Is iCommons a social movement? Is it an organisation?

I am posting some of my musings about this on my blog, first, because that is one way to continue conversations which I am having with a number of people at the iCommons iSummit. I have chosen my blog as the venue because these are not official iCommons answers. I am somewhat wary that until the collective editorial processes of the new iCommons site become established that what I am thinking about out loud will be (bizarrely) construed as so me kind of official iCommons position, rather than my own musings.
Since I could completely change my mind on these thoughts in my next blog post, as the conversation continues, these posts are not even a official position from myself (if there is such a thing) I’ve had to labour that point a little because there have been a number of rather strange suggestions lately that every post which appears from the innumerable bloggers on the iCommons website are communiques from an iCommons clique, each phrase laden with carefully encoded political nuance rather than the diverse, contradictory offerings of community members many of whom are not media professionals.

This assumption reveals a view of iCommons as primarily an institution or at best organisation rather than movement, and an ideologically homogeneous, centrally controlled organisation at that. I think that that view is wrong.

I see the iCommons as a social movement with all which that implies; ideological diversity but commons goals, common strategies but philosophical debates. Perhaps though iCommons is a social movement second and a community first, a networked community.

What should iCommons’ goals be?

I’d suggest that iCommons has an important role in nurturing the commons, which includes helping build community and facilitating commons based peer production but another important goal is to communicate both the vision and the current practise to the rest of the world. Its important to communicate with the rest of the world to grow the numbers of those involved in the commons. Its also important to change the horizon of possibilities, not just for policy makers, but for society generally.