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Platform Co-op Community Hangout: Ela Kagel on Emerging Platform Co-ops in Berlin (November 7, 2018):
Ela Kagel joined us for our first Community Hangout to talk about Technology, Money, and Society. Along with giving us an update on her work with Rchain (https://www.rchain.coop), she led a fantastic conversation with our community members.
Ela is a co-founder of SUPERMARKT (https://supermarkt-berlin.net/en/), a coworking space & research studio with a focus on digital culture, social innovation and collaborative economy in Berlin.
Ela Kagel joined us for our first Community Hangout to talk about Technology, Money, and Society. Along with giving us an update on her work with Rchain (https://www.rchain.coop), she led a fantastic conversation with our community members.
Ela is a co-founder of SUPERMARKT (https://supermarkt-berlin.net/en/), a coworking space & research studio with a focus on digital culture, social innovation and collaborative economy in Berlin.
Indie.vc is a program designed to fund and support founders on a path to profitability.
We believe deeply that there are hundreds, even thousands, of businesses that could be thriving, at scale, if they focused on revenue growth over raising another round of funding. On average, the companies we've backed have increased revenues over 100% in the first 12 months of the program and around 300% after 24 months post-investment.
We aim to be the last investment our founders need to take. We call this Permissionless Entrepreneurship.
We believe deeply that there are hundreds, even thousands, of businesses that could be thriving, at scale, if they focused on revenue growth over raising another round of funding. On average, the companies we've backed have increased revenues over 100% in the first 12 months of the program and around 300% after 24 months post-investment.
We aim to be the last investment our founders need to take. We call this Permissionless Entrepreneurship.
Crowdfunding with financial return and sustainable impact. Your investment is the entrepreneur’s next step forward.
UnFound is for tech founders and start-ups looking for a different way to set-up and run platform businesses.
It brings together platforms that would like to go about their business in a more collaborative and inclusive way. Find out how we can make the digital economy our own.
Is this you? Get involved!
It brings together platforms that would like to go about their business in a more collaborative and inclusive way. Find out how we can make the digital economy our own.
Is this you? Get involved!
The Greentech Alliance brings together green technology businesses, that fight climate change with their products and services in the most responsible and respectful to our planet manner, to support them with advice about funding, impact, visibility and strategy with the help of top VCs, journalists, advisors and entrepreneurs.
The WIR franc is a Swiss community currency which is circulated and backed by the WIR Bank, a Swiss banking cooperative headquartered in Basel.
It is the one of the most widely used community currencies in Switzerland. The WIR Bank circulates WIR francs primarily through the provision of affordable loans in WIR francs to small and mid-sized businesses, which then use these loans to make purchases from other businesses which accept WIR francs.
It is the one of the most widely used community currencies in Switzerland. The WIR Bank circulates WIR francs primarily through the provision of affordable loans in WIR francs to small and mid-sized businesses, which then use these loans to make purchases from other businesses which accept WIR francs.
An experiment in free, co-operative higher educationThe Social Science Centre (SSC) organizes free higher education in Lincoln and is run by its members. The SSC is a co-operative and was formally constituted in May 2011 with help from the local Co-operative Development Agency. There is no fee for learning or teaching, but most members voluntarily contribute to the Centre either financially or with their time. No one at the Centre receives a salary and all contributions are used to run the SSC. When students leave the SSC they will receive an award at higher education level. This award will be recognized and validated by the scholars who make up the SSC, as well as by our associate external members – academics around the world who act as our expert reviewers The SSC has no formal connection with any higher education institution, but attempts to work closely with likeminded organizations in the city.
Critics of the ‘co-operative university’ have questioned our commitment to the idea of the ‘public university’. Indeed, co-operatives are anti-statist, but they also exceed the idea of ‘public ownership’ with that of ‘common ownership’, a social form of property that is the antithesis of the right of free alienability (which distinguishes capitalist private property). In short, co-operative higher education is entirely compatible with the idea of the ‘public’ if we reconceive it as an autonomous, open, democratically governed ‘commons’: An academic commons, democratically controlled by academic and support staff, students, cleaners and others.
Description: This course surveys recent developments in applied cryptography. Research in this field is motivated by privacy and security issues that arise in practice from areas like cloud computing, databases, surveillance and finance. Topics will vary each year.
In Fall 2019, the topic will be crypto for social good. We will learn how surveillance has been (and currently is) used to suppress dissent and how new surveillance technologies are deployed against social protest movements, intimate partners and immigrants. We will study how modern cryptography enables new privacy-enhancing technologies and investigate how cryptography can be used to protect dissent and enhance the safety and welfare of marginalized groups.
