
Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Foundation and the co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, which hosted international conferences on commons and economy. He has conducted international collaborative research on Peer Production, governance, and capital. As the research director of FLOKsociety.org—established by the Ecuadorian government for the “social knowledge economy”—Bauwens developed the “Commons Implementation Plan.”