The Collaborators
Sue Bell
Sue has a health and education background, working in management consultancy and organisational development for the NHS and the private sector. She ran Brixton LETS (local exchange trading system) from 2000-2004. She has since worked as a person-centred psychotherapist, and is now facilitating meetings and helping the group work together effectively to achieve our goals. suebell@lifejourneys.co.uk
Chris Cook
Dave Darby
Dave worked on environmental projects in Romania in the 1990s, and was founder of UK environmental organisation, Lowimpact.org, in 2001. He has been a director of the Ecological Land Co-op and was a co-founder of the Open Credit Network. He blogs about environmental issues, behaviour change and system change. dave@lowimpact.org
Shaun Fensom
Shaun is a freelance adviser on digital infrastructure strategy with over 30 years’ experience in digital and tech. Shaun has helped found a number of cooperatives including one of the UK’s first ISPs and CNI, which enables public and private sector organisations to share fibre networks. s.fensom@broadband.coop
Dil Green
After a career as an architect and builder, Dil is now focused on the urgent need for social renovation, and convinced that digital tools designed to follow social needs offer a powerful support for development. Founder at the Open Credit Network. dil@dilgreen.net
Trevor Hilder
A qualified teacher who learnt systems thinking from prof. Stafford Beer, the founder of management cybernetics. He wrote one of the first database systems to run on the IBM PC. He’s interested in what impact cloud computing, mobile telephony and blockchain will have on the internet, finance, education and work. He’s a Viable System Model specialist. trevor.hilder@webofwealth.org
Peter Jones
One time tech: code; data and process design; project manager. Innovator, opportunity creator, troubleshooter. Currently working on: COVID-19 emergency business support and reskilling; mutual credit systems; cloud-based learning practice. Dad, husband, sporadic gardener. wakelet.com/@innov8tor3
Jakub Lanc
Background in computer science and psychology, worked at Impact Hub / co-founded grassroots peer project focused on youth mental health. Immersed in commons and complementary currency since 2017, learning to develop on Holochain, preparing a P2P, Commons and Digital Identity course at Masaryk Uni, CZ, weaving strands together in a municipal context. LinkedIn
Martin Lawson
Graham Mitchell
Been working in/with/for cooperatives since the 80s. Set up a worker co-op, organised a community buyout. Currently working on a new social care cooperative, and a social/solidarity economy development organisation, alongside this, and doing paid work on CiviCRM implementation/support. LinkedIn. Twitter. Cooperative Networks. mc3. graham@mc3.coop
Sophie Paterson
Chris Reay
A lifelong entrepreneur supplying decision-critical business information @ C-Level to multinationals: product design; systems/software analysis; marketplace analysis. After building a successful blockchain and becoming disillusioned with the industry, Chris has since been working on the protocols for more human-centric alternative currencies. support@christopherreay.com
Matthew Slater
Viktor Vorski
Began as a software developer, moving onto team lead, project manager, product manager and into experience design. Recently focusing on helping distributed teams become more effective through applying future-of-work ideas such as agile-business, sociocracy, teal, DDO, etc. Since completing an MBA in 2004 he also does start-up consulting. Vorski.com
Tom Woodroof
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