<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Annemarie Naylor</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annemarie@commonfutures.eu">annemarie@commonfutures.eu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM<br>Subject: [tapas] Open / Data / Freelancer Cooperatives<br>To: <a href="mailto:tapas@lists.p2pfoundation.net">tapas@lists.p2pfoundation.net</a><br>Cc: COMMONING LIste engl <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif"><div><div>Dear All</div><div><br></div><div>Further to our discussions re Open / Data / Freelancer Coops – I’m sure you will find the following of interest (please spread the word!).</div><div><br></div><div>And, very well done Pat et al ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">DRAFT TEXT FOR PUBLICITY</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The case for co-operation</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A new book outlining fifty innovations to boost the British economy is out from the network for co-operative businesses, Co-operatives UK.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Based on three years of research, <a href="http://shop.newint.org/uk/co-operative-advantage-ebook.html" target="_blank">The Co-operative Advantage</a> analyses growth sectors around which economic co-operation has an edge and a fit that offers a competitive advantage. The 50 potential innovations dovetail with emerging trends in technology and markets and the total economic value of the sectors examined add up to 61% of overall GDP and account for 64% of total employment in the UK.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The innovations range from social co-operatives, where staff and users run care services together, to data co-ops giving people control over data about them and a freelancers’ union for the growing numbers of self-employed people.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ed Mayo, the editor or the multi-authored book and secretary general of <a href="http://www.uk.coop/" target="_blank">Co-operatives UK</a>, said:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Britain needs to nurture a new approach for economic success. A vital ingredient will be harnessing current innovation trends that encourage a far stronger dose of economic collaboration. Many of the world’s most successful firms are achieving results by embracing collaboration – creating informal networks, harnessing customers’ ideas, empowering their employees. In an innovation economy, where knowledge is the new currency, businesses must co-operate to compete. “</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“The co-operative advantage is realised by giving the people involved in a business – the employees, the customers, the suppliers – a stake in it. Their participation has a triple effect, boosting innovation, productivity and entrepreneurship.”</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.720000267028809px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Co-operative Advantage has been described by Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of Nesta, as “a very substantial, impressive book”. It is published by the co-operative, New Internationalist - </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://shop.newint.org/uk/co-operative-advantage-ebook.html" target="_blank">http://shop.newint.org/uk/co-operative-advantage-ebook.html</a></span></p><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div></div></div><div>Annemarie</div><div><br></div><div>
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