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You’re Not Addicted to Your Phone – You’re Starved of Connection

You pick up your phone to do something.Twenty minutes later, you’re still scrolling – and you’ve forgotten what it was you meant to do. You’ve seen hundreds of posts.You can’t remember any of them. You almost shared something — but didn’t.Because what’s the point?None of it really goes anywhere. And if you’re honest, it doesn’t …

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Relaunching The Open Co-op

Relaunching The Open Co-op: Preparing for a Trust-Based Internet

For over twenty years, at The Open Co-op, we’ve been working towards a vision of a cooperative, regenerative economy — one that is owned and governed by its participants, and designed to serve people and planet over profit. That vision has always depended on something the internet lacked – a way to know who and …

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

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 …

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