Mapping Multipliers of New Forms of Civic Engagement in France Collectif pour l’action citoyennes (Collective for civic associations)
was created in 2010 to fight against the coming down of associations to their sole economic aspect, and to defend the contribution of associations to the construction of a united, sustainable and participative society. P2P foundation
is an international organisation that studies, documents and promotes peer-to-peer practices. It started to develop its French branch in 2015. Coop des communs
was founded in Spring 2016 to promote and develop bridges between the realm of the Commons and that of social and solidary economy. (No website)
tive ecosystems, decentralised events, and tools for collective knowledge. Benjamin Coriat
is a French economist and professor at the Paris 13 University (University of Economic Sciences and Management). He situates himself within the Regulation School of thoughts. He is part of the administration council of the Économistes Atterrés (“the appalled economists”) and researches the Commons. Fabienne Orsi
is an economist and researcher at the Research Institute for Development at the SESSTIM, in Marseille. With the launching of the project ANR on “Intellectual Property, Commons, Exclusivity” in 2010, she got involved in a pluridisciplinary research on the commons in the field of knowledge with a focus on governance of the Commons and property.
Association VECAM
was created in 1995. In anticipation of an increasing digitalisation of human production, it wished to feed citizens and civil society’s reflection on the matter. The question of Commons has also become central in VECAM’s interventions and projects. It has stimulated a French-speaking network around the Commons and around its le Temps des Communs’ initiative.
Lionel Maurel
is a blogger, legal expert and librarian. His blog posts deal with the redefinition of copyright in the digital era. He is one of the founders of SavoirsCom1, a collective of librarians defending a common domain for information. Valérie Peugeot
Sylvia Fredriksson (@s_fredriksson)
is dedicated to the promotion of the Commons and works on the challenges of citizen appropriation of technologies as a lever of emancipation for civil society. She specialises in hypermedia and has worked on exploring and designing local urban utopias. Nicolas Loubet (@NicolasLoubet)
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is the co-founder of Cellabz, Bluenod, Knowtex, Umaps. He develops innovation labs in the blockchain field, carries out monitoring and managing of creative communities, innova-
currently works at the Orange Labs (social and human sciences), in Paris. She has been involved in non-profit activities for 15 years in the fields of European policies, social impact of globalisation, participative democracy, and social and democratic use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology). She links the activist and institutional realm.