commons-public partnerships

An example of municipal infratsructure for the cooperative economy.

An agreement of long-term cooperation between commoners and state institutions to meet specific needs.

– Free, Fair and Alive

services would be run by a joint enterprise co-owned and co-managed by a community association and a state authority.

– Platform socialism

One alternative model of economic ownership that could assist digital civic platforms is public–common partnerships (PCPs), which allow local communities and municipal authorities to participate in a joint enterprise.

– Platform socialism

A clever twist on the public/private partnership is the commons/public partnership in which commoners act as working partners with municipal governments in tackling important need.

– Hacking the Law to Open Up Zones of Commoning - Resilience

I've also seen it called public-commons partnerships. I think they both refer to the same thing.

a reversal to the familiar model of development in which public resources and community assets are transferred into private hands

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

the opportunity for resources to move not just the other way (from private to public) but also from public to ‘the commons’ – not just collective ownership but a model which has decentralised democratic governance built into it.

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

Public-common partnerships are co-owned and co-governed infrastructures – what we call a ‘joint enterprise’ – where the establishment of a common association is essential to making decisions and controlling resources autonomously from, but in partnership with, state authorities

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

common associations – which may variably take the legal form of a consumer cooperative, mixed cooperative, or community interest company – have both the capacity and obligation to redirect surplus towards supporting and expanding other public-common partnerships

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

Importantly, public-common partnerships won’t come about solely through local governments passing policy. Whereas the politicians who pushed through public-private partnerships and private finance initiatives were in cahoots with a cadre of financiers who served to make a profit, public-common partnerships need a cadre drawn from social movements

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

social movements can force transparency onto opaque political and business decision-making, raising the political costs of ‘business as usual’ and helping to open up new political possibilities. Secondly, they can act as a catalyst for the formation of a common association, providing the initial lifeblood of any joint enterprise.

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

As the expansive nature of PCPs leads to a more diverse and complex web of commonly-directed utilities and resources, we can increasingly guarantee collective and sustainable access to food, energy, water, housing and other basic human rights

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

Such a radical democratisation of ownership and governance functions as a ‘training in democracy’ while producing the stable material conditions upon which increased political participation becomes possible. It is a project of an ever-deeper democratisation of society

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours

through bringing together local communities, municipal governments and socially-responsible experts – can ensure the benefits of urban development are democratically and equitably distributed towards meaningful social outcomes

– How 'Public-Common Partnerships' Can Help Us Take Back What's Ours