The document provides an overview of a keynote presentation comparing the "old economy" to the emerging "new economy" or "civic economy". The keynote speaker contrasts the hierarchical, competition-based structures of the old economy with the collaborative, peer-to-peer and sharing-based structures of the new economy. Examples of how production, consumption and financing are changing through collaborative models are discussed. In conclusion, the new economy is described as more sustainable, inclusive and focused on social well-being compared to the extractive and unequal nature of the old economy.
This slide was presented for the fulfillment of the course Bachelor in Information Management, Affiliated to TU, Kathmandu Nepal at Thames International College, Old-Baneshwor, KTM, Nepal.
Collaborative Economy: A possible bridge from the old to the new economy? Thomas Doennebrink
Presentation @ inauguration of the 1. Seats2Meet location in Berlin on the 17.07.2014.
Attempt to describe and contrast characteristics and features of an old and a new economy (society/paradigm) and discuss the question whether the Share/Collaborative Economy could be a possible bridge and means of transformation from the former to the later (slides 14 - 24).
Preceded by slides dealing with the components, aspects and implication of the collaborative economy and concluding with slides explaining OuiShare.
Other speakers:
Felix Weth (CEO fairnopoly) about cooperative 2.0 &
Ronald van den Hoff (CEO Seats2Meet) about Society 3.0
Old Economy vs. New Economy. Keynote speech at the annual EUKN EGTC ConferenceThomas Doennebrink
Keynote @Conference on the Civic Economy - Time to get ready Organized by European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam & Pakhuis de Zwijger. Amsterdam 20.10.2014.
This #PlatformCoopBerlin report comprises an introduction into the notion of platform cooperativism, references and links to main activists, activities and further readings. You’ll also find a report on the first #platformCoopBerlin meet-up in Berlin on the 04.03.2016, including a transcript of Michel Bauwen’s speech at this gathering. This article might be useful for whoever wants to get a basic or better understanding of platform cooperativism. People intending to organise a #PlatformCoopX meetup in their own city or researching about the subject will also find helpful information, links and contacts
Introductory lecture on the Collaborative Economy and attempt to embed into a...Thomas Doennebrink
45 min. lecture as kick-off event for a visitor programme tour of international journalists and academics in Germany on the topic of sharing and collaborative economy organised by the Goethe-Institute and on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office. Lecture consists on three parts
1.) Introduction to the share- & collaborative economy (areas, developments, phases, drivers, (pre)conditions, collaborative a) consumption b) production c) finance d) learning & open everything, effects, etc.)
2. Attempt to embed into a wider context in form of a juxtaposition of old vs. new economy/society characteristics.
3. Look at the current status (quo) and current trends (quo vadis) of the collaborative economy (collaborative economy 1.0, UBER, AIRBNB et al., Uberisation, monoculture, platform capitalism, collaborative economy 3.0 (platform cooperativism et al.), front end vs. back.
Keynote on the 24.03. @Fourth Conference on Good Economy in Zagrep Croatia organized by ZMAG Green Network of Activist Groups. Sponsored by République Francaise, Rosa Luxemburg, Goethe Institut & Institut ZA Politicku Ekologiju.
Article about the keynote published in Croatian newspaper: http://www.vecernji.hr/gospodarstvo/napustamo-eru-konkurentnosti-i-ulazimo-u-eru-kolaborativnosti-1158925
This slide was presented for the fulfillment of the course Bachelor in Information Management, Affiliated to TU, Kathmandu Nepal at Thames International College, Old-Baneshwor, KTM, Nepal.
Collaborative Economy: A possible bridge from the old to the new economy? Thomas Doennebrink
Presentation @ inauguration of the 1. Seats2Meet location in Berlin on the 17.07.2014.
Attempt to describe and contrast characteristics and features of an old and a new economy (society/paradigm) and discuss the question whether the Share/Collaborative Economy could be a possible bridge and means of transformation from the former to the later (slides 14 - 24).
Preceded by slides dealing with the components, aspects and implication of the collaborative economy and concluding with slides explaining OuiShare.
Other speakers:
Felix Weth (CEO fairnopoly) about cooperative 2.0 &
Ronald van den Hoff (CEO Seats2Meet) about Society 3.0
Old Economy vs. New Economy. Keynote speech at the annual EUKN EGTC ConferenceThomas Doennebrink
Keynote @Conference on the Civic Economy - Time to get ready Organized by European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam & Pakhuis de Zwijger. Amsterdam 20.10.2014.
This #PlatformCoopBerlin report comprises an introduction into the notion of platform cooperativism, references and links to main activists, activities and further readings. You’ll also find a report on the first #platformCoopBerlin meet-up in Berlin on the 04.03.2016, including a transcript of Michel Bauwen’s speech at this gathering. This article might be useful for whoever wants to get a basic or better understanding of platform cooperativism. People intending to organise a #PlatformCoopX meetup in their own city or researching about the subject will also find helpful information, links and contacts
Introductory lecture on the Collaborative Economy and attempt to embed into a...Thomas Doennebrink
45 min. lecture as kick-off event for a visitor programme tour of international journalists and academics in Germany on the topic of sharing and collaborative economy organised by the Goethe-Institute and on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office. Lecture consists on three parts
1.) Introduction to the share- & collaborative economy (areas, developments, phases, drivers, (pre)conditions, collaborative a) consumption b) production c) finance d) learning & open everything, effects, etc.)
2. Attempt to embed into a wider context in form of a juxtaposition of old vs. new economy/society characteristics.
3. Look at the current status (quo) and current trends (quo vadis) of the collaborative economy (collaborative economy 1.0, UBER, AIRBNB et al., Uberisation, monoculture, platform capitalism, collaborative economy 3.0 (platform cooperativism et al.), front end vs. back.
Keynote on the 24.03. @Fourth Conference on Good Economy in Zagrep Croatia organized by ZMAG Green Network of Activist Groups. Sponsored by République Francaise, Rosa Luxemburg, Goethe Institut & Institut ZA Politicku Ekologiju.
Article about the keynote published in Croatian newspaper: http://www.vecernji.hr/gospodarstvo/napustamo-eru-konkurentnosti-i-ulazimo-u-eru-kolaborativnosti-1158925
Presentation on how Web 2.0 and change management are interrelated. A view on the future of change facilitation. Presentation held at the International Association of Facilitators conference in Atlanta. April 12, 2008 by Holger Nauheimer.
There is (at least) one error in the slide show. Peter did of course his forst YouTube video not in 1996, but in 2006.
Futurist.com Think Tank for ASFE - The Best People on EarthGlen Hiemstra
Collection of slides used in Long-Range planning think tank conducted by Glen Hiemstra of Futurist.com over two days in July 2008 for ASFE, an association of geotechnical engineering firms.
Coming up to ten years on from the 2007 Technology Futures programme we conducted for Shell, several people have been asking how well the expert perspectives have played out. This is the summary of two sets of weeklong discussions that took place in Bangalore and London, each of which included around 20 experts from across multiple disciplines all looking out 20 years at how technology may, or may not influence society. This was the second run of the Technology Futures programme after the initial project in 2004 where similar discussions had taken place in Amsterdam and Houston.
At a time when oil accounted for over a third of the world’s energy supply and renewables for less than a tenth of that amount, core areas of future focus were on the potential rise of biofuels, nuclear, solar, wind and wave as well as the challenges in enabling a more electric world. Specific issues raised included the opportunities from second and third generation biofuels and the role of synthetic organisms in the mix; pebble bed nuclear reactors and the potential for fusion; concentrated solar power, the increasing efficiency of photovoltaics and associated cost reductions; energy storage, battery power and superconductivity; hydrogen and microbial fuel cells; the impact of maglev trains, autonomous vehicles as well as data mining and quantum computing. Nearly ten years on the summaries of each of these, the likely development paths and the associated constraints and enabling factors are a recommended read.
