Author Archives: Charles Armstrong
Charles is in Manchester today to talk about digital governance and One Click Orgs at the Co-operatives UK Autumn Summit. This annual event brings together leaders from the UK’s largest co-operatives along with other movers and shakers from the movement. The co-operative movement is founded on the principle of democratic member governance so it will be fascinating [...]
Today One Click Orgs announces release of version 1.2.3. For this release the team focused on enhancing security across the platform. A formal vulnerability test was carried out to identify all potential security issues then a series of code changes was implemented to remedy them. The v1.2.3 release includes the following security fixes: HTML was not [...]
On Wednesday 27th July the members of London Hackspace gathered at the Trampery in London for the organisation’s Annual General Meeting. The main item on the agenda was a proposal to adopt a new set of corporate articles virtualising all procedures of the Board of Directors on a platform created by One Click Orgs. Russ Garrett, [...]
We’re delighted to announce that One Click Orgs has received its first ever grant funding in the shape of a Level 1 Award from UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs. The grant has been provided to support One Click Orgs in its project to develop a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) platform. As the British equivalent [...]
At an event in London this evening One Click Orgs officially launched its free public service. The version 1.0 platform helps community groups and fledgling non-profits organise themselves with a legal structure and voting system. One Click Orgs Associations are compatible with English law. We think they can be used in other countries too. However [...]
Initiatives like One Click Orgs and Harvard University’s Virtual Corporations Project are paving the way for a new breed of virtual organisations whose legal underpinnings are wired up to electronic workflows. Such organisations open up intriguing new possibilities for collaboration, participation and value creation. But could virtual governance techniques also be harnessed by conventionally-structured corporations to speed [...]
Today we’re hugely excited to announce that Joi Ito has joined One Click Orgs’ advisory board. Joi has contributed to a succession of ground-breaking internet ventures as an entrepreneur and investor. His current role as CEO of Creative Commons puts him in the thick of the collision between established legal concepts and the internet which [...]
A month ago we posted the first part of the video introducing One Click Orgs’ collaboration with London Hackspace. Now here’s the second part in which Chris Mear walks through the current codebase. If you’re a developer thinking of getting involved in the project this would be a useful place to start and get your [...]
I’m delighted to announce that One Click Orgs has formed a project with London Hackspace to create the world’s first virtualised non-profit corporation. London Hackspace is the UK’s leading hackerspace. It currently has more than 40 members and a space in Barnsbury, north London, where they get together to work on projects and socialise. London [...]
We’re delighted to announce the formation of One Click Orgs’ advisory board and honoured that three outstanding figures have agreed to support the project by being part of it: Oliver Goodenough is co-director of the Law Lab at Harvard University’s Berkman Center and also professor of law at Vermont Law School. He leads Harvard’s “Virtual [...]
