MEET.COOP – online meetings based on shared values
Meet.coop is building an online meeting platform based on multiple ethical values. In this article we explain its origins and how the collective is building this cooperative cloud service. We’ll sketch the main features of how meet.coop has started to … Continued
La Comunificadora is back with some new, challenging projects
The third edition of La Comunificadora is already in full activity. Participating projects belong to a wide range of sectors, care, education, tourism, reuse and exchange of objects, tools and services, makers, textile sector, communication or open community networks. The … Continued
Our little grain of sand to OpenCoop 2018
This summer, most of the Free Knowledge Institute team took part in OpenCoop 2018 (see videos from the gathering). The vision behind the conference is “of a world in which people and planet come before profit”, of a “generative economy … Continued
OSCEDAYS 2018 in Rome: circular economy for food, videogames, energy and more
Open Source Circular Economy is about reducing waste, and generate value, transforming what is the waste from one product into the input for other products and services. The proposal The public invitation to OSCEdays 2018 Rome was for everyone interested … Continued
Open Source Circular Economy in Rome, here is the programme
Here is the (not 100% definitive yet!) of the “Local,Circular, Exponential” event, already announced here, that will take place on June 9th 2018 in Rome as part of the worldwide OSCE Days (please remember that free but mandatory registration is … Continued
Status of the FKI, 2013-2018
In the last few years the FKI has evolved a lot, and done a lot. This article give an overview of what we have done, and where we are going: Marco joined the Board in 2013 Marco and Wouter have … Continued
Open Source Circular Economy meeting in Rome
Codesign circular, Open Source solutions for local development, that sustain each other exponentially! This is the challenge of the meeting named “Locale, Circolare, Esponenziale” (Local, Circular, Exponential) that will take place from 10am to 6pm on June 9th, 2018 in … Continued
Spring news and announcements!
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) -coming into force- we sent a message to everyone in our mailing list and made the best of it and also sent a few Spring news and announcements! If you want to get … Continued
The new Game of the Economy of the Commons
We introduce to you the new Game of the Economy of the Commons, a card game that allows to understand, in a playful way, the dynamics of this economy which puts the focus on the “sharing” instead of in the … Continued
The making of the CommonsCloud – technical choices
We discuss how we formed the CommonsCloud project and what key technical decisions we have made so far to set in motion this cooperative cloud platform. We’ve recently started a crowdfunding campaign at the Goteo platform, many people are asking … Continued