Blog – WP Platform Cooperatives and Beyond: The Future of Collaborative Governance? A video from OuiShare Fest 2016 Speakers: Marc-David Choukran (La Ruche Qui Dit Oui) Yassir Fichtali (Up Group) Nathan Schneider Co-operatives aren't co-operatives unless they co-operate with each other This article was originally published on Imperica High-tech tools of exploitation are being repurposed to build a fairer economy. The Outlandish - Platform Co-ops event Saturday night is not the time most people chose to meet to discuss disrupting democracy. But that's what happened at Self-Organizing Community Democracy for the Internet Age A nice talk by Loomio's Ben Knight at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference Emerging in response to the need for Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy The “sharing economy” wasn’t supposed to be this way. Aided by the tiny computers most of us carry with us How the Digital Nomads of Social Media Squad Run a Distributed Co-Op Alanna from Loomio met Romain Chanut at POC21, a 6 week innovation camp in France focused on open source hardware How Platform Coops Can Beat Death Stars Like Uber to Create a Real Sharing Economy Image: The Battle of Yavin where the first Death Star was destroyed. Credit: Fanpop We have an epic choice before us between Cooperativa Integral Catalana as a living model of open cooperativism Enric Duran of the Catalan Integrated Cooperative has taken the time to comment on Michel Bauwens’ recent article on Open Let's discuss Open Co-ops and Commons on Discourse! At a recent Solidarity Economy event hosted by Locality and organised by Pat Conaty, Robin Murray put a tenner on Owning is the New Sharing By Nathan Schneider and originally published on Shareable Image from OpenSource.com's post, "Don't Build a Better Mousetrap. Change the Business Model." One chilly morning Cooperatives' Uber Moment Can Cooperatives Build Better Online Tools to Disrupt the Disrupters? by Nic Wistreich (and originally published on Grassroots Economic Organizing) Toward an Open Co-operativism NOTE: when I first re-launched this blog is was because people like @edmayo1 and @mbauwens had started to talk about 'Open Co-ops'. Now Should Tech Companies That Derive All Their Value from Users Be Co-ops? NOTE: This great article by @kirstystyles1 links to this website with the text "plenty of resources", which is flattering (and would be 'Grunt Funds' are trending in startup circles David Hodgson from Humingbird Labs had lunch with Citizen Code co-founder Noah Thorp, found out about the concept of 'Grunt Funds of The Case for a FairShares Model of Enterprise The best thing about going to the Co-op Bank Crisis: Ways Foward for the Co-operative Movement conference organised by Co-operative Open State: Tomorrow Made Today The best new thing I learnt about at OuiShare Fest 2014: The Age of Communities was Open State. Here is Open : Data : Cooperatives – Synopsis Originally published over at Open Data Manchester by Julian Tait This is a synopsis of the meeting held in Berlin that Why We Need a New Kind of Open Cooperatives for the P2P Age this article originally appeared on the P2P Foundation Michel Bauwens: “The cooperative movement and cooperative enterprises are in the midst Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structure and Tools this article originally appeared in Stir Magazine illustration by Daksheeta Pattni In 2002 I described United Diversity as “a member Must hear trialogue: Bauwens, Restakis and Kleiner UPDATE: The wonderful people over at Guerrilla Translation have now transcribed this must listen podcast into both Spanish and English. Open Co-ops - an idea whose time has come? Back in 2004, Gary Alexander from the Open University, Tom Salfield and Josef Davies-Coates from United Diversity, and Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from « Previous 1 2
