Back in 2004, Gary Alexander from the Open University, Tom Salfield and Josef Davies-Coates from United Diversity, and Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from Defacto Design together launched The Open Co-op.
We described ourselves as a Co-operative Open Organisation.
Ten years on and everyone seems to be getting in on the act:
Ed Mayo‘s Number 1 trend for co-operatives in 2014 is:
“The emergence of ‘open co-operative’ models”
Similarly, Michel Bauwens ends his reflections on 2013 by mentioning the P2P Foundation‘s
“strategic priority around open cooperativism“
It sounds to me like the time for Open Co-ops has (finally) come!
Please join in the discussion and share your thoughts at https://discuss.open.coop/
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