Economics of Open Source Ecology

This episode covers the basic economic model of Factor e Farm. It is Community Supported Production (CSP) with two parts: Manufacturing (CSM) and Agriculture (CSA). It is permaculture and permafacture in one. We’re a replicable, vertically integrated, open source, community-supported flexible fabrication model – for short. View on. Transcript is found below the video.

How do we create wealth? The short answer is that we integrate the immaterial production of the design, for which we do not get paid, with the material production of the objects – for which we may get paid. Precisely because we are integrating the two functions in one operation – Michel Bauwens from the P2P foundation called us the most important social experiment of our time.

Our economic model has further details. We are developing a replicable, vertically integrated, open source community-supported flexible fabrication model. We do vertical integration – in our case carrying out all these business functions ‘under one roof’ – from the growing of feedstocks – design – parts fabrication – assembly – marketing – to public relations functions. We are open source – an open collaborative effort where many stakeholders get together behind the design effort. We are flexible – because the fabrication facility that we are creating will support multipurpose production.

Source: OpenSourceFarmTech Blog