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re global currencies with aligned values, Michel may have mentioned this before, but in case he hasn't http://fair.coop (see pages under Economic System) Also, Greek's new Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is a fascinating chap. See e.g. this proposal of his for an FT (Future Taxes) Coin as shared on the P2P Foundation blog recently: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-ft-coin-a-complementary-government-currency-proposed-by-yanis-varoufakis/2015/02/19 Other notable things from him I've seen are this critique of PIketty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNLPO2j9RQ0 http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue69/Varoufakis69.pdf And this blog post from his time as Economics at Valve (a hugely successful non-hierarchical video game company, where he was responsible for e.g. linking economies in two virtual game environments by creating a shared currency) http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ On 22 February 2015 at 23:09, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > far from me to say that community, regional and national approaches are > not needed, but there should also be a global level, as no matter where a > important sustainability innovation emerges, it should be supported to that > it can scale globally, > > Michel > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Henry Tam <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> How much of the alternative economy/enterprise/finance ideas, would you >> say, can be piloted at a sub-regional or regional level? I was speaking >> with the Cambridge Coop Party and we discussed how the fragmentation going >> on can be reversed by renewed collaboration premised on cooperative >> principles, sustainability and community-based services. >> >> Coop is getting a bad name, not just because of the Coop Bank (which was >> never a real coop, and has just hired as a consultant someone who was in >> charge of compliance at HSBC when all the non-compliance took place!), but >> for example, in the ‘Which?’ magazine annual poll, Coop supermarkets were >> rated poor for pricing, “shockingly behind everyone else” on value for >> money, and worst for special offers and own label products. They didn’t >> come first in any category. How would a major re-engineering even begin? >> And the Coop Party HQ is opening the door to coops not providing the funds >> that have been vital to local coop party’s political activities on the >> ground. >> >> The Eastern Savings & Loans Credit Union is merging with the Cambridge >> Credit Union. I wonder if they could play a role in providing investment >> in the development of cooperative commons locally, or pave the way for more >> extensive community banking regionally. >> >> We need some organisational levers to try out/pilot the ideas we talk >> about. >> >> Henry >> >> >> On 21/2/15 08:28, "Pat Conaty" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Michel >> >> Thanks. Good to set up this file as you have done with Henry’s proposal >> for an Open Co-operative Development Agency. This is a good place to start. >> >> Not much further comment to my proposal so far. If others want to comment >> we can keep up this thread. Otherwise I will move this forward otherwise. I >> think with the Dieter Suhr article that was circulated my points further >> below are pretty clear. In any event I aim to complete my short book on >> co-operative capital and convivial money in April. This will probably >> feature in the final chapter. >> >> Annemarie has responded offline so I will talk with her further next week. >> >> On a related matter to my proposal but at national government level for >> interest free money, here is some extra info to ponder. Until the mid 1970s >> the Bank of Canada was a public bank for the entire country, not just a >> central bank as it has been forced to become today by the Bank for >> International Settlements (the international private bank for central >> bankers based in Basle).. >> >> Here below from Ellen Brown is an update on the Bank of Canada case by >> Comer in the Canadian level Supreme Court. The case is focusing on a demand >> for reviving the Bank of Canada role in making interest free loans direct >> into the real economy for infrastructure and services for the public good. >> So read here QE as socially directed investment not for assisting the >> refinancing of the toxic balance sheets of banks as we know QE. See also >> the the other link with all the background in Part 3 of my paper on the >> Commons Transition Website. >> >> Pat >> >> >> http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/canadian_court_decision_has_revolutionary_implications_for_banking?utm_campaign=feb_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pbi >> <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/canadian_court_decision_has_revolutionary_implications_for_banking?utm_campaign=feb_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pbi> >> <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/canadian_court_decision_has_revolutionary_implications_for_banking?utm_campaign=feb_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pbi> >> >> >> http://commonstransition.org/co-operative-commonwealth-de-commodifying-land-and-money-part-3/ >> >> >> >> >> On 21 Feb 2015, at 00:37, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Dear Pat, >> >> I don't have time to rummage through the older emails but I have created >> this common document as you requested, >> >> see >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/188Y7COujNwhU60pMiNypXHaRHgLrjKywVlfN6AyOdCY/edit >> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Pat Conaty < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Michel, Josef and Annemarie >> >> Michel, good idea. Do open a Google doc if you like with Stacco. A few of >> this can then co-develop this co-operative money commons proposal for the >> Commons Transition site as an proposition. >> >> >> Josef and Annemarie, the proposal really is not complex. More info to >> clarify what I am saying and advocating. We need a social-public >> partnership to harness a collaborative transformative approach. >> >> If you check out the Dieter Suhr paper on neutral money he explains the >> concept. But we need democratic finance bodies to make it a co-operative >> form of money for local city regions in a distributed way. If Dee Hock >> wanted actually a model where the customers owned the platform not Bank >> America and other banks, you get the notion. As Dee Hock explains in the >> extracts from his book on Chaordic Commons, the banks kicked this consumer >> sovereignty idea of his into the Long Grass where it was lost. >> >> In Germany there are 50 regional currencies. Chiemgauer in southern >> Germany has a negative interest rate of 8% a year. They both print notes >> and have >> a digital money version. This is interesting as unlike Ithaca Hours that >> works with Alternatives Federal Credit Union in Ithaca as a credit union >> and local money partnership or Bristol Pound that has a partnership with >> Bristol Credit Union, Chiemgauer uses negative interest rates. This is an >> advance on Bristol Pound and Ithaca hours from a design point of view as it >> creates a dynamic pressure for money velocity and liquidity to expand. But >> they create through Chiemgauer a slow pressure of three months at 2% >> charge. If they moved to month at 2% charge, this would create more focus >> on spending it. >> >> Where they are in southern Germany they operate more a slow money system. >> But Athens needs a faster money system. So velocity and speed controls are >> important and will vary based on the state of play of the economy. In >> 1933 <tel:1933> Irving Fisher wanted FDR to introduce Worgl money at a >> charge of 2% a week as the crisis of liquidity and structural unemployment >> plus general strikes was huge. So speed controls on money with negative >> interest can be ramped up to create emergency currencies with high velocity >> to secure the common good. >> >> Many small credit unions have never been comfortable with Visa cards. >> Bigger credit unions are into this game. Remember as my paper shows on >> Co-operative commonwealth, mutual finance before 1870 <tel:1870> was >> widespread with out any interest at all. This was the building society >> movement for the first 100 years. People forget all this. Co-ops at the >> outset were against interest and usury. This has been long forgotten. >> >> >> >> But there has always been a gap in the market in the credit union world >> for an alternative payment system. I know as I have been involved with >> credit union development since the early 1980s The debit cards being >> developed for the homeless with the Big issue and Street UK in the UK now >> are a step to be inclusive that CDFIs like Street UK here are working on. >> >> Chiemgauer’s digital money is supported by two members of Inaise, the >> social banks Triodos and GLS Bank. Both Steiner banks. When you borrow on >> Visa, the deal is this. >> They give you a credit limit. You can take this money that you in a way >> opt for at least initially. It is free money for one month. They though >> make you liable for the borrowing. This is debt and debt money. Paper money >> is complex and costly to administer. >> >> What is missing is the link to the city state. If we could get >> sympathetic local government