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Compendium of hubs for commons-based peer production for sustainable human development
Here you find a selection of hubs for commons-based peer production that are of particular interest for for sustainable human development. Plus some links to comprehensive directories (below).
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Appropedia
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Collaborative solutions in appropriate technology and poverty reduction in fields like construction, energy, health, transport and water. >>
Appropriate technology and poverty reduction
Energypedia
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Practical knowledge on production and design of renewable energies. >>
Design of renewable energies
FabWiki
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Practical knowledge about open maker machines and processes for furniture, housing and more, such as laser cutting for 2D/3D design and fabrication. >>
Dedicated to fabric-formed concrete
Global Innovation Commons
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Technological information in the areas of agriculture, clean energy, water, world health, based on database of technologies which are patent-free in developing countries, plus an open source license for new contributions. >>
Global Innovation Commons
Global Village Construction Set / Open Source Ecology
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Building a 'Global Village Construction Set', a modular, do-it-youself, low-cost fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build 'a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts'. >>
Open Source Ecology
howtopedia
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Diffusing 'simple technologies and practical knowledge', e.g. by sharing blueprints and resources to build simple machinery, tools and other appliances. >>
Simple Technologies, simply shared!
knowable
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Collaboration, mostly on hardware procucts. >>
Share your hardware projects and collaborate with others.
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
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Developing and applying open-source tools to environmental eploration and investigation. Experimental tools and do-it-youself techniques around community environmental health. >>
Developing and applying open-source tools to environmental exploration.
WikiEducator
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A free version of the education curriculum by 2015. >>
Free eLearning Content.
Wikiversity & Wikibooks
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Sister projects of Wikipedia with the aim of building learning resources, learning projects, and research for use on all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university (Wikiversity) and open textbooks (Wikibooks). >>
Set learning free!
Find more P2P hubs ...
... on the P2Pvalue Directory of Commons Based Peer Production (1)
This directory maps examples of commons-based peer production. You can explore the directory by categories or add new cases. The Directory of CBPP is part of the P2Pvalue research project.
... on David Bollier's blog (2)
For another interesting list of repositories and projects klick here. You will land on David Bollier's Blog, were he presents several projects that explore the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.
More platforms with a focus on 'production', on 'peer-driven production' and on 'commons-based initiatives' include:
In addition, there is a range of mostly science related co-creation projects, some around commons-based peer-production, others tilting more towards a crowdsourcing & 'citizen sience'-approach, such as EteRNA or the 'Do-It-Youself Biology'-Community.
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About the Author
Balthas Seibold is a senior project manager for ‚Global Knowledge Sharing & Learning’ at GIZ, the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH’. He focuses on open knowledge cooperation to foster the freedom to learn and innovate in developing countries. Balthas has a special interest in the knowledge commons and social networks and their potential to build human capacities, link up people and foster open learning worldwide. Before 2012 he led capacity building programs with GIZ that promote the open source IT-sector in Asia and Africa such as ict@innovation. Balthas has also worked at InWEnt – Capacity Building International, UNESCO’s bureau of strategic planning, the GTZ and the UNDP.
The author would like to thank the following persons for invaluable input and detailed comments (any errors and misjudgments are of course his own): Philipp Schmidt, Andreas Meiszner, Susanna Albrecht, Kader Ekici, Christian Gmelin, Petra Hagemann, Claudia Lange, Sarah Malelu, Sabine Olthof, Natalie Maria Stewart, Lennart Stoy, Miriam Unverzagt.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to GIZ or any other affiliation.
