Cross-posted from Shareable. Aaron Fernando: On July 3, the Co-operative Party in the U.K. launched a report at parliament outlining a strategy to double the size of the U.K.’s cooperative sector by 2030. The report, written by the think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF), was commissioned by the Co-operative Party and comprises a vision of the party’s goals…. Continue reading
A Framework for Assessing Democratic Qualities in Collaborative Economy Platforms: Analysis of 10 Cases in Barcelona Mayo Fuster Morell 1 and Ricard Espelt 2 ; Republished from mdpi.com. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Sharing Cities Shaping Cities). Abstract The term “collaborative economy” or “collaborative economy platforms” refers to exchange, sharing, and collaboration in the… Continue reading
The following texts are extracted from Mesopotamia.coop A co-operative revolution is happening in Northern Syria People in Rojava are collectively building a society based on principles of direct democracy, ecology, and women’s liberation, with co-operation playing a crucial role in rebuilding their economy. In Bakur (the predominantly Kurdish region of eastern Turkey) people are setting up… Continue reading
In the run-up to OPEN 2018, the conference which explores the ideas of co-operative vision and the evolving politics of a world of abundance and inclusivity, Oliver Sylvester-Bradley interviewed Cadwell Turnbull. Cadwell is a ‘social fiction’ writer who is exploring ideas about how collaborative narrative and a co-operative vision can help create the spaces needed for a more equitable economy –… Continue reading
Some scuttlebutt about Scuttlebutt 🦐 — hey squiddo, I can’t remember if we talked about Scuttlebutt yet. are you familiar? just a good one to have on your radar, v cool people with excellent tech and zero hype and bullshit 🦑 — Hmm interesting, is Scuttlebutt running in production for something yet? It’s like a service to… Continue reading
The following text was written by Maria Fonseca and originally published in IntelligentHQ. If we are to imagine the world of tomorrow, the terms fairness, equality and connection would probably resonate with the vision of that utopian future. That world, would be a world in which connected communities of people, would be at the very… Continue reading
Shareable, a nonprofit media outlet co-founded by Neal Gorenflo in 2009, is devoted to the sharing economy (the real sharing economy of platform cooperatives and other open, self-organized effort — not proprietary, walled-garden, Death Star platforms like Uber and Airbnb). In 2011 Shareable organized the Share San Francisco conference to promote the city as a platform for sharing, which in turn… Continue reading
The Internet didn’t quite deliver on its original promise and today we’re talking with people who are fixing it.” We’re very glad that Andrey Salomatin, creator of Code podcast (see original post here), got in touch to let us know about this recent podcast on what’s happening lately in P2P decentralized web development. If you’re… Continue reading
A panel moderated by Gar Alperovitz, Co-Chair of The Next System Project and featuring Pavlina Tcherna (Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Economics at Bard College), Stephanie Kelton (Professor of Public Policy & Economics at Stony Brook University), Michael Hudson (President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET) and Raúl Carrillo… Continue reading
Republished from americanmagazine.org Throughout its uncommonly long run as an independent republic—from roughly the late 12th century to the coming of Napoleon—the Italian city-state of Lucca had the same image on its coinage. It was customary then for coins to bear the face of the current, secular ruler in their place of origin. But the… Continue reading
Since the financial crash 10 years ago, we’ve learned that it tends to be everyday people, on the ground, who pick up the pieces and not governments. Millions have been dragged into poverty while those who caused the “crisis”, after creating dangerously high levels of private debt, remain unscathed. 1 The UK Conservative government’s response was an… Continue reading
“A significant amount of fintech innovation can best be understood as the automation of traditional finance“ In his talk Brett Scott will present his latest paper called “Hardcoding ethics into fintech” (awarded a “Ethics & Trust in Finance Global Prize”). The paper describes finance as a realm of monetary contracts and reflects on the ethical… Continue reading
https://episodes.castos.com/OuiShare/Indra-and-bernie-finished-1-1-.mp3 Indra Adnan is Co-Initiator of The Alternative UK – part of a global network of political platforms originating with Alternativet in Denmark. Her commitment is to grassroots politics that release the power of people and communities in ways that sustain the planet. She is concurrently a journalist (The Guardian, Huffington Post), a psychotherapist (Human Givens Institute), founder of… Continue reading
The Plan That Came From The Bottom Up 40 years ago a group of skilled engineers at Lucas Aerospace UK, when threatened with redundancy, responded with an ambitious plan to make better use of their talents – designing what they called socially useful and environmentally sustainable alternatives to the military products their company made. THE… Continue reading
Republished from New Economics Foundation Climate change is fuelling record temperatures and sweeping fires, but the progressive response is lacking. David Powell, Head of Environment & Green Transition: The newspapers read like something from a dystopian sci-fi film about a world ravaged by climate breakdown. But it’s today, and it’s real. Heat records are being… Continue reading
Republished from City Metric Theo Bass: European laws have ushered in a new era in how companies and governments manage and promote responsible use of personal data. Yet it is the city that looks set to be one of the major battlegrounds in a shift towards greater individual rights, where expectations of privacy and fair… Continue reading