bodies to work with credit unions, CDFIs and >> social banks to bring in them for these city-state monies we could add >> another dimension that is missing with Chiemgaeur to get us closer to Worgl >> where you could pay your taxes with the money. This move this closer to a >> real democratic money. >> >> Bristol has got some support for some business rates tax payments. But we >> need to advance further. Hull a city in the North of England has talked >> about Hull Coin but this is not happening yet. >> >> Michel you can cut and paste my past few emails into a Google doc. I also >> sent another one three weeks ago to you and Annemarie that one of you can >> dig out and paste this in. It was about the interface between democratic >> banking, co-operative money and the local authorities or small states like >> Wales. >> >> Michel we should then develop a conversation with other experts on >> banking like Cliff and Margie on this list plus Franz De Clerck, my old >> friend. Maybe also Peter Blom at Triodos. >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> >> On 18 Feb 2015, at 02:28, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> hi Pat, perhaps you can start with a formal description of the proposal >> on a google doc, and then circulate it amongst players that can do >> something about it ? >> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Pat Conaty < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Michel, Josef, Robin, Mike, Margie, Cliff and Yvon >> >> Terrific! Glad Michel and Josef that you agree with my proposal further >> below for a negative interest VISA solution for social banks and CBPs. >> >> So where do we begin? Some questions for those on this list as this idea >> could be co-operatively transformative. >> I believe that backers with the knowledge and expertise could be >> attracted from what is already happening below the radar. >> >> Indeed I think this could be a global project for Fair Trade Banking or >> something similarly named. The gap between credit card rates of >> 19% plus and bank base rates of 0.5% here in the UK has never been >> greater. This is such a usurious scam. >> >> Credit cards are the most transparent example of how banks create money >> as debt out of thin air. They give a new customer a >> liquidity limit, create this by this agreement as new money that is >> issued out of thin air, and then this liquidity becomes >> another micro-profit centre. Just imagine a Worgl and WiR alternative >> where local credit unions, social banks, co-operative loan funds, etc >> collaborate to set up a Co-operative alternative on a regional scale on a >> commons platform that could be national or wider. >> >> The credit card system robs from the poor and provides a free ride and >> free liquidity to the better off users. This is a class divided system. >> Credit unions and social banks could co-develop and offer a clearly >> democratic and socially inclusive solution for liquidity and working >> capital for >> Commoners. >> >> If the banks can maintain this unfair deal, who could say legally that >> credit unions as licensed deposit takers and co-op organisations could not >> do the same but >> in the Worgl way for issuing cost carrying money so everyone pays the >> costs of the liquidity admin and a marginal cost for credit risk. LETs >> failed in Argentina >> a decade ago because Michael Linton never designed any credit risk >> protection and if people take all the free money they want >> you get inflation and a breakdown in trust. The volume and velocity of >> money has to be managed. >> >> I did not know Michel that Dee Hock when he invented VISA wanted the card >> owners not the banks to own >> the VISA platform. This solution I am suggesting would be the answer to >> that. >> >> I am sharing this idea with a few from the other list talking about CBPs >> and co-operative economic democracy. My thinking >> on how and why this would really work is based on a paper from Dieter >> Suhr who is a German monetary reformer who died >> tragically 20 years or so ago in an accident. He was a good friend of >> Margrit Kennedy and I met him when we both spoke at the >> launch of INAISE in Brussels about 1989 <tel:1989> . His proposal was >> for neutral money but it lacked a set of co-operative finance actors to >> make it >> >> happen. This has been the barrier. His book on Neutral money can be >> downloaded. >> >> Rather like the problem before Dee Hock solved this for the banks in the >> 1960s. Like today, where >> there are umpteen local currencies and all not viable in a business >> sense, then 50 years ago the banks were all issuing their own credit cards >> and all >> losing money. Dee Hock proposed a co-operative solution of convergence >> which is what ViSA offered. A collaborative economy solution to >> secure declining marginal cost economies. It worked but today we lack >> this breakaway play for local money systems. They need to >> stop doing their own thing. But how and would this be feasible? I think >> so. So correct me if you think my hypothesis is wrong please? >> >> So some substance to back up this idea. We did work on payment system >> solutions for CBPs and you can see these in the CBP report that Mike Toye at >> Ced-Net has circulated. >> >> Robin Murray is talking to some top notch bank payment systems people in >> London working on an alternative including a brilliant Welshman. >> One guy set up the new Metro bank in the UK and the other is a ‘bank in >> a box’ guy. They both want to see People’s banking alternatives >> and one of the guy’s has been working with Occupy groups in London and >> New York on what this might look like. >> If we could get some Community Development Credit Unions like Self Help >> CU, Alternatives and some CDFIs and social banks >> like Triodos and GLS interested in this fee based payment and liquidity >> system we could make a go of it. >> >> I have a couple of very clever CDFI friends in the UK interested in this >> stuff. Moreover they are also payment system experts. >> One is Martin Hockly at Street UK (a very successful home improvement >> lender and micro finance lender in Birmingham) and the other is >> Steve Round formerly at Unity Trust Bank, the trade union bank here. They >> have developed a pre-paid debit card for >> homeless people. Steve is chair of the Big Issue. Their plastic card has >> been piloted successfully. Martin was working with >> us in the past on a solution for CBPs to provide bill payments. >> >> I gave a paper about these Co-operative money ideas four years ago in >> London and Martin Hockly has been very keen on the >> possibilities since then. >> >> So what do you all think? This is so practical if we can get some early >> adopters and perhaps build on the conversations Robin >> has been having and some of the work in the UK on the payment system for >> homeless people soon to go live there is a real chance for this >> to be set up on robust foundations. Ann Pettifor of the Jubilee Debt >> Campaign is a friend and she would find this compelling I suspect. >> >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 16 Feb 2015, at 05:28, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> thanks Pat, I am convinced of this as well, >> >> Michel >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Pat Conaty < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Josef >> >> I do apologise. It has been a madly busy day. >> >> Yes, David B made the edits and sent round the corrected version. >> >> We are soon to send out the Deep Dive and if you wanted to have a read >> and proof it, that would be marvelous. >> >> I am copying David in on this reply. I am sure he will share it with you. >> >> >> On Community Banking Partnership, my argument and cast to Michel is that >> while we need to >> reinvent money and get this right. We cannot ignore the need for banking. >> As I see it, the CBP models >> of knowledge banking are seeking to be convivial, keep people out of debt >> and provide >> good basic banking services. >> >> What is needed if you can imagine this is for all the social banks, all >> the credit unions and all the CDFIs to form >> an Alternative like VISA which by the way was set up by Dee Hock as a >> co-op but a private one which is >> a contradiction. But if all the social and alternative banks were to do >> this, then they could simply issue >> negative interest credit card liquidity. >> >> But this requires all the non-capitalist banking service providers to >> co-operate this way on a huge scale. >> The banks did it to create credit cards as lethal weapons of interest >> slavery. Doing the reverse with negative interest >> fee based finance would drive forward the alternative. >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> On 9 Feb 2015, at 18:26, Josef Davies-Coates <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Pat, >> >> >> On 9 February 2015 at 17:20, Pat Conaty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hi Kevin >> >> >> I think you mean Josef, but I'll forgive you :) >> >> >> Here is the info on Community Banking Partnership. Two reports >> >> >> Ah, thanks, I'd seen the legal structures one before. :) >> >> >> and the model is evolving still but much better handled in the USA than >> here. See the report by Cliff, my good friend in New York. Here is an >> update on Neighbourhood Trust CU. >> >> http://www.neighborhoodtrustfcu.org <http://www.neighborhoodtrustfcu.org/> >> >> >> Fair Finance, Wessex