P2PVALUE Techno-social platform for

sustainable models and value

generation in commons-based

peer production in the Future

Internet

CONSORTIUM

University of Surrey (coordinator)

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Stichting Peer to Peer Alternatives (P2P Foundation)

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Università degli Studi di Milano

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CONCEPT

Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new, increasingly significant model of social innovation based on collaborative production.

Current examples:

Wikipedia

Arduino

Drupal

Couchsurfing

Moodle

The P2Pvalue project aims to foster CBPP by providing an empirically grounded techno-social software platform (the P2Pvalue platform) using a federated architecture on the Internet, specifically designed to enhance value creation and facilitate the development of resilient and sustainable CBPP communities.

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SOFTWARE UNDERPINNINGS

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SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

Develop CBPP theory, based on multidisciplinary and multi-

method research on CBPP, and determine the factors for success,

productivity, and resilience in communities (“best practices”).

Develop a set of value metrics and reward mechanisms that

incentivise the participation of citizens in CBPP.

Simulate the new sustainability models proposed, showing how

robust they are in the face of diverse community conditions.

Verify the compatibility of the proposed models with innovation

policies and provide a series of policy recommendations for public

administrations to encourage CBPP-driven social innovation.

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EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

Development of a software platform

Understand, experiment with, design and build a collective intelligence

techno-social federated collaborative platform that will foster the sustainability

of communities of collaborative production.

Deploy several customised nodes of the federated platform in which real-

world communities will interact, participate, and collaboratively create content.

Data and Resources

Provide a directory of existing CBPP communities, together with their main

characteristics.

Maintain an open web-based CBPP archive, with the collected data-sets,

surveys, reports, Open Educational Resources and open-access publications.

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INTELLECTUAL ROOTS

The economics of knowledge

Science and Technology studies (STS) of commons-based peer

production

Institutional Analysis and Development

Legal research on regulation of creative commons and

collaboration

Federated open source web services

Digital ethnography

Agent-based modelling

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THANK YOU Contact: Nigel Gilbert

n.gilbert@surrey.ac.uk