From Platform to Open Cooperativism
Two movements mesh cooperative traditions with the digital revolution: Platform Cooperativism, and Open Cooperativism. How do they relate?
Developing a Coop-Commons alliance for a Collaborative Equitable and Participatory Economy
In-depth report from the Platform and Open Cooperativism Conference at the European Economic and Social Committee, 5 December 2016. Includes audio.
Rebooting Work: Programming the Economy for People
Digital and robotic technologies offer us both a bounty of productivity, but how do we employ people when robots are taking all the jobs?
How Platform Coops Can Beat Death Stars Like Uber to Create a Real Sharing Economy
We have an epic choice before us between platform coops and Death Star platforms, and the time to decide is now.
Research for Transition
The problem with this current economic model is that most of the value created is not put back into the commons.
Open Coop Development Agency
Unlike their traditional for-profit counterparts, Open Cooperatives are oriented towards the common good in their statutes.
A New Alignment of Movements? Part II: Strategies for a Convergence of Movements
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? Part two of two.
A New Alignment of Movements? Part I: The General Challenge
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? Part one of two.
Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools
In this feature packed article, Josef Davies-Coates talks about the inspiration, legal structures and tools that can help Open Cooperativism become the vibrant movement it deserves to be.
Toward an Open Co-Operativism:
The P2P economy needs bridges between cooperative culture and the organizational forms that can sustain it and advance the general well-being of society.