Home Improvement Loans and ScotCash are good >> examples. Also Five Lamps in the North East. >> >> Bristol is pursuing CBP in a new attempt with the CDFA. Bristol CU, >> Bristol £ and CDFIs in the city. >> >> >> Thanks. BTW, did you/ David re-edit the Open Co-operativism Report post >> my proof-reading? I'm very happy to proof-read the 2nd in the series too >> if you've got that to share? >> >> Warm regards, >> >> Josef. >> >> >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> >> On 8 Feb 2015, at 17:21, Josef Davies-Coates <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Annemarie: re: >> >> " >> Pat helpfully introduced me to an(other) ALT currency expert to help me >> produce the eventual report (attached, again, for speed)." >> >> I wasn't in this thread earlier on so could you please forward me the >> attachment you shared previously? >> >> Also, Pat is you could send me your Community Banking Partnerships doc >> too that'd be great. >> >> Many thanks and warm regards, >> >> Josef. >> >> >> >> On 8 February 2015 at 14:41, Pat Conaty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Michel >> >> For additional info……. >> >> Co-operatives UK are publishing a book with the New Internationalist in >> June on a new strategy for the co-operative sector in the UK. This is based >> on a considerable research exercise over the past two years. >> >> Robin Murrray and I have made contributions as has John Restakis. Ed >> Mayo has done the editing and it should be a most helpful complement >> to all we are discussing. >> >> We should have a chat to Ed and Robin about this. Robin is in India on >> Fair Trade work at present but will be back at the end of this week. >> >> Pat >> >> >> On 8 Feb 2015, at 05:31, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> thanks Pat! >> >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Pat Conaty < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> Michel, Annemarie and Tapas colleagues >> >> Glad Annemarie that my short explanation of how to develop co-operative >> money and co-operative capital solutions in integrated ways was helpful. >> As to why this is so crucial……as a peaceful solution to the crisis that >> is growing with Pegida on the march and the National Front in France >> attracting support. >> Consider the analysis in relation to the following history of how we got >> to this mess. >> >> Jacques Perretti a radical BBC journalist (very few of these) has done a >> superb two part series on BBC 2 on the roots of the Super Rich and Us >> (episode 1) and the >> proliferation precariat (episode 2) >> >> Check it out as it is gripping and a good sequel to Naomi Klein’s book On >> this Changes Everything. Though the series is not about climate >> change it is about the background to the precariat and a return to >> Victorian times. >> >> Here is the link. Unfortunately the BBC scheduled them near to midnight >> that past two weeks so almost nobody saw them. >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xw2x8 >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> On 28 Jan 2015, at 11:39, Annemarie Naylor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks – all – very helpful! >> >> Annemarie >> >> Annemarie Naylor >> >> Director, Common Futures >> >> T. 07525 236797 <tel:07525%20236797> E: [email protected] W: >> http://www.commonfutures.eu/ >> >> Follow me on twitter @commonfutrs >> >> 12 Sandford Close, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex, CO7 9NP >> >> Common Futures is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England >> no. 8481503 >> >> From: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, 28 January 2015 10:58 >> To: Pat Conaty <[email protected]> >> Cc: Annemarie Naylor <[email protected]>, George Papanikolaou < >> [email protected]>, John Restakis <[email protected]>, David >> Bollier <[email protected]>, Marguerite Mendell < >> [email protected]>, Heike Loeschmann <[email protected]>, >> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Benjamin Tincq < >> [email protected]>, Kevin Flanagan <[email protected]>, >> marihipotenusa <[email protected]>, Nicolas Krausz < >> [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, >> Mike Lewis <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Open Co-operativism report >> >> Pat, >> >> this would be important to educate our networks, if not myself, but I am >> travelling now and dealing with some emergencies, >> >> could you provide us with a clear excerpt of your choice, that explains >> that distinction between cooperative capital and money ? >> >> Michel >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Pat Conaty < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Annemarie and Michel >> >> Glad to hear