we promote new governance structures
The Open Co-op is working to promote new governance structures, which provide democratic methods to steward our collective endeavours. Cooperatives, and Platform Co-ops, provide a blue-print for democratic business in which all members get a say in how the business is run.
Our two main projects in this area are Co-op Data Club and Meet.coop, which are both member-owned.
A co-op of co-ops that flips the standard data model
via inter-coop marketing and promotions.
Open source meeting and conferencing tools,
powered by renewable energy
Read more about our work on governance in the posts below:
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...
In the lead up to OPEN 2020 we spoke to Nick Meyne from Resonate, the community-owned music network.
OSB: How are things going at Resonate? Is Peter Harris who spoke at OPEN 2018 still with you?
NM: Peter is very much still here, but after nearly 5 years,...
Watch the first intro webinar of OPEN 2020 with Stacco Troncoso and colleagues from Guerrilla Media Collective discussing DisCos, Distributed Cooperative Organizations.
The DisCO (read all about it in the DisCO Manifesto) takes a friendly but carefully...
In the run up to OPEN 2020, which will now be an online event, we caught up with Samer Hassan from P2P Models, where they are investigating decentralizing power and value to deliver the collaborative economy using blockchain.
OSB: What’s the latest news...
See also the videos from the Main Hall, Workshop space and Open space.
What happened at OPEN 2018?
Nathan Schneider kicked things off with an excellent introduction explaining some of the history of cooperative ownership. Nathan also questioned where...
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...
Here’s the list of questions that were asked via Slido at OPEN 2018 on the Main Stage… a lot of them were answered (see the videos and collaborative notes), but a lot were not, so if you want to chip in and answer any of them feel free to...
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...
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...
In the run up to OPEN 2018, Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from The Open Co-op interviews Claire Tolan, a developer at Resonate, the music streaming co-op, about RChain, a new framework for scalable blockchain applications, which aims to enable ‘glocal’...