Here’s the list of questions that were asked via Slido at OPEN 2018 on the Main Stage… a lot of them were answered (see the videos and collaborative notes), but a lot were not, so if you want to chip in and answer any of them feel free to do so in the comments below. Even without answers they provide an interesting perspective on the thoughts in the room…
| Question | Upvotes | Asked by | |
| 1 | What are the dangers of accepting grants from what we are trying to replace? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 2 | There’s a tremendous capital amongst citizens. Why have a start-up and then sell it, if you can do it right from the start? Is it because platform builders are not ecoomic savy? | 4 | Anonymous |
| 3 | what was the collaborative note taking URL? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 4 | Did Nathan say funding that want ‘extract’ from our members | 1 | Mark Ricketts |
| 5 | Nathan, you talked about what worked in the past, can you also speak about what didn’t work? using the Visa case as an example | 3 | Anonymous |
| 6 | Answer to Anonymous 10:37: The note taking URL: https://open.coop/2018-notes | 6 | Wouter Tebbens |
| 7 | There’s a tremendous capital amongst citizens. Why have a start-up and then sell it, if you can do it right from the start? Is it because platform builders are not ecoomic savy? | 3 | Lucie Evers |
| 8 | cooperative note taking url:http://open.coop/2018-notes | 0 | Anonymous |
| 9 | What is the open food network doing with the retail co-operative societies in the UK? And what could be done to improve that? | 2 | Steve Gill |
| 10 | To first panelists: How did your organizations get their start? What was the lag time before reaching a sustainable organization that can afford to support contributing-members in a good life? | 2 | Rashid Owoyele |
| 11 | What have been your early experiences of using co-budget? (Open Food Network) | 1 | Rory Ridley-Duff |
| 12 | Peter – what have been your early experiences in terms of structuring and applying the FairShares Model to your ownership and governance? | 3 | Rory Ridley-Duff |
| 13 | To all using Github. What are the ramifications of GitHub selling out to Microsoft? | 2 | Rory Ridley-Duff |
| 14 | Maru: is the NYC market full of commercially run cleaning companies, making Up & Go a more distinct need, or does the coop model also deliver better outcomes relative to workers building own client base via word-of-mouth for cash in hand work? | 2 | Ed Langham |
| 15 | Can the panel members provide more information on how they acquired early adopters and the cost of this acquisition? | 3 | Anonymous |
| 16 | Are coopcycle also now looking to influence /lobby city’s on improving the active travel experience? E.g. air quality, safe cycle routes etc…? | 1 | Steve Rose |
| 17 | Is there any move towards coperatively creating a collection of microservices to address common functionality that can be used across multple platforms | 0 | Anonymous |
| 18 | Is there just one Slido room | 1 | Mark Ricketts |
| 19 | Ruth: how might we position Transition Design in the business ecosystem without being profiles as “just an academic?” | 1 | Rashid Owoyele |
| 20 | https://meet.jit.si/opencoopfaircoop_260718 | 0 | adinfinitum@disroot.org |
| 21 | The transition together event was great, partly because there was a good balance of attitude, of mindset. Having two thirds female participation helped, I think. How can we get this attitude more embedded? | 0 | Simon Grant |
| 22 | Are platform coops each reinventing many of the same wheels? How can we share the wheels? | 2 | Bill |
| 23 | Ela mentioned the “international bubble” and that building the SUPERMARKT bilingually helps them stay local. Could she expand on the concept of the international bubble? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 24 | What situations/activities have you found to be particularly successful in creating the very important shift within ourselves? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 25 | What is the best way to make contact with Francesca | 1 | Mark Ricketts |
| 26 | Online communities…if they succeed…inevitably(?) turn on themselves. See Clay Shirky’s “a group is its own worst enemy”.What to do? | 3 | Jon |
| 27 | What’s the role of deepening understanding one to one between individuals in different networks? | 0 | Simon Grant |
| 28 | @Jon – what if people in an online community focus on care, trust, face to face knowing each other, and focus on restorative practice, not opposition | 0 | Simon Grant |
| 29 | Observation really… I’m seeing analogies with historical networking (1) convergence like the Viking Althing in iceland (2) silk routes that had traders hybridising at the boundaries of culture (3) missionaries but this is culture conquering…. | 1 | Steve Rose |
| 30 | Are shared values an important factor? We need to test through deeper knowledge, not just assumed | 1 | Simon Grant |
| 31 | Why not vision and money? | 0 | Mark Ricketts |
| 32 | What ways of creating large scale distributed conversations are there? Anything like the old America Speaks 21st Century Town Meetings? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 33 | urgency: isn’t the problem that the victims aren’t leading the conversation? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 34 | On Minds: how are the reward tokens backed? | 0 | Les Moore |