In Fall 2019, the topic will be crypto for social good. We will learn how surveillance has been (and currently is) used to suppress dissent and how new surveillance technologies are deployed against social protest movements, intimate partners and immigrants. We will study how modern cryptography enables new privacy-enhancing technologies and investigate how cryptography can be used to protect dissent and enhance the safety and welfare of marginalized groups.
Platform Cooperativism Consortium | A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.
Platform cooperatives are businesses that use a website, mobile app, or protocol to sell goods or services. They rely on democratic decision-making and shared ownership of the platform by workers and users.
Community powered tourism
50% of our platform fee is used to fund a project of your choice for the communities you visit.
This is a way to empower local communities and promote authentic, fair and conscious tourism.
50% of our platform fee is used to fund a project of your choice for the communities you visit.
This is a way to empower local communities and promote authentic, fair and conscious tourism.
Get in touch with one of our teams, operating in over 40 cities across Europe, to take part in the collective entrepreneurship experience, joining forces to bring meaning and solidarity to work.
"a cooperative for freelancers"
"a cooperative for freelancers"
Online-Marktplatz und Lieferservice für den lokalen Einzelhandel.
Fair und schnell.
Fair und schnell.
Eva is a ride-sharing application you can now be part of! It offers a service similar to Uber, but in line with its cooperative members priorities: cheaper for rider members and better wages for driver members.
Stop waiting, start riding with Eva!
Stop waiting, start riding with Eva!
Our paradigm for value is production. But if you think about it, most work is not productive. Most work is actually about maintaining things, it’s about care. Whenever I talk to a Marxist theorist, and they try to explain value, which is…what they always like to do, they always take the example of a teacup. They’ll say like…usually they’re sitting there with a glass, a bottle, a cup. They say, “Well, look at this bottle. You know, it takes a certain amount of socially-necessary labor time to produce this. Say it takes you know, this much time, this much resources.” They’re always talking about production of stuff.
But a teacup or a bottle, well you know, you produce a cup once. You wash it like ten thousand times. Most work isn’t actually about producing new things, it’s about maintaining things.
But a teacup or a bottle, well you know, you produce a cup once. You wash it like ten thousand times. Most work isn’t actually about producing new things, it’s about maintaining things.
Trebor Scholz - Platform Cooperatives Now! - Week 3: An Introduction to Platform Cooperativism.
The co-op proved a turning point in solving these problems, many of my interview subjects told me. In addition to the creation of a high value-added greenhouse industry, the co-op has helped villagers who’ve left the village in search of work in the city, as well as those too old to farm to contract out their land use rights to those willing and able to farm it.
Abertura, colaboração e participação são aspectos fundamentais do nosso trabalho. Desde o desenvolvimento do Firefox até a elaboração colaborativa de um plano de aula. A diversidade nos fortalece e buscamos a participação daqueles que a reforçam. Estas diretrizes existem para permitir que diversas pessoas e grupos interajam e colaborem em benefício mútuo. Este documento descreve o comportamento esperado e proibido.
Many of us are sheltering-in-place, practicing social solidarity by physically distancing, and shifting to majority online work and organizing in midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. For many folks that means adjusting to different work spaces and work-flows, ones where virtual meetings have become a regular and expected activity. On the one hand, being able to work from home or participate in virtual meetings represents a very clear form of privilege, in that you have work to do and don't have to do it in higher-risk settings like caregiving and essential retail. But within our online meeting spaces, other forms of privilege and associated power dynamics play out in ways that undermine our work and marginalize important voices and perspectives.
The COVID-19 crisis presents the greatest threat to community-based business in generations. But what if their employees and neighbors had the tools to get through this crisis in better shape, through an “exit to community”? This webinar presents strategies to help business transition to community and employee ownership, which could help ease the crisis upon us and aid in a just recovery.
The Scottish Men’s Sheds Association’s sole focus is supporting Scotland’s Shedders and their supporters to create Men’s Sheds in their community across Scotland. If you need help, inspiration or just a chat, you have come to the right place.
A história de como ocas cenográficas de "Hans Staden" deram lugar a uma tribo de verdade no litoral paulista.
The digital welfare state is commonly presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure that citizens benefit from new technologies, experience more efficient government, and enjoy higher levels of well-being. But, Alston said, the digitization of welfare systems has very often been used to promote deep reductions in the overall welfare budget, a narrowing of the beneficiary pool, the elimination of some services, the introduction of demanding and intrusive forms of conditionality, the pursuit of behavioural modification goals, the imposition of stronger sanctions regimes, and a complete reversal of the traditional notion that the state should be accountable to the individual.
Platform Cooperativism Channel
Liberapay é uma maneira de financiar recorrentemente pessoas ou projetos cujo trabalho você curte.
