Aims and values

A work in progress. The ideas below were generated as part of a brainstorm at the initial co-op tech meeting with a view to them being written up into an aims and values statement/ manifesto.

• Solidarity, care and mutual support
• Peer learning
• Strength in diversity - an advantage not a burden
• Quality
• Maximising the resources that the network can devote to its mission
• From each according to ability, to each according to need
• Promoting non-hierarchical structures
• Experimentation and playfulness
• Verifying and sharing the model
• Not exploiting workers
• Openness and transparency
• Redefining what value is
• Democracy and self management
• Enabling small/proto-co-ops to become stable
• Use technology for good
• Accessibility and approachability
• Respect
• Creating good meaningful jobs
• Peer reviewed
• Much better (more competitive) than the exploitative alternative
• Imagine the impossible
• Self reliant
• Selflessness and what's good for the movement rather than yourself
• Solution focussed and brave