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OPEN 2018 Videos – Workshop Space sessions

August 30, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

DAY 1 The workshop space at OPEN 2018 featured a range of session covering many different projects and approaches to building a more collaborative, cooperative future. We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who contributed and especially Simon Borkin and Alice Casey for facilitating the discussions. If you're interested in finding out more about any of the … [Read more...]

OPEN 2018 Videos – Open Space sessions

August 26, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 1 Comment

DAY 1 The Open Space sessions at OPEN 2018 were a chance for attendees to put forward their own discussion topics. People put forward proposals on Loomio in the run-up to the event, others voted and the most popular sessions took place over the two days of the event. We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came and got involved, and Simon Borkin, David Bent and … [Read more...]

OPEN 2018 – Join us to learn about…

March 19, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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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...]

“Find the others…” at OPEN:2018

March 8, 2018 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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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...]

“What happened to the future?” video from NY conference

November 24, 2017 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley Leave a Comment

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...]

OPEN 2017 – Videos

March 2, 2017 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 2 Comments

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...]

John McDonnell on enabling mass participation to create a democratic economy

January 12, 2017 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 1 Comment

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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...]

PLANET – An open source operating system for a collaborative, sustainable economy

January 10, 2017 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley

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

June 15, 2016 By Josef 3 Comments

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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...]

Platform Cooperatives and Beyond: The Future of Collaborative Governance?

June 1, 2016 By Josef Leave a Comment

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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...]

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