VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Coordination in decentralised networks
June 22, 2020 from The Open Co-op (Co-op, LLP, network, Social Enterprise) (Co-op, WOOF)
There are hundreds of thousands of groups and communities working on building a new economy, but no centralised control or coordination system – after all, that’s the whole point of a decentralised network, there shouldn’t be any central ‘nodes’! But because our projects are decentralised ...
VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – Tools of collaboration
June 20, 2020 from The Open Co-op (Co-op, LLP, network, Social Enterprise) (Co-op, WOOF)
Every group, project or community needs digital tools to enable collaboration. But which tools should we choose? This is the first of two sessions looking at common infrastructure for the communities and organisations that are building the new economy. See also the slides and speaker notes for Secto...
From Our Instagram Feed: Om Mani Padme Hum…!
June 20, 2020 from Kshanti - Les Gavatxes (community) (Ecoxarxa Garrotxa, FairCoop, NuMundo)
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VIDEO – OPEN 2020: Introducing mutual credit
June 20, 2020 from The Open Co-op (Co-op, LLP, network, Social Enterprise) (Co-op, WOOF)
What is mutual credit? How does it work? How can we enable local mutual credit networks and transition away from the present ‘debt based’ economy and start trading within networks of trust? This introductory session on mutual credit features Giuseppe Littera, co-founder of Sardex, one of the mos...
From Our Instagram Feed: Hola hortensia!
June 19, 2020 from Kshanti - Les Gavatxes (community) (Ecoxarxa Garrotxa, FairCoop, NuMundo)
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You can now send us a WhatsApp!
June 19, 2020 from Kshanti - Les Gavatxes (community) (Ecoxarxa Garrotxa, FairCoop, NuMundo)
You can use the number at the top right of this page now to phone us, and also to send us a message or call via WhatsApp. Or click here: https://wa.link/4o1hna Or scan this QR code:...
VIDEO: OPEN 2020 – The language of the commons
June 19, 2020 from The Open Co-op (Co-op, LLP, network, Social Enterprise) (Co-op, WOOF)
“Throughout history, problems have arisen when the language used to represent reality fails to meet the needs and aspirations of people.” David Bollier & Silke Helfrich – Free, Fair and Alive Words, terms and categories of thought isolate and emphasise certain points of view. They dete...
Bristol’s Coronavirus Community
June 17, 2020 from Bristol Pound (CIC)
As retailers begin to reopen and queues of shoppers form once again around the country, this week marks the beginning of the end of England’s economic […]...
From Our Instagram Feed: Ilusionad@s de hacer otro retiro con @akaljoti_yoga. Más detalles en nuestra web en breve.
June 17, 2020 from Kshanti - Les Gavatxes (community) (Ecoxarxa Garrotxa, FairCoop, NuMundo)
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Black Lives Matter
June 13, 2020 from Foundation for Intentional Community (alliance, network, non-profit) (Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Global Ecovillage Network, New Economy Coalition)
We at FIC are grieved and outraged by the recent police killing of George Floyd, one incident in an ongoing pattern of police abuse towards black people and people of color across the United States. We stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and the groundswell of peaceful protests around the w...
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[Test] Land, co-op, currency: can they go together?
June 11, 2020 from [Test] Cortes Community Currency Co-op (Co-op, community, network) (Community Currency Alliance, Cortes Island)
Co-ops are a key form of collective ownership, community land is a basis of shared prosperity, and local currencies — when they work — free us from the tyranny of debt-based money. What happens when you combine all three?...
Building an Ecosystem of Open Referral Solutions
May 4, 2020 from Sarapis (nonprofit)
Our team at Sarapis has done a lot of work with and for Open Referral including helping with general project IT needs, developing the Open Referral Airtable Template and the open source ORServices application to help meet the needs of people who wanted to use Open Referral but didn’t have the reso...
Cortes Investment Co-op
May 3, 2020 from Cortes Community Economic Development Association (non-profit) (Canadian Community Economic Development Network)
Community Investment Co-op Working Group We're moving ahead with setting up a Community Investment Co-op for Cortes. This is a well-tested model that provides a mechanism […]...
Results of the Bristol Pound impact survey
April 28, 2020 from Bristol Pound (CIC)
Many of you will remember being asked (/pestered) to participate in some research towards the end of summer last year. We are really excited to share […]...
Financial relief support calls, starting tomorrow!
April 20, 2020 from Cortes Community Economic Development Association (non-profit) (Canadian Community Economic Development Network)
Financial relief support calls, starting tomorrow! To help local businesses and organizations survive the pandemic-induced economic crisis, CCEDA is hosting a series of calls with experts […]...
Surveys, Surveys, Surveys!