Personally, however, it is the later chapters that are most insightful, especially in the context of today’s challenges. Whereas many of the energy related technology shifts have played out, largely in line with some of the expert expectations, it is some of cross-cutting views from 2007 that still seem to be at the fore of our to-do list: How to better collaborate globally and locally, especially across multi-sector partnerships; how to manage distributed activities better than centralised ones; how to better share value from intellectual property; and how best to harness artificial intelligence are all questions as relevant today as they were when we first held the discussions.
While we spend more of our time continuing to look forward, seeking new opportunities and challenges to address, if you have a spare hour or so, I would recommend a flick through the summary report which is available for download here.
The NCD is the largest association in The Netherlands, exclusive for top level management, commissioners and boardmembers. NCD organized a minicongres on Trends in Technlogy - in celebration of heir 60-year anniversary. I spoke on the subject of social business and trends.
Moren info on: http://www.ncd.nl/agenda/evenement/38/
Global Ubiquitous Connectivity and the New Business World of Value FlowsVictor Cho
An overview of the impact of Global Ubiquitous Connectivity on our world and in particular on the very nature of business. This deck introduces the BBCC Value Flow Matrix, an important new tool for assessing connected business models, and provides examples and tools on how to apply it.
This is the first part of a two part series that can be found on http://www.victorcho.info. The second part details the rise of Task Based Social Networks and discusses their implications.
This deck describes the rise of Task-based social networks--a new kind of social network that will be built upon the Relationship-based social networks that are now forming or have formed across the world.
This is part 2 of a 2 part series on Global Ubiquitous Connectivity and its impact on society at large. The first part can be found here on Slideshare or at: http://www.victorcho.info.
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
Presentation on key social trends related to digital technologies, presented at the infoactivism workshop organized by Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska for the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
The working world is in a complete transformation. The processing factors are known. And the digital is a part of the problems :
- digital technologies transform the nature of any jobs that humans still do : jobs use computer more often, they are more abstract, and more mobile.
- Relationships and time are porous, and this porosity is all consuming.
- and recent studies have shown that robotics and smart systems will continue to destroy creative, service-related and skilled occupations.
Why are the transitions not easy ? This document presents 3 alternative models for work and employment organisation, work distribution and redistribution.
Dopo la rivoluzione industriale ed in piena rivoluzione digitale una nuova sfida si affaccia nel mondo digitale:
Gli Open Data. I grandi cambiamenti del mondo economico ed istituzionale, a livello nazionale ed internazionale, stanno mettendo in discussione i rapporti tra cittadini, imprese, amministrazioni, istituzioni ed ovviamente politica.
Gli Open Data possono aiutare a ridisegnare questi rapporti ?
Cosa sono, cosa rappresentano, quali sono le opportunità che si aprono con l'apertura e e libera fruizione delle informazioni?
Il “data-journalism” è un filone in piena esplosione soprattutto negli Stati Uniti e in Gran Bretagna. Quali sono le attività in italia?
Presentation on how Web 2.0 and change management are interrelated. A view on the future of change facilitation. Presentation held at the International Association of Facilitators conference in Atlanta. April 12, 2008 by Holger Nauheimer.
There is (at least) one error in the slide show. Peter did of course his forst YouTube video not in 1996, but in 2006.
Futurist.com Think Tank for ASFE - The Best People on EarthGlen Hiemstra
Collection of slides used in Long-Range planning think tank conducted by Glen Hiemstra of Futurist.com over two days in July 2008 for ASFE, an association of geotechnical engineering firms.
Coming up to ten years on from the 2007 Technology Futures programme we conducted for Shell, several people have been asking how well the expert perspectives have played out. This is the summary of two sets of weeklong discussions that took place in Bangalore and London, each of which included around 20 experts from across multiple disciplines all looking out 20 years at how technology may, or may not influence society. This was the second run of the Technology Futures programme after the initial project in 2004 where similar discussions had taken place in Amsterdam and Houston.
At a time when oil accounted for over a third of the world’s energy supply and renewables for less than a tenth of that amount, core areas of future focus were on the potential rise of biofuels, nuclear, solar, wind and wave as well as the challenges in enabling a more electric world. Specific issues raised included the opportunities from second and third generation biofuels and the role of synthetic organisms in the mix; pebble bed nuclear reactors and the potential for fusion; concentrated solar power, the increasing efficiency of photovoltaics and associated cost reductions; energy storage, battery power and superconductivity; hydrogen and microbial fuel cells; the impact of maglev trains, autonomous vehicles as well as data mining and quantum computing. Nearly ten years on the summaries of each of these, the likely development paths and the associated constraints and enabling factors are a recommended read.
Personally, however, it is the later chapters that are most insightful, especially in the context of today’s challenges. Whereas many of the energy related technology shifts have played out, largely in line with some of the expert expectations, it is some of cross-cutting views from 2007 that still seem to be at the fore of our to-do list: How to better collaborate globally and locally, especially across multi-sector partnerships; how to manage distributed activities better than centralised ones; how to better share value from intellectual property; and how best to harness artificial intelligence are all questions as relevant today as they were when we first held the discussions.
While we spend more of our time continuing to look forward, seeking new opportunities and challenges to address, if you have a spare hour or so, I would recommend a flick through the summary report which is available for download here.
The NCD is the largest association in The Netherlands, exclusive for top level management, commissioners and boardmembers. NCD organized a minicongres on Trends in Technlogy - in celebration of heir 60-year anniversary. I spoke on the subject of social business and trends.
Moren info on: http://www.ncd.nl/agenda/evenement/38/
Global Ubiquitous Connectivity and the New Business World of Value FlowsVictor Cho
An overview of the impact of Global Ubiquitous Connectivity on our world and in particular on the very nature of business. This deck introduces the BBCC Value Flow Matrix, an important new tool for assessing connected business models, and provides examples and tools on how to apply it.
This is the first part of a two part series that can be found on http://www.victorcho.info. The second part details the rise of Task Based Social Networks and discusses their implications.
This deck describes the rise of Task-based social networks--a new kind of social network that will be built upon the Relationship-based social networks that are now forming or have formed across the world.
This is part 2 of a 2 part series on Global Ubiquitous Connectivity and its impact on society at large. The first part can be found here on Slideshare or at: http://www.victorcho.info.
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
Presentation on key social trends related to digital technologies, presented at the infoactivism workshop organized by Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska for the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
The working world is in a complete transformation. The processing factors are known. And the digital is a part of the problems :
- digital technologies transform the nature of any jobs that humans still do : jobs use computer more often, they are more abstract, and more mobile.
- Relationships and time are porous, and this porosity is all consuming.
- and recent studies have shown that robotics and smart systems will continue to destroy creative, service-related and skilled occupations.
Why are the transitions not easy ? This document presents 3 alternative models for work and employment organisation, work distribution and redistribution.
Dopo la rivoluzione industriale ed in piena rivoluzione digitale una nuova sfida si affaccia nel mondo digitale:
Gli Open Data. I grandi cambiamenti del mondo economico ed istituzionale, a livello nazionale ed internazionale, stanno mettendo in discussione i rapporti tra cittadini, imprese, amministrazioni, istituzioni ed ovviamente politica.
Gli Open Data possono aiutare a ridisegnare questi rapporti ?
Cosa sono, cosa rappresentano, quali sono le opportunità che si aprono con l'apertura e e libera fruizione delle informazioni?
Il “data-journalism” è un filone in piena esplosione soprattutto negli Stati Uniti e in Gran Bretagna. Quali sono le attività in italia?
La colaboración como motor empresarial - Ouisharesimbyosi
Ouishare Talk en Zaragoza Activa. Septiembre 2013.
La colaboración como herramienta para incrementar la eficiencia de un emprendedor. La colaboración como vector que esta modulando el modelo de negocios tradicional.
