Take Back the App! We need platform co-ops now more than ever. If the 19th and 20th centuries were about storming the factory and taking back the means of production, then the 21st century is about storming the online platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon and the apps that increasingly control our economy and our… Continue reading
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World Social Forum of Transformative Economies – 1st International Meeting
The international preparatory meeting for the WSFTE 2020 was held in April, 2019, in Barcelona From the RIPESS page: “More than 300 people from 46 different countries will meet from 5th to 7th April at the University of Barcelona, in the first international preparatory meeting for the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies 2020 (WSFTE 2020). It… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Mid-Course Correction Revisited
The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change By Ray Anderson and John A. Lanier: The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st… Continue reading
The Future of Work – Jobs and Automation in Estonia
“In the rest of the developed world, people rely on digitized services in the private sector. In Estonia, this is also true for the government.” A new VICE Special Report: The Future of Work premieres April 19 on HBO. This video has been reposted from the HBO youtube channel.
Primavera De Filippi on Blockchain Technology and the Future of Work
Primavera De Filippi, researcher at CNRS and faculty associate at the Berkman Center, Harvard Law School, is investigating emergent decentralized technologies to design new governance models. In this final talk of the session Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin at Lift16, Primavera De Filippi explored the possibilities that live at the intersection between the blockchain and art,… Continue reading
Catalysing collaboration at scale
The video above is a recording of a webinar exploring how to catalyse collaboration at scale. This first event of OPEN 2019 covers the ideas behind The DNA of Collaboration and Harmonious Working Patterns to explore ideas which might help all the people, communities and organisations working on creating a new, decentralised, regenerative economy collaborate better to produce more impact. Panelists:… Continue reading
David Harvey on Primitive Accumulation and the Enclosure of the Commons
Originally available via Democracy at Work as part of the “Anti-Capitalist Chronicles” series. This episode: ‘Primitive or Original Accumulation’. From Democracy at Work To our Patreon community: thank you for supporting David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles on Patreon! Your support helps us compensate the staff and additional workers it takes to put an episode together. Thank… Continue reading
Revision 1.0 – How to Cultivate Empathy in uncertain times?
World Religion has been mostly excluded from the technology discussion so far. But how much do the different Religions, mostly based on ideas of community, interconnection and empathy have in common with the ways we celebrate technology? Both are often based on devotion and various practices and rituals. Addressing the common grounds we ask what… Continue reading
Right To Own: A Policy Framework to Catalyze Worker Ownership Transitions
Peter Gowan Executive Summary Age-old questions of ownership, control, and distribution in our economy remain as important as ever. In fostering the creation of communities and workplaces driven by values of solidarity, cooperation, and justice, workplace democracy and worker ownership are crucial, powerful tools, and they can and should play an important role in the… Continue reading
SSDG 006 Ostrom and Blockchains by Jason Potts
6th meeting of the International Society for the Study of Decentralized Governance (https://issdg.org), including a presentation on “Ostrom and Blockchain Governance” by Jason Potts. Presentation slides are here: https://meet.lucidmeetings.com/a/sJVq…
The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care
The future of computing and why you should care Todd Weaver Founder and CEOPGP Fingerprint: B8CA ACEA D949 30F1 23C4 642C 23CF 2E3D 2545 14F7 (transcript follows) Let me set the tone by using a quote from a great person of history: “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people,… Continue reading
Patterns for Decentralised Organising / Richard D. Barlett and Natalia Lombardo / Intersection18
Presented at Intersection Conference If you’re interested in the future of work, you may have heard rumours about Enspiral, a network of 200 entrepreneurs in New Zealand working on “stuff that matters”. The network is composed of many start-ups and small co-ops experimenting with radical self-management practices, decentralised ownership, and shared leadership. Nati and Rich… Continue reading
Carole Cadwalladr on Facebook’s role in Brexit and its threat to democracy
In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016… Continue reading
Up&Go: Facilitating local worker cleaning coops with a shared platform
At the Open Coop conference in London I interviewed Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Program at the Center for Family Life in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 5 years, she has worked with her team and the Sunset Park community to strengthen immigrant-led worker cooperatives in New York City. She oversees all… Continue reading
Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
This book offers a compelling narrative for change – that we want to be free and creative people, governing ourselves through fair, accountable institutions, and experiencing the aliveness of authentic human presence. Free, fair, and alive! Click here to download the German edition. The forthcoming English edition will be available in September 2019. Video reposted… Continue reading
Charles Eisenstein on the case for a Universal Basic Income
Ever since about 1790, economic philosophers have puzzled over a question: “What are we going to do with all the surplus labor when machines do all the work?” Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com CharlesEisenstein.org