Josef

This is the home page of Josef Davies-Coates

• Josef
  • Contact Details
  • Bio
  • Experience relevant to uniteddiversity and the Open Co-op
    • Founder of uniteddiversity
    • Founder of the Open Co-operative
    • Former Trustee of the Chaordic Commons
    • Worked at the New Economics Foundation
    • Graduate of the London School of Economics
    • Member of CamdenLETS
    • Former member of the Bloggers Parliament and the Blog Co-op
    • Member of the Open People Network and Minciu Sodas
    • Involvement in the Open Partnership Network and Espianity
    • Creator of the Tools for Change CD
    • Cultural and networking event organisation and promotion
  • Things I want to see and help make happen
    • Make Sharing simple
    • Making Self-organisation simple
    • Help organise funding and support for Free Software developers
    • Tour and demonstrate our ideas in the UK in 2005
  • Some relevant interesting people that I know
  • Projects and People we should be talking to
  • Somes mailing lists I'm on
  • Some sites I like
  • Introductory and Further Reading
    • Introducing our planet - chap 1 of Dr Art's Guide to Planet Earth
    • Background docs page on Open Co-op
    • 'Democracy' Today page on World Wide Democracy Network
    • Systems Thinking page on World Wide Democracy Network
  • Favourite Quotes
    • If you want to be the slaves of banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the banks create money - Josiah Stamp, Governor of the Bank of England, 1920
    • You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete — Buckminster Fuller

Contact Details

85 Ravenshaw Street, London NW6 1NP

Tel: 0845 456 9774

Mob: 07800 849 287

josef@uniteddiversity.com

http://josef.uniteddiversity.com

irc://irc.freenode.net/ud (qopi)

Bio

- Born at home on April 1st 1978 in London, UK

- Lifelong veggie. I have never eaten meat or fish, but can't live without eggs, milk and cheese.

- I cycle everywhere I go. It is the cheapest, quickest, greenist and healthiest way to get around London.

Experience relevant to uniteddiversity and the Open Co-op

Founder of uniteddiversity

An open oraganisation seeking to to improve quality of life on earth whilst simultaneously reducing ecological footprint. Commons creation and community development through the sharing of resources and democractic self-organisation is the key.

Founder of the Open Co-operative

A business whose purpose is to build a worldwide community of individuals and organisations committed to creating a collaborative sustainable economy.

Former Trustee of the Chaordic Commons

Whose purpose is to design, disseminate and implement new concepts of organisation that result in more equitable sharing of power and wealth, improved health, and greater compatability with the human spirit and biosphere.

Worked at the New Economics Foundation

Including work with Time Banks UK, the London Time Bank Network (time based mutual credit systems designed to build a trusted support network in a local community), the Inner City 100 project (promoting the value and success of high growth business in deprived inner city areas), Plugging the Leaks (making the most of every pound that enters the local economy), and BizFizz (helping local people with good ideas turn them into a business)

Graduate of the London School of Economics

(BSc Social Policy and Government). I studied Information Systems, Social Economics, Taxation, Basic Income, Policital Philosophy and Green Political Theory amongst other things

Member of CamdenLETS

Former member of the Bloggers Parliament and the Blog Co-op

Member of the Open People Network and Minciu Sodas

A network of people whose web-based and/or other work is dedicated to the public domain

Involvement in the Open Partnership Network and Espianity

Creator of the Tools for Change CD

A CD based resource pack containing everything you could ever need to know.

Cultural and networking event organisation and promotion

For uniteddiversity's sessions of spontaneity (quality live music and DJs) and open spaces (self-organised conferences), WTF's The Future (a hi-tech open space) and the European Creative Forum. Involement in Anti-Apathy, The Synergy Project, the Big Green Gathering and the Kingston Green Fair.

Things I want to see and help make happen

We need to make sustainable living easy.

In my mind this is a matter of making sharing and self-organisation simple.

Once there is a critical mass of people living a high quality, low-impact lifestlye through effectively sharing and self-organising to provide for their own needs, other people will copy them/join in.

Make Sharing simple

Tools to enabling people to pool resource and create commons

Making Self-organisation simple

Tools to ceate open co-operative structures

• Decision making
• Currency and Exchange

It has to be attractive to those (including ourselves) currently stuck in and overly dependent on the existing failing systems of ownership, exchange and organisation.

