Michel Bauwens

Possui mestrado em International Relations - Free University of Brussels (1981). Atualmente é fundador - Peer to Peer Alternatives Foundation, fundador - Commons Strategies Group, professor - DPUIC e primavera research fellow - University of Amsterdam. Tem experiência na área de Ciência Política, com ênfase em Ciência Política. "Michel Bauwens (born 21 March 1958) started his career as information analyst and reference librarian for the United States Information Agency (1983-2000), worked as information manager for British Petroleum (1990-1993) (where he created one of the first virtual information centers and is credited for coining the concept of cybrarian), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave. He created two internet start-ups, the intranet/extranet company E-Com (sold to Alcatel) and the interactive marketing company Kyberco (sold to Tagora holding). He was European Mgr. of Thought Leadership for MarchFIRST, and ebusiness strategy director for Belgacom, Belgium s leading telco (1999-2002). With Frank Theys, Bauwens is the co-creator of a 3 hour documentary TechnoCalyps, an examination of the 'metaphysics of technology'. He taught and edited two anthologies on the Anthropology of Digital Society, together with Salvino Salvaggio. Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, which researchers peer production/governance/property and the open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented modes of human cooperation. He is the author of a number of on-line essays, including a seminal thesis Peer to Peer and Human Evolution and The Political Economy of Peer Production (CTheory). For the P2P Foundation, he functioned as community manager responsible of an ecology of collaboration consisting of: A wiki which reached 17,000 pages which were viewed 18 million times in 2011; a well-retweeted blog, both reaching 26,000 readers per day; a Ning community forum with daily activity by 800+ members; and several mailing lists. He has taught courses on the anthropology of digital society to postgraduate students at ICHEC/St. Louis in Brussels, Belgium and now lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he has taught related courses at Payap University Dhurakij Pandit University. He is a Research Fellow with the Primavera project at the University of Amsterdam and outside expert with the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008-2012). As of 2012, he will be working and teaching at IBICT, Rio de Janeiro. Michel Bauwens is a member of the Board of the Union of International Associations (Brussels), advisor to Shareable magazine (San Francisco) and to Zumbara Time Bank (Istanbul). He functions as the Chair of the Technology/ICT working group, Hangwa Forum (Beijing, Sichuan), to develop economic policies for long-term resilience, including through distributed manufacturing. Michel writes editorials for Al Jazeera English [2] and is listed at #82, on the Post-Carbon Institute (En)Rich list, [3], as oneof the 100 most inspiring people in the world."