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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...
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...
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...
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...
OPEN 2020 took place entirely online over two days of talks and discussions and even some poetry – the videos are below in chronological order. You can also view them in the OPEN 2020 playlist on our YouTube channel – which includes all the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...