Creative Commons Licence/ Public Domain.

Do with this work, whatever you want. Copy it, redesign it or sell it if you can.

I don‘t mind. However, the best use you can make off,

is to share it.

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub510A2EDA82CA4A8482E6C38BC79C4911/Doc~E438334268A9A4E968096440577291D0B~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

The Commons Year One of the Global Commons Movement

Silke Helfrich, Commons Strategies Group

Brussels, January 21, 2011

I Commons! What?

II Commons alive

III Commons go public

IV Commons and its logic

V Commons enclosed

VI Commons Movement

Commons – a shared interest or value beyond Market and State

common pool resource, cprlocal, regional, global

common pool resources (cpr) are

everywhere

non rival

rival

Jonas Salk

"Who owns this patent?" "No one.

Could you patent the sun?"

Enclosure of the commons

By chakeblogspot

Bottled Water by stevendepolo License: Creative Commons BY

Common pool resources

Commons

Common pool resources

Commons

Ⅰt is not about the resources!

Ⅰt is not about the resources!

It‘s about us!

common pool resourcelocal, regional, global

communitylocal, regional, global

„There is no commons without commoning!“

Peter Linebaugh

4 freedoms of free software

use study change/apply share varieties

common pool resourcelocal, regional, global

communitylocal, regional, global

commons architecture

set of norms & rules self-determined

Re-produce commons

Richard Matthew Stallman, RMSGNU/GPL

System of Rice Intensification

Swaraj = self-rule

„Each commons is one of a kind.“

Erling Berge

By Fao

the so called

„Tragedy of the commons“

„tragedy of the commons“

Either Or

Either Or

“thing” Access Regulation

Res nullius all non-regulated

Res privatae owner market-regulated

Res publicae public state-regulated

Res communes community peer-regulated

Stefan Meretz, http://www.keimform.de/2010/commonstheorie-und-perspektiven-des-widerstands/

Bottle in the Water, on flickr License: CC BY blue moon in her eyes

scarcity?

Market-State

Market Commons

Focus What can I sell?Exchange value

What do we need?Use value

Core beliefs Scarcity Plenty

Homo oeconomicus Homo cooperans

It’s about resources (allocation). It’s about us.

Governance Market-State Polycentric / Peer-to-Peer Governance

Decision making hierarchicalCommand (Power, Law, Violence)

horizontalConsensus, Free Cooperation, Selforganization

Social relationships Centralization of power (monopoly) Decentralization of power (diversity & autonomy)

Property Possession

Access to rival resources Limited by rules defined by owner Limited by rules defined by usergroups

Access to non rival resources Made scarce Open access

Use rights Granted by owner Co-decided by user groups

Dominant strategy (Out-)compete (Out-)cooperate

Results

For the resources ErosionEnclosure

Conservation (?)Reproduction & Multiplication

For the people Exlusion & Participation Inclusion & Emancipation

bigger, higher, faster

Burj Khalifa Dubai, Lic. CC BY SA, on flickr by nlann Maglev train on flickr by yosemite, GNU FDL

Commons narrative

Emancipation instead of Participation

Resilience, Trust, Selforganization

You cannot „measure“ the commons. Nor rank them.

The winner is ...

... cooperation!

There is no „one size fits all“ solution

No Panaceas!

Author unknown, found on: http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ifad.org/newsletter/pf/images/3/cartoon1.jpg

Land titles/ tenure security

John Locke„

„[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person.

... The Labour of his Body,

and the Work of his Hands.

The great and chief end ..., of ... putting themselves

under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.“

Commons alive

We want to share!

„… the global commons, ... serves as a crucial enabler of international security and trade.

The … modern international system rests on a foundation of free and fair access to ... the global commons. ...

Collective action is necessary to establish an effective international regime to govern the global commons.“

http://www.act.nato.int/globalcommons

Aim: To identify vulnerabilities & challenges affecting assured access to the global commons

for NATO and to make recommendations for NATO’s way ahead.

By Jakob B. In Hoi An, Vietnam

S.H., 22.02.2010 Gemeingüter - Wohlstand durch Teilen

S.H., 22.02.2010 Gemeingüter - Wohlstand durch Teilen

from greenwash

to commons-wash?

S.H., 22.02.2010 Gemeingüter - Wohlstand durch Teilen

Commons work throughout the world.

Elinor OstromNobel Price Laureate

2009

2011. year one of the global commons movement

This movement will grow in diversity,

Or it will not grow.

Differences within the same paradigm.

We are

We are commoners!

THANK YOU!www.commonsblog.dewww.commonsstrategies.orgwww.gemeingueter.deSilke.Helfrich@gmx.de