As OuiShare Fest teaser puts it: "communities are transforming cities, organizations and civic action everywhere in the world". As this transformations prove to grow bigger every day, questions about their consequences arise. What are their meaning and direction? What relationships between individuals and corporations do communities allow for? Who governs them and how is value created allocated? More widely, we should now seriously question the new balances being established between empowerment and exploitation.

1. The Age of communities
Are Communities
Empowering People or
Reinforcing Dominations ?
Louis-David Benyayer
@LDBenyayer

2. “communities are transforming cities,
organizations and civic action
everywhere in the world”

3. Who can possibly be against the
idea of communities?

4. Who can possibly be against the
idea of communities?
solidarity
mutualism
care
shared interests
shared aspirations

5. empowerment
Individual
Source :

6. Open business models,
what role of communities ?
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30+ contributors
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Education, science
Data, manufacturing

7. Communities are efficient

8. Communities solve problems
Source :

9. Communities create new things
Source :

10. Who can possibly be against the
idea of communities?

11. Who can possibly be against the
idea of communities?
They are said to be more efficient
than
Market
Corporations
State

12. « platforms capture nearly all
the value created by
communities and individuals. »
« Here’s the paradox : whereas
peer to peer is more productive
than hierarchy, the additional
productivity is captured by a
limited number of players who
gained a central position. »
Michel Bauwens
2013
Fair value sharing ?
Source :

13. Are communities low cost
solutions for big players ?
Fair value sharing ?

14. Source : Simone Cicero (http://fr.slideshare.net/Meedabyte/the-sharing-economy-2-defen
How is the value shared ?
Are individuals trapped ?
Balance of power ?

15. « Are we talking about
exploitation of
communities and people
that are loosing their
basic social rights ? »
Choice ?
Simone Cicero
2013
Source :

16. Goals?
Source :

17. Communities group
to fight a common
ennemy
Rivalry ?

18. Not all
communities
are inclusive
Social norm ?
Source :

19. “communities are transforming cities,
organizations and civic action
everywhere in the world”

20. What dialog between
communities and
state?
How to synchronize
communities,
markets and
hierarchies ?
How to coordinate
local communities to
tackle global
problems ?
How to inspire
without creating a
sect ?

21. 4 possible future for communities
Local
Mystic Entrepreneurial
Stateless

22. 4 possible leaders
Local
Mystic Entrepreneurial
Stateless
Mike Oualid Chong
Pierre Radis
Maëva Bene
Antonio de la Broca
Drawings by Benoît Crouzet

23. Want to meet them ?
Want to build the future of communities ?

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