Internet Sharing is Driving New Forms of Production Directly Applicable to ASEAN

As a result of the expanding global communications platform the Internet is now a distinct sector of social experience and economic production. It is a way to create value that both compliments and competes with markets and governments. Online communities have devised satisfactory common structures to capture the value that they create. Open source software is a well understood example of how massive collaboration among software developers and users can create significant economic value through creative licensing and sharing. The Creative Commons licensing structure was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with "some rights reserved. Wikipedia is as example of a web-based projects using one of the Creative Commons licenses.

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge...." Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
These new models of economic and social production are springing up in the fertile ground of "inbetween" spaces between private and public, social and economic, digital and physical, individual and group, tangible and intangible creating new participation platforms for defining our relationships to each other, to resources, and to our collective long-term future. This potential for a new means of social and economic production is reshaping markets and governments and offering new opportunities to enhance freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice and preservation of human rights. Through a principle-centred Fourth Way approach this new emerging paradigm can respectfully integrate the current industrial information economy threatened by its promise. Conventional economics has not yet understood the significance of open platforms and the generative power of online communities and how they can increase economic prosperity and restructure culture, politics and everyday life in life-enhancing, life protecting ways. Disbursed communities are using new digital tools for identity creation and affiliation to create and protect new kinds of value from the bottom up. Principle-centred, purposeful, peer production networks that we call Deep Social Networks, create a framework for volunteer and participatory communities to accomplish productive work. This approach recognizes the importance of top-down, bottom-up, outside-in partnerships. These potentially unbounded communities create new value by rapidly solving 1

problems and producing results through peer-to-peer interactions, small group coordination, and largescale collaboration. Social communities and not just markets are being recognized as powerful vehicles for creating economic and social value on the global communications platform. This is what we call Deep Social Networks and will be more fully explained further in our proposal. This principle-centred approach recognizes the direct relationship of the actualization of human rights with creating optimal, sustainable, economic prosperity by all sectors of society. It is in full alignment with the ASEAN Charter statement that the purpose for which ASEAN was established is to promote a people-oriented ASEAN in which all sectors of society are encouraged to participate in, and benefit from, the process of ASEAN integration and community building. From Utilizing the Digital 4th Way Platform for Building a People-Centred ASEAN By Chief Phil Lane Jr. and Jon Ramer