Más allá de la Economía Colaborativa #EBE14OuiShare
Más allá de la economía colaborativa en la conferencia EBE 2014. Las plataformas del consumo y la economía colaborativa se están comiendo al mundo. A la vez se plantean nuevos retos asociados a esta nueva economía P2P
Le slide dell'intervento di Maria Chiara Pettenati, dirigente area di ricerca dell'Indire,Laura Parigi, ricercatrice Indire e Alessia Rosa, primo ricercatore Indire (Nucleo Nord) per la prima giornata nazionale per referenti della Formazione Neoassunti 2015/2016 organizzata a Roma il 18 Febbraio 2016.
La economía colaborativa pasa del "user center" al "comunity center". ¿Como se puede ser más eficiente mediante la generación de comunidades alrededor de una organización?. Descubre las claves básicas del COMUNITY BUILDING. Masterclass en ICEMD, 26 de Marzo, 2015.
Antenna for Social Innovation. We Share. Who Wins: unravelling the controvers...ESADE
In this fourth edition of the Antenna for Social Innovation, we discuss one of the most fascinating and controversial economic transformations: the growth of the collaborative economy. This transformation has been accompanied by a series of events that is destined to revolutionise our societies – namely, the expansion of the Internet, as well as the rise of smartphones, social networks, advances in artificial intelligence, and the capacity to instantly process huge amounts of information at a tiny cost. We talk about societies in a broad sense because the new wave of developments in the digital economy will transform the economic sphere of our lives – as well as the workplace, tax system, educational models, consumption patterns, and communications.
World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Sharing Economy Position Paper June...Collaborative Lab
This paper seeks to place the sharing economy on the global agenda for companies, governments, communities and entrepreneurs alike. It is presented by the WEF YGL Sharing Economy Working Group which is part of the Circular Economy Innovation and New Business Models Initiative.
The goal of this paper is to explain what the sharing economy is and why it holds potential, focusing on key principles, drivers, trends and models. It maps out critical factors and conditions required for access-based business models to scale up, and identifies both opportunities and possible challenges to their success. It also embeds the sharing economy within a larger context and movement focused on resource efficiency, sustainability, changing demographics and user behaviors.
The sharing economy represents one of several substantive investigations by the WEF community into new disruptive business models that are impacting industries, value chains and systems around the world. It is intended to serve as an input to future WEF summits, sessions and engagements focused on the future of business, cities, technology, demographic shifts and a variety of sector-specific verticals.
This is the full deck containing the outcomes of the five main lab sessions we hosted at House Party 15.
We hosted four other sessions: Game Tech and Match, Connected Care, Crowdfunded housing and How to set up an innovation lab. They will follow in the future.
Watch out for the blog post where you can nominate yourself to be a part of a test!
The sharing economy: How economic activity is shifting to, and being enhanced...Andrea Silvello
The term sharing economy is widely perceived as a synonym of “collaborative economy” or “on demand economy”, but it actually represents a very wide concept which lacks a common definition.
Rachel Botsman defines the collaborative economy as “a system that activates the untapped value of all kinds of assets through models and marketplaces that enable greater efficiency and access ”. The concept behind the sharing economy is indeed very simple: anything that is not being used can be rented out. This framework includes services such as renting, bartering, loaning, gifting, and swapping of underutilized material or immaterial possessions. These idle resources are useful to create an efficient circular system by reallocating or trading them with people who want or need them. Recycling, upcycling and sharing the lifecycle of products are common features of the sharing economy. “Waste” is the result of a misallocation of resources: today technology often allows us to easily correct that misallocation, by redistributing or trading a great variety of “sleeping” assets and resources (table 1). For instance, Uber and AirBnb platforms allow customers to share cars and homes, while TaskRabbit connects people with free time with people who need someone to perform small tasks.
Crowdfunding for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation - PrefaceWalter Vassallo
Today, millions of people are bakers, in 2020 there will be billions in “Third Industrial Revolution”.
Crowdfunding for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the first all-round, most relevant and comprehensive book on crowdfunding which involves prestigious worldwide experts on crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowd-innovation, crowd-economy.
It is the latest pivotal source to enhance opportunities and benefits from the use of crowdfunding in modern society. The book is addressed to a wide audience which encompass: students, researchers, citizens and general public, entrepreneurs, startups, associations, cooperatives, public institutions and policy makers. It is an interdisciplinary publication that counts numerous research contributions from a wide variety of disciplines including applied sciences, information technology and innovation, sociology, marketing, economics, law, policy and regulatory frameworks. By reading this book anyone can become a “visionary thinker”, one who knows how to translate trends and changes into unique opportunities. The book is not limited to innovation. Innovation is a driver which results in a positive change, that makes life better. The book provides a precise view of the World to come, a broad view of the Knowledge Era in which we live, in order to understand the changes taking place to grasp opportunities and advantages.
https://www.igi-global.com/book/crowdfunding-sustainable-entrepreneurship-innovation/147126
What we know about the Sharing Economy - World Forum Lille 2015Ghislain Delabie
Benita Matofska, global sharing expert, was invited to the World Forum for a Responsible Economy (Lille - 2015) to share insights about the sharing economy, its potential, the main challenges and how Compare & Share is providing some solutions.
The following document was elaborated by InPeople Consulting & UpsideRisks as a consecuence of the participation at the Conference Exponential Finance and their own research.
Future of Collaboration - ISPIM - Budapest - 15 June 2015Future Agenda
As part of the global future agenda programme we ran an event in partnership with ISPIM in Budapest in June 2015. This focused on the future of collaboration and drew together different issues raised about collaboration from several strands of the future agenda events to date. The aim of the event wss to critique, enhance, add and build a clearer view of how collaboration will change over the next decade and what will be some of the key impacts and implications. This documents includes both the key ouputs and the starting point for this discussion.
Link Tank is a London based think tank that exists to bridge the gap between expert practitioners and employment and skills policy makers.
The world is changing quickly, and technology need to play a central role in the future of the UK’s employment and skills strategy. We believe its important for policy makers to see emerging trends and opportunities.
Similar to Old vs. New Economy. Keynote speech at EUKN EGTC Conference - Civic Economy in Amsterdam (20)
Enspiral & OuiShare: lessons from a participatory networkOuiShare
These are slides from a workshop that gives participants methods, context, tools and experience with open participatory systems, based on the lived experience of members of the non-hierarchical networks Enspiral and OuiShare.
It explores experiments around leadership, governance, and collaborative financing as well as the crucial cultural practices embedded in Enspiral and Ouishare that enable a high level of experimentation.
Présentation OuiShare - Conseil des Générations FuturesOuiShare
Le 24 novembre 2016 s'est tenue la Commission de l'économie du partage au Conseil des Générations Futures de la Mairie de Paris. Cette commission a pour objectif d’établir des propositions et recommandations concrètes sur l’économie collaborative à la Maire et au Conseil de Paris.
Système alimentaire 3.0 : les voies de la disruptionOuiShare
On nous dit que tous les secteurs vont se faire ubériser. Toutes les industries, dépiécées. Si l’on entend l’ubérisation comme une “entrée agressive sur un marché, anciennement régulé, via une plateformisation et flexibilisation de la main d’oeuvre” cette forme de disruption peut-elle s’appliquer au secteur alimentaire?
Atelier OuiShare Territoires - Festival AutonomyOuiShare
Ville collaborative, réinventer la mobilité
L'économie collaborative est un vaste sujet et les pratiques collaboratives prennent une ampleur insoupçonnée. Comment mettre en oeuvre des actions pour devenir acteur de ma ville et contribuer à l'amélioration de la mobilité au sein de mon territoire ? Comment les pratiques collaboratives répondent aux besoins des territoires ?
