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Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup. 
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My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES DEFAULT ETHICAL ECONOMY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P BUSINESS MODELS P2P FOUNDATION P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P MONEY
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This new economy is not really about sharing it is an on-demand service economy that it spreading market relations deeper into our lives.
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Self employment levels used to be a measure of how underdeveloped an economy was. Now it has become something that is celebrated across developed countries.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELS PEER PROPERTY
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The founding groups, the pioneers in almost any community, hold a different status: equal rights, more responsibility, and more prominence.
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The gig economy as we know it is unacceptable. It’s an entirely parasitic arrangement in which a capitalist corporation inserts itself in P2P interactions
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Christopher David has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It's called Arcade City
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Video interview of co-founder Christopher David: “The former ‘illegal Uber driver’ Christopher David — who provides rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire residents when cab companies will not — has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It’s called Arcade City.” Watch the video here:
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A list of P2P trends for reconstructing our world with distributed infrastructures, shared resources, commons, and related livelihoods.
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Now here is an improbable idea:an activist hedge fund. Robin Hood Coop skims market investments to support commoners
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Jay Casano reports from the recent Platform Cooperativism Conference in NYC.
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We used to share common resources with our communities. Now sharing is the word we use for paying a tech start-up to connect us with people to transact with
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The US Chamber of Commons is a startup organization dedicated to recognizing, supporting and highlighting the "green shoots of a budding Generative Economy"
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Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled “11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy“. It’s a really nice list of projects who are all moving in the right direction (i.e. toward greater sharing of ownership and control), but some of them aren’t actually co-operatives. This got me thinking: Should organisations that are not... Continue reading →
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According to the Shadow Chancellor, the Labour Party will double the size of the UK co-operative sector if in power, as a way to boost the economy.
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A bedrock of any solidarity economy is the old idea of cooperativism—sharing ownership among those affected by an enterprise and governing it democratically
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Cooperatives UK have just released an in depth report full of examples of best practices for co-operatives collaborating to meet the needs of workers
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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The backlash to the corporate “sharing economy” is gaining momentum, and one key player is the movement to develop “platform cooperativism.”
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An in-depth explorations of the types of signals needed for a post-capitalist, mutual coordination, economy
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Community is a hot commodity and this creates an awkward situation for marketing. Danny Spitzberg on Pirate Metrics and the cooperative alternative.
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Now here is an improbable idea:an activist hedge fund. Robin Hood Coop skims market investments to support commoners
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Toward a Collaborative Technology Alliance: Because we’re all unique, we bring different gifts, talents, and approaches to this shared intention.
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What are the conditions for a more intentional technology movement?
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A logical starting point would be simply to recreate Uber/Lyft/etc, with their global network of offices, drivers, marketing and technical infrastructure, as a driver-owned coop, operating either non-profit or with its profits distributed amongst drivers. It would need to be a large, well financed (Uber has raised $7bn over 12 rounds https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber), dynamic organisation with a legal and customer service team in every country it operated in.
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