[p2p-research] Fwd: GSE Seminar

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks for forwarding to US friends,

Michel


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From: Daniel Araya <daniel at levelsixmedia.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Subject: GSE Seminar
To: "Steve W. Witt" <swwitt at illinois.edu>, bwjane at hotmail.com,
edeew at ncsa.uiuc.edu, billcope at illinois.edu, dwilson2 at illinois.edu,
frizvi at uiuc.edu, jnp at uiuc.edu, edkoloj at uiuc.edu, michelsub2004 at gmail.com




Global Studies inEducation

On-Campus SeminarSeries

Network Civilization:Peer-to-Peer and

the Rise of Green Capitalism

Friday, November 21

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

College of Education, Room 42 A

Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens is an activewriter, researcher and conference speaker on the
subject of technology, cultureand business innovation. He is the founder of
the Foundation for Peer-to-PeerAlternatives and works in collaboration with
a global group of researchers inthe exploration of peer production,
governance, and property. He has been ananalyst for the United States
Information Agency,knowledge manager for British Petroleum,eBusiness
Strategy Manager for Belgacom, as wellas an internet entrepreneur in his
home country of Belgium.He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary
Technocalyps with Frank Theys, andco-edited the two-volume book on
anthropology of digital society with SalvinoSalvaggio. Michel is currently
Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and external expert
at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008). Hecurrently lives with
his family in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Abstract

Just as the three quarters of oil engineersnow agree that Peak Oil is in
sight within the next decade (afterthat, oil production can only decline),
can we also posit that we may havereached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a
moment in history in which it is nolonger large centralized
organizationsthat are most efficient or productive, but rather those
that areorganized as
distributed networks and can draw on peer producting communities?

This is the thesis explored by the P2PFoundation, a global network of
researchers investigating the emergence of peerproduction, governance and
property,  showing how this new'hyperproductive' mode of producing value is
out-competing andout-collaborating traditional organizations. Such a change
will have hugeimplications for society, business, and education. The
election victory of Barack Obama, and his program of greencapitalism, opens
up, because it cannot succeed without huge strides inparticipation, the
possibility of a 'high road' transition towards a peer topeer society, based
on the voluntary aggregation of productive communitiesunited around the
creation of common value.

How would our society function, ifLinux and Wikipedia werenot just emergent,
but the model of a new type of institutions residing in thecore of our
economy and politics?

Global Studies in Education SeminarSeries

TheGlobal Studies in Education Seminar Series is intended to provide
opportunitiesfor informal presentations of master and doctoral students'
work in their ownarea of interest related to globalization and education
issues. Since theseseminars purport to discuss work in progress, a chance
for peer feedback willbe possible for each presenter. The series will be
held each week on Fridaysfrom 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in the College of Education
Bldg. 1310 S. 6thSt., Champaign, IL.

Thisseminar is sponsored by the Global Studies in Education On-Campus
Program.  Please contact Gabriela Walker (gwalker4 at illinois.edu) if you
wouldlike to present your work or be on the mailing list. (If you received
thisannouncement through one of the list-servs, then you are on the mailing
list.If you received this announcement as a forward from a friend, then
please letme know if you want to keep receiving updates about the GSE
seminar series.)

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