Camille Bosque-Faire soi-même” pour retrouver du sensOuiShare
Les « makers » sont des personnes aux profils variés qui prônent le retour au faire à l’aide du numérique. Du capteur de température à l’agriculture urbaine, ils sont bien capables de révolutionner le monde. Et vous, ça vous tente ?
http://ouisharefest.com
Frederic Griffaton- Mettre le lien humain au coeur du collaboratifOuiShare
Les plateformes d’échange et de partage se multiplient, et nous en sommes tous des utilisateurs, mais aujourd’hui que reste-t-il de l’humain ? Venez faire un tour d’horizon des initiatives et des projets qui mettent le lien social au coeur de leur métier, par conviction, par choix et surtout par amour de l’autre.
http://ouisharefest.com
Jaime Arredondo- How to Cut Your Pollution While Growing Economy, Nature & So...OuiShare
Moore’s law says that the computational power of machines doubles every 18 months. As a consequence, change becomes the only constant. We live in a world of constant hacking, rewiring and upgrading of various systems around us. Same goes for the human OS. Programmed early in our development by powerful forces such as culture, religion and family, this system, more than any other, requires a continuous upgrade to reflect who we are, what we want to become and where we are heading. Come join us for this powerful and insightful session as we learn how to hack, rewire and upgrade the ultimate supercomputer between your ears - your mind.
Nathan Schneider- Introduction to Platform CooperativismOuiShare
The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy—one owned and governed by the people who depend on it. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers’ lives. Online platforms often exploit and exacerbate existing inequalities in society, even while promising to be the great equalizers. Could the Internet be owned and governed differently? What if Uber drivers could set up their own platform, or if cities could control their own version of Airbnb? What if we had an Internet of ownership?
http://ouisharefest.com
Marguerite Grandjean- Power to the Contributors? Governance Models in the Col...OuiShare
Today, collaborative organizations rely on many external contributors to provide the services they offer. How can platforms share the decision-making power with their external contributors? How can they reward and associate contributors while meeting their own organizational requirements? How can governance be a factor to make an organization more sustainable as well as making the stakeholders feel recognized?
Many collaborative organizations are already experimenting with governance processes and structures in order to better integrate their stakeholders. To illustrate this, Marguerite will share the experience of 3 French examples drawn the study "Gouvernances", which she is co-leading for OuiShare:
- France Barter is a B2B barter system structured as a multistakeholder cooperative.
- Mon Pti Voisinage is a neighborhood social network that aggregates collaborative services in a given area.
- Practishare is a open source no nprofit platform that helps communities share solutions and organize knowledge.
http://ouisharefest.com
Danny Spitzberg- Communities for Commons: Ideas for EngagementOuiShare
Volunteer labor is all over the sharing economy. Much of it builds brands and economic value that becomes property of platforms themselves. Building better platforms means more than dialing-up "engagement" – it involves welcoming and supporting volunteer labor in all of its forms. This talk shares two stories, explores the tension of labor for lifestyle and livelihood, and pulls out lessons for cooperative and commons-based platforms.
William Mougayar- The Promise of a Centerless WorldOuiShare
Decentralization is already here, but it hasn't been evenly distributed. Based on his research, William Mougayar describes where we are in decentralization along three dimensions: Trust: Law, Governance, Industry Services (Financial, Government, Trade, Healthcare), Wealth: Economic Production, Flow of value, Transactions, and Information: Content, Privacy, Security. In this talk, Mougayar also defines the building blocks of decentralization: Peer-to-Peer Models, Trust-based Systems and Services, Autonomous Organizations, and Wealth Creation Methods in the New Crypto-Economy.
Keynote by William Mougayar + Q&A by Brennan Novak
Moderators
http://ouisharefest.com
Esko Kilpi- Challenging Our Traditional Beliefs About Business and WorkOuiShare
The words of business adn work is at a pivotal moment of change: we finally uderstand that post-industrial work IS interaction. The relational view is a new conceptualization of work, and is opening up new opportunities: it is time to change the focus from creating jobs to creating customers — in new, innovative and interactive ways.
To quote Max Planck: “If you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at change.”
We need to challenge our beliefs in work and business.
http://ouisharefest.com
Tim Leberecht- The Despensibles: Automation, Romance, and the Future of WorkOuiShare
Tim, the acclaimed author of "The Business Romantic" a revolutionary book that brought new attention to the emotional and social aspects of business will share with the audience his take on the future of work
http://ouisharefest.com
Francesca Pick- Factor Human: OuiShare's Experiment in DecentralizationOuiShare
In this talk, Francesca will share insights and learnings from the decentralization experiment carried out with the tool Backfeed for several weeks in the OuiShare Fest team. She will discuss the human barriers to implementing new tools and technologies, as well as the moral questions raised by the experiment.
http://ouisharefest.com
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof- The State of the Nation: Blochains, Not BordersOuiShare
The Nation State, as we know it, is going away. It’s an outdated construct that does more harm than good, because of its ‘one-size-fits-all’ modality. How do we ensure that the post-nation state reality doesn’t turn into an even more dystopian society, a la 1984? By creating open source protocols for city states and virtual nations, we will build a free and competitive market for governance. Indeed, two already existing models will be discussed, Liberland and Bitnation.
http://ouisharefest.com
Duncan McLaren- A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable CitiesOuiShare
Based on research for our MIT book “Sharing Cities”, this presentation argues the case for cities to harness sharing for justice and sustainability. I will highlight the failings of economic framings of sharing and smartness, which position commercial intermediaries as the go-to experts on sharing; rather than the cities, charities and communities that have much longer and deeper experience in managing shared resources, spaces, infrastructures, facilities and services.
Such framings also underlie fruitless polarized public debate over the potential and role of commercial sharing platforms such as Uber and Airbnb. Genuine sharing cities need to both enable and regulate the collaborative economy. But they also have the power and opportunity to harness the potential of sharing to rebuild social capital and a shared urban commons. I will outline ways in which cities that open themselves to cultural and political disruption can flourish by engaging with the rich diversity of sharing practices and organisations that are enabled by modern technologies and collective values.
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Old vs. New Economy. Keynote speech at EUKN EGTC Conference - Civic Economy in Amsterdam
1. Keynote@Conference on the Civic Economy - Time to get ready Organized by European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)
in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam &Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam 20.10.2014.
Old Economy vs. New Economy
A juxtaposition.
Time to get ready for the civic economy.
By Thomas Dönnebrink,
OuiShare Connector Germany
Freelance Expert Collaborative Economy
Illustrations by Thuy Chinh Duong
2. Präsentation by Thomas Dönnebrink - OuiShare Connector Germany & Freelance Expert Collaborative Economy / Illustrations by Thuy Chinh Duong
@ Conference on the Civic Economy - Organized by (EUKN) in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam & Pakhuis de Zwijger - Amsterdam 20.10.2014
3. Thank you very much for the invitation to this Conference and for entrusting me with the first
keynotes of the day.
My name is Thomas Dönnebrink. - I am based in Berlin working as a Freelancer on the
Collaborative Economy. And I am one of the connectors of OuiShare, a global network of people
interested in promoting a collaborative & sharing society.
I want to present you a comparison of two economies: One that I want to call old, as it starts
showing symptoms of age. And one that I want to call new – for now – as it is about to be born. –
Or more precisly – is already alive and kicking.
Of course this juxtaposition will be schematic, at times provocative and therefore simplistic.
Nevertheless I hope this presentation will contribute to the conference some food for thoughts
and debate about the bigger pictures and can add some cents to the discussion of what is new
and might be promising and challenging.
4.
5. Here is what you can expect
First I will give you an overview of the Collaborative Economy, my home turf and the angle from
which I will look at the contrasted economies in the second part.
In the third part I shortly present what some people think will happen next.
I assume succeeding speakers and contributors will follow up with much more detail and
precision hereafter.
6.
7. Let‘s start with regarding the collaborative economy.
We distinguish four different fields, which of course overlap & reinforce each other.
Best known and most widely spread is the field of collaborative consumption.
Less known, but likely even more disruptive to the status quo in the future are the fields of
collaborative production and collaborative finance.
In a fourth field called openness or collaborative learning, concepts like open software, open
hardward, open knowledge, open government and governance are summarized.
Aspects of this field of openness play an important role in all three fields mentioned before.
I will add a few words to each of the four fields later.
8.
9. Talking about the collaborative economy we like to start with a quote of Chris Anderson, the
former chief editor of the Wired magazines, who summarizes well the first 20 years of this
millenium in two sentences.
