Theme 3: Legal innovations for multi-stakeholder governance
How can companies, co-operative societies, partnerships and associations be re-configured to support new cooperativism? Following new classification work by the ICA (Eum, Carini, Bouchard, 2019), how can solidarity co-operatives be structured legally? What legal and governance innovations have emerged to support multi-stakeholding and community involvement? What legal and governance innovations are emerging to support the alignment of co-operatives with sustainable development?
Facilitator – Silvia Sacchetti
Panel Speakers – Ian Adderley, Rory Ridley-Duff
Technical Support: Rory Ridley-Duff
Theme 4: Funding and incentives in new cooperativism
How should co-operatives use, and respond to, the rise of crowd-funding, crowd-lending and crowd-investing? As investment platforms create wider reach and open up the potential for global membership, will this undermine the community focus of funding mechanisms? What can be learnt from platforms like Kiva, Kickstarter and Indiegogo? What co-operative platforms exist (or are developing) for new co-operatives to re-invent ‘co-operative shares’ that raise cooperative capital and regulate the distribution of surpluses?
Facilitator – Elizavet Mantzari
Panel Speakers – Dave Boyle, Steve Gill
Technical Support: Rory Ridley-Duff
