Where open meets co-op
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 NGOs and smaller orgs are forced to compete for limited funds, guaranteeing that the vast proportion of time … [Read more...]
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 of a large video conferencing company that enables people to chat and run webinars. At first glance the service sounds amazing - … [Read more...]
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 pre-event webinars too. OPEN 2020 - Introduction OPEN 2020 was a collaborative online event for anyone interested in creating a world … [Read more...]
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...]
The Open Co-op has a vision that we have championed for some time: That an open source platform which provides all the online tools a community needs to thrive could radically catalyse collaboration at scale. We spoke to the Founder and CEO of Open Collective - one of the front-runners in the race to deliver on that vision. Pia Manicini is a co-founder of Democracy.Earth … [Read more...]