He says: The past decade was about finding new collaboration and innovation models on the
web. The next decade will be about applying them to the real world.
10.
11. Let me elaborate on his statement for a minute.
Looking at the first decade we see platform like Wikipedia, Linux, Wordpress, flickr, Facebook,
Youtube &Twitter popping up and growing strong and influencial.
They allow extending communities to share music, knowledge, code, picture, videos, news with
the entire world.
A whole generation, the DIGITAL NATIVES, have grown up in this online world of collaboration &
sharing. It is part of their natural DNA and behaviour.
What‘s next is that this behaviour and attitude of collaboration & sharing gets applied to the real
world. Thousands of platforms - like blabla car, arbnb or food sharing - examples used in the
illustration - are emerging everywhere, enabling people to access and share not just digital goods
online but real world assets.
What we are seeing is a merging of the online & offline world.
12.
13. To summarize this development, we can distinguish four phases:
Phase 1 We connect to share information
Phase 2 We connect to each other to form social networks
Phase 3 We connect to share bits
Phase 4 We connect to access and share atoms
In a nutshell: sharing & communal use reaches new dimensions through new technology and new
experiences.
14.
15. What is driving this collaborative economy? We see four main drivers at work.
No.1. Rapid expansion of technological innovation and digitalisation through Internet & mobile
No. 2 A longing for community & participation after decades of autistic materialism.
No. 3 An increasing environmental consiousness &awareness of the planet‘s limits
No. 4 Economic constraints. Necessity as the mother of innovation
Driver 2 &3 are actually to a large extent a renaissance of traditional behaviours and modes of
connectedness,
Nevertheless in their drive to alter the status quo we can consider them to be expressions of
social innovation.
These drivers of social innovation are joining force with the drivers of technological innovation
and are therefore creating a new disruptive quality
which I suggest to call COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
I consider this collaborative innovation - an important origin as well as engine - for the value shift
I see unfoalding.
16.
17. There are certain pre-conditions to the collaborative economy.
1. Trust: Digital Technology, GPS, Social Netzwerks are enabling collaborative technologies like e.g
reputation systemes to create Trust. Mistrusted strangers become trusted frangers or friends.
2. Belief in the commons is created by: a value shift concerning importance of property, life styles
& aims in life.
3. Idle capacity is increasingly realized and considered inefficent and wasteful (classical example:
the car 23/24)
4. Value of growing networks allow for better and better matching and transaction costs are
developping towards 0.
The more the pre-conditions are improving - and all four do - the faster and wider the
collaborative economy will extend.
18.
19. Now let‘s have a closer look at the four areas of the collaborative economy. First: collaborative
consumption.
WHAT do we share?
(Almost) Everything can and will be shared as long or as soon as necessary pre-condition -
mentioned in the last slide - are met.
HOW do we share?
We actually are observing a renaissance of traditional marketplace behaviour like reselling,
bartering, renting, lending, etc.
We do share without or with money and with or without using technology
WHY do we share?
Even though economic considerations of saving or earning money often comes first.
Environmental and social reasons of achieving more recource efficiency and connectivness with
other people gains increasing importance.
So what are the resulting effect?
1. Access beats ownership
2. Raise of new business modells
3. Raise of new Collaborative Lifestyles/Opportunities
In a nutshell: Not just what we consume, but how we consume changes
20.
21. Second: Collaborative Production
Coworking spaces are doubling every 12 months for five years in the row now.
More and more people are coming together in an increasing number of fabrication labs and
hackerspaces to develope, create and produce collaboratively.
22.
23. In the past preaggregated capital & infrastructure was usually the precondition to start
production.
Now increasingly easier and cheaper access to means of production give more and more people
the opportunity to become producers.
This can be considered a democratization of production.
Open Hardware provides one with licence free tools and components.
FabLabs & Hackerspaces gives one access to spaces and machinery.
Open Communities enables one to hook up with the right people and get free access to valuable
knowlege
Marketplaces like Kickstarter or Etsy gives everybody the opportunity to raise funds or sell their
produce
This democratization of production will also foster its (Re)localisation.
Michael Bauwens encapsulated it well in his speech at the recent Degrowth confrence in Leipzig:
If it‘s light it should be global. If it‘s heavy it should be local.
24.
25. Just to give an example how far collaborative production can challenge established structures,
I want to present Wikispeed. An open source car project.
The achieves 100 MPG, runs on less than 3 liters. The first prototype was built in 3 months by 40
volunteers with almost no budget. The car consists of modular components bringing product
cycles down to just days allowing rapid experimentation & application of new innovations.
In contrast the traditional automotive industry has product cycles of seven years, involving big fix
costs, both making change & innovation costs huge.
How disruptive these differences will play out in the years to come has to be seen.
26.
27. The collaborative Finance seems to develop into another game changer.
We distinguish between crowdfunding, crowdinvesting & crowd lending.
All variants provides everybody with new opportunity to raise money & bypass banks.
The 5,1 Billion $ of wordwide collaborative finance raised in 2013 were still neglectable peanuts
for the banking industry.
The 1000 Billion $ the Forbes Magazine predicts for 2020 however will not feel like peanuts
anymore.
A look at the Top 11 crowdfunding campaigns to date shows that each of the hardware, video
game, or real estate projects has raised multiple millions.
Even a funny campagne to make a potato salad managed to raise 55.000 $
28.
29. Due to time constraints I can‘t dig into the potential of the vast disruptive force of this fourth field
of the collaborative economy.
For the sake of completeness I just want to emphasize the fact that the free online encyclopedia
Wikipedia managed to make proprietary versions - like the 200-year-old Britannica or the highly
funded Microsoft Encarta obsolete within a few years.
30.
31. The collaborative economy is on the rise and increasingly sinks into the public awareness as these
front page covers of widespread magazine Illustrates.
As the Economist puts it:“It’s time to start caring about sharing”.
32.
33. To sum up the first part - The Collaborative Economy is changing
NOT ONLY how we ...
... live, travel & move around
... learn, work, produce & finance
BUT ALSO HOW we
... experience our environment & communal life
... And how we think & act
As Charles Eisenstein, the US social philosopher says:
Every system is build upon values and a story. If you want to change the system you have change
the underlying values and the story that upholds it. The best leverage to system change.
34.
35. This leads us to take a look at the systems: old economy vs. new economy.
As mentioned at the beginning the assessments will be schematic, at times provocative.
36.
37. To give a first overview of the old economy and society.
It is characterized by the two main players: the state and private enterprises looking for power
and for profits. Both are organized in hierarchical pyramids and function in a top-down manner.
Dominant features are competition, order & control achieved by means of extrinsic motivation
via rules, punishment or incentives. The state and corporations function as intermediaries, which
try to insure, control & secure scarcity via access barriers, access control and monopolies in order
to guarantee (high) profit and (unchallenged) power. Accompanying inefficiencies and
intransparencies are accepted or even desired. Personal property is of highest value allowing
exclusivity & status, also echoing the underlying worldview of the homo oeconomicus trying to
maximise personal benefit
38.
39. A first overview of the new economy and society draws a different picture
People have become players themself. Peers organize the satisfaction of their needs among each
other - beyond market & state They are organized in peer networks that show horizontal
structures like a pancake. Dominant features are collaboration, trust, self-organisation and
intrinsic motivation. Old division between producer vs. Consumer or employer vs. Employee are
blurring or merging into one. - People become prosumers & microentrepreneurs. Peers interact
directly with each other - bypassing intermediaries and thus creating more transparency and
efficiency. Personal property is valued less as access to property and participation in the
commons allows for inclusion & belonging also echoing the underlying worldview of the homo
collaborans wanting to do what benefits his/her surrounding.
40.
41. Let me elaborate on this first overflight for a few minutes. I will continue the juxtaposition of the
old and new economy under six headings. Starting with the general circumscription.
The old economy is a market or trade economy, but how to call the new one: Collaborative? P2P?
