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Gemma Copeland
@gemcopeland.bsky.social
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Designer & researcher. Part of @commonknowledge.coop, a worker co-op that creates digital tools to help social movements build power.

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Thanks to our wonderful organizers and speakers ❤️@janafapa.bsky.social @claraigk.bsky.social
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Conference: Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
March 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The UK could be home to an irresistible culture of innovation if more people had the space to try things out, get support and investment, make mistakes, have a go, share a wild idea with their friends
In the UK, R&D has become institutionalised. While advanced skills and infrastructures certainly have an important role to play in building capabilities, innovation also relies on people and relationships. Ideas are sparked, plans are formed, and daring ideas are tried out when people have the space and opportunity to collaborate - and this innovation mindset has existed in Britain before. As historian Anton Howes has noted in the tin centuching innovation mindset "spread from person to person, much like a disease", enabling the culture of the Industrial Revolution.® Our hypothesis is that innovation starts with human relationships: with the confidence to have a go, to explore, to make something new or take something else apart and show it to your friends, or ask for help and support. Social capital is at the heart of innovation, and the recommendations in this Green Paper set out an approach to strengthening that across the UK, creating a network of Networked Neighbourhoods that power a resilient, sustainable innovation future for everyone. We believe it is possible to rapidly spark a culture of inclusive innovation across the UK, that begins in neighbourhoods and forms a golden network of locally rooted community incubator organisations, supported by long-term investment and clear success measures. As well as creating new innovation potential, this will strengthen social bonds and help build better places to live.
January 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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So much respect for the Greens who introduced the demand for free/cheap transport and seem to have successfully pushed the Overton window much further to the left 👏
January 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM