 Rhywbeth gweithio i gael ymddangos i gweithio'r gweithio digital. Mae'r amser yn rhoi i'r Marlennid, ac mae'r CEO o cooepatifu UK. A gydag, rydyn ni'n gweithio i'n gweithio i'r gweithio i'r gweithio i'r 20-tyff, ac mae cooepatifu eich gweithio i'r gweithio i'r gweithio i'r gweithio i'r gweithio i'r industry 4.0. A oherwydd, ond weithio ar y gweithio ar y pandemac i chi, a dwi'n bobl o'r gweithio ar y pandemac, ond byddai'r gweithio am y pandemac. It's a great tech, including not least, the ability for people to work from home, but prior to the pandemic, there was already a lot of things in play with regards to what, so we call industry 4.0. Ew. Yn mynd i gael, ynddyn ni'n 4,0 ydy, ynddyn ni'n fwał am y dyna y dyna, er mwyn yn ydy rhan yna ddych chi, yr Ynddyn ni'n 4,0 ynddyn ni'n mynd i'r version o ddwyf anodd ymrwyngau a'r Unedol yma. Ym Mewn Llywodraeth. Yn rhaid o'r pethau sydd y gallwn oedol, panau. As we rebuild and recalibrate new ways of working and new technologies, a set to collaborate and merge forging the anatomy of our future business and opportunity for all. Now co-operative values will go on to talk about a really well placed to play an essential role in creating this brave new world. The co-operative movement has been disrupting and challenging traditional business models for over 175 years and now is the time for the principles of the past to become the guiding light for the future. Co-operation can and will present the solutions and the infrastructure to enable optimism for our future and a trustworthy and reliable road map to enable us all to build back better. So when we talk about revolution, then what what do we actually mean? And I'm going to talk about a quote from the philosopher Bertrand Russell from the 1950s and in the 1950s the kind of world that you know world of work that would have been the experience of many people would have looked a lot like the factories people coming together in one place. But also the way that we work now as you can see when you look at something like a data farm even though there's that level of activity all happening in one place the people aren't necessarily together in that one place and what indeed is happening is that we'll completely transform the way we live, consume and work across the 2020s and I truly believe that this decade will be pivotal for mankind and we will see a true revelation of full return to what I believe is cottage industry before the very first industrial revolution but on a global village scale. So in terms of the you know what are the things that are happening that are going to enable this technological revolution? Well we've got the rollout of 5G networks across the world and then we on top of that we also have hardware advancements and those hardware advancements might be seen in things for example like 3D printers, robotics, nanotechnology and actually increased open source which means that combined with 5G rollout people will be able to improve their everything everywhere at any time. Now we talk about human collaboration with artificial intelligence in terms of AI, AI artificial intelligence as a service and actually artificial intelligence is expected to be a human level of performance by 2030 so that means our artificial intelligence is enabled by 2030 to operate at the same level as you are, I might operate now and actually that can present itself as quite a scary proposition but when you start to look at AI as a service which we will go on to talk about and start to look at it as a symbiotic relationship in the development of mankind it actually becomes a real enabler. We're also seeing instant fulfilment not least with the development of drones and again with the pandemic you know the amazon orders the local orders from Deliveroo that instant fulfilment was really accelerated by the pandemic again but it's just not a novelty what's going to come you know the spatial web or web 3.0 as it is known which will be enabled in this next decade. We'll see us looking at our future in the way we've seen in films like my narrative report for example where we've got potentially we're interacting with holograms and I guess the point is really that what the spatial web is right now we go to our computers and turn on a screen we go to our phones and interact with our screen but the spatial web means that everything will be all around us and everything will be connected and again you'll start to see that in things like the you know Alexa use of voice prompts and non-verbal signals really will become the norm you know everything will be connected across the planet if you think about the internet of things where you know your fridge is telling you shopping order that you're out of orange juice you know all the traffic lights are feeding information to your car about all sorts of subject matters I'm sure so I'm going to ask you to start thinking about that connection because it's that connection that's been enabled by like say web 3.0 added to the industrial revolution and all these technological advancements that I believe will really demonstrate what we need to start thinking about now in terms of cooperation and technology so if you think about the human body then and let's look at the tech that we know to be true because lots more techs coming that we don't know about yet but let's look at the tech that we know about now and let's consider the artificial intelligence acts like our brain like to say by 2030 artificial intelligence will be at the level where it can think like a human being and then if we look at what might enhance our eyesight we've got virtual reality augmented reality mixed reality so whether that's putting on a set of goggles like you saw from our cooperative many members animal in an earlier slide or whether that's implants whether that's glasses whether that's the actual screen that you're using that's augmenting that reality we're going to have an enhanced vision what we see will be enhanced possibly with data and lots more information different views different opportunities to look at things in different ways again let's look at blockchain you know blockchain is a infinite memory you know which is fairly unhackable but the idea of having this continuous capability to build on knowledge and build on memory through blockchain and it is of course what some of the technologies around cryptocurrency like bitcoin are also built on then again thinking about automation we've briefly mentioned the the sort of instant for billman you know what's going on in warehouses that level of automation and then you think of your fingertips in terms of robotics now if you start to think about all of this in the way that the world being connected in the way that human body is connected if you just think about for example what might happen if you bang your leg if you bang your leg you get pain you get signal sense of telling the pain is a problem all the blood rushes blood rushes towards the site