Where open meets co-op
The conventional funding model, in which grant making bodies hand out six figure sums to qualifying organizations, is broken. At it’s best the standard grant funding model is woefully inefficient: Huge amounts of funds are wasted on ‘administration’ Time-poor NGOs and smaller orgs are forced to compete for limited funds, guaranteeing that the vast proportion of time … [Read more...]
Business as usual is unsustainable. Capitalism has legitimised the externalisation of various ‘costs’ to such an extent that it has become normal for companies to exploit the natural world - and their customers at the same time. Take the example of a large video conferencing company that enables people to chat and run webinars. At first glance the service sounds amazing - … [Read more...]
Artists in every field want to collaborate with each other and with their own community-supporting audiences. But trusted collaboration without face to face interaction is difficult. Many of us let the major corporate social platforms manage the majority of our identity information, even if we prefer to work in trusted ‘peer-to-peer’ circles. Resonate's Community Credentials … [Read more...]
By definition our government should be decent. But it is not. Being decent requires ‘conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour’ or performing to ‘an acceptable standard’. But, according to MORI’s Trends showing satisfaction with the government from 1997 to the present it is hard to find a single occasion in the last 23 years where the UK … [Read more...]
We've now edited and uploaded all the videos from the main two days of OPEN 2020 - here they are in chronological order. You can also video them in the OPEN 2020 playlist on our YouTube channel - which includes all the pre-event webinars too. OPEN 2020 - Introduction OPEN 2020 was a collaborative online event for anyone interested in creating a world which places … [Read more...]
This webinar starts with a presentation of the history of the Bristol Pound and the learnings gained from running the UK’s largest local currency for 8 years. It then moves onto ideas for a new approach to helping the economy to transition to be greener, fairer and stronger - called Bristol Pay. This session provides an honest and open reflection of some of the pitfalls … [Read more...]
OPEN 2020 was run using an open source video tool, managed by a new platform co-op, meet.coop. But how should this co-op, and other collaborative projects, be stewarded and governed to best effect? Following on from the first session on The tools of collaboration this second session addresses governance and stewarding in a collaborative, commons building projects. The … [Read more...]
Although Mutual Credit has a strong pedigree, both theoretical and practical, it cannot be said to have ‘moved the needle’ in terms of the world economy. If we believe that mutual credit is important, that it holds a promise of deep systemic change to the incentives that dictate what sort of economy we can have, then we need to understand the reasons for this lack of wider … [Read more...]
Watch the Introduction to day 2 and discussion with Esther Foreman from the The Social Change Agency. Esther and team helped set up and support over 110 mutual aid groups via Open Collective during the Covid pandemic and their work, supporting people-powered networks, is paving the way for a world in which people and planet come before profit. … [Read more...]
At the end of Day 1 of OPEN 2020 - after 6 hours of focused discussion about co-creating the collaborative economy - it was time for something different... which came in the form of a surprise performance from Poet & Radio Presenter Mr Gee. We were very proud to welcome Mr Gee - and grateful for him sharing his rhymes and wisdom. Check out his Soundcloud page for … [Read more...]