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Liberating work - workers.coop
Worker cooperatives enable workers to unite and collectively advance their economic, social, and cultural interests.
Solidarity Infrastructures
Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.
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Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners from respective communities to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.
Autonomic Co-op
We build technologies and infrastructure to empower users to make a positive impact on the world. We are committed to working only with collaborators that align with our ethical guidelines. All of our services reflect our commitment to our core values:
meet.coop - The Online Meeting Cooperative
Online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy running on cooperatively owned and managed infrastructure.
Beyond the Individual: Understanding the Evolution of Collective Intelligence
This chapter outlines the evolution of collective intelligence, starting from its ancient roots and concluding with modern digital platforms. It discusses intelligence theories, project examples, and the impact of technology on collaborative efforts. Key focuses include the role of the internet and online communities in boosting our collective IQ, with a particular emphasis on Douglas Engelbart's contributions and the open-source movement, as exemplified by Linux's development. The chapter examines how digital transformation has facilitated new forms of community and knowledge sharing, significantly influencing fields such as management, decision-making, and organizational learning. Various scholars and their definitions of CI are discussed, including Pierre Lévy's vision of universally distributed intelligence and the concept of swarm intelligence in biological sciences. We then move on to practically implemented CI projects, exploring crowdsourcing as a manifestation of CI in business and social projects and examining possibilities of harnessing the wisdom of crowds for problem-solving and innovation. The chapter concludes with a presentation of the current state of collective intelligence academic research.
The Power of Smarter Balanced Partnerships - SmarterBalanced
OUR VISION > POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS The Power of Partnerships and Collaboration Smarter Balanced is a member-led consortium that collaborates with K-12 and higher education leaders and educators to create an assessment system that ensures teachers have the tools they need to support the diverse learning needs of students. What makes Smarter Balanced different? Smarter…
hng/tech-coops
A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.
hng/tech-coops
A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.
Worker What??!! - A Short Introduction to worker cooperatives (A6, 12pp) - workers.coop
Written and designed as a primer on worker cooperatives, for people new to worker co-ops and for wide distribution. ‘Worker What??!!’ describes clearly what worker co-ops are and what we stand for. It includes testimonials from worker cooperators, and was put together with a view to being stocked in worker co-op shop floors or offices,... Read more »
The Cooperative Economy (@cooperatives.bsky.social)
Advocating for a democratic, equitable, and inclusive world through cooperatives, worker ownership, unions, mutual aid, and workplace democracy. 💜 #EconomicDemocracy 🌲🌲 usworker.coop | ncbaclusa.coop | workers.coop | ica.coop
Education for collective intelligence
Collective Intelligence (CI) is important for groups that seek to address shared problems. CI in human groups can be mediated by educational technologies. The current paper presents a framework to ...
After Capitalism: A Cooperative Economy (Documentary)
Knowledge sharing: Why smart creatives build in public
Knowledge sharing: Why smart creatives build in public
Socialized Proof of Work — Open Indie
There’s an increasing obsession with “humanness” these days: Humanness in the age of AI Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem (...
Start.coop | Empower Cooperative Growth
Discover resources and support to build and grow cooperatively-owned businesses, fostering community wealth-building and economic stability.
