Modelos sostenibles y políticas públicas para una economía social del conocimiento común y abierto en el Ecuador

Description

FLOK stands for Free/Libre Open Knowledge. The name is a generalized abstraction, towards the knowledge society understood as a whole, made upon the acronym of Free/Libre Open Source Software; a movement that has inspired (and made possible, through the development of digital infrastructures and legal devices) a myriad of other expanding movements, from Free Culture to Open Science, from Open Educational Resources to Free Hardware, from Open Source Seeds in agriculture to Open Source Design. The FLOK society is here already. But it is not as a unified nation, territory or state ruled as an economically and politically closed totality. We inhabit the FLOK society in a somewhat fragmented manner, as a precarious but resilient network of projects, infrastructures, communities and resources that conflicts (sometimes politically, often economically, always symbolically) with the inherited view of how economy and society should be organized. Under the name Buen Conocer / FLOK Society a collaborative research and participatory social and political design project started almost two years ago in Ecuador (triggered by an open document, originally written by Xabier E. Barandiaran and Daniel Vázquez, who then became the director of the project, bringing together goals, aspirations and commitments of Ecuatorian and international social movements advocating for free/libre open knowledge). Its goal was to bring together this FLOK network to expand and coordinate its vision to contribute to the bootstrapping of a new political economy in Ecuador (immersed in the project to transform its productive matrix). The Chilean edition of Le Monde Diplomatique captured, under the following phrase, the scope of the project and the historical opportunity it prefigures: “Neoliberalism has come to impose the shock doctrine for decades (taking advantage of catastrophes so as to intensify the capitalist system). From now on, the world has readily available an Ecuadorian receipt for a change of productive matrix to overcome the economic crisis: the FLOK doctrine”...