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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 Webinar – Vocdoni as an engagement tool for cooperatives

May 29, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

In this webinar we hear from Ferran Reyes of Vocdoni. Vocdoni is a FLOSS project building a privacy-centric platform for digital governance using digital voting with maximum guarantees of anonymity, and a toolset to manage the relationship of organizations and their social base. It allows us to increase the engagement of any social economy organization as it makes … [Read more...]

Scaling platform co-ops – lessons from Resonate.is

April 29, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

In the lead up to OPEN 2020 we spoke to Nick Meyne from Resonate, the community-owned music network. OSB: How are things going at Resonate? Is Peter Harris who spoke at OPEN 2018 still with you? NM: Peter is very much still here, but after nearly 5 years, including some rough times, he’s decided to step back a bit. Rich Jensen is the new executive and I am the Secretary. … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

OPEN 2018 podcast – The BIG Questions: Tech, Power and Society

October 31, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

Below is a recording of a session from the OPEN 2018 conference on "The BIG Questions: Tech, Power and Society" featuring Jaya Klara Brekke, Nathan Schneider, Duncan McCann, presented by the inimitable Bernie from OuishareRadio. In this session on the first day of OPEN 2018 the panel discuss regulation, blockchain and ideas about the evolving nature of power in relation to … [Read more...]

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