| 35 | How do you manage Open Source code contributions in a co-operative model? Does the community get to decide whether something gets committed or not? | 1 | Stephen Cox |
| 36 | @minds #socialcoop #Rchain #@twitter etc how do we interoperate? | 4 | Wouter Tebbens |
| 37 | At #CommonsCloud we need to choose which social network services to integrate. GNU Social, Mastodon, Rocket, Riot what services would you suggest, or what combination? | 2 | Wouter Tebbens |
| 38 | To Claire: you said that the different Rchain orgs have different values or missions, what is on the horizon for the EU office? How might we get involved? | 1 | Rashid Owoyele |
| 39 | Each social platform has its own user profile. How can we make that portable or smartly linked? | 1 | Wouter Tebbens |
| 40 | @minds: You skipped the real question on governance : who makes the decisions about minds? Features? Business model? Are there people financially benefitting? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 41 | @Mayel : what is the relationship between social.coop and Mastodon ? | 0 | Alexandre Bourlier |
| 42 | Within our coop we develop a system for priorities in development. It is driven by the members wishes, but also by the capacity to finance those development | 0 | Lucie Evers |
| 43 | Is there anything in the Minds organizational structure that ensures that it remains open and decentralized into the future? How does the organization itself differ from a typical corporation? | 0 | Adam McKenty |
| 44 | @mind @rchain What’s your revenue model and do you have an exit strategy? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 45 | to Stephen Cox: there’s a link between members wishes, the capacity to finance priorities to be developed and what people want to develop. commitment of money coming from members and governed by both digital tools and governance body (persons) | 0 | Lucie Evers |
| 46 | Can you give an example of an app build on holochain today that has social impact? What holochain enables today that existing internet infrastructure doesn’t? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 47 | What over-bearing problem with society is it, that Holachain believes it is trying to solve | 3 | Mark Ricketts |
| 48 | How is holochain distributing ownership to app developers within its network? How does it actually work? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 49 | Doesn’t copying nature’s decentralised approach lead to an end of society as we know it? Beside all promising opportunities don’t you see a potential downside of leading to a survival of the fittest world when scaled up? Do you see threats? | 4 | Anonymous |
| 50 | For holochain to deliver, we need to trust the details of the hash table and to have confidence in the code. Open source doesn’t mean reviewed… any independent reviews of the underlying tech yet? | 3 | Anonymous |
| 51 | How much technical knowledge do I need to build an app on Holochain? | 4 | Peter Pumpkin Eater |
| 52 | Given so many blockchains these days, how is your vision for connecting or coliving with other blockchain networks? | 3 | Wouter Tebbens |
| 53 | Would you recommend using Holochain+Holo starting today to transition existing organisations for their old silo apps, for needs and offers communication, mutual credit, time banking, and the like. | 1 | Anonymous |
| 54 | How does a Holochain infrastructure compare to existing web structure in terms oof energy use? Slighly more? Less? Double? Factor 10? Given Climate Change and the limits of growth, we can’t afford technologies that need more energy. | 2 | Anonymous |
| 55 | How could I apply blockchain with a coop type platform for monitoring circular economy in supply chain, and thus improve standards? How do I verify a supplier of a material? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 56 | Smart energy (5g) consumes a lot of energy and emits a lot of radiation. In an effort to become sustainable, we are applying a tech on ourselves that is actually killing life. How do we make these supply chains transparent and implement safe tech? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 57 | (Holo) Being a traditional company (non coopérative) how do you think you could change interactions and people organization globally by using the dominant organisation legal forms ? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 58 | Isn’t that the point though – humans learn by collaboration, and advanced choices, based on quantum opportunities, possibilities, and consensus about value | 1 | Mark Ricketts |
| 59 | Humans have been coordinating at scale for years. the free and open source movements are testament of that. why do we need holochain? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 60 | is very strong vendor lock in of holochain justified by their money supporting grass roots projects?. why haven’t holochain simply developed the policing dht as an open standard? https://prezi.com/view/NvRAZ35fln9i70V3YCrl/ | 0 | Christopher Reay |
