I am posting this because recently i've been asked about it in conversations surrounding the building of the "#nextnet" ( http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23nextnet ).
While there is a plethora of work on networks and robustness / resilience, there are a few starting points:
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong & Albert-László Barabási
NATURE | VOL 406 | 27 JULY 2000
“The P2P movement is…at a historical juncture, where it has to start developing the ability for policy formulation and connect with social mobilizations…. the next step is changing the old institutional order itself, and this crucial step has barely started.” — Michel Bauwens
There comes a time in the history of the development of any new ideas when those who adhere to those ideas want to see them coalesce into a force for social change....
Read the full post here:
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-a-peer-to-peer-strategy-for-social...
(Clicking the above image will download a pdf file of a larger image.)
In order to understand the complex world emerging around us, it is necessary to have a grasp of the ecological concept of "carrying capacity." This post explains this crucial concept without letting the mathematics distract us from the important points.
Title: Access Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ref: FF-2010-5-25
The Access Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as access to infrastructure and services (i.e. politics) shifts from centralized hierarchical institutions to distributed networks of "peer-to-peer" participants.
Title: Food Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ref: FF-2010-5-18
The Food Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as food production shifts from "Big Agro" to smaller, distributed networks of local farmers and markets.
Title: Energy Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ref: FF-2010-5-4
The Energy Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as energy production shifts from massive technological production infrastructures to smaller scale distributed energy production networks.
Title: Culture Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ref: FF-2010-4-20
The Culture Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as cultural production shifts from large mass-media organizations to networks of small niche-media creators and remixers.
Title: Thing Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ref: FF-2010-4-20
The Thing Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as manufacturing shifts from centralized large-scale mass-production infrastructure into decentralized small-scale niche-production sites.
Title: The Five Commons - An invitation to 21st Century wealth-generating ecologies
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-4-19
The Five Commons constitutes an evolving vision of the emerging 21st Century economy. Each of the five commons represents a key area in which transition is apparent.
The Forward Foundation hopes that by sharing this vision, people will find clues and insights into new ways of structuring human activity and sustainable living.
Title: Comparing Business Development Paradigms
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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In a posting to http://localfoodsystems.org on Feb 04, 2010, Steve Bosserman introduced the idea of "Production Centered Local Economies", and "People Centered Local Economies". This article synthesizes Steve's coining of those terms, and uses concepts developed by Sam Rose, Paul Hartzog and Richard C Adler of Forward Foundation to further explain the differences between these economies, from a business development perspective.
