In the 2nd session of the CAPS Infoday (http://p2pvalue.eu/blog/caps-infoday-barcelona-9th-feb) , several projects funded under the first (previous) call of CAPS were presented. P2Pvalue project was presented by Mayo Fuster Morell of IGOPnet.cc. Fuster Morell provided an overview of the project and data on the extended research on collaborative production resulting from the project first year. Data such as which is the overall budget of social innovations project, governance models of collaborative projects or which are the conditions that favor value creation.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological development and demonstration
under grant agreement no 610961
European project P2Pvalue project
P2Pvalue
Decentralized platform for value generation in
commons-based peer production
Mayo Fuster Morell IGOPnet.cc

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An implementation of Google Drive Real Time API
over a distributed federated infrastructure
Lean principles inspiration
Empirical research for technological development

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What characterizes
Commons-Based Peer Production
(CBPP)?

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Delimitation Criteria
Collaborative production
+
Peer to peer relationships
Non traditional command
Limited mercantile exchange
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Common resources
Open access, reproducibility
& derivativeness
Mapping expansion & hybridification
of common based peer production

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Mapping CBPP:
Directory.P2Pvalue.eu

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2014 Stage of CBPP:
Expansion to more areas of activity

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CBPP ecosystem

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How does value creation
function in Commons-Based
Peer Production
(CBPP)?

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Traditional theories of value do not apply to CBPP
Alternative strategies to assess value
How to
measure
value?
What is
valuable?
How does value creation function
in CBPP?

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Community building
Mission accomplishment
Monetary value
Social use value
Reputation
Dimensions of value

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Community building
Scale of the communities is extremely variable.
Diverse degrees of participation (Power law 1/9/90)
Dimensions of value

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Mission accomplishment
Projects are quite satisfied!
Half the cases assign themselves a score between 7 and 10 in a
scale of 10
Dimensions of value

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Monetary value: Budget
39% of cases have budgets of less than 1000 euros
Dimensions of value

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Dimensions of value
Indicators of reputation and use
Google Pagerank, Alexa, Kred, Twitter followers, & Facebook likes
Strong correlation between them
Indicators available for all cases, but corporate based and non
transparent
Urge an open CBPP oriented indicator of value

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How does Governance function in
Commons-Based Peer Production
(CBPP)?

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CBPP are highly open
But cases very diverse in the way to be open
Index of openness to contributors: 50% > 6 up to 10 ranking scale
CBPP are highly free, too
Index of freedom of contributors: 77% > 2 of 3 indicators
(registration policy, participation policy, and user profile policy)
Self-governance of community interaction and roles
63% members can intervene in their interaction governance
Governance features

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Diverse permissions levels (hierarchies) are very
common
¨Hierarchies¨ are very frequent 88%
Gender balance in roles
Not always too ¨bad¨
25% of cases 50% of female administrators
Lack of rotation of roles !!!!!
Less than 5% of have a system for frequent rotation of administrators
Governance features

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Only a few cases (3%) use a proprietary license
14 different kinds of licenses
(Software, Hardware, Data, Content and more).
Most used license
General Public License (for software)
Creative Commons BY-SA (for content)
Almost 50% of cases includes a copyleft (or “share alike”) clause
Governance features: Licenses

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From more centralized to more decentralized
Data storage
From 88% to 95% store the users’ data in centralized servers
Type of infrastructure architecture:
32% Centralized not reproducible (central proprietary server)
Example: Facebook
46% Centralized but reproducible (FLOSS platforms in a central server)
Example: Wikipedia
3% Federated
Example: N-1/Lorea/Kune
5% Peer to Peer architecture
Example: GNUnet
P2Pvalue
platform
Infrastructure architecture

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There is not “a” single formula of “success”
Data: Not strong correlations with the whole sample.
There are different features and models that favour
success.
More self-governance favours reputational value creation
in specific areas of activity : FLOSS, Collaborative writing,
Collaborative research, Citizens media, Collaborative
archives, Community networks, and Open technology.
Different “models” of “success”:
Size and reputation versus collaborativeness
Conditions of “success”

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Thank you
Yochai Benkler talk @ CCCB
25 Feb 2015 18:30h