Pagamentos são feitos sem compromisso. Você não sabe exatamente quem está doando para você, e as doações são limitadas em £ 90,00 por semana por doador para reduzir influência indevida.
Por padrão, o total que se doa e recebe são públicos (você pode ocultá-los).
O Liberapay não recebe uma parte dos pagamentos, o serviço é financiado por doações para a sua própria conta. No entanto, existem as taxas do processamento de pagamentos.
Liberapay é um projeto aberto, você pode nos ajudar traduzindo-o, otimizando seu código e gerenciando sua entidade jurídica. Se você colaborar, você poderá entrar na equipe Liberapay e receber uma parte do que nossos usuários doam para manter o serviço funcionando.
Pagamentos são feitos sem compromisso. Você não sabe exatamente quem está doando para você, e as doações são limitadas em £ 90,00 por semana por doador para reduzir influência indevida.
Por padrão, o total que se doa e recebe são públicos (você pode ocultá-los).
O Liberapay não recebe uma parte dos pagamentos, o serviço é financiado por doações para a sua própria conta. No entanto, existem as taxas do processamento de pagamentos.
Liberapay é um projeto aberto, você pode nos ajudar traduzindo-o, otimizando seu código e gerenciando sua entidade jurídica. Se você colaborar, você poderá entrar na equipe Liberapay e receber uma parte do que nossos usuários doam para manter o serviço funcionando.
Espero que a experiência do confinamento possa moderar nosso impulso consumista, a fuga para Bangkok para trazer presentes e lembranças para contar aos amigos, espero também que o confinamento contribua para diminuir o consumismo, ou seja, a intoxicação consumista e a obediência aos apelos publicitários, em prol dos alimentos saudáveis e saborosos, de produtos duráveis e não descartáveis. Será preciso, porém, outros estímulos e novas tomadas de consciência para que uma revolução social venha a ocorrer. De qualquer forma, resta a esperança de que a lenta evolução já iniciada se acelere.
How can we build a more just, more egalitarian society when our devices already surround us with so many of the personalized delights we might want such a society to offer? Meetings are boring. Talking to people unlike ourselves is hard. How can we turn away from the mediasphere long enough to rediscover the pleasures of that difficult work? And how can we sustain it when we do?
Enabling the exchange of data, experiences and ideas among open educational actors and communities.
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
The Century of the Self is a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It focuses on the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and ...
In the earliest moments of Tonight We Riot, the recently released video game from Texas worker-owned coop Pixel Pushers Union 512, a pair of pixelated, flag-waving workers square up against riot cops. “There’s only one way through,” a speech bubble from your comrade reads. “Direct action!” Through the side-scroll brawler, you liberate and rally a growing crowd of workers fighting against an evil capitalist regime. You don’t control just one protagonist; instead, you control the movement. When your avatar is killed, you simply control another worker in the group.
“As long as one of us survives, the Revolution will live on,” another text pop-up proclaims.
https://observer.com/2020/05/tonight-we-riot-socialist-video-game-means-interactive/?fbclid=IwAR1YJFG1lRO00N74rcNNNWE7iumO0ve6cDd8KBut5eXv7PyiRMalC6kruBw
“As long as one of us survives, the Revolution will live on,” another text pop-up proclaims.
https://observer.com/2020/05/tonight-we-riot-socialist-video-game-means-interactive/?fbclid=IwAR1YJFG1lRO00N74rcNNNWE7iumO0ve6cDd8KBut5eXv7PyiRMalC6kruBw
Não se trata mais de retomar ou de transformar um sistema de produção, mas de abandonar a produção como o único princípio de relação com o mundo. [7] Não se trata de revolução, mas de dissolução, pixel por pixel. Como mostra Pierre Charbonnier, [8] após cem anos de um socialismo que se limitou a pensar a redistribuição dos benefícios da economia, talvez seja o momento de inventar um socialismo que conteste a própria produção. É que a injustiça não se limita apenas à redistribuição dos frutos do progresso, mas à própria maneira de fazer o planeta produzir frutos. O que não significa viver de amor ou de brisa, mas aprender a selecionar cada segmento deste famoso sistema pretensamente irreversível, a questionar cada uma das conexões supostamente indispensáveis e a experimentar, pouco a pouco, o que é desejável e o que deixou de sê-lo.
https://climainfo.org.br/2020/04/02/barrar-producao-insustentavel-e-onsumismo/
https://climainfo.org.br/2020/04/02/barrar-producao-insustentavel-e-onsumismo/
CLEO is the largest online library for teaching materials on employee ownership.
We are fairkom
and we make fair software.
A competence network oriented towards the common good to promote the idea of open source,
and we make fair software.
