Yes I do know Etico https://etico.net/ Etico is a workers’ coop involved in supply chains and infrastructures for agricultural producer coops, global fairtrade and the coop-social economy generally, notably in Nicaragua and also other countries and continents: Sierra Leone, Kerala, etc. They’re under the umbrella of Social Business Network About — Social Business Network. Two members (Rachel Wallace, Nick Hoskyns) are intending to contribute in our Board of stewards (not yet here in the forum, I’ll prompt them).
The wonderful colleagues in Etico/SBN are known to me via the valuable network of cooperators and organisers around radical economist and entrepreneurial pioneer of fairtrade and ‘Weath from waste’, Robin Murray Work — Robin Murray, author in 2009 of Cooperation in the Age of Google for Coops UK OwnCube. Robin in the 80s was Director of Industry and Employment in the Greater London Council, pioneering work in and with the regional economy and workers and residents of the city.
@wouter and I had a chat this week with @Graham and @Shaun (CoTech https://www.coops.tech/, Innovation Coop, Manchester Cable, Greater Manchester Cooperative Commission https://gmcommission.coop/, Coop Network Infrastructure https://cni.coop/, DigitalLifeCollective, etc etc). We didn’t talk business and federating (soon!?) but there are deep common commitments to be developed, in full-stack coop digital infrastructure, digitally-mediated commons and coop-solidarity economy. Mutual credit (debt clearing as a coop infrastructure) loomed quite large - something for us to think strategically about in developing relations in our user community? @osb
All: note the commons.hour session with @Sophie_B next Monday, Signup commons.hour session #8