Lonnygrafman
@Lonnygrafman Encourages micro franchising & poverty reduction as a member of O foundation (ofoundation.nl); CEO & co-founder of Oview (oviewapp.com), aims at the creation of a new digital democracy, and a shift in human behavior towards a fair and participatory society. Passionate advocate against food waste. Established the Food Surplus Entrepreneurs Network in the Netherlands (http://fsenetwork.org), founded Healthy&Affordable, is a board member of Taste Before You Waste in Amsterdam (http://www.tastebeforeyouwaste.com), and coaches Non-Guilty Pleasures in Utrecht & Vienna. Believes in the economic paradigm change possible through supporting social businesses. Created 9 hotspots for MakeSense (https://www.makesense.org) in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht, Arnhem, Den Haag, Amersfoort, Oslo, Malmo, & Malaga. Works at Logic Locks, a live gaming company (http://logiclocks.com) Is very passionate about people & positive change.
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Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org. a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, organizers of major global conferences on the commons and economics. He has (co-)published various books and reports in english, dutch and french, such as (with Vasilis Kostakis), such as ‘Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy’, and more recently, P2P, A Commons Manifesto (Westminster Un. Pr. 2019). Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand and in 2017, has crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for Ecuador in 2014. For the next three years he is also advizer to SMart.coop, a fast growing European labour mutual for autonomous workers, seeking welfare reform (commonfare), while looking into biocapacity-based, contributive accounting mechanisms. Michel has been a candidate for the European Parliament, for the Flemish Green Party but as an independent candidate, on May 26, 2019. His last report, P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival, examines which shared accounting systems are needed for production within planetary boundaries. He is currently working on prototyping a MOOC on commons-based economics. Michel is presently advisor to the Co-Creation Foundation in Vienna, and to One Project.