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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610961

European project P2Pvalue project

P2PvalueDecentralized platform for value generation in

commons-based peer production Mayo Fuster Morell IGOPnet.cc

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An implementation of Google Drive Real Time API over a distributed federated infrastructure

Lean principles inspiration Empirical research for technological development

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What characterizes Commons-Based Peer Production

(CBPP)?

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Delimitation Criteria

Collaborative production+

Peer to peer relationshipsNon traditional command

Limited mercantile exchange+

Common resourcesOpen access, reproducibility

& derivativeness

Mapping expansion & hybridificationof common based peer production

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Mapping CBPP:

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2014 Stage of CBPP: Expansion to more areas of activity

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CBPP ecosystem

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How does value creation function in Commons-Based

Peer Production (CBPP)?

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Traditional theories of value do not apply to CBPP

Alternative strategies to assess value

How to measure value?

What is valuable?

How does value creation function in CBPP?

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Community buildingMission accomplishment

Monetary value

Social use value Reputation

Dimensions of value

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Community buildingScale of the communities is extremely variable.

Diverse degrees of participation (Power law 1/9/90)

Dimensions of value

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Mission accomplishment Projects are quite satisfied!

Half the cases assign themselves a score between 7 and 10 in a scale of 10

Dimensions of value

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Monetary value: Budget39% of cases have budgets of less than 1000 euros

Dimensions of value

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Dimensions of value

Indicators of reputation and use

Google Pagerank, Alexa, Kred, Twitter followers, & Facebook likes

Strong correlation between them

Indicators available for all cases, but corporate based and non transparent

Urge an open CBPP oriented indicator of value

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How does Governance function in Commons-Based Peer Production

(CBPP)?

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CBPP are highly openBut cases very diverse in the way to be open

Index of openness to contributors: 50% > 6 up to 10 ranking scale

CBPP are highly free, tooIndex of freedom of contributors: 77% > 2 of 3 indicators

(registration policy, participation policy, and user profile policy)

Self-governance of community interaction and roles 63% members can intervene in their interaction governance

Governance features

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Diverse permissions levels (hierarchies) are very common

¨Hierarchies¨ are very frequent 88%

Gender balance in rolesNot always too ¨bad¨

25% of cases 50% of female administrators

Lack of rotation of roles !!!!!Less than 5% of have a system for frequent rotation of administrators

Governance features

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Only a few cases (3%) use a proprietary license

14 different kinds of licenses (Software, Hardware, Data, Content and more).

Most used licenseGeneral Public License (for software)

Creative Commons BY-SA (for content)

Almost 50% of cases includes a copyleft (or “share alike”) clause

Governance features: Licenses

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From more centralized to more decentralized

Data storage From 88% to 95% store the users’ data in centralized servers

Type of infrastructure architecture: 32% Centralized not reproducible (central proprietary server) Example: Facebook46% Centralized but reproducible (FLOSS platforms in a central server) Example: Wikipedia 3% Federated Example: N-1/Lorea/Kune5% Peer to Peer architecture Example: GNUnet

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Infrastructure architecture

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There is not “a” single formula of “success” Data: Not strong correlations with the whole sample.

There are different features and models that favour success.

More self-governance favours reputational value creation

in specific areas of activity : FLOSS, Collaborative writing, Collaborative research, Citizens media, Collaborative archives, Community networks, and Open technology.

Different “models” of “success”: Size and reputation versus collaborativeness

Conditions of “success”

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Thank you

Yochai Benkler talk @ CCCB 25 Feb 2015 18:30h