While the big corporations and the finance sector struggle to regroup along the same old lines, much of the most innovative thinking about work and business is coming out the voluntary sector. Two organisations to watch are the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and the Social Enterprise Coalition. The Institute has just published its Anarconomy Report #3/2009 which develops the anarconomy theme* in a wider context and looks at alternatives to the way we approach intellectual proporty issues today.
The need to look at business and society together was highlighted by Peter Holbrook who will be taking over as CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition in January 2010. Holbrook is currently chief executive of the Sunlight Development Trust in Gillingham, Kent, and he will succeed Jonathan Bland, who is stepping down at the end of October. The community-led approach to regeneration exemplified by Sunlight which is tackling health inequalties, and providing public services in one of the UK's most deprived wards has attracted a broad spectrum of political admirers.
Business leaders and politicians take note.
John D. Davies
Senior Consultant
* The creation and distibution by users of content and services on the internet using voluntary networks by anarchist principles.
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