| 61 | The federal reserve is a corporation, not a govt agency. Before we start to democratise the financial system, do we not have to understand the deception of the structures that control us? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 62 | Can you share some background material so that we can better understand your vision? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 63 | Have you tried collecting stories from citizens, like Patient Opinion does? | 0 | David Newman |
| 64 | Nathan you said you were thinking about “what will invite people in?” If “disruption” is that today, what is next? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 65 | FYI Lots on narrative 1/2Ella Saltemarshe ‘Using story to change system’. She believes stories act as glue, as web and as light:https://ssir.org/articles/entry/using_story_to_change_systems | 1 | David Bent |
| 66 | FYI Lots on narrative 2/2-Alex Evans ‘The Myth Gap’, believes we need “global constellation of myths of a larger us, a longer now and a different ‘good life’ which together shift our collective values base.’https://bit.ly/2v6Co2g | 2 | David Bent |
| 67 | How do we distinguish memes or catchphrases: Which ones endure and become the identity of a paradigm shift, and which ones burn briefly and fade away? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 68 | FYI folks interested in using science fiction to imagine non-capitalist alternatives try ‘Economic Science Fictions’ by Political Economy Research Centre in Goldsmiths.https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/economic-science-fictions/ | 2 | David Bent |
| 69 | If we put an emotional individual story over the rational argument aren’t we getting as low populists do in their discourse? Shouldn’t we instead insist in maintaining at least a hybrid approach of pathos & Logos? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 70 | Should we compile/commission an anthology of fiction which showcases the value of co-operatives, perhaps in modern+tech/scifi future settings? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 71 | What do the panel believe is the transformative narrative to unite the coop movement to educate the masses? | 3 | Anonymous |
| 72 | A plug, my colleague Rory Ridley Duff (who is also here) wrote a fiction book “The Dragon’s Apprentice” which depicted a world where social enterprise and FairShares was the norm of business. | 0 | Anonymous |
| 73 | If the problem is to convince “ordinary” people about the need for change what about aknowledging the positive mechanism of capitalism in order to bring it to a next (more social) level instead of blaming it as the enemy? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 74 | Caldwell: taking your comment on the narrative of not saying capitalism or anti capitalism, what could the narrative of success be for open platform cooperatives. What does good look like. | 0 | Anonymous |
| 75 | “Stories manipulate people”Discuss | 1 | Jon |
| 76 | What role does synchronicity play in fiction? Is it essential to a good story? If so why isn’t it talked about more often in “real” life? | 3 | Peter Pumpkin Eater |
| 77 | What is the dominant narrative that keeps 99% in thrall to the 1%? | 1 | INDRA ADNAN |
| 78 | How can we create a shared regenerative narrative that’s powerful enough to displace the currently dominant degenerative economic and political story? | 3 | Adam McKenty |
| 79 | Cristina, you found solidarity with peers but what could have helped you make a stand in your discrimination example? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 80 | What’s your opinion on the Solarpunk genre? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 81 | Can you each recommend your favorite contemporary story/book, in the line of The Dispossessed? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 82 | If politics is about caring for life, then why are we allowing 5g to be installed in all environments? 5g is causing huge damage to environment through its radiation leakage? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 83 | Clarification : this is synchronicity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity | 0 | Anonymous |
| 84 | Best session so far! If the capacity for social imagination is the most human thing about us how can we co-create new imaginings of how the world might be? | 0 | Sue L |
| 85 | Here’s on possible one coming from one of the oldest books in the world:”When you see good in others, imitate it.When you see bad in yourself, get rid of it”- i-ching #42 | 0 | Anonymous |
| 86 | I would recommend J. K Gibson-Graham’s writing on post-capitalist politics – feminist economic geographers who deconstruct capitalist dominance, promote plurality and highlight that post-capitalism already exists. | 0 | Anonymous |
| 87 | Did anyone catch the name of the author of the autobiography that Nathan Schneider mentioned? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 88 | Promoting? | 0 | Mark Ricketts |
| 89 | There’s a lot of people in a confined space – can those with backpacks, saddle bags, folding bikes, etc. please think twice before crashing through narrow doors, and groups of people? Thanks! | 0 | Anonymous |
| 90 | Has Gary been shown the polling facility in Slido? | 1 | Mark Ricketts |
