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Imagine a world where every individual and organisation working towards a regenerative future could seamlessly connect, share resources, and collaborate—without

It was almost 2.5 years ago that Ivana started a thread about marrying needs and offers on The Open Co-op

In his brilliant book, How The World Really Works, Vaclav Smil concludes: …of all the risks we face, global climate

The conventional funding model, in which grant making bodies hand out six figure sums to qualifying organizations, is broken. At

Artists in every field want to collaborate with each other and with their own community-supporting audiences. But trusted collaboration without

OPEN 2020 took place entirely online over two days of talks and discussions and even some poetry - the videos

OPEN 2020 was run using an open source video tool, managed by a new platform co-op, meet.coop. But how should

Watch the Introduction to day 2 and discussion with Esther Foreman from the The Social Change Agency. Esther and team

During this session we hear from Iris Schönherr about the amazing Every One Every Day project they have been running in Barking

Every group, project or community needs digital tools to enable collaboration. But which tools should we choose? This is the

“Throughout history, problems have arisen when the language used to represent reality fails to meet the needs and aspirations of

In the run up to OPEN 2020 we interviewed Enric Duran, a founding member of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC

In this webinar we hear from Grace Rachmany, Hedayat Abedijoo and Guillem Cordoba about Holochain. Holochain enables a distributed web with

In this third intro webinar of OPEN 2020 we hear from Xavier Damman, of Open Collective –  which lets groups

In the lead up to OPEN 2020 we spoke to Nick Meyne from Resonate, the community-owned music network. OSB: How

The Open Co-op has a vision that we have championed for some time: That an open source platform which provides

In the run up to OPEN 2020, which will now be an online event, we caught up with Samer Hassan

The following blog is a guest post from Daniel Heery, from Charge My Street - a platform co-op that installs

I see a real need for “scaled connectivity” to advance our work as part of a viable ecosystem. In the

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In this eye-opening

This excellent animated video came out in 2010 in response to the failed 2009 Copenhagen Summit. It advocates a network

One of our key projects at The Open Co-op is The Open Credit Network, which evolved out of OPEN 2018

The Solidfund is offering members of worker co-ops bursaries to cover the costs of travel and tickets to the OPEN

*In this article I use the term ‘progressive movement’ to mean all the people and organisations that are working, or

The Following talks took place at OPEN 2019 where The Open Co-op community tackled the calling question: How can we

As a species, human beings are barely more intelligent than kindergarten kids. We revel at our place at the top

Below is a recording of a session from the OPEN 2018 conference on "The BIG Questions: Tech, Power and Society"

OPEN 2018 - Welcome and reflections from day 1 Oliver Sylvester-Bradley provides an explanation of platform co-ops and a few

DAY 1 The workshop space at OPEN 2018 featured a range of session covering many different projects and approaches to

OPEN 2018 is not just about showcasing platform co-ops. It’s about the ownership revolution and forging a path to a

In the run up to OPEN 2018, Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from The Open Co-op interviews Claire Tolan, a developer at Resonate,

"Politics does not have to be a grim thing - sitting in a chair listening to someone talk at you

Resonate is a music streaming co-op and a great example of a platform co-op which is changing the way business

The Solid Fund is offering members of worker co-ops bursaries to cover the costs of travel and tickets to the

It might come as a surprise – but something innovative is happening in Hull. Hull is one of those cities,

There are now 7.1 million precarious workers in the UK. That is more than 20% of the UK workforce and

There's something exciting happening in the world of co-ops which harks back to the very beginning of the movement. Although

This little 1 min video highlights what to expect at OPEN 2018, the Platform Co-op conference on "Collaborative technology for

Co-op coins are not a new concept but the days of trading locally minted coins for a pint of milk

If you work in any type of co-op, or non-hierarchical group, with open and inclusive values and aspirations for horizontal

Watch the videos from OPEN 2017 - The two day conference on Platform Co-ops, organised by The Open Co-op on

If you've ever wondered about how a new, collaborative, sustainable, democratic economy might work the new book 'Ours to Hack

The following post presents a vision of an open source operating system, which we at The Open Co-op believe would

Technology is disrupting outmoded industries at an unprecedented rate. As the gyroscopic effects of the neoliberal model wobble out of

In 2015, Nathan co-organised “Platform Cooperativism,” a pioneering conference in New York, which kick started a wave of global discussion

What are ‘Platform Co-ops’? Platform cooperatives are online organisations which are owned and managed by their members. Platform co-ops follow

In 2010, when Transition Towns started growing into the hundreds in the UK, with another 250 worldwide, it felt like

Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled "11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy".   It's a really nice list of

Originally published on 3CR Community Radio A podcast on The Internet of Ownership and Platform Co-ops with Nathan Schneider and