Help organise funding and support for Free Software developers

This will assit and direct their efforts towards developing software to:

• Create Your Own Community Currency
• Make decisions democractically

These Tools would enable people to:

• Create Open Co-operatives that provide the good and services needed and desired by their community.

Tour and demonstrate our ideas in the UK in 2005

Why UK? That is where I live and know best. Why 2005? There will be a very significant General Election and a meeting of the G8. I consider myself remarkably well placed to initiate such a tour, considering all the wonderful people I have the pleasure of knowing...

Some relevant interesting people that I know

(one of my core personal missions is to get all these people - since they are the people the I know - to share resources and assist each other to achieve their many shared goals)

Person/Project | Degree of Seperation | Explanation

Tom Salfield | 1 | Close friend and collegue

I met Tom while we were studying at LSE. He was the General Secretary of the Legalise Cannabis Society, and I was a the Treasurer. Tom has worked with me on numerous project, most notably uniteddiversity and the open co-operative. I think Tom and I have a very good shared understanding about "the complete system" that we are intending to co-create with the other people in this list.

Oliver Slyvester-Bradley | 1 | Good Friend and Collegue at Open Co-op

Francesca R Giordano | 1 | Friend and fellow networker/event organiser

Francesca compiled the Sustainable Society directory and initiated the Earth Emergency project. She is currently a Director of the World Future Counil. I'm not sure how we first met, but I bump into her at sustainability and democracy related events pretty often.

Gary Alexander | 1 | Friend and co-founder of the Open Co-op

I first met Gary at an monetary reform event @ LSE organised by Francesca in conjuction with Jane at Positive News. I met him again at another get together organised by Francesca, when we were both introduced to Mikael Nordfors. Gary later came to do a presentation of his ideas at WTF, a conference about creating the world we want co-organised by uniteddiversity. That led the further meetings and the formation of the Open Co-op.

John Jopling | 1 |

John Turnbull | 1 |

David Boyle | 1 | Former Collegue at nef

I met David when I worked at the New Economics Foundation (he is a senior associatie). He is editor of Radial Economics (nef's journal), co-founder of Time Banks UK and London Time Bank Network and author of Funny Money, The Money Changers, The Little Money Book, and numerous papers about community currency.

Sarah Burns | 1 | Former Collegue at nef

Sarah works at nef and organises the London Time Bank Network (and is married to Daivd :) )

Sarah McGeehan | 1 | Former Collegue at nef

Sarah help set-up and run the Community Development Finance Association (CFDA) for Community Development Finance Institutions (eg. London Rebuilding Society, Aston Reinvestment Trust)

Jessica Bridges-Palmer | 1 | Close Friend and form collegue at nef

Mose | 1 | Fellow Troll and Friend

I first met mose online on irc channels. Since then we've stayed in regular contact and have met face-to-face at the TikiFest hosted at my home in London, and now again at the Troll Party in Norway.

Steve Peake | 1 | Friend and Collegue

I met Steve at the London Social Forum. Steve is a director of the Synergy Project

Gregorg Scott-Gurner | 1 | Friend

I met Greg at the 491 Gallery a sustainable community regeneration art project (SCRAP) in Leytonstone, London. He is a founder and director of The Art Organisation who seek to put disused properties to use and introduce art to the community. 491 Gallery is an example of one project.

Doug King-Smith | 1 | Good Friend

Doug has been central to the development and survival of the 491 Gallery project and wants to develop the SCRAP model of community and art based regeneration

Eleanor Day | 1 | Good Friend and collegue at green festival and events

I met Eleanor at the Camden Green Fair (organised by John Jopling, Groundwork and others). She was looking for and co-ordinating stewards for the Big Green Gathering (organised by Brig, Sam and others). Eleanor works for a regeneration funding body and is heavily involved in lots of green events and festivals.

Shane Hughes | 1 | Friend and Collegue at European Creative Forum

I met Shane whilst stewarding (at Eleanor's request) for an outdoor performance of Romeo and Juliet performed in Mudchute Park (Europe's largest urban farm). He has been central to the development of the European Creative Forum.

Robert Wade | 1 | Good friend and collegue at ECF

I met Rob through my involvement in the European Creative Forum. Rob is a very clever man and an excellent political musician (aka The Rub and MC Daylight). He is very active in the peace movement and his core campaigns are an end to fuel tax on plant oils, better democracy, an the public reclamation of media and money creation.

