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'''Free/Libre Open Knowledge Society, designing a world for the commons. Welcome to FLOK Society, the project proposed by National Institute of Advanced Studies in order to change the productive matrix based on free knowledge towards a Social Economy of Knowledge.'''



How to design the FLOK society
A Free, Libre, Open Knowledge society is about to be built in Ecuador. Hacker, researcher, educator, economist, lawyer, citizen, nettizen, join us now and free your knowledge!



Collaborative design
We need you. This is an open initiative of the commons, a project for global collective intelligence. Wikis, proposal submission systems, forums and more will be available for you to join this experience. If your code is good enough you could come to Ecuador to join a 7 day production week.

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= Project =

FLOK Society

 * What
 * How
 * When
 * Open Letter to the Commoners

Our Team

 * FLOK Society's Research Team
 * Authors and Peer-reviewers
 * IAEN
 * SENESCYT
 * MCCTH

Join Our Learning Community!

 * Our mailing lists
 * Twitter
 * Facebook

Learning More

 * P2P Bookstore
 * Watch this P2P lecture!
 * Listen to this Podcast
 * Read this Interview


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= Research =

Research Plan

 * Research Plan
 * Transition Proposal Towards a Commons Oriented Economy
 * Overall View to the Investigation's Streams

Streams

 * 1) Human Capabilities
 * 2) Commons Oriented Productive Capacities
 * 3) Social Infrastructure and Institutional Innovation
 * 4) Open Technical Infrastructures
 * 5) Common's Infrastructure for Collective Life

Documentation

 * Official Documents of the project
 * Policy Documentation
 * Scientific Documentation
 * Data and Statistics
 * Research Agenda
 * People and Organizations
 * Topics: scientific documentation on various topics, open to anyone
 * Results:
 * Proposed General Structure of the Policy Documents
 * Policy Proposals: open to anyone to add proposals
 * Verified Policy Proposals: material accepted by a maintainer or research coordinator
 * Commons-oriented Productive Capacities, under review
 * Preparatory document by George Dafermos, under review
 * George Restakis, Public Policy for a Civil Economy, under review


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= Participation =


 * How can you help us

Take action

 * Mumble
 * Pad
 * Mailing lists
 * Dev o Desarrollo: All the aspects of the project are included. Subscription is free. The language of this mailing list is Spanish.
 * Reseacrh: To research the different streams of the project. The subscription is moderated. The language of this mailing list is English.
 * Communication: Communication campaigns about FLOK Society. The subscription is moderated. The language of this mailing list is Spanish.

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