Software Archives - The Open Co-op

A new model for grant funding – to finance the collaborative Commons

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / June 16, 2021 July 14, 2022

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 …

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A Co-operative Privacy and Trust system for digital dignity

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / October 23, 2020 July 14, 2022

Artists in every field want to collaborate with each other and with their own community-supporting audiences. But trusted collaboration without face to face interaction is difficult. Many of us let the major corporate social platforms manage the majority of our identity information, even if we prefer to work in trusted ‘peer-to-peer’ circles. Resonate‘s Community Credentials …

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OPEN 2020 Webinar – Vocdoni as an engagement tool for cooperatives

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / May 29, 2020 July 14, 2022

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 …

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OPEN 2020 Webinar – Holochain

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / May 22, 2020 July 14, 2022

In this webinar we hear from Grace Rachmany, Hedayat Abedijoo and Guillem Cordoba about Holochain. Holochain enables a distributed web with user autonomy built directly into its architecture and protocols. Distributing the storage and processing of data can change how we coordinate and interact. With digital integration under user control, Holochain liberates our online lives from …

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OPEN 2020 Webinar – SourceCred

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / May 15, 2020 July 14, 2022

Inn this OPEN 2020 Webinar we hear from Dandelion Mane at SourceCred and discuss how we can reward collaboration. SourceCred is building a new way measure and reward value. They are building new kinds of communities: open-source projects in which anyone can contribute, and everyone can get paid. At its core, SourceCred is an algorithm …

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OPEN 2020 Webinar – Open Collective

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / May 8, 2020 July 14, 2022

In this third intro webinar of OPEN 2020 we hear from Xavier Damman, of Open Collective – which lets groups manage their finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes, without requiring the group to be an incorporated entity. Open Collective’s mission is to: Help organize the world in open …

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OPEN 2020 Webinar – Digital Life Collective

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / May 1, 2020 July 14, 2022

In this second intro webinar of OPEN 2020 – Christina Bowen, Joachim Stroh and Graham Mitchell introduce the Digital Life Collective. Digital Life Collective members research, develop, fund and support Tech We Trust technologies that prioritize autonomy, privacy and dignity. They are a cooperative, member funded, member owned and member controlled. The International Co-operative Alliance …

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A platform to enable communities to thrive

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / April 16, 2020 July 14, 2022

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 …

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OPEN 2020 – Reinvented: Networked commons initiatives

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / April 2, 2020 June 2, 2020

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 …

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The case for open protocols

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley / February 28, 2020 July 14, 2022

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 …

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