One of the world's most cited computer scientists wants cooperatives to be the future of how data is owned

The current data economy is based on apathetic approval - everyone clicking on “I Accept The Terms And Conditions” without reading them, let alone bargaining for better terms and conditions. However,...

A boom in trailer parks converting into community owned cooperatives

Examples of big and old coops cooperating with small and new ones

It’s a distinctive characteristic in the DNA of cooperatives to cooperate with each other. Of the 7 Rochdale principles that all cooperatives have to abide by and that have largely remained the same s...

2020 saw the first worker coop acquisition and venture capital investment into a coop in the US

The number of cooperatives in South Korea has exploded

How British-Caribbeans started the first credit union in Britain

Four Co-ops With Their Own Currency

The co-op that blocked the sale of the .org domain to private equity has a plan to democratise large parts of the internet

Coupons for co-ops and the rise of global platform cooperatives

If you are an average American, it is most likely that the only cooperative you can join is your local credit union. If you live in the most vibrant cooperative hotspots of the country, you might hav...

Relaunching the economy with worker and community buy-outs of bankrupt businesses

Covid-19 is inflicting great suffering upon many of us upon many of us, whilst wreaking havoc on the economy on a scale not seen in the history of the modern world, according to many measurements. The...

Data co-ops - 4 examples and new ideas

In 2017, the Economist published an article claiming that oil had been replaced as the world’s most valuable resource by data. However, the people producing the data, internet users, are not the ones...

Should trade union pension funds invest in cooperatives?

Democracy beyond the state - Elections in trade and credit unions, building societies and co-ops need revitalisation

4 scenarios on how a platform cooperative breakthrough might happen in the 2020s

I will make a guess that there will be two trends relevant to platform co-operativism that will shape how our economic system works.

A majority of people would trust and pay more for newspapers that would be reader owned cooperatives

A New Coop Fund Pays People To Write To Wikipedia About Coops

Digital Credit Unions Are Topping The Bank Comparisons - Platform Coops Beating The Banks At Their Own Game?

In theory, it makes sense that the best financial institutions for ordinary people would be online credit unions. If you don’t have physical branches to maintain and you distribute your profits to the...

Platform Cooperatives And The Network Effect Dilemma

We Need More Worker Owned Staffing Agencies

Twitter users are 176 times more likely to advocate moving from big banks to credit unions than the reverse

10 Cool Examples Of Big Co-ops Increasing Member Participation

As cooperatives grow in the number of members, the share of members participating in its governance tends to decrease. This, however, is not an iron law of nature, but rather a tendency that can and s...

How conversion of cooperatives to capitalist corporations contributed to the 2008 crisis

Two Cool Digital Services From A Finnish Coop Banking Giant

OP Financial Group is the most popular bank in Finland, owned by its 1.9 million members (around 40% of the country’s adult population). They elect the board with one-member-one-vote elections every f...

Co-ops And The 10 Fold Increase In Union Membership In Singapore

Even Those Who Benefit The Most From The Capitalist Corporation Are Turning Against It

Inventor cooperatives - Finnish Examples

Yrjö Kallinen - A paradoxical pioneer of Finnish cooperatives

Anti-trust, cooperatives and two absurdities of regulation

Co-op Crowdfunding Monitor And Democratic Jobs - Two New Cool Co-op Websites

There are two new websites in the global coop online ecosystem that deserve more attention:

Two Brilliant Healthcare Platform Coops

If the global co-operative movement would give out awards for the most unique co-operatives in different sectors, these two would both deserve the award in the healthcare sector.

May 2019 Platform Coop Sector Updates

Georgism, cooperative housing and the commons

Idea For A New Platform Cooperative - Subtitles Coop

9 Facts On How Cooperatives Tackle Economic Inequality And Help Small Businesses

There are two great trends in the current economic system that are allocating resources away from those who need it the most.

4 Facts About The Amazing Finnish Cooperative Sector

9 Facts About The Amazing Italian Cooperative Sector

Ask Not What Big Cooperatives Can Do For Platform Cooperatives, Ask What Platform Cooperatives Can Do For Big Cooperatives

3 Inventions By Coops And Why Cooperation, Not Competition, Drives Innovation

On Capital Conundrum And Preston Model For Platform Cooperatives

5 Ideas On How Trade Unions And Cooperatives Can Help Each Other

What is Coop Exchange

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