Talk by Yochai Benkler

Presented by Mayo Fuster Morell

Moderator: Joan Subirats

Row 0: Floren Cabello (Traducciones procomun), Nuria Alabao (La Hidra), Lorena Fuster (Tramod UB: Trajectories of modernity), Liliana Arroyo (Eticas), Anna Monjo (ICARIA Editorial), Ismael Peña-López (UOC), Rubén Martínez and Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc), Samer Hassan (P2Pvalue), Leandro Navarro (CONFINE and Pangea.org),  David Laniado (Dcent), Javier Creus and Ignasi Alcalde (OKFN Spain), Guillermo Rojo (XES – Solidarian Economy Network), Enric Senabre and Maria Garcia Perulero (Goteo), Juanlu Sanchez (eldiario.es), Quim Guitart (communia.org), Peter Matjasic (Open Society Foundations), Leda Guidi (Iperbole – civic network and digital agenda of Bologna City Council), Valentina Bazzarin, Alejandro Perez and Jordi Bonet (Podem Cat), Sir Jaron Rowan (BAU), Francisco Jurado (Democracia 4.0), Tomas Diez (BCN Fab Lab), among others.

Madrid streammed connection: Marcos Garcia (Commons Lab/Laboratorio del Procomun (Medialab-Prado), Victor Sampedro (Máster CCCD).

Conference on occasion of the publication of the work in Spanish  “The Wealth of Networks” (published in Spanish by Icaria Editorial).

Afterword (20:30 onward) there will be a networking meet up at CCCBar.

Madrid: There will be an streaming of the event organized by Medialab-Prado participants in Madrid will be able to send questions for the debate.

Online: Streaming will be provided from this same website (http://igopnet.cc/benkler-barcelona-25-feb-2015)


Organization: IGOP.net.cc, P2Pvalue.eu European project, CCCB Lab.

Collaboration: Ed. Icaria, Commons Lab/Laboratorio del Procomun and Máster CCCD (Medialab-Prado), Traducciones procomun, Communia

Support: Spanish Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Society Foundation Initiative for Europe

Resources on Benkler work

Benkler’s website

Review of Benkler’s work in occasion of the publication of “La Riqueza de las reded” by Mayo Fuster Morell English – Castellano –  Català

Index of “La riqueza de las redes” (Spanish version of The wealth of networks), and introduction by Floren Cabello and Andoni Alonso, and foreword by Mayo Fuster Morell (Castellano)

Yochai Benkler is a professor at the Faculty of Law and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is the author of the book – recently published by Icaria in Spanish – “The Wealth of Networks” benchmark studies Internet and society. His work examines the ways in which information technologies allow extensive forms of collaboration can have transformative consequences for the economy and society

The research Benkler is developed in three areas connected. On the one hand, “peer production based on the common good” as collaborative initiatives of free software that Wikipedia is becoming the emerging production model and reference. On the other hand, introduced the concept of public space network, and analyzes to what extent is the process of transforming public policy and political mobilization. Finally, an expert on Internet policy and architecture to new technologies. Through these lines of work explores the hypothesis of the emergence of a third organizational model commons, which would break the pairing state – market, and would favor greater centrality and empowerment of civil society as an agent.

From these key reading Benkler incorporate elements to understand the change of time in Spain.

Mayo Fuster Morell is a researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. One expert in the governance of communities based on collaborative production between equals. P2Pvalue directs research on conditions that favor the creation of value in the production network. One member of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Joan Subirats Humet is professor of Political Science at UAB and researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the University Autonoma of Barcelona. Hir areas of research include public policy analysis, democratic innovation, public participation and local and regional government. He has published numerous books, including the Spanish Urban Policies (2011) and sociedad Otra, otra ¿politics? “Not to represent us” democracy of the policy.