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One of the priority objectives of FairCoop is to build a new global economic system based on cooperation, ethics, solidarity and justice in our economic relations. For this great goal to be possible, it is very important to have a clear strategic path which is well understood and shared by FairCoop’s members. This article explains the strategy we have considered. …

                    Become involved in the FAIRCOOP ecosystem FairCoop is a cooperative space open to the world that uses internet as a meeting point for sharing, discussing, making decisions and growing together towards a fair world. You can join the cooperative through the fair.coop social network which is open to everyone and allows you to take part in forums, groups and …

Decision making in fair.coop is a challenging topic. Although we started off with different groups linked by an assembly as the organ for decision making, with fair.coop we sought other ways, as a global assembly could be really inconvenient for reaching agreements, however without losing any key features such as open participation, decentralization, respect for minority opinions and autonomy. The …

Bauwens’s proposals  include four key elements of what an open cooperative is: – Cooperatives must be statutorily oriented towards the common good. – Cooperatives need to have governance models that include all stakeholders. – Cooperatives must actively co-produce intangible and material common goods. – Social cooperatives should be politically organized on a global basis, even locally. These 4 elements are …

There are many things in this world that don’t quite work and here we share some of those which FairCoop may help transform:

Experience and a long history with integral cooperatives, p2p society, hacker ethics and cryptocurrencies unite us as Fair.coop promoters. Our political background includes significant and very different realities: The Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC) is a self-managed initiative centered on building a new society from below through self-organization and assembly-based action. Since May 2010, the CIC been weaving a network of …

FairCoop: Earth’s cooperative for economic fairness Fair.coop is an open global cooperative, self-organized via the Internet and remaining outside nation-state control. Its aim is to make the transition to a new world by reducing the economic and social inequalities among human beings as much as possible, and at the same time gradually contribute to a new global wealth, accessible to …

We like to represent the Cooperative’s organization scheme as what we call Fair.Forest, a woodscape where each item is separate and distinct, yet part of a whole which gives them life, the ecosystem. Fair.Coop is quite similar to a forest; it has trees with branches, plants and flowers, soil and nutrients, butterflies, light… Everyone seems to have their own dynamics …

A new world with cryptocurrencies The world of cryptocurrencies started with the enigmatic person or collective Satoshi Nakamoto. His origin or place of residence remains unknown. Everyone talks about him, but nobody really knows him. In 2008 he published his white paper, introducing a disruptive technology that would turn the global monetary system around, and would initiate the fall of …