of where that bang has happened in cases of breaking the skin and all the different cells need to attack the bacteria then we need to the fibrigen to be able to cover the scars you know so all these signals start happening and actually if you did break the skin and all of that you know blood rushed into into the site of the cut and but there was actually indeed an infection but at a later date your body would start telling you that you'd get a rise in temperature your body telling you that there's this problem somewhere else in your body that isn't your head if you start to think about the possibilities the industry 4.0 and the enablement of the spatial web and start to think about things being that connected we've got this amazing capability combined with big data to know that there's a problem brewing in a certain territory and what that might look like obvious so this can all be significantly compounded by all sorts of things like fake news but you do start to see how the world becomes connected and how in actual fact tech could then start monitoring the world's problems and solving them before they even present as a problem it's a really exciting time let's say it's going to be a pivotal period for mankind the acceleration of tech is going to happen really really quickly but it is going to happen so you know coming back to this point about needing to to code for cooperation i'm just going to touch on the artificial intelligence comment that we've made in terms of AI as a service because i'll say you know we do get presented with the you know terminate the robots are going to take over the world but in actual fact if you start thinking about the potential of what human collaboration with artificial intelligence will do you'll start to see industries like for example the insurance industry won't be any longer about having to pay out and fix things it'll be a prevention industry if you think about it in the context all that tech supply in an insurance company warning signs machine learning actually when this starts to happen this tends to happen right well what we need to do is make sure that we've enabled the organization to be robust in in the event of the need for that level of resilience again you can probably imagine all the things that can go horribly wrong with what i've just described there with insurance not least you know hospital bills costing lots of money because the AI is predicting that you might have a problem in a future so this is really really important this is why we need to be in the mix when we're actually programming technology and i'm just going to spend a little more time on that there's a brilliant book called how to talk to robots that i recommend to you all but this is taken from that book and it was about when the original idea of actually getting airplanes to be flown by artificial intelligence which is now a thing the military do use AI to fly when those tests first started taking place what actually happened was that the programming of the artificial intelligence was to make sure that there was a perfect landing as denoted by this whole set of theories what does a perfect landing look like and the AI you need to get 10 out of 10 to have landed that plane perfectly and quite quickly and early on what actually happened is that the plane started slamming into the ground and that happened second third time and they realized indeed what was actually happening was that the AI had worked out that if the plane was slammed into the ground it would break the system and it reached out the system to a perfect 10 and that to me really shows you my point about how you've got to be in the mix at a programming level because the question really should have been are the program should have really been make sure the passengers are safe so by asking the wrong question or programming the wrong algorithm you can see what may go wrong and how and why and I'll say these are real high level kind of views to enable like I say AI at human level performance we're going to get some of this wrong there's mankind but I'm here today to say that actually working with cooperative movement and the principles and values around cooperation you know these values have been around for a long time and they have stood the test of time I'm just going to talk about some of them now because these values these 10 values that all cooperatives are based on and in actual fact for 175 years now have provided a beacon for businesses and it's always like you know Shakespeare is a good example in English literature you know every episode of EastEnders and Coronation Street now there'll be themes still that were you know in in Shakespeare's plays and it's a similar thing you know we could reassess these values and rewrite them in in different more popular world words but the truth is you know the things like equality honesty openness these values have stood the test of time for 175 years and a period of significant change that we're about to go through I believe we hold on to these values and make sure we bring in these values into our industry and development of our industry then that we really have got something solid that we can potentially rely on to give mankind the capability to do what the animal kingdom has been doing for years cooperate work together for a better a more successful outcome so in terms of the actual principles of cooperation that define how a cooperative operates the principles here for example that a co-op is owned and controlled by its members and a co-op is democratic now this is a real growing awareness that again I believe has been heightened by the pandemic but if you just even think about what happened with the european super league people are starting to realise if they have a stake in where they work where they live where they enjoy their their lives together if they have a stake then they've got to say they've got the capability to do something about it so the idea of the democratic economy really is a growing phenomena throughout the world so when you start to look at the principles that define how a cooperative operates and then start to look at that in terms of tech because we've just talked about tech in terms of the values as an enabler you know tech is going to enable the world to possibly be better looking after mankind and developing mankind but when you start to look at tech not just as an enabler but actually as a sector is a real growth in what we call the platform cooperatives now a platform cooperative is predominantly app-based and they tend to be multi-stakeholder co-ops where members of the co-op are both the users and the suppliers so an example you know up and go which you can see on the screen there is a Manhattan based cleaning organisation and there's a brilliant film by the cooperative around the world the media cooperative that shows up and go it talks to the staff and these are cleaners based in New York the previous layer you know had all