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Toward a Digital Economy That’s Truly Collaborative, Not Exploitative

Toward a Digital Economy That’s Truly Collaborative, Not Exploitative

Overcoming the flaws of an internet controlled by a few major players will enable web services that are more democratic and fair.
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Samer Hassan
Task assignment in Amara: Prototyping distribution of scarce resources models with blockchain

Task assignment in Amara: Prototyping distribution of scarce resour...

As explained previously, we have been working on task assignment models for Amara on Demand. Today we wanted to share the final result of…
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P2P_Models
Quantitative study within our case study Smart Iberica

Quantitative study within our case study Smart Iberica

In P2P Models we want to foster a new collaborative platform economy. One of the most precarious sectors in Spain is the cultural sector…
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P2P_Models
The platform belongs to those who work on it!

The platform belongs to those who work on it!

Today, digital platforms are increasingly mediating our day-to-day work and crowdsourced forms of labor are gaining importance. Platforms…
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P2P_Models
DAO-Analyzer, a tool to monitor DAO activity

DAO-Analyzer, a tool to monitor DAO activity

DAO-Analyzer is a web tool to monitor the activity of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). It was created within the umbrella of…
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P2P_Models
Do blockchainers 2.0 know what trust is?

Do blockchainers 2.0 know what trust is?

There is a peculiar conception of trust underpinning the experimentation of blockchain startup applications beyond the financial sector…
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P2P_Models
Coding or community? The uneven value of activities in peer production

Coding or community? The uneven value of activities in peer production

Do all activities in Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) communities have the same worth? What types of activities are perceived and…
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P2P_Models
Blockchain human challenges: reflections from a design perspective

Blockchain human challenges: reflections from a design perspective

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Observatory of precarity in the cultural sector: a prototype to uncloak work abuse

Observatory of precarity in the cultural sector: a prototype to unc...

As explained previously, we are working on an Observatory of Precarity in the Cultural Sector in Spain. The Observatory is thought of as a…
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P2P_Models
WikiChron networks: an analysis of the wiki communities

WikiChron networks: an analysis of the wiki communities

Wiki communities allow for great differences in how they are organized, depending on factors such as community goals, norms governing…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
Holographic Consensus: a scalable voting system in large communities

Holographic Consensus: a scalable voting system in large communities

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are a new form of collective governance in which communities can organize themselves by…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
DAOs: The impact of a new decision-making process

DAOs: The impact of a new decision-making process

In the beginning, blockchain was associated with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, but the technology has spread beyond the economic sector…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
Can blockchain expand global commoning practices?

Can blockchain expand global commoning practices?

In recent years, the growing need for worldwide coordination has generated public interest concerning the governance of global commons. Can…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
David Bollier: “In digital contexts, the social dimensions of a Commons don’t get attention”

David Bollier: “In digital contexts, the social dimensions of a Com...

David Bollier is an American writer, blogger, and activist who focuses on the commons as a paradigm to reinvent the economy, politics, and…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
Power law distribution: does it really characterize wiki communities?

Power law distribution: does it really characterize wiki communities?

We could define peer production online communities as groups of individuals that collaboratively engage in the building of common resources…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
Decentralizing what? When blockchain’s perspectives clash

Decentralizing what? When blockchain’s perspectives clash

Blockchain technology enables new kinds of decentralized systems, but is this true? As a research group, in P2P Models we explore social…
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Antonio De La Iglesia Real
What happens in DAOs when the Gas price skyrockets?

What happens in DAOs when the Gas price skyrockets?

One of the most cool applications on Ethereum are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. What happen with them when gas price skyrockets?
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Genoveva López Morales
Online violence against women and girls

Online violence against women and girls

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Silvia Semenzin
Do humans dream of an easier blockchain? Testing decentralized prototypes with real communities

Do humans dream of an easier blockchain? Testing decentralized prot...

“Giving users easy access to many kinds of digital assets and, particularly, tokens that are linked to assets in the real world, is crucial…
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Elena Martinez Vicente
Co-design: our approach to research

Co-design: our approach to research

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Elena Martinez Vicente
Gender perspective as a design tool

Gender perspective as a design tool

The feminist movement has been gaining force in recent years. Following this new wave of feminism, almost every professional field has had…
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Elena Martinez Vicente
Silke Helfrich: “Technologies can be an important part of a commons”

Silke Helfrich: “Technologies can be an important part of a commons”

Silke Helfrich is a writer author and commons defender. She was the Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from 1996 to 1998. She travels…
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Genoveva López Morales
Decentralisation and formalisation in peer production. The case of Drupal

Decentralisation and formalisation in peer production. The case of ...

We seek to foster platforms which foster more participatory decision-making processes and in which value is distributed across participants
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David Rozas
Distributed technologies to bootstrap the sharing economy

Distributed technologies to bootstrap the sharing economy

Professor Samer Hassan, explores how blockchain has the potential to help sharing economy projects to overcome several challenges they face…
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Genoveva López Morales
Primavera de Filippi: “In a decentralized infrastructure, it becomes more difficult not to have a…

Primavera de Filippi: “In a decentralized infrastructure, it become...

Primavera de Filippi is one of the most recognized researchers in the blockchain and law field. She investigates the legal challenges of…
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Genoveva López Morales
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