WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE SHARING MOVEMENT?

WHAT'S NEXT?

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE SHARING MOVEMENT? By Neal Gorenflo As they have always done in crises, people are turning to each other to survive. What’s different today is that a new coordination mechanism — the Internet — enables individuals to create, share, and govern directly with one another using networks instead of hierarchies. With this, a new social contract is forming based on peer-to-peer relations, which the P2P Foundation has been exploring for a decade. Instead of competing with sharp elbows for rank in the hierarchy, individuals are empowered to face each other as equals and ask a simple but revolutionary question — “what can we create together?” Learn more here.