Open Co-ops

Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structure and Tools

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this article originally appeared in Stir Magazine illustration by Daksheeta Pattni In 2002 I described United Diversity as “a member owned and stakeholder governed network of mutual advantage.” In truth, it was aspirational. At the time, the flexible off-the-shelf legal structures and open source tools needed to make such a network a reality simply didn’t …

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Open Co-ops – an idea whose time has come?

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Back in 2004, Gary Alexander from the Open University, Tom Salfield and Josef Davies-Coates from United Diversity, and Oliver Sylvester-Bradley from Defacto Design together launched The Open Co-op. We described ourselves as a Co-operative Open Organisation. Ten years on and everyone seems to be getting in on the act: Ed Mayo‘s Number 1 trend for co-operatives in 2014 is: “The …

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