| 91 | Volunteering and gifts/favours is a great aspiration, but near term excludes those who need to work for money, or have busy lives caring for others already. How can gary’s vision be inclusive and not more divisive, built by elites who can afford it? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 92 | if social reputation becomes the measure how ‘good’ people are, how do you avoid exploitation and public defamation? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 93 | Reputation is not the goal. It is treated merely as a means to an end, the end being accountability. It is also potentially dangerous as a means. | 3 | Anonymous |
| 94 | volunteering and gift economy in the near term favours those with the privilege to work for free, and excludes those who need to work for money or are already burdened with care responsibilities. How can this future be inclusive? | 5 | Anonymous |
| 95 | Either-or thinking demonstrate exclusion, “and” thinking demonstrates inclusion – does cooperation and competition need to be “either-or” | 3 | Patrick Steyaert |
| 96 | Reputation… Black Mirror (TV show) covered this. Reducing people to 5 stars… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive | 5 | Anonymous |
| 97 | Eliminating anonymity eliminates trolls. Fab. But it also eliminates a vector for psychological safety, and may also risk one’s personal safety too. | 0 | Anonymous |
| 98 | What about the reputation darkside? (Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’ episode) | 5 | Emma |
| 99 | the ‘transition town’ network parallel is interesting. what is one action each of us here can take to get something started in our local (or online) communities, to start that open co-op network pilot dream? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 100 | I don’t think you can – or it is desiirable – to manage trust and reputation online. These rerequire human interaction and change over time. I would not trust an online tool for that. | 1 | Anonymous |
| 101 | Reputation depends on what you do and how you do itBut depends also on the qualitity of relationship with all stakeholders: in some sense is a measure of participatory commitment and so a measure of mutualistic and coopeterative valuesDo you agree? | 0 | Ugo |
| 102 | An advantage of favors and gifts (by volunteers giving to society) Is that you can circumvent many commercial and governmental regulations. And recruit! | 0 | Anonymous |
| 103 | There are many community centres which serve local communities, doing things like serving affordable lunches to working class people, I’m in touch with one of them, but I can’t see them easily grasping these concepts. | 0 | Anonymous |
| 104 | Reputation always risk will become more and more significant, and may be use as a weapon.That’s why reputation care is important and for a coop means better participatory issues and good behaviours | 0 | Ugo |
| 105 | Did finding consensus in Taiwan come from the software or human moderators? | 1 | David Newman |
| 106 | David Runciman says democracy is ending (slowly); that representative government has lost the capacity to reinvigorate itself. What should we be doing, as we bring democracy to new contexts, to avoid the problems of state level democracy today? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 107 | Could the approach of participatory budgeting be applied to kinds of decision, such as planning? | 0 | David Newman |
| 108 | How does participatory budgeting relate to Parecon – e.g. https://www.participatoryeconomics.info/introduction/ | 0 | Anonymous |
| 109 | What are the chances of a single sign on for Loomio and Cobudget together | 0 | Anonymous |
| 110 | Don’t we all really need to hear what the future selves of the hungry and the dispossessed said – and try to make that happen. | 1 | Anonymous |
| 111 | feedback for richard: 2 participants struggling with English found the exercise too quick to follow. challenging to look forward 10y if health uncertain. we should also remember to look back, at our hopes and aims from years past, reflect | 0 | Anonymous |
| 112 | my experience of organizational participatory budgeting is that everyone is keen, until the situation is difficult and you are looking at cost cutting / losing jobs. what are the limits of cobudgeting within your own team/organization? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 113 | An interesting article on what leadership is/mean in coop and new social movements: https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/31716/6/SB%20-%20Anti-Leadership%20-%20211212.pdf | 0 | Anonymous |
| 114 | https://xkcd.com/927/ – the mapping session started with mentioning a lot of existing mapping projects. The first talk refers to a project that doesn’t seem to exist! It seems worrying that such a seemingly simple index can’t be made. | 1 | Anonymous |
| 115 | Mapping the co-op / solidarity economy: maps are based on an ontology — things that are meant to be represented on the map — but I’m still mainly unclear about what things (and relationships, not just spatial) that this “map” would be representing? | 4 | Simon Grant |
