Blog Archives

Providing new sources of trust

Posted on 12/01/2016 by Open Thoughts — No Comments ↓

By Javier Creus, founder of Ideas for Change and Pentagrowth.

An entrepreneur and specialist in collaborative economy, Javier Creus believes it takes more than one to change the light bulb, but gathering around one thousand peers working collaboratively might be enough to achieve a lot of things. According to him, organisations based in peer-to-peer alternatives can lead to new sources of trust and augmented resilience, but they eventually may have to deal with the complexity rise and effort sustaining over time. Watch the short video below to get his complete reflections on the topic. This contribution was possible thanks to the kind collaboration of the Ouishare Fest Barcelona event.

An example of how Internet allows us to collaborate in amazingly new ways

Posted on 16/12/2014 by Open Thoughts — No Comments ↓

By Don Tapscott, innovative thinker, writer, lecturer, CEO at The Tapscott Group¹.

Let me tell you the story of Rob McEwen. He’s my neighbor. He moved across the street from us, and he held a cocktail party to meet the neighbors, and he says, “You’re Don Tapscott. I’ve read some of your books.” I said, “Great. What do you do?” And he says, “Well, I used to be a banker and now I’m a gold miner.” And he tells me this amazing story. He takes over this gold mine, and his geologists can’t tell him where the gold is. He gives them more money for geological data, they come back, they can’t tell him where to go into production.

Union is strength, but not necessarily success

Posted on 02/10/2014 by Open Thoughts — No Comments ↓

By Gregory Newby, Director and CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation

People are naturally collaborative, social and cooperative. One of the great things about today’s globally connected networks, and the devices we use to connect to each other, is that it allows communities to form based on common interests, regardless of physical locations.

This is a major and recent change from what it previously meant to be part of a community. Although telecommunication has been a part of human life since ancient times, it is only recently that telecommunication has become nearly free: we can communicate electronically with individuals and groups without incremental costs for increased distance, or increased numbers of messages or recipients.