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Resonate is creating a Co-operative Privacy and Trust system for digital dignity across communities

October 23, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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 of our identity information, even if we prefer to work in trusted ‘peer-to-peer’ circles. Resonate's Community Credentials … [Read more...]

OPEN 2020 – Videos

July 17, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

We've now edited and uploaded all the videos from the main two days of OPEN 2020 - here they are in chronological order. You can also video them in the OPEN 2020 playlist on our YouTube channel - which includes all the pre-event webinars too. OPEN 2020 - Introduction OPEN 2020 was a collaborative online event for anyone interested in creating a world which places … [Read more...]

Building the commons economy – Q&A with Enric Duran from Faircoin

June 1, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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In the run up to OPEN 2020 we interviewed Enric Duran, a founding member of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC - Cooperativa Integral Catalana) and Faircoop, who developed the Faircoin project. OSB: How are things going with Faircoop and Faircoin? ED:  We’ve been working on Farcoin since 2014 - and it helped to develop the faircoop ecosystem till 2018, but since then … [Read more...]

OPEN 2020 – Reinvented: Networked commons initiatives

April 2, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 20 Comments

OPEN 2020 is a collaborative online event for anyone that is interested in creating a world which places people and planet before profit. Recognising that there are hundreds of thousands of groups and communities working on this general objective... but a lack of inter-connection and collaboration, OPEN 2020 aims to bring together as many people as possible from different … [Read more...]

Charge My Street – platform co-op seeking investment

March 10, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

The following blog is a guest post from Daniel Heery, from Charge My Street - a platform co-op that installs and operates community chargepoints for electric vehicles, which is currently raising money through community shares. An the first Open Conference back in 2017, I took part in the #DigiDen session with 2 other putative Platform Co-ops.  We all pitched our ideas, … [Read more...]

Introducing Fairbnb.coop – Q&A with Damiano Avellino

March 5, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 1 Comment

The main challenge we need to solve in the platform co-op community is how to reach critical mass… and how to pass users from one platform to another. Fairbnb.coop is a platform co-op whose name precedes it. Everyone’s heard of the venture-capital-backed alternative that’s putting hotels and traditional B&Bs out of business, and Fairbnb.coop is the antithesis of that - a … [Read more...]

The case for open protocols

February 28, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 4 Comments

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In my previous post on making groups work I argued that a centralised, cooperatively owned platform could be one of the most effective ways to catalyse the co-creation of a new economy, right now. My argument for centralisation is based wholly on practicalities - and the urgency of the need. The climate emergency, coupled with the other systemic challenges we face (debt, … [Read more...]

Making groups work

February 20, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 2 Comments

There is a growing consensus that enabling groups, and networks of groups, to work together, is essential to delivering exponential impact in collaboration and solving humanities multiple challenges. The Magical Number Seven, ideas about committees, decision making, teams and productivity all suggest that small groups are the most effective… whilst Hagel suggests that … [Read more...]

OPEN 2018 Videos – Workshop Space sessions

August 30, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

DAY 1 The workshop space at OPEN 2018 featured a range of session covering many different projects and approaches to building a more collaborative, cooperative future. We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who contributed and especially Simon Borkin and Alice Casey for facilitating the discussions. If you're interested in finding out more about any of the … [Read more...]

OPEN 2018 Videos – Open Space sessions

August 26, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 1 Comment

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...]

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