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

June 16, 2021 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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...]

Resonate is creating a Co-operative Privacy and Trust system for digital dignity across communities

October 23, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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 … [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...]

OPEN 2020 Webinar – Holochain

May 22, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...]

OPEN 2020 Webinar – SourceCred

May 15, 2020 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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 that measures the value of a … [Read more...]

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  • If you value your privacy you should stop using Gmail November 16, 2021
  • A new model for grant funding – to finance the collaborative Commons June 16, 2021
  • The self-reinforcing nature of cooperation and ethical business June 11, 2021
  • Resonate is creating a Co-operative Privacy and Trust system for digital dignity across communities October 23, 2020
  • Decent Gov Now October 15, 2020
  • OPEN 2020: Networked Commons Initiatives July 17, 2020
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  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Governance in collaborative projects July 9, 2020
  • Video: OPEN 2020 – Mutual credit deep dive July 3, 2020
  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Cooperation will win June 29, 2020
  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Mr Gee June 29, 2020
  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Universal Basic Everything June 29, 2020
  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Coordination in decentralised networks June 22, 2020
  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Tools of collaboration June 20, 2020
  • VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Introducing mutual credit June 20, 2020

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