Where open meets co-op
The best thing about going to the Co-op Bank Crisis: Ways Foward for the Co-operative Movement conference organised by Co-operative Business Consultants was getting introduced to Rory Ridley-Duff by Mark Simmonds as someone else who is interested in multi-stakeholder co-ops. I've since met with and spoke with Rory quite a few times now, learning all I can about the … [Read more...]
The best new thing I learnt about at OuiShare Fest 2014: The Age of Communities was Open State. Here is the video of Dominik Wind's presentation about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KQRCiOi2tI The idea is to create a fully operating replicable cell of a future-proof society. I'm really excited about the Open State Camp: A 5-week-camp near Berlin, Germany, marks the … [Read more...]
Originally published over at Open Data Manchester by Julian Tait This is a synopsis of the meeting held in Berlin that forms the basis of the upcoming Open : Data : Cooperation event on the 20th October 2014 Open : Data : Cooperatives. On the evening of the 16th July 2014 in a small bar of SingerStraße in Berlin a group of Open Knowledge Festival attendees came together … [Read more...]
this article originally appeared on the P2P Foundation Michel Bauwens: “The cooperative movement and cooperative enterprises are in the midst of a revival, even as some of their long-standing entities are failing. This revival is part of an ebb and flow of cooperativism, that is strongly linked to the ebb and flow of the mainstream capitalist economy. After systemic crisis such … [Read more...]
this article originally appeared in Stir Magazine illustration by Daksheeta Pattni In 2002 I described United Diversity as “a member owned and stakeholder governed network of mutual advantage.” In truth, it was aspirational. At the time, the flexible off-the-shelf legal structures and open source tools needed to make such a network a reality simply didn’t exist. Now they do. … [Read more...]
UPDATE: The wonderful people over at Guerrilla Translation have now transcribed this must listen podcast into both Spanish and English. I've pasted their English transcription below this post for good measure. Last night I finally got around to listening to this excellent and inspirational trialogue between Michel Bauwens, John Restakis and Dmytri Kleiner, hosted by KMO on … [Read more...]
Back in 2004, Gary Alexander from the Open University, Tom Salfield and Josef Davies-Coates from United Diversity, and Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from Defacto Design together launched The Open Co-op. We described ourselves as a Co-operative Open Organisation. Ten years on and everyone seems to be getting in on the act: Ed Mayo's Number 1 trend for co-operatives in … [Read more...]