We Are Open Co-op is a collective of independent thinkers and makers helping charities, ethical companies, government departments and educational institutions with sensemaking and digital transformation.
Making sense of complex problems while spreading the benefits of open.
WHO WE ARE
Doug Belshaw
Laura Hilliger
Bryan Mathers
Genius illustrator.
Biz guru. �Techie.
Is drawing you right now.
Strategist & Idea Maker
Creative genius. �Tech wizard.
Expert facilitator.
Open Thinkerer
Tech sherpa. �Writer.
Open advocate.
John Bevan
Hannah Belshaw
Convenor & Connector
Co-op radical.
Partnership wizard.
Zen in the room.
UX Designer
User researcher.
Cooperator.
Expert voice of reason.
Creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.
Cooperative ownership means tech that’s better for its workers and customers.
We Are Open Co-op is a proud member of the Co-operative Technologists network.
WHO WE’VE
WORKED WITH
We Are Open are outstanding collaborators. They are able to take a brief, run with it and then deliver exactly what was agreed to in a language that’s accessible to the end users the product was intended for. I’m excited by the possibilities we can achieve with what they have delivered.
— Kelli Tolen, Greenpeace International
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Some of our clients...
WHAT WE DO
When we start a new project, we get to know our clients using a variety of discovery techniques. Depending on the scale of the project or its complexity we might recommend a Thinkathon in which we seek to map the complexity of your project, organisation and context.
We’ll use open approaches to provide a different, connected approach to the problems your organisation is trying to solve. We’ll design and deliver both the strategy and the tactics by working hand-in-hand with you and your colleagues. We don’t work ‘for’ you, we work with you.
Diving in
Radical collab
How do we create engagement? We build confident communities and help people engage with your organisation or programme in an open way. Often, we start projects with a Thinkathon to gather context and create visuals that help us talk about ideas with your various stakeholders.
We Are Open for building communities
Orgs we’ve helped with this recently:
Organic growth is great, it means you’re being responsive to people’s needs. However, this can eventually lead to processes and structures that are complex and inefficient. We can help you figure out a strategic way forward, without having to break everything.
We Are Open to connecting the dots
Orgs we’ve helped with this recently:
to better structures
We Are Open...
for imagining new systems
for storytelling
We build and sustain free resources such as our podcast, email-based courses, Badge Wiki, and our library of resource templates. All of these are openly licensed, designed for re-use.
LET’S HAVE
A CHAT
hello@weareopen.coop
@WeAreOpenCoop
https://weareopen.coop
Get in touch!