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Category Archives: Cooperatives
Enemies of Digital Economy Workers: the TUC
The Trade Union Congress’s chief executive recently came out in the crazy position of sharing a platform with the British Phonographic Industry (and why are they still relevant? What is the market share of phonographs now?) and supporting the much-hated Digital Britain guilty-without-trial “three strikes” disconnect measures.
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Co-ops at the North Somerset Initiative
On Wednesday, I went to a meeting of the Business Initiative for North Somerset for Cooperatives-SW (our regional cooperative cooperative). It was the first time anyone from the cooperative and mutual sector was present. Conference Bank of England The first … Continue reading
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The Co-operative Development Review: a call for evidence
Cooperatives-UK Chief Executive Ed Mayo has asked Robin Murray to undertake a brief review of the potential for expansion of co-operation in the UK, and the infrastructure necessary to support it. The review is intentionally wide ranging. It covers areas … Continue reading
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Tagged consultation, cooperation, cooperatives, evidence, fortnight, review, uk
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2010: Fairtrade and IT
We’re in the middle of Fairtrade Fortnight and it seems like the most advertised one yet, with Cadbury’s adverts joining the push of this year’s “big swap” theme: replace some of the stuff you’d usually buy with Fairtrade alternatives. For … Continue reading
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Tagged electrical, ethical, ethics, event, fairness, fairtrade, hardware, IT, social enterprise, sustainability
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The Phone Co-op 2010
Ed Mayo talking to the Phone Co-op meeting Yesterday I had the pleasure to be at the Phone Co-ops annual meeting, as those of you who follow me on identi.ca or elsewhere will already know. The proceedings included a speech … Continue reading
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Tagged agm, business, co-op, conference, coop, cooperatives-uk, coops14, ed mayo, event, meeting, phone, phonecoop, ThePhoneCoop
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World Economic Forum 2010
It still doesn’t seem to be getting the coverage, but this is the sixth year that I’ve written about the World Economic Forum, which is basically where large corporations try to tell governments how to rule their populations, as described … Continue reading
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Home Access Scheme or Hope Abandoned to Scandal?
After its puff by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in newspapers and his podcast (mp3 file link) I’ve had a few people asking about the Home Access Scheme where families apply for a package from a closed list of six suppliers of new PCs, software and internet access. No … Continue reading
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Goodbye to an LLP Co-op
The Tool Factory closed its doors on 31st December 2009. As you may remember, our co-op is one of few LLP co-ops and we mentioned 2amase LLP in our case study as one of the others. 2amase were closely linked … Continue reading
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Tagged co-ops, cooperatives, events, foss, free software, llp, open source
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2009 Top 10 Software Cooperative News
Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books was the most-viewed news item on my blog this year. Once again, a lock-out/bad-business story takes the top spot. I don’t think that one got as much coverage in the mainstream media as they usually do, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, SPI, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged #ukgovOSS, amazon, apache, authentication, board, Cooperatives, foundation, httpd, j2me, kindle, midp, pam, richard, rothwell, security, SPI, ssh, top 10, windows 7
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Do you think Directgov Delivers?
Directgov is the Government’s official website for the general public. As both a member of the public and a parish councillor, I use it fairly often to look things up. Sometimes it’s surprisingly good, but much of the time, it’s a frustrating page-hunt and leaves me going around … Continue reading
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