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ChrisCook

Linlithgow

My background is from the DTI into City Regulation, latterly as a Director of the International Petroleum Exchange. Left there in 1996, and got involved in the area where the Internet and Markets converge, setting up a small dot com along the way (maybe 10 years too early!) and still doing a little in that area, advising the odd (very odd!) government. http://www.exchange-handbook.co.uk/index.cfm?section=articles&action=detail&id=38754 sums up where I got to about six years ago.... In recent years I've done a lot of work re "Enterprise Models" (ie legal and financial structures) - in particular partnership-based models incorporating simple , but radical, new funding options, which made their first appearance in that article. I'm based in Scotland now, and working with the Nordic Enterprise Trust on our "Hanseatic Microfinance Initiative", with Norwegian government support and a lot of interest from the new Scottish government (had an hour with Alex Salmond's principal policy wonk a couple of weeks ago...).

Recently, ChrisCook...

  • commented on Is Co-production the key to Public Services 2.0? over 2 years ago.

    Key to co-production IMHO is the legal framework within which it takes place. The requirement is not for Organisations - with a life and agenda of their own - but a framework (within an "open" corporate wrapper)  for self organisation to an agreed common purpose. I observe the emergence of new partnership-based possibilities, and see these becoming routinely in use. eg City of Glasgow now has four municipal partnerships (LLPs) one being an IT JV/partnership with Serco. eg http://www.s...

  • created Peer to Peer Finance over 2 years ago.

    The Carnegie Institute published this article re Peer to Peer Finance http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000085 A more comprehensive piece is up on Michel Bauwens' P2P Foundation blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/an-open-capital-framework-as-a-solution-to-the-financial-meltdown/2009/02/27 and also here with diagram http://www.metamute.org/en/beyond_public_and_private   Beyond Public and Private “21st Century problems cannot be fixed by 20th Century s...

  • created Peak Credit over 3 years ago.

    Since the Credit Crunch really started to bite I've been getting a lot of interest in the alternative "Peer to Peer" financing models I've developed with a bit of Norwegian government funding. Firstly in Iran, where this http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/introducing-the-petrotrust-presentation/ presentation got me in to see ministers, leading parliamentarians, a couple of heads of state owned corporations and so on. It's ironic how the sanctions intended to damage Iran ended up protect...