Annemarie that my alternative currency pal, John Waters has >> been helpful to you. I really look forward to reading your report. >> >> Michel, yes indeed, the work with SolNantes in France is exciting as it >> involves up to 25 local government bodies. >> >> Annemarie, Leander Bindewald is a Gernan researcher and colleague of mine >> at NEF. See the info below about SolNantes. >> >> >> http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=68acbe3a1464672d97cffc627&id=4c87ec6bf4&e=fb078743b8 >> <http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=68acbe3a1464672d97cffc627&id=4c87ec6bf4&e=fb078743b8> >> <http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=68acbe3a1464672d97cffc627&id=4c87ec6bf4&e=fb078743b8> >> >> The UK partners in this EU wide alliance include Lambeth £ and Bristol £ >> so these UK groups are watching with keen interest >> the SolNantes launch after the successful trials last year. >> >> There js a problem though. Liquidity and money is one thing and capital >> is another. We need both co-operative money and co-operative >> capital. That is what my Co-operative Commonwealth paper on the Commons >> Transition site is about. Most complementary money >> people do not make this clear and conflate both concepts of money and >> capital. >> >> On the other hand for capital there is the growing community development >> finance movement and the social banking movements. >> We need to get these alternative bankers more involved with SolNantes. >> >> See this paper on Community Banking Partnership (CBP) attached. We ran >> pilots on these over five years and some have come out of this successful. >> In Bristol the Bristol £, the Bristol Credit Union, several CDFI lenders >> are involved in working up a city wide pilot of CBP. I have been invoked in >> the >> set up thinking and some colleagues of mine are involved in the early >> stage work now underway. If this works the aim is for it to become a >> national model. >> >> In the USA, you have these Community Banking Networks and some very >> large now. Introducing co-operative money and joining both up is key to >> reinventing banking and money >> on a democratic basis. Alternatives Credit Union in Ithaca, New York have >> formed a joint venture between Ithaca Hours and the pretty large credit >> union. >> >> The CDFIs are working with expensive capital which is an issue but >> otherwise they are doing fantastic work. They need access to >> convivial money. That is a subtext of my Co-operative Commonwealth paper. >> >> Hope this is helpful. >> >> Pat >> >> >> >> >> >> On 28 Jan 2015, at 09:21, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> dear Annemarie, >> >> great opportunities, >> >> a few ideas, have a look if you can at nantes, which already had its own >> wir (ecoreseau, affiliated with the CIC) and now their own worgl with >> SoNantes .. >> >> M3 is a really excellent magazine on commons urbanism, from the Grand >> Lyon, but monitoring urban trends in general. Emile Hooge is our man there >> and I have his email. Their latest issue was on l'economie servicielle and >> mobility >> >> The Bologna Regulation on the Commons should definitely be on your radar >> as a methodology of city-based commons governance, I have different >> contacts there, though 'the man' is definitely christian iaione >> >> Two important themes: >> >> * instigating idle sourcing and the sharing economy, on hopefully >> non-neoliberal terms .. Neal Gorenflo and the team around janelle orsi at >> SELC monitor this very closely. Seoul is know to have done things a bit >> differently than the start up road. >> >> * resilient cities and social/solidarity economies ...: we need civic >> economy incubators .. Geneve has a Chambre de l'Economie Sociale et >> Solidaire, Jean Rossiaud knows more >> >> I have various documentation on this in my wiki, so ask for specific >> links on anything of interest >> >> so in conclusion the suggested themes are: >> >> * incubators >> >> * governance mechanisms >> >> I'm sure John Restakis would have recommended adding the social care >> cooperatives as models to be on your radar >> >> Michel >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Annemarie Naylor < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear All >> >> You may recall I was looking for x5 ‘big ideas’ when we were together in >> Berlin for an English County Council, and that Pat helpfully introduced me >> to an(other) ALT currency expert to help me produce the eventual report >> (attached, again, for speed). >> >> I subsequently fed some of the thinking into an NLGN publication: >> http://www.nlgn.org.uk/public/2014/the-council-and-the-common-local-government-in-2020/ >> whose author is now writing a book about the scope