The Open Co-op

Organisational Design for the 21st Century

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

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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 … [Read more...]

Self-Organizing Community Democracy for the Internet Age

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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 … [Read more...]

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