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OPEN 2020 Webinar – DisCos & Guerrilla Translation

April 24, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

Watch the first intro webinar of OPEN 2020 with Stacco Troncoso and colleagues from Guerrilla Media Collective discussing DisCos, Distributed Cooperative Organizations. The DisCO (read all about it in the DisCO Manifesto) takes a friendly but carefully planned approach to people working together to create value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in … [Read more...]

A platform to enable communities to thrive

April 16, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 2 Comments

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...]

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...]

Decentralizing power and value using blockchain

March 26, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

In the run up to OPEN 2020, which will now be an online event, we caught up with Samer Hassan from P2P Models, where they are investigating decentralizing power and value to deliver the collaborative economy using blockchain. OSB: What’s the latest news from P2P Models? SH: We’ve been mapping the ‘blockchain/DLT for social good’ ecosystem, with a focus on European … [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...]

Introducing The Democracy Collaborative – Q&A with Sarah McKinley

March 4, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 1 Comment

I see a real need for “scaled connectivity” to advance our work as part of a viable ecosystem. In the run up to OPEN 2020 in London in June, we interviewed Sarah, Mckinley, Director for European Programs for The Democracy Collaborative and the European Representative for the Next System Project. OSB: What is The Democracy Collaborative? SM: The Democracy Collaborative is a … [Read more...]

OPEN 2020 partners with Redecentralize.org

February 27, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

OPEN 2020 partners with Redecentralize.org

We're very excited to announce that OPEN 2020 has partnered with Redecentralize.org - a movement of people pioneering technologies and governance models to redecentralize the web. Redecentralize seek a world of open platforms and protocols with real choices of applications and services for people. They care about privacy, transparency and autonomy - so are very much on the … [Read more...]

Kate Raworth – A healthy economy should be designed to thrive not grow

February 21, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In this eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole, where people are falling short on life's essentials, and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits. Join Kate at OPEN 2020 … [Read more...]

The gathering #SWARM

February 8, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

This excellent animated video came out in 2010 in response to the failed 2009 Copenhagen Summit. It advocates a network of organisations that together could crowd-source solutions to the climate crisis, namely: A Green Knowledge Trust - A green Wikipedia with a practical focus; a how-to guide for ordinary people tasked with setting up functional, low carbon societies. … [Read more...]

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