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'''Free/Libre Open Knowledge Society, designing a world for the commons. Welcome to FLOK Society, the project proposed by the National Institute of Advanced Studies, the Coordinating Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent and the National Secretary for Science and Innovation, 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
 * Listen to this Podcast
 * Read this Interview


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= Research =

General Framework
General Framework Document | Download the General Framework Document

Research Plan

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

Streams

 * 1) Human Capabilities
 * 2) Open Educational Resources
 * 3) Open and Free Culture
 * 4) Open and Free Culture - Post Summit
 * 5) Commons-oriented Productive Capacities
 * 6) Policy paper on biodiversity
 * 7) Policy paper on sustainable agriculture
 * 8) Policy paper on distributed manufacturing
 * 9) Policy paper on distributed energy
 * 10) Social Infrastructure and Institutional Innovation
 * 11) Social Knowledge and the Social Economy
 * 12) Public Policy for Social Economy
 * 13) Public Policy for a Partner State
 * 14) Public Policy for ICT, Open Government and Civil Society
 * 15) Open Technical Infrastructures
 * 16) Policy Paper on Free Software
 * 17) Policy Paper on Free Hardware
 * 18) Policy Paper on Cyber Security
 * 19) Conectivity - Post Summit
 * 20) Common's Infrastructure for Collective Life
 * 21) Policy paper on Traditional and Ancestral Knowledge
 * 22) Policy paper on Citizens and Communities
 * 23) Policy paper on Territorial Organization of the Knowledge Economy
 * 24) Territorial Organization of the Knowledge Economy - Post Summit

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
 * Policy paper on biodiversity, under review
 * Policy paper on sustainable agriculture, under review
 * Policy paper on distributed manufacturing, under review
 * 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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 * Introducing Open sustainable hardware solutions in communities


 * Thomas Kalka's Key P2P Concepts

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