Elgoog (The Tracker) is a versatile simulation game designed to be adaptable to different contexts. In a simplified and didactic way, it reproduces several scenarios that emulate both real and imaginary experiences, so players can think of ficticious situations that can shed light on an organization's problems and obstacles. It also can represent new situations, so participants can learn to solve them in a cooperative way by contributing with new ideas, connections and collaborators still to be had into account. Participants must play roles that involve different degrees of cooperation or rivalry, and solve challenges by means of making decisions that will affect the situation being discussed. The game stage may discover several factors that interfere (natural, social, cultural...), as well as... Read more

MediaLabPrado (Madrid) gathers a group of scholar and activists to study how to make visible and understandable the commons. For more than 2 years different approaches have been taken and the main criteria has been collaboration and openess. This approach emulates laboratory practices that is the reason for the name: Commons Lab. Lab It is often said that a family, a hospital, or a river are social laboratories, as they give rise to relations or conflicts that make it possible to understand all or part of the social environment of which they are a part, or which they help to create. Thus, by looking at a fragment of the world, it can be seen in its entirety, which is to say that several variables are sufficient (those that make it possible to plan, structure, and order) to gain a general... Read more

Advertencias El ejemplo mencionado abajo puede aplicarse a otro grupo minoritario en el uso y la programación de software libre (*). El uso de software libre es imprescindible. El siguiente ejemplo está basado en una experiencia llevada a cabo desde noviembre de 2006. La "receta", el "manual" presentado enviado por Constant, es el resultado de una experiencia colectiva y continua de organizaciones y personas, como los talleres-encuentros "Sábados, mujeres y software libre" ("Samedies, Femmes et Logiciels Libres"). Pensados en un principio como auto-formación... Read more