Care? Solidarity? Or Civic Economy. Open to debate. The focus of the old economy is on the
material world, on objects and products that have to be pushed into the market.
Success is expressed and measured in GDP performances. As a greed economy people try to take
as much as they can and give as little as possible. Internalising profits and externalising costs,
It is Ego-centric and extractive as well as exploitive in nature.
The focus of the new economy is people and the immaterial world.
Success is expressed in Gross National Happiness Index or other forms of measurements.
As a need economy people give as much as they can and take what they need (like in families and
circle of friends). It is Eco-centric and additive as well as contributive in nature.
The old economy shows a tendency to create inequality, the new economy more equality.
42.
43. Concerning the conception of the world of both systems
We already mentioned the homo economicus, the lonely fighter
separated from nature which he treats and exploits as commodity
and separated from other human beings with who he competes for resources
in a world perceived as full of scarcity. Focus is on quantity, transactions, products and objects.
Success is measured in absolute and relative aggregation of private ownership.
The homo collaborans, considers himself as part of nature which he tries to sustain-and
he feels connected with his fellow humans with who he collaborates and shares goods and
experiences in a world perceived as full of abundance. Focus in on quality, connectedness,
people & relationships. Success is measured in felicity, usefulness and meaning.
The old economy shows a tendency to exclusion & enclosure,
the new economy is more inclusive, open & transparent.
44.
45. Speaking of planet & environment.
The old economy regards & treats nature & natural resources as commodities, fit for exploitation.
It‘s sales oriented economy is based on accelerating product-in trash-out cycles increasingly
accumulating waste and toxic residues.
Depletion of the resources finally create scarcity & conflict.
The new economy considers itself an inseparable, interdependent & symbiotic part of nature.
The decelerated need oriented economy is organized in closed cycles, avoiding disposal or use of
toxic components.
Circular arrangements and fair distributions avoid scarcity & conflict.
The old economy creates monocultures and degenerates the natural basis of existence.
The new economy has a stronger inclination to (bio)diversity & sustaining the natural livelihood.
46.
47. Contemplating people in both systems
People in the old economy tend to have a more static position, usually fulfilling one role
(like one profession, one job, or a certain task)
Often this role is defined and directed by others and express a dependency relationship.
Regulations, control, punishment and incentives become means for extrinsic motivation.
People in the new economy find themselves in more dynamic settings.
They tend to have multiple roles and thus increasing options and chances
for more autonomous and active lifestyles.
Which not necessary will make life easier or more enjoyable
as we have to relearn to deal with regained freedom and self-determination.
48.
49. Concerning interaction in both systems
The old economy is dealing with independent, isolated entities. Independence and dependence
are the prevailing relationships. Competition is the dominant pattern causing entities to work
against each other creating a dog-eats-dog-society where exploitation, exclusion and
monopolization is rewarded with a competitive advantage. Regulations, laws and control have to
keep mutual mistrust in check & balance.
The new economy consists of networks of connected entities. Interdependence is the prevailing
relationship. Collaboration is the default fostering a trust-enhancing society
where sharing, exchange, network effects &the activation of the full potential of the people
achieves better results.
50.
51. And finally looking at the comparision of organizations.
In the old economy organisations are fairly static units with rigid borders & hierarchical top-down
rule. Goals & processes as well as responsibilities and liabilities are often well defined. Tasks &
responsibilities clearly separated. Both tend to specialization and entrenched habits. Established
structures often involve a great deal of fix costs - causing inflexibility & immobility.
Typical activities of the old economy are: control, direct, manage, plan ahead, aggregate, budget,
execute
In the new economy units tend to me more dynamic, flexible and created ad-hoc with crossing
borders and P2P self-organization.
Goals and processes are formulated ad-hoc or as needed.
Tasks & responsibilities are less separated leaving more space for serendipity & innovation.
The units are often lean and can therefore be very flexible and mobil.
Typical activities of the new economy are: coordinate, ad-hoc building & evaluation, enable,
improvise, experiment.
The old economy tends to centralization & bureaucratization. The new economy inclines more to
decentralization.
52.
53. The awareness is rising that our current economical system, the old economy, and the direction it
is heading is neither sustainable nor desirable.
A questionnaire of the conservative German media foundation Bertelsmann revealed
that 88% & 90% of the Germans and Austrians desire a new economic order
One that bears in mind the environment, sustainable resource usage & social balance in society.
A staggering result!
Now is the question, how to get to the other side?
And what will happen next?
54. Jeremy Rifkin,
Economist, Head of Foundation on Economic Trends:
Predicts hybrid economy &
eclips of capitalism till 2060
Leading to 3. industrial revolution
& collaborative commons
Charles Eisenstein
Visonary, Culture philosopher
Expects collapse of old system
due to a future crisis.
Prediction when & where
difficult - like snapping of tight rope.
55. Here two voices
1. Jeremy Rifkin, Economist & head of the Foundation on Economic Trends, makes a quite precise
prediction
He sees currently a parallel flourishing of both systems partially cooperating, partially competing.
Nevertheless he dates the eclipse of capitalism around the year 2060 and predicts that the old
model will cease to unilateral determine the economy. Reasons for this development are on the
one hand the increasing substitution of the old system through barter, DIY & cooperative
structure. People will have own solar panels instead of buying electricity, will share cars instead
buying an own ones and will exchange spaces among each other instead of renting hotel rooms
Another reason for the decline he sees in a paradox deeply embedded in the capitalist theory and
practice, the margin costs which turns problematic if they reach zero.
Charles Eisensteins, visionary and social philosopher, also expects a collapse of the old system,
but he says that it will be difficult to say when and where this will happen – most likely triggered
through some sort of crisis or disaster.
He compares the old system to a big rope, difficult to cut if it’s loose, but as it tightens a small cut
can be enough to snatch it. When and where this will happen he considers unpredictable.
56. “Another world
Is not only possible,
she is on her way.
On a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati Roy
Indian author & activist
57. I want to close my key-note with a quote of Arundhati Roy, Indian Author & Activist
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing
I think the following two days we will hear many stories of people, projects and initiatives that
will express this spirit of another world possible. They are not the only ones. They are popping up
everywhere: in this city, in this country, all over Europe and in more and more parts of the world.
It is time to get ready for the new economy - and to name the newborn – “civic economy“ - feels
like a good choice.
59. OuiShare
Is a global community, think and do-tank.
Our mission is to build and nurture a collaborative society
by connecting people, organizations and ideas
around fairness, openness and trust.
Shared values & principles
Openness – Transparency – Independence – Impact –
Feedback - Action – MeetPeopleInRealLife –
PermanentBeta – Inclusion - Play
60. Community Building
1 Magazin ouishare.net
2 Global Conferences
2 Tours (LATAM/Europa)
5 Internationale Summits
100+ Facebook Groups
200+ OuiShare Events
19000+ Facebook Fans
> 30 cities in Europa, Lateinamerica & Near Osten
2. International Conference 05.-07. May 2014
“Age of communities”
62. Allowing local governments to map priorities for local objectives
to the opportunities in the collaborative development
3 Phases:
• Awareness (understanding opportunities)
• Facilitation (mapping resources, understanding problems)
• Building (building or igniting collaborative structures)
1. Presentation on Smart City Exhibition Bologna (22.-24.10.2014).
See www.smartcityexhibition.it/en or www.sharitories.net
For more information contact simone@ouishare.net or Stina
63. The Collaborative Sharitories Toolkit will consist of three phases
1. Awareness phase. Helping authorities to map local priorities
to a collaborative economy strategy for addressing questions
like: how to improve mobility, or how to use to generate more
income, or how to adjust regulations. Support explanation
cards and a serious board game will help understand the
opportunities.
2. Facilitation phase. First helping authorities to map existing
players and resources and understand their problems. Second
look into current regulations
3. Building phase. Helping authorities to build up collaborative
structures both directly or by igniting the collaborative
community to help them through challenge prices or other
means and tools.
