Digital media and means are extremely important in how activists organise into the future, how commoning may be done across distributed commons, and what needs to be commoned. But we didn't want readers to focus too heavily on digital commons. These pieces have been set aside as 'further notes'.
Software code, algorithm-steered systems, digital media, etc constitute a prominent present-day still-emergent kind of material that can be commoned. The world is becoming saturated with material of this kind, and we have to learn how to common it before the emerging infrastructures fatally subvert and outflank the capabilities of civil-society organisations.
The world wide web could have been a commons, and lots of people who work in the software and web sphere remain committed to the principles of P2P-commons in software code, digital data and digital processing capacity. Nevertheless, the corporates have invented ways to **enclose, commoditise** and **monetise** the internet, the web and the software sphere.
Microsoft enclosed an emergent software code commons: github.
If you may want to use **software tools and platforms** in the future, track ongoing developments in distributed P2P protocols, apps and platforms. For example . .
Wiki and its younger cousin fedwiki are forms of P2P commons in digital media. They’re of enormous importance, as digital *’means-for-knowing-with’*, which are *open, collaborative* and *peer-to-peer*. But it’s early days, and while open-access infrastructures and media pools currently exist, practices of stewarding have a long way to go. Pitch in!