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Open Co-ops – an idea whose time has come?

January 7, 2014 By Josef 7 Comments

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/

Filed Under: Co-operative, Inspiring Projects, Open Tagged With: Open Co-ops

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  1. Open Co-ops: Inspriation, Legal Structures and Tools | STIR says:
    August 12, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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  2. Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structure and Tools | open says:
    August 12, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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  3. Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools | STIR says:
    August 12, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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  4. Open Co-ops: Inspirations, Legal Structure and Tools says:
    August 14, 2014 at 6:20 pm

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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  5. Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools | STIR | Olduvaiblog says:
    August 15, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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  6. P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools says:
    August 18, 2014 at 7:55 am

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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  7. Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools | Commons Transition says:
    February 19, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    […] source software and hardware communities are now possible. Soon anyone will be able to set up an Open Co-op and invite all their stakeholders to help finance, govern and organise the co-op […]

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