A competence network oriented towards the common good to promote the idea of open source,
Diggers & Dreamers is the starting point for many people in Britain who are interested in communal living and want to find out more.
As the socio-economic and political crisis subsided, some scholars assumed that worker-recuperated enterprises would disappear, but this did not happen. The figure below shows that although the number of new worker-recuperated factories peaked in 2002, takeovers continued even as the economy improved and unemployment rates declined. Workers had a new socially-recognized tool, which they continued to deploy in new contexts. The expansion was also favored by unemployment rates that, although declining, remained significant (around 7% over the past few years) and political conditions (at least at a federal level) that were not adverse to these processes.
Switch between storage and apps
while taking the data along
while taking the data along
It values pro-bono, care, and paid work with complementary metrics and dispenses rewards accordingly. The purpose is to extract people from the capitalist marketplace so they can use their unique talents to do fulfilling, socially and environmentally meaningful work. The document prototypes a governance model fit for digital labor as applied to an existing organization: the P2P translation collective Guerrilla Translation which is, in turn, embedded into a larger umbrella organization called the Guerrilla Media Collective. Guerrilla Translation serves as the practical example to illustrate the model. The Guerrilla Media Collective is a pilot project for Distributed Cooperative Organizations or DisCOs.
“Yes coops are more democratic than their capitalist counterparts based on wage-dependency and internal hierarchy. But cooperatives that work in the capitalist marketplace tend to gradually take over competitive mentalities, and even if they would not, they work for their own members, not the common good…”
The web platform and the apps to manage your bike delivery activity. Made according to the needs and feedback of our members that are cycling daily with it.
It is a common name for federated social networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. Historically, this term has included only microblogging platforms supporting a set of protocols called OStatus. This didn't do justice to a large number of projects that federate, share same values and are reasonably popular. With the appearance and wide adoption of a new standard protocol called ActivityPub it makes no sense to further divide the federated world into “OStatus” and “non-OStatus” projects. This guide unites all interconnected federated networks under one term “Fediverse”.
Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that has been seeking to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future since 2010.
Webarchitects is a Sheffield based, small and friendly, multi-stakeholder co-operative which has been providing ethical and green, web hosting, virtual servers and GNU/Linux sysadmin support services for over 20 years.
See our server status page for the latest news regarding the status of our systems and please get in touch if you have any issues, questions or think we might be able to provide a service to you.
See our server status page for the latest news regarding the status of our systems and please get in touch if you have any issues, questions or think we might be able to provide a service to you.
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline.
MaadiX is an easy and intuitive tool for managing your own server without the need for any technical know-how
Xnet – Internet Freedoms
Xnet is an activist project working and proposes advanced solucions in fields related to digital rights and democracy: freedom of expression; net neutrality; digital privacy; the free circulation of culture, knowledge and information; mechanisms for transparency, participation and citizen control of power and institutions; the defense of citizen journalism for the right to know, inform and be informed; the technical, communications and legal fight against corruption; and the technopolitics understood as the practice of networking and taking action for citizen empowerment, justice and social transformation.
Xnet is an activist project working and proposes advanced solucions in fields related to digital rights and democracy: freedom of expression; net neutrality; digital privacy; the free circulation of culture, knowledge and information; mechanisms for transparency, participation and citizen control of power and institutions; the defense of citizen journalism for the right to know, inform and be informed; the technical, communications and legal fight against corruption; and the technopolitics understood as the practice of networking and taking action for citizen empowerment, justice and social transformation.
Solarpunk is everything from a positive imagining of our collective futures to actually creating it: aesthetics, afrofuturism, art, cooperatives, DIY, ecological restoration, engineering, fiction, futurism, gardening, geodesic domes, green architecture, green design, green energy, ingenuous indigenous practices, intentional community, maker spaces, materials science, music, permaculture, repair cafes, solar, solar power, sustainability, tree planting, urban planning, volunteering, 3D printing...
In 2012, the publication of the Brazilian sci-fi anthology "Solarpunk: Histórias ecológicas e fantásticas em um mundo sustentável" marked the expansion of the speculative fiction genre beyond the English-speaking world. From there the internet began to build, embellish, critique, and diversify an aesthetic theme and a corresponding techno-environmentalist outlook on sustainable development.
what3words is a really simple way to talk about location.
We have assigned each 3m square in the world a unique 3 word address that will never change.
For example ///filled.count.soap marks the exact entrance to what3words’ London headquarters.
3 word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate as GPS coordinates.
We have assigned each 3m square in the world a unique 3 word address that will never change.
For example ///filled.count.soap marks the exact entrance to what3words’ London headquarters.
3 word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate as GPS coordinates.
A privacy focused extension to annotate, search and organize what you've seen online.