Rebecca Thomas | 1 | Good friend and collegue at ECF

Tanya | 1 | Friend

David Cozens | 1 | Friend and collegue at ECF

David is a very lovely, no-nonsense kind of a guy who gets things done. He is a well networked and practical fellow with plenty of grass roots contacts and experience. I met him at the first ECF at Area 10.

Lottie Child

Priya

Oscar Reyes

Javier

Jason Diceman

Michael Linton

Mary Fee

Peter Challen -

Nadine Collins - Friend from college and close friend of Sarah Hartwell

Sarah Hartwell - Close friend from school, college and uni.

Mamading Ceesay | 1 | Good friend

Vageesan Siva | 1| Friend and former collugue

David Bovill | 1 | Friend and former collegue

Matthew Pountney | 1 | Good friend from school and Collegue at uniteddiversity

Chris Cook

Cyndi Rhoades

Brig Oubridge

Bernadette Vallely and Des Kay

Sam Hermitage and Jean

Dave etc @ Nomad Studios

Daves Jones - Indymedia

Sky - Indymedia

Jebba - Indymedia

John Theaker

Karl Harder

Others

Projects and People we should be talking to

Your Democracy
Bio Regional Development Group (Emma, who brought a book off Josef)
They Work for You (consult mamading)
Our World Our Say (
My Society (consult mamading)
Democracy Now
Move On
The Village (Friends of Gerry and John Jopling)
Global Ecovillage Network (Head of GEN Europea via Ecovillage UK list)
Green Party Canada (Jason Diceman has very good relationship)

Somes mailing lists I'm on

World Wide Democracy Network
Open Organizations
Feasta
NEF
freedom hacklab
indymedia (london, uk)
European Forum of Communication Rights
European Social Forum
Democratise the ESF
Another ESF is Possible
World Social Forum
Time Banks UK
International Journal for Community Currency Research
CC Server
Synergy Project
Green Angels
Wombles Updates
London Social Centre Network
University of Openess
Critical Mass London
Rhythms of Resistance
European Creative Forum
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imangination
Educate the G8 (Dissent Tour)
Dissent!
Beyond TV Network
Local Social Forums in Europe
rampART Community Creative Centre and Social Space
UK Social Forums
London Social Forum
EcovillageUK
Open Partnership Network
Student Action UK
Bloggers Parliamnet
Chaordic Initiatives (everyone, money, uk and more)

Some sites I like

All the sites linked to on this page are worth visiting. :)

Introductory and Further Reading

Lots of good stuff can be found at:

Introducing our planet - chap 1 of Dr Art's Guide to Planet Earth

Background docs page on Open Co-op

'Democracy' Today page on World Wide Democracy Network

Systems Thinking page on World Wide Democracy Network

Favourite Quotes

If you want to be the slaves of banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the banks create money - Josiah Stamp, Governor of the Bank of England, 1920

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete — Buckminster Fuller

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RubbishChristmasMessage --josef, 2003/12/29 12:55 GMT
ud favourite DJRubbish? sums up the year with an Alternative Christmas Message for the big chill

URL for Zope-based BACS product --mamading, 2004/01/19 17:34 GMT
http://www.payactive.com/productrange.html

((IndymediaConvergence)) --josef, 2004/01/27 16:14 GMT
details of indymedia events this weekend

BoloBolo --josef, 2004/03/06 22:49 GMT
you've got to read this:

http://www.bolo-bolo.org/english2.htm

comment from irc, by <qopi>, 2004/03/07 07:47 GMT
testing

<tav> (via xena), 2004/03/07 08:19 GMT
undo http://y1.zope.espnow.net/base/ud/shop_data/parse_shop_data/ZPythonScriptHTML_editForm

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http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkCambridgeFilms

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https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/uk/servlet/Mir?

EarthCare?, peopleCare? and fairShares? are necessary if we are to improve quality of life and begin to live within the ecological limits of PlanetEarth?.

Key Papers:

Open Policy

Open Source Democracy

Emergent Democracy

Participative Democracy Networks

Augumented Social Networks

Proposal for a Decentralized Currency Network Protocal

Cluetrain Manifesto

Open Money Manifesto

Draft Money Manifesto

Components of Gaian Democracies

Co-operative Principles

Second Superpower

Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace

Manifesto for a New Economy

Earth Emergency

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Missed you in #burngreave yesterday .. you can find me at aland (at) burngreave (dot) net

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showing tom the xena-wiki commenting funtion

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http://nym.igargoyle.com/resume/

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1169666,00.html

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http://www.p3international.org/community/

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