A collaborative
SEARCH ENGINE FOR COOPERATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Coopedia Knowledge Base is a collaborative search engine listing resources (guides, videos, books, and much more) on cooperative entrepreneurship.
What is Coopedia?
It aims to give young entrepreneurs worldwide the support and tools they need to set up cooperative businesses, and to provide learning and introduction to students and actors interested in the cooperative business model. It allows them to find various types of materials, in a variety of languages, based on their topics of interest.
Coopedia Knowledge Base is the first software of its kind specifically built by cooperators, for cooperators, worldwide.
It is a unique opportunity for the cooperative movement worldwide to capitalize on its 5th Principle: providing education, training and information to the public.
The design also fosters cooperation between cooperatives and key actors like universities, training centers, local authorities, and civil society organizations interested in cooperatives
Contributors
Who are they?
- Cooperative mentors and experts
What do they do?
- Reference existing materials on
cooperative entrepreneurship - Peer-review content before making it
available to all users
Searchers
Who are they?
- Entrepreneurs, students or anyone interested in learning more about cooperative businesses and how to start them
What do they do?
- Search for and find useful materials in a matter of seconds
- Suggest contributors to index specific resources
A tool for Development
By providing educational tools for young people to create their own work opportunities, and fostering collaboration with organizations outside of the cooperative movement, Coopedia contributes to achieving SDG 4 (Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work), and SDG 17 (Partnerships).
Innovative Technology
The software is based on Startin’blox technology, a free, modular and easy-to-use tool to build decentralized applications. It uses the SOLID, meaning that all resources made available are indexed using the latest stardards of the semantic web, are interoperable and can be shared with many other applications.
Because it is an open-source technology, Coopedia’s code is free. This creates transparency and enhances the collective power of its federated network.
Coopedia videos
We invite interested organizations to join the Coopedia Knowledge Base federated network!
Join Coopedia!
We invite interested organizations to join the Coopedia Knowledge Base federated network!
Install your own version of Coopedia and become a part of a global community to increase visibility of your developed content and access worldwide resources on cooperative entrepreneurship. By joining this federated network, your organization will be able to support cooperative entrepreneurs and collaborate with many stakeholders (cooperative experts, youth organizations, universities, training centers and organizations interested in learning more about the cooperative business model).
Discover Coopedia
Explore the 3 first installations of the Coopedia Knowledge Base – all connected in the federated network