1. P2PVALUE
Techno-social platform for
sustainable models and value
generation in commons-based
peer production in the Future
Internet

2. CONSORTIUM
 University of Surrey (coordinator)
 Centre national de la recherche scientifique
 Stichting Peer to Peer Alternatives (P2P Foundation)
 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 Università degli Studi di Milano
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3. CONCEPT
 Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new, increasingly
significant model of social innovation based on collaborative
production.
 Current examples:

Wikipedia

Arduino

Drupal

Couchsurfing

Moodle
 The P2Pvalue project aims to foster CBPP by providing an
empirically grounded techno-social software platform (the P2Pvalue
platform) using a federated architecture on the Internet, specifically
designed to enhance value creation and facilitate the development of
resilient and sustainable CBPP communities.
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4. SOFTWARE UNDERPINNINGS
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5. SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
 Develop CBPP theory, based on multidisciplinary and multi-
method research on CBPP, and determine the factors for success,
productivity, and resilience in communities (“best practices”).
 Develop a set of value metrics and reward mechanisms that
incentivise the participation of citizens in CBPP.
 Simulate the new sustainability models proposed, showing how
robust they are in the face of diverse community conditions.
 Verify the compatibility of the proposed models with innovation
policies and provide a series of policy recommendations for public
administrations to encourage CBPP-driven social innovation.
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6. EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
 Development of a software platform
 Understand, experiment with, design and build a collective intelligence
techno-social federated collaborative platform that will foster the sustainability
of communities of collaborative production.
 Deploy several customised nodes of the federated platform in which real-
world communities will interact, participate, and collaboratively create content.
 Data and Resources
 Provide a directory of existing CBPP communities, together with their main
characteristics.
 Maintain an open web-based CBPP archive, with the collected data-sets,
surveys, reports, Open Educational Resources and open-access publications.
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7. INTELLECTUAL ROOTS
 The economics of knowledge
 Science and Technology studies (STS) of commons-based peer
production
 Institutional Analysis and Development
 Legal research on regulation of creative commons and
collaboration
 Federated open source web services
 Digital ethnography
 Agent-based modelling
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8. THANK YOU
Contact: Nigel Gilbert
n.gilbert@surrey.ac.uk