We are open WE ARE… [typedjs typespeed=”10″ startdelay=”800″ backdelay=”1002″ backspeed=”1″ loop=”false” cursor=”color:#fff!important;”]…FOR BUSINESS + …TO CHANGE + …TO COLLABORATION[/typedjs] You’re Not Addicted to Your Phone - You’re Starved of Connection You pick up your phone to do something.Twenty minutes later, you’re still scrolling - and you’ve forgotten what it was Relaunching The Open Co-op: Preparing for a Trust-Based Internet For over twenty years, at The Open Co-op, we’ve been working towards a vision of a cooperative, regenerative economy — Introducing CoBot: Your AI Guide to the Regenerative Economy Across the world, thousands of projects are quietly building a regenerative economy: community gardens, repair cafés, ecovillages, food co-ops, social Introducing The Collaborative Groups Protocol Humans were not designed to work alone. Cooperation is a natural aspect of our humanity. Research comparing children with chimpanzees 2026: The Year of Decentralised Trust Networks The Dawn of Decentralised Trust Networks At The Open Co-op we’re starting 2026 with a sense of profound optimism. After PLANET Research - Decentralized Auth Solutions TL;DR Introduction PLANET will eventually offer a variety of functionality, so from a systems architecture point of view it makes Breaking Free from Walled Gardens: How PLANET paves the way to a collaborative economy Imagine a world where every individual and organisation working towards a regenerative future could seamlessly connect, share resources, and collaborate—without A Protocol for sharing Offers & Wants between networks It was almost 2.5 years ago that Ivana started a thread about marrying needs and offers on The Open Co-op Vision, Progress, Roadmap The Open Co-op was founded in 2004 and has a long history of organising events and running projects to help Catalysing collaboration at scale In his brilliant book, How The World Really Works, Vaclav Smil concludes: …of all the risks we face, global climate If you value your privacy you should stop using Gmail Have you ever considered how much information Google harvests about you? Google creates ‘shadow profiles’ of every user by tracking, A new model for grant funding - to finance the collaborative Commons The conventional funding model, in which grant making bodies hand out six figure sums to qualifying organizations, is broken. At The self-reinforcing nature of cooperation and ethical business Business as usual is unsustainable. Capitalism has legitimised the externalisation of various ‘costs’ to such an extent that it has A Co-operative Privacy and Trust system for digital dignity Artists in every field want to collaborate with each other and with their own community-supporting audiences. But trusted collaboration without Decent Gov Now By definition our government should be decent. But it is not. Being decent requires ‘conforming with generally accepted standards of OPEN 2020: Networked Commons Initiatives OPEN 2020 took place entirely online over two days of talks and discussions and even some poetry - the videos Bristol Pay – a possible future for local currencies This webinar starts with a presentation of the history of the Bristol Pound and the learnings gained from running the VIDEO: OPEN 2020 - Governance in collaborative projects OPEN 2020 was run using an open source video tool, managed by a new platform co-op, meet.coop. But how should
