Where open meets co-op
The original calling question, developed for the OPEN 2020 in Conway Hall no longer feels perfect in this post-covid world. We were going to ask "How can we co-create a new economy which puts people and the planet before profit?". But clearly everything has changed now... and a new calling question seems required. Working with some of our platform co-op friends, who have … [Read more...]
In the run up to OPEN 2020, which will now be an online event, we caught up with Samer Hassan from P2P Models, where they are investigating decentralizing power and value to deliver the collaborative economy using blockchain. OSB: What’s the latest news from P2P Models? SH: We’ve been mapping the ‘blockchain/DLT for social good’ ecosystem, with a focus on European … [Read more...]
As event organisers the safety of our community is paramount and for the last few weeks we have been closely monitoring the rapidly changing situation around Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the advice from Public Health England and the NHS. Due to the current escalation and increasingly likely introduction of social distancing measures we have taken the decision to postpone OPEN … [Read more...]
The following blog is a guest post from Daniel Heery, from Charge My Street - a platform co-op that installs and operates community chargepoints for electric vehicles, which is currently raising money through community shares. An the first Open Conference back in 2017, I took part in the #DigiDen session with 2 other putative Platform Co-ops. We all pitched our ideas, … [Read more...]
The main challenge we need to solve in the platform co-op community is how to reach critical mass… and how to pass users from one platform to another. Fairbnb.coop is a platform co-op whose name precedes it. Everyone’s heard of the venture-capital-backed alternative that’s putting hotels and traditional B&Bs out of business, and Fairbnb.coop is the antithesis of that - a … [Read more...]
I see a real need for “scaled connectivity” to advance our work as part of a viable ecosystem. In the run up to OPEN 2020 in London in June, we interviewed Sarah, Mckinley, Director for European Programs for The Democracy Collaborative and the European Representative for the Next System Project. OSB: What is The Democracy Collaborative? SM: The Democracy Collaborative is a … [Read more...]