
At Startin’blox, we are interested in interoperability not for its technical aspects but for the impact it has on organizations, on the autonomy of users, on the sovereignty of states and organizations, and on democracy.In 2020, during…

This article is a small synthesis of the exchanges of the first learning session around co-financing in open source that took place on Tuesday, February 16th. The casting was magical, thanks to all participants! The subject of…

On the 6th of January, Whatsapp updated its privacy policy. This sent a shock wave that resounded well beyond the Silicon Valley’s borders. In this article, we try to answer the question we all asked ourselves: Should…

How tomorrow, the web will be different This article presents the future of the web by describing one of my probable future days. I hope it helps you understand the changes that are coming, measure how significant…

Like Web3 applications based on blockchain technology, Solid’s Distributed Web promotes the autonomy of individuals while heralding considerable potential for transformation within organizations and ecosystems.

Knowledge beyond knowledge bases Cooperative associations are fundamentally different from libraries and schools. Students go to school to access knowledge; cooperative associations come to entrepreneurs to share knowledge from other entrepreneurs. Consequently, Coopedia is not much about…

From a distributed network to a decentralized web The cooperative movement is a distributed network, comprising autonomous entities guided by common values and a sense of cooperation rather than competition. Uniformization would be irrelevant: autonomy and diversity…

The web is marginalizing cooperatives: it’s now time to move on The cooperative movement is embodied in its cooperative associations active around the world, at local, national, and international levels. Cooperative associations pursue two main functions: promoting…
Happy Dev and Startin’blox don’t have any employee. Zero. Instead they have backlogs, or lists of tasks that need to get done. And there’s a whole lot of people working freelance to solve these tasks. Then there’s…

Happy Dev was born in 2015 out of the will to gather professionals of the web industry together in an organization that feels right. We didn’t want to choose between our autonomy and a collective organization. Between…