| 116 | @means4end ~ we are seeking implement this type of initiative across Andalusia, ES. https://social.coop/@lasalpujarras let’s #conspire ? #disroot #faircoop ?https://hub.disroot.org/faircoop-andalusia | 0 | Adam |
| 117 | ? https://hub.disroot.org/channel/faircoop-andalusia | 0 | Adam |
| 118 | Can we start with an ontological “metamap” first? Not for the faint-hearted 😉 | 2 | Simon Grant |
| 119 | Given that every mapping project is based on a normative framework that is contested when translated into different cultural contexts, is this a project that will inevitably fail? Mapping SSE models may be more useful than mapping SSE enterprises. | 1 | Anonymous |
| 120 | “normative framework” I interpret as ontology. The point I am trying to air is that the ontology itself can be seen as a commons, in common ownership and control, to serve users not to be “normative” it can be formative | 1 | Simon Grant |
| 121 | We want to map because there are so many coop/solidarity projects and we nood a way to find and organise them. We’ve just heard from 3 diffenet mapping projects, could we and up with a multitude of maps and still not know where to start? | 1 | Wystan |
| 122 | Re. how to ensure a map is a live doc rather than a mere snapshot in time that erodes to zero value over time, the Digital Life Collective is letting the tech projects know that funders will be using the map in their research and due diligence. | 1 | Philip Sheldrake |
| 123 | we need to have an ‘interface’ to translate our definitions/norms to large audiences, I think. Any ideas how people outside this conference will use the maps? | 2 | Lucie Evers |
| 124 | In practice how does publishing a ‘shared schema’ differ from publishing yourself to a map, if it’s still a conscious process you need to go through? | 0 | Ed Langham |
| 125 | FYI notes from mapping on Media of the commons convergence https://pad.femprocomuns.cat/p/commons | 1 | Anonymous |
| 126 | @colm i am assisting in the development of practical land restoration projects in southern Spain – as a way to identify available land, water, trees & produce – to better link local resources.Let’s #conspire ? https://social.coop/@adinfinitum | 0 | Adam |
| 127 | My question/fear about the Preston model is how we ensure that the approach is not tied to who leads the council and sustains beyond the life of any given political administration. | 8 | Nathan Brown |
| 128 | To Matthew Brown – great to hear about economic and business reform in Preston. What tangible social impact have you seen from these initiatives? Are people feeling the effects on community and happiness? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 129 | What are Preston folk thinking about own local currency? | 2 | Anonymous |
| 130 | Hi Emma did you know that we are working in Rotherham, looking to set up LocoSoco ( a FairShares company) centres to help communities and schools control the supply chain of FMCGs ( supermarket goods) | 2 | Cliff Southcombe |
| 131 | Re: Preston / Rotherham etcCould you imagine directly intervening to form coops / mutuals for the purpose of fulfilling LA contracts? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 132 | Preston etc. How important is the role of specialist cooperative development expertise? | 2 | Graham Mitchell |
| 133 | Preston works well in a “friendly environment” but where this way of working is less supported we need to use all the mechanisms available to us. So what role could the social value act have in using LGcommissioning to access more public finance? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 134 | Trump says he wants to “make America great again” – isn’t this approach really “make Preston great again? Is “local protectionism” compatible with co-operative values? | 3 | Anonymous |
| 135 | Is it really possible for community interests to be delivered by party politics when there is a tendency, at elections especially, for parties to oppose each other, however good the idea is | 3 | Anonymous |
| 136 | 71% of Manchester’s money is spent locally. Great! Where is the other 29% going? I.e. what are the big opportunities for local businesses and coops to take the rest of it? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 137 | It’s one member one voice, that we need, not one member, one vote. The Teachers Union – and I was a teacher for 20 years – lost the voice of teachers, through the development of different ownership models. | 2 | Mark Ricketts |
| 138 | Can you day something about the Cooperative Councils Innovation Network?Is there a role for the cooperative movement? | 2 | Bill |
| 139 | What qualitative measures are you using to assess impact? Have you thought about using ‘Most significant change story’ approach? | 0 | Sue L |
| 140 | We’re a co-op with a national network of 500 small businesses. We want to introduce them to mutual credit. They’re keen. See www.noncorporate.org. we want to work with others. Contact us. | 3 | We are going |
| 141 | What does Michael think of Holochain? Or other crypto projects? Are they actually representative of mutual credit? | 3 | Anonymous |
| 142 | Universal Basic Income simply props up our current (broken) capitalist system. Instead, why not remove that capital requirement completely and simply provide basic physiological and security needs for free? | 5 | Steve |
