Where open meets co-op
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...]
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...]
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...]
Holochain is a new technology project with huge potential for the cooperative economy. Members of The Open Co-op have been promoting the idea that new software could, potentially, revolutionise both our failing democracies and our predatory capitalist economies, since 2004. Back then we weren't quite so clear on exactly how the required information architecture should be … [Read more...]