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#  Tools infrastructure for making the new economy
https://hackmd.io/@mh2020/S1JpI0_2U

Open2020 conference, 11/12jun2020
Related :
- Breakout rooms - Day 1 Thursday
- Breakout rooms - Day 2 Friday
- Session content Day 1 - Tools of collaboration
- Session content Day 2 - Governance of a platform tools commons

# Overview
These two sessions address common infrastructure of digital tools, for movement organisations, making the new economy. The direct aim of the sessions is to arrive at choices of infrastructure for the *working groups of OpenCoop*. 

**Day 1 - Tools of collaboration**  - In breakouts, this first session examines **use cases**, in various sectors of new-economy practice. **Fragmentation** of new-economy activism is a core issue to be engaged. The session engages the core question: just what kind(s) of common infrastructure may help join things up, build bigger, more capable movements and collaborations, with greater new-economy, next-system scope?

**Day 2 - Tool commons, governance and stewarding** - This second session addresses governance and stewarding in **commons of digital tools**. 'Commoning' is adopted as a frame that necessarily engages **dual power** and transition to an economy that is **radically 'new'**. The session reviews a number of established forms of governance for distributed resources on the web. A panel contributes experience of 'tools' organisations under various forms of governance. In breakouts, participants review the kind of relationship they would want to have with **a commons of digital tools**.

**Outcomes** - The second session assesses the choice of a tools platform for OpenCoop working groups, and **makes choices** that seem clear. Aspects remaining unclear will be delegated to a **team**, to bring a further proposal to a vote in OpenCoop Loomio. The second session also considers the approach to stewarding of a commons that might be adopted by the Online Meeting Coop (hosting this conference) as a newly forming **movement-oriented tools platform**. 

After conference close, threads in OpenCoop Loomio will continue to **assemble contributions** on issues and actions from both sessions.
