Technology
Equal Care Co-op are developing technology that will enable participation and collaboration amongst the people giving and receiving care and support.
Equal Care Co-op want to reshape the world of social care so that the relationship between the giver and the receiver of care and support is at the heart of everything. Its purpose is to transform existing power structures in social care by using technology and sociocratic ways of working. To achieve this they are setting up the UK’s first ever social care ‘platform co-operative’. This is an emerging form of digital organisation where the participators in digital markets are in control.
They are also introducing an alternative currency: Care Coins. Care coins can be used as a form of exchange to ‘buy’ support for yourself or to give to someone else.
Equal Care Co-op are developing technology that will enable participation and collaboration amongst the people giving and receiving care and support.
Sociocracy is a new, socially responsible system of governance that allows people to give and receive effective leadership while remaining peers.
Equal Care Co-op uses sociocracy to set up groups or ‘circles’ of people giving and receiving support using circle-based governance principles. The circles are semi-independent, have their own identity and are the main arena for co-ordinating and offering support in their area. Using the technology, the platform links them together and broadens the choices that people getting support have available to them.
Equal Care Co-op are raising money in 2019 for two main tasks:
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