven, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Netherlands More workshops can be self-organised. Proposals to be submitted during the conference.
9.15 – 10.30 am The Generative Logic of the Commons
In the commons there is abundance and freedom for all. This stream will explore three aspects of the “generative logic” of the commons which are essential for their specific sort of creation and conservation of wealth. The value produced in the commons is deeper and comprehends much more than only exchange-value for the market. The prosperity of commons and a commons based policy depends on a basic understanding what sort of value they generate. Appropriate institutions are needed to empower commoners to cultivate the commons. And the commons must also strike a prudent balance between openness and control.
Keynotes:
(Papier wird nachgeliefert)
Stefan Meretz, Keimform.de, Germany COMMONS BEYOND STATE AND MARTKET Eleanor Ostrom: "Neither state nor market" (Governing the Commons (Die Verfassung der Commons: jenseits von Staat und Markt) ,1990, p1)
(To Do: Link zu Präsentation einsetzen) Diskussion:
11 am – 12.30 pm Consolidation workshops (Stream III)
The commons is a social and moral economy, which means that the value it generates is at once economic, social, cultural and moral, and rooted in a particular local context. The commons has struggled for so long to escape the myths about the “tragedy of the commons” that a basic truth is overlooked: commons actually generate wealth for people and not only value for the markets. To understand the proposition of the commons, it is important to ask: How does a commons generate what we need for our lives? How does commons-generated value differ from that generated by markets, and how does it vary from one commons to another? What means can protect commons-based wealth? This workshop will examine these questions from a “big picture,” macro-economic analysis as well as from the on-the-ground realities of subsistence commons. Kickoff speakers :
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna
Since protecting the integrity of relationships and shared resources is a preeminent challenge for any commons, it is natural to devise institutional, legal and policy structures to help maintain a commons. These structures are arguably essential, as seen in such examples as cooperatives, land trusts or the General Public License for software. For decades, there have been two competing strategies: One part of commons activists mainly concentrate on changing cross-societal institutions and infrastructures by building up own complex administrative institutions. Others focus on changing micro-practices and concentrate on building up networks of small grassroot institutions with slim infrastructures. In many cases, both parties accuse each other of acting in a futile and ineffective way, especially when it comes to the question which strategy is apt to establish a more commons sensitive economy. But is there something that can be learned from the new p2p-movement of the last years? This workshop will explore the design principles of successful commons in general and for specific types of resources. It will also evaluate the strategic effectiveness of different approaches.
Kickoff speakers:
Digital technologies and networks have given rise to two very similar types of commons – the open platform and the bounded commons. While the two share many functions and ethical values, there are also deep tensions between the open-to-all model and a bounded commons of distinct members who impose certain rules, oversight and sanctions. For example, how can safety be assured in open-design automobiles and can the practitioners of DIY synthetic biology be trusted to prevent irreversible biological harms? Some people question Wikileaks’ disclosures "state secrets" as putting lives at risk. Others believe that disclosures about the sacred knowledge and practices of indigenous peoples is culturally disrespectful and destructive. This workshop will examine whether the idea of openness is compatible with the bounded commons – or whether open platforms and commons necessarily serve different goals and values. Can hybrid business models successfully bridge the gap between the two? Is openness vital for maintaining control of our lives and preventing corporate misbehavior?
Kickoff speakers:
More workshops can be self-organised. Proposals can be submitted during the conference.
12.30 – 2.00 pm Lunch, Networking & CommonoPolis & grouping for innovation workshops
Suggested issues:
core ideas + conflicts + challenges for streams I/II/III Michel schreibt mit
links zu:
Barbara Unmüßig, President, Heinrich Böll Foundation Out of the box surprise followed by Dinner, Networking & Farewell
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