Where open meets co-op
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 GmailEvery search you perform on Google searchEvery video you watch on YouTubeEverywhere you go, the route you took and how long you stay - even if you never open the Maps appYour … [Read more...]
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 last 23 years where the UK … [Read more...]
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 for bringing together the numerous … [Read more...]
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 might our collaborative, sustainable … [Read more...]
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 the challenges of organising decentralised … [Read more...]
