Where open meets co-op
Have you ever considered how much information Google harvests about you? Google creates ‘shadow profiles’ of every user by tracking, recording and analysing: Every email you send or receive via GmailEvery search you perform on Google searchEvery video you watch on YouTubeEverywhere you go, the route you took and how long you stay - even if you never open the Maps appYour … [Read more...]
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...]