April 18, 2020 from Cortes Community Economic Development Association (non-profit) (Canadian Community Economic Development Network)
Surveys, Surveys, Surveys! With the rate of information transfer on the island’s face-to-face grapevine slowed to a crawl, we’re turning to online surveys. At the moment […]...
Entrepreneurship and business planning training
April 17, 2020 from Cortes Community Economic Development Association (non-profit) (Canadian Community Economic Development Network)
Entrepreneurship and business planning training coming up in May One of our objectives is to help Cortes islanders access the resources, training, and funding to turn […]...
Delivering Open Referral Solutions with Airtable
April 13, 2020 from Sarapis (nonprofit)
In 2018, with a small grant provided by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems to the Sahana Software Foundation, Sarapis developed an Airtable template of a community resource database using Open Referral’s Human Services Data Specification (HSDS). This project ...
Mapping the world’s mutual credit networks
April 11, 2020 from Open Credit Network (Co-op, community, economy) (Co-op)
The ultimate aim of the Open Credit Network is to network together all the mutual credit networks around the world, to create what we call a “global credit commons”. The idea being that, whilst people are encouraged to trade locally whenever possible, they will also be able to trade nationally, ...
Flat Earth Money
April 10, 2020 from Open Credit Network (Co-op, community, economy) (Co-op)
Questioning the money system today is like questioning that the Earth was flat centuries ago when it was a widely established "fact". The common view of money is that it is a scarce thing controlled and manipulated by banks and the governments that sanction them. We have been conditioned to believe ...
Bristol Pound CIC announces new partnership with Payji Ltd
April 9, 2020 from Bristol Pound (CIC)
Bristol Pound is happy to announce it has entered into partnership with e-wallet provider Payji Ltd. The partnership paves the way for the development […]...
2020 School of Data Presentation: How to build a database “with not for”
April 6, 2020 from Sarapis (nonprofit)
At the School of Data conference on March 7th, 2020, Sarapis founder Devin Balkind hosted an hour long session about “how to build databases ‘with not for'” customers. A description of the presentation and embed of the presentation gives is below: The “build with not for̶...
Fifty Shades of Community
April 5, 2020 from Foundation for Intentional Community (alliance, network, non-profit) (Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Global Ecovillage Network, New Economy Coalition)
What’s the difference between a cult and a community? How, when seeking community, can you avoid hooking up with a cult? I can’t answer these questions with certainty or authority—but I can offer some relevant insights, drawn in part from my involvement, over the past twenty years, with ...
The commons economy needs YOU
March 30, 2020 from Open Credit Network (Co-op, community, economy) (Co-op)
It’s clear now: Covid19 is driving us into another economic recession - where small businesses will struggle for cash flow and some won't survive. But rather than working on bail-outs and sticking plasters to try to fix the present, extractive, capitalist economy - which is so clearly the problem ...
Thank you Clearly Canadian
March 30, 2020 from Foundation for Intentional Community (alliance, network, non-profit) (Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Global Ecovillage Network, New Economy Coalition)
Clearly Canadian answered the call! Thanks to our new Communities Directory Sustainer we have been able to start shifting our website to a more reliable server, ensuring that community seekers can continue to access our online Communities Directory for much needed connection and inspiration. Thank y...
Nora Bateson: Warm Data Labs, the Power of Context, and Why We Should Be Careful With Collective Intelligence
March 22, 2020 from Collective Intelligence Network (Co-op, network) (art of hosting, sociocracy)
This podcast is a conversation with author, film-maker, and complex systems practitioner Nora Bateson. The most recent generation in a distinguished lineage of complexity pioneers, Nora has created a disarmingly uncomplicated process for allowing complexity to be experienced first-hand, human-to-hum...
Mutual credit is a solution to the COVID-19 economic crisis
March 20, 2020 from Open Credit Network (Co-op, community, economy) (Co-op)
The COVID-19 health crisis is creating an ECONOMIC CRISIS. Soon, MONEY WILL BECOME EXTREMELY SCARCE. But we will still have needs - and plenty of capacity. We can't let a money crisis prevent capacity from serving needs. MUTUAL CREDIT is one solution - to empower LOCAL COMMUNITIES. By enabling PEOPL...
COVID-19 Resources
March 17, 2020 from Foundation for Intentional Community (alliance, network, non-profit) (Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Global Ecovillage Network, New Economy Coalition)
Here you will find COVID-19 resources submitted to us by intentional communities across the US, including examples of Community Safety Protocols. Please use the information to stay healthy and keep your community safe. We’ll keep updating this page regularly during the coming weeks. Got a...
Supplier of the Week #5 – Wild Grove
March 13, 2020 from Bristol Pound (CIC)
Supplier of the Week – Where we celebrate the independent wholesale businesses of the Bristol Pound community. This week’s featured supplier is Wild Grove, a company […]...
Hello world!
June 20, 2019 from The London Network Of Progressive Hackers (alliance, Co-op, network, school)
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