to commonify local >> government post the forthcoming general election in the UK; again, I’m >> invited to contribute thinking in this instance, so do send anything you >> think might be useful and, in particular, concrete examples of ‘doing >> different’ by local state actors as and when you come across them. >> >> Meanwhile, I’m invited to draw upon the original report to devise a >> workshop for the Society of County Treasurers (so, senior finance officers >> from County Councils – the largest representation of the ‘local state’ in >> England). I’ve suggested I ‘lose’ the focus on customer services / >> libraries – save to exemplify possible ways forward with a practical case >> in point – and that I major on the scope to adapt IBM’s social >> collaboration drive, introduce an ALT / electronic currency, and design >> then implement an inward investment strategy for social and community >> enterprise. >> >> If you think there are other ‘big ideas’ / themes I should be developing >> for Finance people – I have land covered – please could you let me know? >> And, if you look at the report and can help to bring up to date / enliven >> any of the sections I plan to focus on, all thoughts/suggestions from you >> would be very welcome. >> >> NB: this represents an EXCELLENT opportunity to influence the >> reconfiguration of the local state in England such that it is alive to the >> prospect of open cooperatives – a x2 day event hosted by the incoming >> President and Chief Finance Officer of one of the largest local authorities >> in England which also boasts the Minister for Local Government in England >> as one of its Mps. >> >> Many thanks – as ever, >> Annemarie >> >> Annemarie Naylor >> >> Director, Common Futures >> >> T. 07525 236797 <tel:07525%20236797> E: [email protected] W: >> http://www.commonfutures.eu/ >> >> Follow me on twitter @commonfutrs >> >> 12 Sandford Close, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex, CO7 9NP >> >> Common Futures is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England >> no. 8481503 >> >> From: David Bollier <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, 19 January 2015 15:15 >> To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>, Pat Conaty < >> [email protected]>, John Restakis <[email protected]>, >> Marguerite Mendell <[email protected]>, Heike Loeschmann < >> [email protected]>, Annemarie Naylor <[email protected]>, >> Kate Swade <[email protected]>, Benjamin Tincq <[email protected]>, >> Mike Lewis <[email protected]>, Kevin Flanagan < >> [email protected]>, marihipotenusa <[email protected]>, >> Nicolas Krausz <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Open Co-operativism report >> >> >> Dear friends from the Open Co-operativism Workshop, >> >> Pat Conaty and I are pleased to send along the final version of our >> report on our workshop, attached. >> >> Thank you all for your thoughtful comments and edits. We ended up doing >> more re-writing and editing than anticipated, but we are pleased with >> the final result and hope that the report will stimulate some new >> conversations and action. >> >> I know of at least three web postings of the report that will occur in >> the near future -- one on my blog (www.bollier.org < >> http://www.bollier.org/> ), one on the Heinrich >> Boell Foundation's website, and one on the P2P Foundation website. I >> will share those links when they are available. If you or other third >> parties post the report, write about it, or have some interesting >> reactions, please let us know. >> >> We have already seen a number of dialogues and collaborations inspired >> by our workshop(s). Let's keep in touch about these initiatives -- and >> new opportunities to advance a convergence of movements! >> >> Best wishes, >> David and Pat >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> David Bollier >> [email protected] >> >> My blog: Bollier.org <http://bollier.org/> >> Think Like a Commoner: www.ThinkLikeACommoner.com < >> http://www.thinklikeacommoner.com/> >> Green Governance: www.commonslawproject.org < >> http://www.commonslawproject.org/> >> The Wealth of the Commons: www.wealthofthecommons.org < >> http://www.wealthofthecommons.org/> >> >> 511 Old Farm Road >> Amherst, MA 01002 <tel:01002> USA >> 413-259-2009 >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: > http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > -- Josef Davies-Coates 07974 88 88 95 *United Diversity* http://uniteddiversity.coop *Together We Have Everything*Follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/uniteddiversity> and Facebook <http://facebook.com/uniteddiversity> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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