Where open meets co-op
DAY 1 The Open Space sessions at OPEN 2018 were a chance for attendees to put forward their own discussion topics. People put forward proposals on Loomio in the run-up to the event, others voted and the most popular sessions took place over the two days of the event. We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came and got involved, and Simon Borkin, David Bent and … [Read more...]
OPEN 2018 is not just about showcasing platform co-ops. It’s about the ownership revolution and forging a path to a collaborative, sustainable economy. It's about creating new organisations which are member owned and democratically governed so that we, the people, have control over the institutions we rely on. Our vision is of a world in which people and planet come … [Read more...]
Have you ever wondered why the world works like it does? Why things seem skewed in favour of the rich and the powerful and why our so called 'democratic' systems seem so inherently unjust? Why we have rampant inequality, poverty, hunger and accelerating species extinctions and runaway global warming? The answers are not simple because these problems are systemic. The … [Read more...]
In the run up to OPEN 2018, Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from The Open Co-op interviews Claire Tolan, a developer at Resonate, the music streaming co-op, about RChain, a new framework for scalable blockchain applications, which aims to enable 'glocal' cooperation. The technical design of RChain has foundations in 'rho calculus' which requires a little mind-power to comprehend in … [Read more...]
This article is the second part of our interview with Matthew Schutte, Communications Director at Holochain, which covers their plans to build a "Commons engine" to help provide co-ops with the tools they need to communicate, coordinate and cooperate at scale. In part two Matthew explains how Holochain enables "protocol" rather than "platform" cooperation, by proving an … [Read more...]
"Politics does not have to be a grim thing - sitting in a chair listening to someone talk at you for hours. We want it to look and feel like a festival - have a good time and decide stuff." In the run up to the Changing Narrative sessions at OPEN 2018 we interviewed Indra Adnan, Co-Initiator of The Alternative UK with Pat Kane, and contributor to CTRLshift about the evolving … [Read more...]