Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy
I work in a startup town, the rare kind of place where you can trip over veteran founders, with multiple exits behind then, on the sidewalk. By “exits,” I mean …
Congratulations to the 2018 #PlatformCoop Propaganda Challenge Winners!
The winners of the Propaganda Challenge—which distributes proceeds from our book Ours to Hack and to Own—have been chosen. Above all, we were blown away by the entries, all of …
Taking Joint Control: Trade Union and Co-operative Solutions for Decent Work
by Pat Conaty – Research Associate, Co-operatives UK Read the full report, Working Together: Trade Union and Co-operative Innovations for Precarious Work The labour market in the UK has changed …
Next, the Internet: Building a Cooperative Digital Space
Originally published in the Cooperative Business Journal‘s winter 2018 issue. For a sizable portion of the people running the established cooperatives in the United States, I’ve found, the internet is …
A Letter to My Mutual Insurance Company
State Farm Customer Service One State Farm Plaza Bloomington, Illinois 61710 January 11, 2018 To Whom It May Concern, As a policyholder of State Farm Mutual I am writing to …
Cooperative Organizing for an Inclusive Economy: The campaign to #BuyTwitter
The fight for a free and open Internet scored a win in 2006, thanks to a bad analogy. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens argued that Internet service providers should have the …
Social.coop: A Cooperative Decentralized Social Network
by Alanna Irving, originally posted at the Open Collective blog Social.coop is a cooperatively run instance of Mastodon, a decentralized social network based on open protocols and free, open-source software. …
Savvy Cooperative: What’s in a Name?
by Jen Horonjeff If you’ve ever had to come up with a name for a group, a company, a project, it can be one of the most daunting tasks. It’s …
AnyShare for IoO
In support of our platform co-op friends AnyShare, and to allow them to support us, I’ve set up an AnyShare instance for The Internet of Ownership. AnyShare, if you haven’t …
Reciproka: Facilitating Open Cooperativism
Cross-posted with the P2P Foundation blog David Bollier and I (see David’s post from yesterday) had the pleasure of meeting Janosch Sbeih and Jérôme Birolini (“The Reciprokans”) at the Open 2017: …