Chapter 3/5: Governance & Power with Michel Bauwens

Director(s)	Victor Simon
Participant(s)	Michel Bauwens
Participant(s)	Maria Finders
Participant(s)	Jan Boelen
Year	2020

17 April 2020,
Chiang Mai (TH)

In this chapter, Michel Bauwens talks about his P2P vision on democracy and power and what would be the idea of contribution as legitimation.

Through a conversation with Michel Bauwens — Belgian activist who has been working for years in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property - we will develop five different themes related to the current Covid-19 crisis as "the great revealer and the great accelerator". He will share with us his analysis on this uncertain period, giving us tools for an Economy that should serve the Common Good, based on contributions to create shared resources. He addresses issues relating to scale, to governance, to mediation, and how to build a better balanced long-term equilibrium.

LINKS AND REFERENCES (chapter 3) :

Super Competent Democracies
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Super-Competent_Democracies

Case study: Amsterdam doughnut economics
https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/amsterdam-adopts-first-city-doughnut-model-for-circular-economy-5198
https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-05-11/amsterdam-s-coronavirus-recovery-plan-embraces-doughnut-economics-people-and
https://ma.ak020.nl/

Case study : Ghent food council
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-commons-transition-plan-for-the-city-of-ghent/2017/09/14 https://stad.gent/en/city-structure/food-strategy-ghent-gent-en-garde

Blockchain system
https://d3ansictanv2wj.cloudfront.net/blockchain_app-1c3df0ef526f707f181e2038a5f8fbab.jpg

GINI coefficient
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_de_Gini