64. Thank you !
Thomas Dönnebrink
OuiShare Connector Germany
Freelancer Collaborative Economy
www.about.me/thomasdoennebrink
thomas@ouishare.net
@tdoennebrink
+49 176 32335744
Illustrations by Thuy Chinh Duong
chinh@harry.do @chinhzilla
Editor's Notes
Thank you very much for the invitation to this Conference and for entrusting me with the first keynotes of the day.
My name is Thomas Dönnebrink. - I am based in Berlin working as a Freelancer on the Collaborative Economy.
And I am one of the connectors of OuiShare, a global network of people interested in promoting a collaborative & sharing society.
I want to present you a comparison of two economies: One that I want to call old, as it starts showing symptoms of age.
And one that I want to call new – for now – as it is about to be born. – Or more precisly – is already alive and kicking.
Of course this juxtaposition will be schematic, at times provocative and therefore simplistic. Nevertheless I hope this presentation will contribute to the conference some food for thoughts and debate about the bigger pictures and can add some cents to the discussion of what is new and might be promising and challenging.
Here is what you can expect
First I will give you an overview of the Collaborative Economy, my home turf and the angle from which I will look at the contrasted economies in the second part.
In the third part I shortly present what some people think will happen next.
I assume succeeding speakers and contributors will follow up with much more detail and precision hereafter.
Let‘s start with regarding the collaborative economy.
We distinguish four different fields, which of course overlap & reinforce each other.
Best known and most widely spread is the field of collaborative consumption.
Less known, but likely even more disruptive to the status quo in the future are the fields of collaborative production and collaborative finance.
In a fourth field called openness or collaborative learning, concepts like open software, open hardward, open knowledge, open government and governance are summarized.
Aspects of this field of openness play an important role in all three fields mentioned before.
I will add a few words to each of the four fields later.
Talking about the collaborative economy we like to start with a quote of Chris Anderson, the former chief editor of the Wired magazines,
who summarizes well the first 20 years of this millenium in two sentences.
He says: The past decade was about finding new collaboration and innovation models on the web.
The next decade will be about applying them to the real world.
Let me elaborate on his statement for a minute.
Looking at the first decade we see platform like Wikipedia, Linux, Wordpress, flickr, Facebook, Youtube &Twitter popping up and growing strong and influencial.
They allow extending communities to share music, knowledge, code, picture, videos, news with the entire world.
A whole generation, the DIGITAL NATIVES, have grown up in this online world of collaboration & sharing. It is part of their natural DNA and behaviour.
What‘s next is that this behaviour and attitude of collaboration & sharing gets applied to the real world.
Thousands of platforms - like blabla car, arbnb or food sharing - examples used in the illustration - are emerging everywhere,
enabling people to access and share not just digital goods online but real world assets.
What we are seeing is a merging of the online & offline world.
To summarize this development, we can distinguish four phases:
Phase 1 We connect to share information Phase 2 We connect to each other to form social networks
Phase 3 We connect to share bits
Phase 4 We connect to access and share atoms
In a nutshell: sharing & communal use reaches new dimensions through new technology and new experiences.
(0:45)
What is driving this collaborative economy?
We see four main drivers at work.
No.1. Rapid expansion of technological innovation and digitalisation through Internet & mobile
No. 2 A longing for community & participation after decades of autistic materialism.
No. 3 An increasing environmental consiousness and awareness of the planet‘s limits
No. 4 Economic constraints. Necessity as the mother of innovation
Driver 2 &3 are actually to a large extent a renaissance of traditional behaviours and modes of connectedness,
Nevertheless in their drive to alter the status quo we can consider them to be expressions of social innovation.
These drivers of social innovation are joining force with the drivers of technological innovation and are therefore creating a new disruptive quality
which I suggest to call COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
I consider this collaborative innovation - an important origin as well as engine - for the value shift I see unfoalding.
There are certain pre-conditions to the collaborative economy.
1. Trust: Digital Technology, GPS, Social Netzwerks are enabling collaborative technologies like e.g reputation systemes to create Trust. Mistrusted strangers become trusted frangers or friends.
2. Belief in the commons is created by: a value shift concerning importance of property, life styles & aims in life.
3. Idle capacity is increasingly realized and considered inefficent and wasteful (classical example: the car 23/24)
4. Value of growing networks allow for better and better matching and transaction costs are developping towards 0.
The more the pre-conditions are improving - and all four do - the faster and wider the collaborative economy will extend.
Now let‘s have a closer look at the four areas of the collaborative economy. First: collaborative consumption.
WHAT do we share?
(Almost) Everything can and will be shared as long or as soon as necessary pre-condition - mentioned in the last slide - are met.
HOW do we share?
We actually are observing a renaissance of traditional marketplace behaviour like reselling, bartering, renting, lending, etc.
We do share without or with money and with or without using technology
WHY do we share?
Even though economic considerations of saving or earning money often comes first. Environmental and social reasons of achieving more recource efficiency and connectivness with other people gains increasing importance.
So what are the resulting effect?
1. Access beats ownership
2. Raise of new business modells
3. Raise of new Collaborative Lifestyles/Opportunities
In a nutshell: Not just what we consume, but how we consume changes
Second: Collaborative Production
Coworking spaces are doubling every 12 months for five years in the row now.
More and more people are coming together in an increasing number of fabrication labs and hackerspaces to develope, create and produce collaboratively.
In the past preaggregated capital &infrastructure was usually the precondition to start production.
Now increasingly easier and cheaper access to means of production give more and more people the opportunity to become producers.
This can be considered a democratization of production.
Open Hardware provides one with licence free tools and components.
FabLabs & Hackerspaces gives one access to spaces and machinery.
Open Communities enables one to hook up with the right people and get free access to valuable knowlege
Marketplaces like Kickstarter or Etsy gives everybody the opportunity to raise funds or sell their produce
This democratization of production will also foster its (Re)localisation.
Michael Bauwens encapsulated it well in his speech at the recent Degrowth confrence in Leipzig: If it‘s light it should be global. If it‘s heavy it should be local.
Just to give an example how far collaborative production can challenge established structures, I want to present Wikispeed. An open source car project.
It achieves 100 MPG, runs on less than 3 liters. The first prototype was built in 3 months by 40 volunteers with almost no budget.
The car consists of modular components bringing product cycles down to just days allowing rapid experimentation & application of new innovations.
In contrast the traditional automotive industry has product cycles of seven years, involving big fix costs, both making change & innovation costs huge.
How disruptive these differences will play out in the years to come has to be seen.
The collaborative Finance seems to develop into another game changer.
We distinguish between crowdfunding, crowdinvesting & crowd lending.
All variants provides everybody with new opportunity to raise money & bypass banks.
The 5,1 Billion $ of wordwide collaborative finance raised in 2013 were still neglectable peanuts for the banking industry.
The 1000 Billion $ the Forbes Magazine predicts for 2020 however will not feel like peanuts anymore.
A look at the Top 11 crowdfunding campaigns to date shows that each of the hardware, video game, or real estate projects has raised multiple millions.
Even a funny campagne to make a potato salad managed to raise 55.000 $
Due to time constraints I can‘t dig into the potential of the vast disruptive force of this fourth field of the collaborative economy.
For the sake of completeness I just want to emphasize the fact that the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia managed to make proprietary versions - like the 200-year-old Britannica or the
highly funded Microsoft Encarta obsolete within a few years.
The collaborative economy is on the rise and increasingly sinks into the public awareness as these front page covers of widespread magazine Illustrates.
As the Economist puts it:“It’s time to start caring about sharing”.
To sum up the first part - The Collaborative Economy is changing
NOT ONLY how we ...
... live, travel & move around
... learn, work, produce & finance
BUT ALSO HOW we
... experience our environment & communal life
... And how we think & act
As Charles Eisenstein, the US social philosopher says: Every system is build upon values and a story. If you want to change the system you have change the underlying values and the story that upholds it. The best leverage to system change.
This leads us to take a look at the systems: old economy vs. new economy.
As mentioned at the beginning the assessments will be schematic, at times provocative.
