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Argentine co-op movement develops free app for social & solidarity economy

  This article was originally published by Anca Voinea in the Co-op News Co-ops in Argentina can now connect with customers and other social and solidarity economy businesses through a free app.   ESSApp, developed by open software co-operative GCOOP, maps co-operatives across the country. Under the motto “connecting solidarity”, Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsOctober 8, 2018 ago

SEA welcomes Tim Berners-Lee’s ‘radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web’

  Fast Company reported exclusively this week on the launch of Inrupt, a new company that aims to take power from tech giants like Google and Facebook and put it back into our hands   For some time now, Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the father of the World Wide Web Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsOctober 3, 2018 ago

Seven ways to build the solidarity economy

This article was first published in openDemocracy. Author Emily Kawano is a founder of the US Solidarity Economy Network. She served on the RIPESS (the Intercontinental Social Solidarity Economy Network) board for eight years, and co-directs Wellspring Cooperative. She has a PhD in economics from UMass, Amherst where she joined the Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsSeptember 13, 2018 ago

New insights into history of UK worker co-op movement revealed thanks to successful project

New insights into the history of the UK’s worker co-op movement have been revealed thanks to a project from the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester. The year-long project aimed to collate material relating to workers’ co-ops of the 1970s and 1990s – a particularly interesting time in the co-op movement’s Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsAugust 30, 2018 ago

We’ve got a new home – at Makespace Oxford

We’re excited to announce that SEA have moved premises, and we’re now based at the fantastic Makespace Oxford – a project exploring innovative ways of bringing empty and underused buildings in the city back into use as affordable community working and creative spaces.   We’ve spent the summer co-creating our Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsAugust 28, 2018 ago

Mapping the co-operative / solidarity economy: Our sessions at Open:2018

We’re pleased to say we’ll be attending Open:2018 again this year, and we’re looking forward to collaborating with a number of people on two sessions about our work to map the solidarity economy using Linked Open Data. The sessions will share the progress we’ve been making on this work since Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsJune 27, 2018 ago

Free workshops to help UK co-ops support Northern Syria’s transition to co-operative economy

We’re calling for UK co-ops to support Northern Syria’s transition to a feminist, co-operative economy — attend one of our Rojava Co-operative Solidarity workshops and find out how you can get involved.    The Rojava Revolution taking place in Northern Syria is transitioning the region into a gender equal, and Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsJune 11, 2018 ago

Co-op College members vote unanimously to support growth of co-operative economy in Northern Syria

  Members of the Co-operative College have voted unanimously in favour of a resolution, put forward by the Solidarity Economy Association at the College’s AGM, to support the growth of the co-operative economy in Rojava, Northern Syria.   Over the past five years, the co-operative movement in Northern Syria has seen Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsMay 4, 2018 ago

Paul Singer, economist and founder of Brazil’s Workers’ Party, dies aged 86

Paul Singer, Austrian economist and tireless promoter of the solidarity economy in Brazil, has died at home in Sao Paulo aged 86 after suffering an infection. Professor Singer, remembered by many Brazilians as one of the most brilliant intellectuals of his time, founded Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT), has published several Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsApril 19, 2018 ago

Emerging from #CTRLShift2018 in Wigan: On the road to progressive change

  Last week, the culmination of eight months of collaborative effort came to fruition as we joined our co-organisers in Wigan for CTRLShift: An Emergency Summit For Change. SEA has been part of the organising group since its inception, and whilst co-organising an event of this scale, alongside 35 partner Read more…

By soleco, 7 yearsApril 6, 2018 ago

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