Shorter pieces from our own work and from the institutions we build with — on cooperative practice, on the digital skills young people can put to use, and on what we are learning as projects take shape.
Most young cooperatives already own the tools they need. The question is which records belong in a chat, which belong in a sheet, and which belong nowhere near either.
Which artificial-intelligence tools are genuinely useful when your only computer is a phone, where they save money, and what never to type into them.
Why training institutions are the natural partners for cooperative development, and how a college, a cooperative and a county fit together in practice.
Shirikiana —> to work with one another. The founding values of the cooperative movement, self-help, self-responsibility and solidarity, remain the most practical basis for collective enterprise. We join knowledge, applied action and ethical responsibility in member-owned, member-governed enterprise, guided by the International Cooperative Alliance’s principle of concern for community. We proceed incrementally, attribute every partner by name, and distinguish demonstrated capacity from stated intent.