To give a first overview of the old economy and society.
It is characterized by the two main players: the state and private enterprises looking for power and for profits.
Both are organized in hierarchical pyramides and function in a top-down manner.
Dominant features are competition, order & control achieved by means of extrinsic motivation via rules, punishment or incentives.
The state and corporations function as intermediaries which try to insure, control & secure scarcity
via access barriers, access control and monopolies in order to guarantee (high) profit and (unchallenged) power.
Accompanying inefficiencies and intransparencies are accepted or even desired.
Personal property is of highest value allowing exclusivity & status,
also echoing the underlying worldview of the homo oeconomicus trying to maximise personal benefit
A first overview of the new economy and society draws a different picture
People have become players themself.
Peers organize the satisfaction of their needs among each other - beyond market & state
They are organized in peer networks that show horizontal structures like a pancake.
Dominant features are collaboration, trust, self-organisation and intrinsic motivation.
Old division between producer vs. Consumer or employer vs. Employee are blurring or merging into one - People become prosumers & microentrepreneurs.
Peers interact directly with each other - bypassing intermediaries and thus creating more transparency and efficiency.
Personal property is valued less as access to property and participation in the commons allows for inclusion & belonging, also echoing the underlying worldview of the homo collaborans trying to do what benefits his/her surrounding.
Let me elaborate on this first overflight for a few minutes. I will continue the juxtaposition of the old and new economy under six headings. Starting with the general circumscription.
The old economy is a market or trade economy, but how to call the new one: Collaborative? P2P? Care? Solidarity? Or Civic Economy. Open to debate.
The focus of the old economy is on the material world, on objects and products that have to be pushed into the market.
Success is expressed and measured in GDP performances.
As a greed economy people try to take as much as they can and give as little as possible. Internalising profits and externalising costs,
It is Ego-centric and extractive as well as exploitive in nature.
The focus of the new economy is people and the immaterial world.
Success is expressed in Gross National Happiness Index or other forms of measurements.
As a need economy people give as much as they can and take what they need (like in families and circle of friends).
It is Eco-centric and additive as well as contributive in nature.
The old economy shows a tendency to create inequality, the new economy more equality.
Concerning the conception of the world of both systems
We already mentioned the homo economicus, the lonely fighter - separated from nature which he treats and exploits as commodity
and separated from other human beings with who he competes for resources in a world perceived as full of scarcity.
Focus is on quantity, transactions, products and objects.
Success is measured in absolute and relative aggregation of private ownership.
The homo collaborans, considers himself as part of nature which he tries to sustain-
and he feels connected with his fellow humans with who he collaborates and shares goods and experiences in a world perceived as full of abundance.
Focus in on quality, connectedness, people & relationships.
Success is measured in felicity, usefulness and meaning.
The old economy shows a tendency to exclusion & enclosure, the new economy is more inclusive, open &transparent.
Speaking of planet & environment.
The old economy regards and treats nature and natural resources as commodities, fit for exploitation.
It‘s sales oriented economy is based on accelerating product-in trash-out cyles increasingly accumulating waste and toxic residues.
Depletion of the resources finally create scarcity and conflict.
The new economy considers itself an unseparable, interdependent & symbiotic part of nature.
The decelerated need oriented economy is organized in closed cycles, avoiding disposal or use of toxic components.
Circular arrangments and fair distributions avoid scarcity and conflict.
The old economy creates monocultures and degenerates the natural basis of existence.
The new economy has a stronger inclination to (bio)diversity and sustaining the natural livelihood.
Contemplating people in both systems
People in the old economy tend to have a more static position, usually fulfilling one role (like one profession, one job, or a certain task)
Often this role is defined and directed by others and express a dependency relationship.
Regulations, control, punishment and incentives become means for extrinsic motivation.
People in the new economy find themselves in more dynamic settings.
They tend to have multiple roles and thus increasing options and chances for more autonomous and active lifestyles.
Which not necessary will make life easier or more enjoyable as we have to relearn to deal with regained freedom and self-determination.
Concerning interaction in both systems
The old economy is dealing with independent, isolated entities. - Independence and dependence are the prevailing relationships.
Competition is the dominant pattern causing entities to work against each other creating a dog-eats-dog-society
where exploitation, exclusion and monopolization is rewarded with a competitive advantage.
Regulations, laws and control have to keep mutual mistrust in check & balance.
The new economy consists of networks of connected entities. - Interdependence is the prevailing relationship.
Collaboration is the default fostering a trust-enhancing society
where sharing, exchange, network effects &the activation of the full potential of the people achieves better results.
And finally looking at the comparision of organizations.
In the old economy organisations are fairly static units with rigid borders and hierarchical top-down rule.
Goals and processes as well as responsibilities and liabilities are often well defined.
Tasks and responsibilities clearly separated. Both tend to specialisation and entranched habits.
Established structures often involve a great deal of fix costs – causing inflexibility and immobility.
In the new economy units tend to me more dynamic, flexible and created ad-hoc with crossing borders and P2P self-organisation.
Goals and processes are formulated ad-hoc or as needed.
Tasks and responsibilities are less separated leaving more space for serendipity and innovation.
The units are often lean and can therefore be very flexible and mobil.
The old economy tends to centralisation & bureaucratisation.
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Typical activities of the old economy are: control, direct, manage, plan ahead, aggregate, budget, execute
Typical activities of the new economy are: coordinate, ad-hoc building & evaluation, enable, improvise, experiment.
The awareness is rising that our current economical system, the old economy, and the direction it is heading is neither sustainable nor desirable.
A questionnaire of the conservative German media foundation Bertelsmann revealed that 88% and 90% of the Germans and Austrians desire a new economic order
One that bears in mind the environment, sustainable resource usage and social balance in society.
A staggering result!
Now is the question, how to get to the other side?
And what will happen next?
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Here two voices
Jeremy Rifkin, Economist & head of the Foundation on Economic Trends, makes a quite precise prediction
He sees currently a parallel flourishing of both systems partially cooperating, partially competing.
Nevertheless he dates the eclipse of capitalism around the year 2060 & predicts that the old model will cease to unilateral determine the economy.
Reasons for this development are on the one hand the increasing substitution of the old system through barter, DIY & cooperative structure.
People will have own solar panels instead of buying electricity, will share cars instead buying an own ones and will exchange spaces among each other instead of renting hotel rooms
Another reason for the decline he sees in a paradox deeply embedded in the capitalist theory & practice, the margin costs which turns problematic if they reach zero.
Charles Eisensteins, visionary and social philosopher, also expects a collapse of the old system, but he says that it will be difficult to say when and where this will happen
most likely triggered through some sort of crisis or disaster.
He compares the old system to a big rope, difficult to cut if it’s loose, but as it tightens a small cut can be enough to snatch it. When & where this will happen he considers unpredictable.
I want to close my key-note with a quote of Arundhati Roy, Indian Author & Activist
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing
I think the following two days we will hear many stories of people, projects and initiatives that will express this spirit of another world possible. They are not the only ones. They are popping up everywhere: in this city, in this country, all over Europe and in more and more parts of the world.
It is time to get ready for the new economy - and to name the newborn – “civic economy“ - feels like a good choice.
OuiShare =global community, think and do-tank.
Our mission is to build and nurture a collaborative and sharing society
by connecting people, organizations and ideas around fairness, openness and trust.
Shared values & Principles
Openness – Transparency – Independence – Impact – Feedback - Action – MeetPeopleInRealLife – PermanentBeta - Inclusion - Play
It will consist of three phases
Awareness phase. Helping authorities to map local priorities to a collaborative economy strategy for addressing questions like: how to improve mobility, or how to use to generate more income, or how to adjust regulations. Support explanation cards and a serious board game will help understand the opportunities.
Facilitation phase. First helping authorities to map existing players and resources and understand their problems. Second look into current regulations
Building phase. Helping authorities to build up collaborative structures both directly or by igniting the collaborative community to help them through challenge prices or other means and tools.