Picture alternative economists and complementary currency advocates talking about reinventing money, issues of governance and intertrading of alternative currencies.
Is altruism essentially a by-product of monotony, and can we attach monetary value to a smile?
We're spreading the message of co-production across the UK with our roadshow events.
The following is a guest blog post by Gavin Dykes, independent education adviser and consultant, and director of Cellcove Ltd, following our Failure Fest event.
I recently made my first proper visit to Brazil, visiting Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia, and meeting a wide range of people, from banks and innovation agencies, to universities, accelerators, startups, civil society groups, arts collectives and government ministries.
Cooking has become like Hollywood or Rock music, with global stars and fans.
We've been doing a fair amount of work on collective intelligence. It's one of the most fascinating fields of investigation today, looking at what makes groups smart, how to collaborate and how technologies can help us think.
This week the government launched its new 'What Works' centres at an event hosted by Nesta. As one of the ministers there commented, the remarkable thing is not that it's happening but that it hasn't happened before: you might have thought that government would want to know what works.
Here's a moral tale which tells us how far we are from being a knowledge society - even though we're surrounded by ever smarter technologies.
My view of the Knowledge Society is the same as Gandhi's view of western civilisation: that it would be a good idea.
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