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Jonathan and Tibi, at Nori's house, testing the new Mosquito

Figures recently issued by Co-operativesUK show that co-operative business grew by 1.5% in 2011, twice the rate of the UK economy as a whole. This is the fourth consecutive year that the co-operative sector has outperformed the rest of UK business. The figures also show that it is not only in growth that co-operative businesses do better, they are also much more reliant - 98% are still in operation after three years compared to 65% of all businesses. Also 88% try to minimize the environmental impact of their activities compared to 44% of all businesses who state they do not take any action in this regard at all. Membership of trading co-operatives from 2010 to 2011 grew by 5.5% to 13.5 million people - the increase from 2008 to 2011 is 19.7%. Currently the number of co-operatives in the UK is around 5,900 - a growth of 23% from 2008. The largest growth by sector was in the renewable energy sector, and there are now 242 co-operative schools across the country.

Sensorica mentioned at about 55 minutes mark (just after) - note that while many presenters not that interesting, Leif and Cliff at the beginning and again Leif and Cliff at the end made some interesting points, and in particular Leif Edvinsson very much in line with value networks thinking and alternative value flows - I think a fruitful interaction with Leif could result from inviting him into Sensorica

"self-assembling robots"

We ordered parts for our new Mosquito https://docs.google.com/file/d/1b2B7vRaOvLTuJqJMf9dP3ClTWPEGKJF5STxs4dnS-k3f6Lar85YaHYvWbG-O/edit

Service is very slow from their side... this is probably because our volume is very low.

also see http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm on this theme of absolute accountability

something to keep in mind while designing value equations, understanding the impact of absolute accountability, and the need to ensure we are measuring wht matters as important decisions will be made based on the metric, whether or not the metric is being used properly in context (for example using klout scores to choose among candidates for an engineering job)

Anybody have a phd and want a dream job creating the new economic paradigm? I'm short a few degrees, sadly

sensors for e.coli in drinking water that connect to a cellphone