Welcome to
The Open Co-op.

We are a collaborative collective of
coders, commoners,
architects, artists,
engineers, ecologists
and systems changers.


Together, we are building
the tools, technologies and protocols of a collaborative, regenerative economy.

we are open

to collaborations that deliver positive systems change

we design Network coordination systems

To help people discover, connect with and co-create the collaborative, regenerative economy.

A new way to build and manage interoperable directories
and maps via decentralised profiles.

Collaborative Groups Protocol

A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.

we build Commons infrastructure

To provide collectively-owned, surveillance-free, open source tools for collaboration.

Open Web Systems

Open source email, messaging and collaborative tools powered by renewable energy.

Open source meeting and conferencing tools,
powered by renewable energy

we promote Economic change

By highlighting the solutions, and developing the tools, to power alternative economies.

Economic Rebellion

Awareness raising project highlighting the work of Fuller and Riegel to promote our most powerful tool for change, money.

A UK network and open source directory, matching and notification system for mutual credit payments.

In order to collaborate effectively at scale humanity requires a decentralised coordination system to manage our collective endeavours.

We are working towards this goal via a concept we call...

LATEST NEWS

PLANET update
Update on PLANET and The Open Co-op
The short version, if you’re skimming: We said we’d have 500 members by September. We have 51. We’ve been building, not marketing — that needs to change, and this post is a start. What we have built is genuinely exciting: six working...
connection
You’re Not Addicted to Your Phone - You’re Starved of Connection
You pick up your phone to do something.Twenty minutes later, you’re still scrolling – and you’ve forgotten what it was you meant to do. You’ve seen hundreds of posts.You can’t remember any of them. You almost shared something — but didn’t.Because...
Relaunching The Open Co-op
Relaunching The Open Co-op: Preparing for a Trust-Based Internet
For over twenty years, at The Open Co-op, we’ve been working towards a vision of a cooperative, regenerative economy — one that is owned and governed by its participants, and designed to serve people and planet over profit. That vision has always depended...

Everyone is welcome at The Open Co-op.