| 143 | Can you talk about REA (resource/event/agent) and the importance of open data about the whole supply chain in circular economy. So rather than planned economy we can have a decentralised agile economy. | 1 | Anonymous |
| 144 | What are the panel members’ thoughts as to the reason why no alternative currency system has really gained traction yet, despite many attempts over a long period? | 10 | Anonymous |
| 145 | As no economic device can be introduced universally, don’t innovations such as demurrage simply invite capital (more specifically, the people with it) to flee? | 5 | Philip Sheldrake |
| 146 | There is a tradition of local social currencies, and now also the many scarcity-based cryptocurrencies… What can we learn from each? What’s your take on the latter? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 147 | People with better education and bandwidth post more, Can host more. does rewarding this reproduce same inequalities ad standard money? | 2 | Marco Fioretti |
| 148 | Money is a:1. medium of exchange2. measure of value3. standard of deferred payment4. store of valueDo these new forms of money do some of these and, deliberately, not others? | 7 | Philip Sheldrake |
| 149 | Should money systems :(A) have a limit (like the Gold Standard of old) to reflect there are limited resources on the planet? (B) be limitless, ie easy to print/coin new money? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 150 | http://slaveryfootprint.org/ | 0 | Anonymous |
| 151 | If an alternative money were to become really successful, would governments or other actors try to shut it down, as a challenge to their power? | 5 | Eeyore |
| 152 | To Michael – regarding biomimicry, Can recent work on better understanding of biological autonomy (Avaro Moreno) in terms of being open to thermodynamic flow, but closed to organisation (closure of constraints) help as a model? | 1 | Patrick Steyaert |
| 153 | Does this new individualised data world create filter bubble risks (you only see what you want to see), which could make influencing worldviews or opinions difficult? | 0 | Ed Langham |
| 154 | Mooc1.communityforge.net. money and society mooc. | 2 | We are going |
| 155 | How many people present would like to be involved in building a national mutual credit trading system? | 1 | We are going |
| 156 | A coop coin to link all coops is great! And mutual credit of courae. We have a desperate need to bring the coop movement together for mutual support and this could do it. | 1 | Gary Alexander |
| 157 | One tantalising attraction to fusing mutual credit type systems with blockchain/digital architectures is to scale them up into a kind of giant global credit network or rhizome. But what is the nature of the tradeoff between scale and localisation? | 4 | Brett Scott |
| 158 | How and when can platform coops use Holochain? | 4 | Anonymous |
| 159 | Does the different credit limits given to participants in a mutual credit system itself form a reputation system? | 2 | Bill |
| 160 | Is one key area for attempting to design a ‘credit’ system in the co-op model is to capture entrepreneurial individual endeavour that enables collectively owned enterprises to start and grow i.e how do we recognise and reward sweat equity in coops? | 2 | Simon |
| 161 | It is actually the (reinforcing and balancing) loops and delays in the flow that need to be understood as they determine where and how stocks build up – any comments on that? | 2 | Patrick Steyaert |
| 162 | QIARK is a totally new system of Collective Intelligence – but we are also working with a team to solve the Capital Conundrum – big style – happy to work with anyone too. mark@impactri.com | 1 | Mark Ricketts |
| 163 | Guy, how can we use narratives to persuade others with the privilege of inheriting wealth to consider transitioning to worker ownership? How can we use business-values and language to encourage these individuals? Plus, was the shift complicated? | 1 | Rashid Owoyele |
| 164 | Niki, do you think that others will continue to gain the insight of the implied complicity of business in the oppressive systems you’ve identified? What’s the tipping point for other entrepreneurs to follow you lead? | 4 | Rashid Owoyele |
| 165 | To all, do you think that dispersion of decision making might slow the rush towards the dystopian fears around automation? If so, is that a leverage point for encouraging the proliferation of worker/consumer owned organizations? | 1 | Rashid Owoyele |
| 166 | Could we aknowledge the incredible postive energy of Oliver hosting the conference marathon like a (coop)boss? | 7 | DEZ |
| 167 | Niki, who or what inspired you to set up Rco? Was there anything from your education that influenced your decision to start Rco and your decision to investigate worker coops as an option? | 0 | Anonymous |
| 168 | Apart from Investment, what are the major barriers to working in the ways you do? | 1 | Sue L |
| 169 | Guy: sounds like you need to go full co-op ??? | 1 | Anonymous |
| 170 | Would you agree it’s easy to say “money’s not important” if you’ve always had plenty? Money’s damn important for most people who don’t have much. | 0 | Anonymous |