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Belonging is a superpower – Patterns for decentralised organising

September 25, 2017 By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 5 Comments

If you work in any type of co-op, or non-hierarchical group, with open and inclusive values and aspirations for horizontal management, this post is for you. It summarises a workshop from the founders of Loomio, at which they shared their distilled wisdom for effective collaboration within groups. You've probably heard of Loomio, the simple but effective decision making … [Read more...]

Not a Co-op? Not a Platform Co-op!

June 23, 2016 By Josef 7 Comments

Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled "11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy".   It's a really nice list of projects who are all moving in the right direction (i.e. toward greater sharing of ownership and control), but some of them aren't actually co-operatives. This got me thinking: Should organisations that are not co-operatives be described … [Read more...]

Self-Organizing Community Democracy for the Internet Age

January 19, 2016 By Josef Leave a Comment

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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...]

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