Where open meets co-op
At OPEN 2018, one of the in-depth breakout workshops where we dig into the practicalities, will feature co-op experts explaining how to set up a co-op, how to run a successful co-op, how to convert existing businesses to co-ops and how to raise funds for co-ops... join us at OPEN 2018 to learn more. … [Read more...]
Trebor Scholz speaks at OPEN 2017 about the new role for co-ops, unions and tech within the burgeoning cooperative economy. Join us for OPEN 2018 in London in July and "find the others" that are part of this growing movement. … [Read more...]
This superb discussion about Platform Co-ops entitled "What happened to the future?" was the plenary at the recent event "The People's Disruption" at the New School in New York on the 10th of November 2017. The panel session features an introduction from Camille Kerr (Associate Director at The ICA Group) and is moderated by Douglas Rushkoff (author of many books on digital … [Read more...]
Watch the videos from OPEN 2017 - The two day conference on Platform Co-ops, organised by The Open Co-op on the 16 - 17 February 2017. We will be uploading more videos to this page as they are ready so check back again soon... OPEN 2017 - Introduction Oliver Sylvester-Bradley introduces the OPEN 2017 - Platform Co-ops conference, highlighting global temperature rise and … [Read more...]
In this mini video the Rt Hon John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaks about Labour's thoughts on enabling mass participation to create a democratic economy. We've never hear an UK MP speak so candidly about utilising online tools to enable mass participation in the democratic process and are very excited about what this could mean. John McDonnell will be … [Read more...]
The following post presents a vision of an open source operating system, which we at The Open Co-op believe would help create a collaborative, sustainable economy. See the video at the end of this post for an introduction to the concepts and ideas behind PLANET. PLANET is not actually a software project, it is a vision which aims to illustrate some of the concepts and … [Read more...]
Open Value Networks are very similar to Bettermeans' Open Enterprise ideas and variously described as "people creating value together, by contributing work, money and goods, and sharing the income" a "framework for many-to-many innovation" and a "model for commons-based peer production". The idea is probably most clearly outlined by Sensorica's Tiberus Brastaviceanu in … [Read more...]
A video from OuiShare Fest 2016 Speakers: Marc-David Choukran (La Ruche Qui Dit Oui) Yassir Fichtali (Up Group) Nathan Schneider (Platform Cooperativism) Moderator: Marguerite Grandjean (OuiShare) https://ouisharefest.com … [Read more...]
A nice talk by Loomio's Ben Knight at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference Emerging in response to the need for a scalable way to make inclusive group decisions during the Occupy movement in 2011, Loomio, an activist-driven tech co-op, developed an open-source tool for democratic organizing now used by 80,000 people in 93 countries. Change-making communities, social movements … [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...]