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.
we build Commons infrastructure
To provide collectively-owned, surveillance-free, open source tools for collaboration.
we promote Economic change
By highlighting the solutions, and developing the tools, to power alternative economies.
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
18 February, 2026
Humans were not designed to work alone. Cooperation is a natural aspect of our humanity. Research comparing children with chimpanzees reveals that children strongly prefer to work together to obtain food, whereas chimpanzees show no such preference.
At...
05 January, 2026
The Dawn of Decentralised Trust Networks
At The Open Co-op we’re starting 2026 with a sense of profound optimism. After years of foundational work on PLANET and related projects, the pieces are finally coming together to create decentralised trust networks....
09 February, 2025
TL;DR
From Centralized SSO to Decentralized Auth: Traditional Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions are complex and create single points of failure. Decentralized authentication and authorization offers self-sovereign identity, reducing reliance on central...
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