We’d done a potluck to make it as open to as many people as possible, shared rides so that more people could come. Despite that, my first host, back in 2006, when I was living with two other men in Granada, Spain, was a solo traveling female from Australia. The potential of humanity to share and grow. Why is the community weak? MORE >>

Sharing economies, social production and collaborative consumption. He talked to us about how he had first thought about this in Tokyo 13 years ago when observed how people were using their mobile phones; about the organized demonstrations in the Philippines, Korea, Spain, the Ukraine, Los Angeles, Chile and Egypt. Howard asked us. MORE >>

Excerpted from Cat Johnson : “As I spoke with sharing advocates and evangelists from Spain, Finland, the UK, France, New York, San Francisco and more, a picture started forming that these groups, while all working toward the same vision of a shareable life, are all very different. ” P2P Movements Sharing MORE >>

But there are some important differences like the lack of a shared national or religious ideology, being distributed throughout cities rather than concentrated in a compound, and not submitting to an economic rationality. NG: In Spain, you’re often associated with the cyberpunk movement, which was born in the US in the early 80s. MORE >>

OuiShare is a pro-sharing advocacy community: an international network of entrepreneurs, citizens, activists, journalists and designers working toward the development of the collaborative economy. Sharing is an amazing opportunity to build a community and you need to build a community in order to make sharing work.” MORE >>