Commons Startup Support Programme “La Comunificadora” launches in Barcelona
La Comunificadora La Comunificadora is a programme from Barcelona Activa to impulse collaborative or sharing economy projects consisting of training, mentoring and support to get financing. We look for commons-oriented projects, in other words: business models that combine a p2p … Continued
Digital DIY Community Day Barcelona
On 6 July 2016, the FKI, as a participant in the EC project on Digital DIY, organised a Digital DIY Community Day Barcelona, with the community of local and international makers, researchers, teachers and policymakers, together with Barcelona Activa and … Continued
Open Source Circular Economy Days in Barcelona
Here are Wouter’s slides for the 2016 OSCE days in Barcelona.
FKI assembles Legal Advisory Board to support the DiDIY Project
One of the research tracks of the Digital DIY (DiDIY) Project is the one (Work Package 6) on DiDIY Legal Issues, Rights and Responsibilities. We are happy to announce that, in order to assist us in that activity, the DiDIY … Continued
Open Source Circular Economy Days
The OSCE Days have evolved in a powerful worldwide event, this year taking polace in more than 70 cities on all continents. The concept is powerful in that it reaches out to various different communities, strengthening relationships, understanding and forstering … Continued
Digital Commons at the IASC Regional European Conference in Bern
Last week I had the pleasure to participate in the Regional European Conference in Bern, Switzerland, organised by the International Association of the Commons, the IASC. The main theme was “GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND LOCAL RESPONSES”, an adequate theme for many … Continued
Sustainable Fabrication
On March 7th I was invited to present my vision on sustainable fabrication in a course cycle organised by the cooperative Tarpuna and the Ateneus de Fabricació in Barcelona. The course cycle was focused on sustainable and social fabrication, citizen … Continued
Commons Collaborative Economy
The last days we celebrated the Commons Collaborative Economies conference in Barcelona, from 11-13 March 2016. An intense and fruitful experience, which the FKI helped co-organise as part of the Barcelona Col·labora working group with the City Council. Let’s review … Continued
Now is LoRa: Building the Smart City bottom up
On Monday 16 November a panel discussion about The Things Network (TTN) and LoRaWAN was organised in FabLab Barcelona. The aim was to look at TTN from a commons perspective, a standpoint often missed in the Internet of Things industry, … Continued
The Things Network: 4x Commons for the Internet of Things
The Things Network is an initiative to build a distributed wireless data network for connecting “things” to the net, fully owned and controlled by its users. The Internet of Things (IoT) typically consists of electronic devices with sensors and actuators … Continued