The indigenous Bribri of Costa Rica believe that a sulá, an artisan, creates the soul of every human. Made of beautiful colors, we are each distinct compositions that originate from the same elements. The members of Sulá Batsú considered this story in 2005 when they named their cooperative. Based in Costa Rica, Sulá Batsú does […]
The Cooperative Watching Over Swiss-Italian TV
For 74 years, CORSI, the cooperative for radio and television in Italian-speaking Switzerland, has been overseeing public radio and television programming in the Ticino Canton. In an era when television has a massive influence on democracy, the cooperatives experience offers a fascinating story. The cooperative was founded in 1938 with the aim of increasing transparency […]
CORSI – Società cooperativa per la radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana
CORSI is the supervisory body for public radio and television in Italian-speaking Switzerland. CORSI aims to strengthen the link with the local community and monitor the quality of radio and television programming.
Iran’s IT Success Story
Pishgaman Kavir Yazd is Iran’s biggest IT cooperative, founded in 1996 in the central province of Yazd. The company soon expanded its activities and geographic reach, and is now one of the leaders in Iran’s IT and ICT industry, providing internet and communication connections to all of the country’s provinces. The group has over 1,500,000 […]
Pishgaman Kavir Yazd
PKYCC is an IT cooperative made up of other IT companies. We are the only IT co-operative in Iran and one of three companies in Iran with the license for international calling services. We have local offices in all provinces of Iran and we also have companies outside of Iran. Our aims are to expand […]
Connecting Clients and Communication Cooperatives
French businesses can now connect with a network of communication cooperatives to find exactly the communication skills they need, in any media, provided in a fair and ethical way. MADEinSCOP is a multi-channel hub linking 200 cooperatives in the communication sector and forging connections between clients and cooperatives. We’ve got human values, we believe in […]
Comunità Impegno Società Cooperativa Sociale
History is written with many small day-by-day steps forward….this is ours! It all began with a priest and some young people, with the grand ideals typical of the young and the gamble that they would be able to live a dream. A dream cannot only be a personal one, because, then, it only remains a […]
The Hottest Plot in the Garden
One late summer while strolling through a Minneapolis farmers market with my young teenager, I was introduced to one of the hottest chilies in the world. A handwritten sign, Ghost pepper is the worlds hottest pepper atop a little basket holding a handful of bright-orange, wrinkled fruits ignited my sons interest. The grower cautioned us […]
An Alternative Voice in Israeli Media
An ambitious online newspaper is bringing a new voice to the Israeli media scene. Owned by a cooperative, Megafon wants to offer a fresh alternative to what it sees as a stagnated media scene. The Israeli media market is small, and controlled by a small number of very rich families. For these media moguls, freedom […]
Water not only quenches one’s thirst, it also heals
Zelenogradskaya real has been produced by the cooperative Kaliningrad Consumer Society Commercial and Trade Centre 2 for almost 20 years. The mineral water is extracted from the deepest well of the region, with a depth of 274 meters. It is characterized by its good taste, an absence of artificial additives, and has an optimal […]