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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

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