TL;DR Introduction PLANET will eventually offer a variety of functionality, so from a systems architecture point of view it makes sense to connect many different services together (i.e., the modular architecture approach) rather than create a single service that attempts to do everything: the classic “monolith” which eventually becomes unwieldy and has to be broken …
Imagine a world where every individual and organisation working towards a regenerative future could seamlessly connect, share resources, and collaborate—without being trapped in a single platform’s ecosystem. This is exactly what PLANET is designed to enable, using open protocols instead of closed platforms. The Platform Problem Traditional platforms operate as walled gardens, controlling the flow …
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As followers of The Open Co-op will know, since 2004 we’ve had a vision of a ‘cooperating system’ called PLANET, which would support a global network of local groups and help develop a collaborative, regenerative economy. The need for PLANET is now more urgent than ever so, our plan for 2025 is to run an outreach campaign to …
It was almost 2.5 years ago that Ivana started a thread about marrying needs and offers on The Open Co-op Loomio, which is one of the most read and commented on threads in the forum presumably because a lot of people agree that better sharing of Offers and Wants is a key stepping stone towards …
A Protocol for sharing Offers & Wants between networks Read More »
The Open Co-op was founded in 2004 and has a long history of organising events and running projects to help grow the commons. Everything we do aims to build towards our vision of a collaborative econ regenerative economy. We are especially focused on developing the tools, technologies, organisational and economic models and narratives which underpin …
Have you ever considered how much information Google harvests about you? Google creates ‘shadow profiles’ of every user by tracking, recording and analysing: Every email you send or receive via Gmail Every search you perform on Google search Every video you watch on YouTube Everywhere you go, the route you took and how long you …
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By definition our government should be decent. But it is not. Being decent requires ‘conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour’ or performing to ‘an acceptable standard’. But, according to MORI’s Trends showing satisfaction with the government from 1997 to the present it is hard to find a single occasion in the …
Below is a recording of a session from the OPEN 2018 conference about “When communities of practice meet the collaborative economy” featuring Dr Laura James, Mark Walton, Kate Swade, and Wouter Tebbens, presented by the inimitable Bernie from OuishareRadio. In this session on the second day of OPEN 2018, we ran a Q&A panel on strategies …
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OPEN 2018 – Welcome and reflections from day 1 Oliver Sylvester-Bradley provides an explanation of platform co-ops and a few thoughts from Day 1. OPEN 2018 – A shared social vision Gary Alexander presents ‘A shared social vision’ including a few instant polls to get a sense of where those present agree and disagree. What …
The following post is transcript of a recent webinar on “Decentralized co-operation at scale. What patterns work? What are the main drivers and hindrances?” organised by our friends from the Digital Life Collective. The discussions covered many of the subjects which will be discussed at the OPEN 2018 conference and are a great intro to …
