Douglas Rushkoff, speaking at this summer’s Future Fest explores the importance of human connection in the digital age. About Team Human A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.”―Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital… Continue reading
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The Not-for-Profit World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Presentation by Prof. Donnie Maclurcan (@donmacca) of the Post Growth Institute (@postgrowth) on the Not-for-Profit World model, designed in collaboration with Jennifer Hinton (@hintojen) and Sarah Reibstein (@sarahreibstein) Hosted at London South Bank University (@LSBU), 6th Oct., by Prof. Ros Wade (@RosWade1). Filmed by Jeremy Williams (@jeremy_willaims) of www.makewealthhistory.org. Event organised by Gudrun Freese (@doshorts)… Continue reading
Video of the day: Puppets take on Economic Man
from Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Economic Man vs Humanity: a Puppet Rap Battle An economist, a songwriter and a puppet designer walked into a recording studio. What came out? An economics puppet rap battle, of course. In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, puppet designer Emma Powell, musician Simon Panrucker, and renegade economist Kate Raworth have created a… Continue reading
OPEN 2018: Growing the commons
Stacco Troncoso from the P2P Foundation; Mònica Garriga Miret from the Free Knowledge Institute; Guillaume Compain from Plateformes en communs and Tiberius Brastaviceanu, Co-Founder of Sensorica discussing strategies for Growing the Commons. Stacco has worked alongside Michel Bauwens for many years and has an excellent grasp on the concepts of the commons, whilst Monica is… Continue reading
OPEN 2018: What is a Co-op? Sion Whellens
Siôn Whellens, Co-Founder of the Worker Co-op Solidarity Fund provides a brilliant explanation of cooperatives (from Youtube). Siôn Whellens, Co-Founder of the Worker Co-op Solidarity Fund, Dave Boyle, Founder of The Community Shares Company, and Alex Bird, Chair of Co-operatives and Mutuals Wales, leading a practical session on How to start a co-op, covering legal entities,… Continue reading
A Scuttlebutt Love Story
A Scuttlebutt Love Story from zach on Vimeo.
Scuttlebutt aims to harmonize four perspectives of life: Environment reflecting Technology reflecting Community reflecting Society. We acknowledge the natural, the virtual, and the social environments. Our responsibility is to recognize which resources are abundant, which are sufficient, and adapt accordingly through efficiency. Technology is simply the means by which we communicate. We use local-first publishing… Continue reading
How can Blockchain enable Elinor Ostrom’s 8 commons principles?
Samer Hassan, researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center and UCM in Madrid, who recently received a 1.5M€ grant to build blockchain-based democratic and sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy (p2pmodels.eu), leads a working session exploring how blockchain technologies, can be utilized to create new ways to cooperate: building new commons-oriented, blockchain-driven initiatives which incorporate Elinor Ostrom’s 8… Continue reading
What the hell is Blockchain and how does it work?
Peter Thompson, Creator of KPcoin, will provide a beginners guide to blockchain; what it is, where it came from and how it is being applied to support distributed software applications. The session will also include a hands-on game of Blockchain Bingo – a brilliant introduction to the “proof of work” concept underpinning blockchain, which will… Continue reading
The Commons Platform, An Interview with Sophie Varlow and Nick Wood
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
Brett Scott: Hardcoding ethics into fintech – Conscious FinTech Talk
“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
The Lucas Plan: a Documentary
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
Maru Bautista on the Platform Cooperative for Cleaning Workers in Brooklyn
Martijn Arets: 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… Continue reading
What if economic growth isn’t as positive as you think?
If we don’t quickly create a new economy that isn’t based on constant expansion, we’re going to run out of planet. Martin Kirk: When Donald Trump says “Make America Great Again,” he’s alluding, at least in part, to the promise of economic growth. Just as when Bill Clinton said, “it’s the economy, stupid,” he was… Continue reading
Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech’s Repair Monopoly
Reposted from Motherboard/ YouTube When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over. In this episode of State of Repair, Motherboard… Continue reading
Learn to Play Commonspoly: London, Sunday July 22nd @ Newspeak House
Dear friends and commoners: In the lead up to the Open Coop 2018 conference, Richard Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo (Loomio, Enspiral, the Hum) will join me in hosting an action-oriented workshop on Commonspoly at Newspeak House, London. Commonspoly is a hacked version and critique of the game Monopoly, where the goals are to first re-municipalize private goods… Continue reading
SPECIAL REPORT: Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland
Two forms of government have dominated in the west over the last hundred years. In one big power is vested in the state, the government, in the other policy is dominated by the influence of big industry, big corporations, or big money. Well a hundred years after the Russian revolution, and ten years after the… Continue reading