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OPEN 2020 Webinar – Open Collective

In this third intro webinar of OPEN 2020 we hear from Xavier Damman, of Open Collective – which lets groups

OPEN 2020 Webinar – Digital Life Collective

In this second intro webinar of OPEN 2020 – Christina Bowen, Joachim Stroh and Graham Mitchell introduce the Digital Life

Scaling platform co-ops – lessons from Resonate.is

In the lead up to OPEN 2020 we spoke to Nick Meyne from Resonate, the community-owned music network. OSB: How

OPEN 2020 Webinar – DisCos & Guerrilla Translation

Watch the first intro webinar of OPEN 2020 with Stacco Troncoso and colleagues from Guerrilla Media Collective discussing DisCos, Distributed Cooperative

A platform to enable communities to thrive

The Open Co-op has a vision that we have championed for some time: That an open source platform which provides

OPEN 2020 – Reinvented: Networked commons initiatives

The original calling question, developed for the OPEN 2020 in Conway Hall no longer feels perfect in this post-covid world.

Decentralizing power and value using blockchain

In the run up to OPEN 2020, which will now be an online event, we caught up with Samer Hassan

OPEN 2020 – postponed

As event organisers the safety of our community is paramount and for the last few weeks we have been closely

Charge My Street – platform co-op seeking investment

The following blog is a guest post from Daniel Heery, from Charge My Street – a platform co-op that installs

Introducing Fairbnb.coop – Q&A with Damiano Avellino

The main challenge we need to solve in the platform co-op community is how to reach critical mass… and how

Introducing The Democracy Collaborative – Q&A with Sarah McKinley

I see a real need for “scaled connectivity” to advance our work as part of a viable ecosystem. In the

The case for open protocols

In my previous post on making groups work I argued that a centralised, cooperatively owned platform could be one of

OPEN 2020 partners with Redecentralize.org

We’re very excited to announce that OPEN 2020 has partnered with Redecentralize.org – a movement of people pioneering technologies and

Kate Raworth – A healthy economy should be designed to thrive not grow

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? “Like a doughnut,” says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In this eye-opening

Making groups work

There is a growing consensus that enabling groups, and networks of groups, to work together, is essential to delivering exponential

The gathering #SWARM

This excellent animated video came out in 2010 in response to the failed 2009 Copenhagen Summit. It advocates a network

An internet revolution of democracy

In his paper on ‘Democracy and E-Democracy – A discussion of the possibility of supplanting traditional representative democracy with e-democracy’,

Mutual credit – an alternative to the extractive economy

One of our key projects at The Open Co-op is The Open Credit Network, which evolved out of OPEN 2018

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