Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience

= "We explore how cooperation, collaboration, and open knowledge sharing can radically transform organisations and society".

URL = https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/commons-organising-values-equalities-and-resilience

Description

"Our research investigates how principles of cooperation, collaboration, and open knowledge sharing can foster more egalitarian, inclusive, and participative 21st-century economies, communities, technologies, and organisations.

The ‘commons’ refers to the shared or public ownership of goods, resources, services, and knowledge. Across the world, innovative “commons” ideas ranging from community land trusts to participatory budgeting to worker owned cooperatives are being used to address climate change and global inequality. This Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER) studies different theories for creating, managing, and promoting the “commons” – asking important questions how the commons can improve goods and services, be sustainably financed, and effectively marketed to populations and policy-makers."