The document summarizes the P2Pvalue project, which aims to research and build tools to support collaborative production and value creation. The project partners include universities and research centers. The main goals are to study conditions that enable peer production, develop a decentralized software platform, build communities around common-based production, and make policy recommendations. Recent achievements include launching the project community and releasing initial research frameworks and a directory of peer production cases.

1. P2Pvalue www.p2pvalue.eu
Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation
in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet
Presenting partners: Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc/UAB) & Alessandro Gandini (University of Milan)
Project partners:
University of Surrey
IGOPnet.cc – Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
University of Milan
CNRS (Paris)
Universidad Complutense (Madrid)
P2P Foundation
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2. Main Goals:
Research & theory building on
conditions that favor collaborative
production & value creation
Development of a software
platform based on decentralized
infrastructure & private by design
Ecosystem and community
building on the field of commonbased peer production
Policy recommendations
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3. Main achievements (February 2014)
Public launching and debate of the project and community building around it (Barcelona & online, 22 January 2014) with achieving large attendance (150 people on side, 400 people online, and press coverage) and the involvement of
researchers, hackers, civic society and policy-making actors. Video available www.p2pvalue.eu
Celebration of a research seminar (23 & 24 January). Release next week of version 0.1 of theoretical and empirical
foundational and research framework of the project (WP 1):
i) Criteria of delimitation and typification of common-based peer production
ii) Factors of productivity: On governance, legal, technical, sustainability and reward systems design
iii) Dimensions of value
Research design - Mix methods plan: Statistical analysis of 300 cases; 20 digital etnographies: 200 surveys to
practitioners; techno-legal analysis of 4 case studies
Release alpha version of the directory of common based peer production: with design on the content, basic technical
features and 200 cases identified. www.p2pvalue.eu/directory
Organization of a “CAPS socio-technical platforms building” workshop with other 5 CAPs projects developing
technological platforms to identify common technological goals and synergy (Madrid, 10-11 December 2013).
Advancing on programing architecture of www.kune.cc – current prototype for P2Pvalue platform.
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4. Proposals for synergies between CAPS projects
Typification and delimitation of common-based peer
production >>> Helpful to get oriented in the field
Directory of cases >>> Useful to identify cases by areas of
activity and for networking
The results of our empirical research on the conditions that
favor collaborative production could inform the design of other
technological platforms
Adopting kune.cc platform based on decentralized infrastructure
Policy recommendations might apply to other projects
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