the things that we know can be a problem with app based booking systems which included that they were sent to jobs that they didn't have enough time to achieve but we're really interesting when you watch that film they also talk about the outcomes of being able to control the environment that they are working in and things like sexual harassment in the workplace massively reduced for the up and go cooperative and right by me I live in Manchester in England and this is the Charlton bike delivery and this came very much out of the pandemic this was the idea that people needed things delivering this whole cyclists that were basically offering to help and enable that and they've turned that into a business again where they get to choose their hours they get to choose their their rights and what's really been growing in the pandemic is the open food network which is a way for locally produced food to be distributed in a really effective way so again the buyers and suppliers are on there and I'm very excited about the potential for equal care co-op because the idea was care to have the actual carers as well as the people that are booking the care so that might be your booking care for yourself or for a family member or it might be a local authority booking that care for them to all have one member one vote in that scenario means that of course the workers at equal care co-op are getting way more than the real living wage they're getting much better hours they're getting to choose the clients but let's say the clients themselves are getting a lot of say in that process and development so platform cooperatives are really you know a type of co-operative to watch for generally and then when it comes to that you know what's been happening the reason this is important is because you know tech is currently driven you know by by profit in actual facts so you've got two things one tech is clunky always at the beginning of new tech it's clunky I'm sure like me you think that actually technology is ruining your life instead of enhancing it at the moment at the amount of you know whether it's social media you've got to keep on top on our things that you've got to be aware of our ethical policies that you need to know you know tech is really clunky at this stage and because it's profit driven so if you take the example you know of maybe you know you know something like an app that's for taxi drivers would be a good example you know the amount of money that needs to be paid back to the investors because it's been profit driven means that it's where the drivers are being squeezed and again you know when tech is driven by profits that also means that things like the workers rights and other social considerations aren't the top of the agenda for that business getting that tech fully used and deployed is at the top of the agenda and so when you start to apply like I say the co-operative principles to something like co-operative platforms and tech will suddenly the decisions and the wealth are shared by the many as opposed to the few that are sharing the decisions in making tech now and not only just the decisions and wealth are shared by the many it's shared by the people who are directly impacted by those decisions which is a huge consideration I mean it's something at Cops UK we're really really excited about the development of co-operative platforms and we have something called the unfound accelerator and we're in the middle of a cohort at the moment developing for example people to be able to develop their ideas into tech and we'll be running that again and we've got two accelerator programmes running this year supported by the co-operative bank and but we will be opening new rounds soon it's minimum teams of six with mentoring and support for 10 weeks so I just say that if this is something you want to get into you don't need to be a techer you know if you you've already got a co-op or you're thinking of starting a co-op and you want to come on the or apply for the unfound accelerator you can do that through the co-op's UK website and applications will be open for the autumn edition on the 1st of july but like I say you don't need to be a techer you just need to know what your cooperative idea is how you will instal those values and principles in that business and then like I say working with the unfound team you can then work through what that might look like as an app development so you don't need to be a techer you don't have to have any understanding whatsoever of digital to start thinking about how you might apply digital to a co-operative so a bit of a plug there but like as I'm sure you're beginning to pick up I really care about co-operatives being in this space and driving digital driving the way that we do things in this pivotal decade for mankind so I mentioned Bertrand Russell before and in 1954 the great philosopher in human society and ethics and politics said famously the only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation and I think as we kind of look forward we can start to say you know 100 years from now you know this is really becoming something that we need to consider we do need to cooperate we do need to collaborate we do need to consider all the rich context of the world that we live in the different people the different geographies the different cultures and we will only be effective together if we do cooperate it's really beginning to prove his philosophical thinking as being something that could actually become really true the redemption of mankind down to cooperation but if you start thinking about our young people because they are our future in in in that respect and you know the next generation you know we've heard you know about the the sort of digital natives and we look at you know gen z often as being the the generation that you know are inheriting like I say you know possibly quite a dystopian future the way it's currently being sort of described but in actual fact the truth is that the next generation particularly gen z do already have a huge affinity with the cooperative values in particular and so there is real hope there but we've got to make sure that our laws and our policies and what we do with tech enables them to be able to to run with this because ultimately these will be the young people that are delivering on our futures and but yeah the pandemic really did you know again demonstrate all of these inequalities and you know the young people themselves you know have had a real challenging time so it's really important that we actually start to bring them into a greater awareness of what can be achieved with the cooperative business model if you add tech to it because there's a real affinity there already so that's something you'll start to see us pushing on from a co-op to UK point of view there's a lot going on with young people across the world the agency and federation of technology and innovation for example which is a knowledge worker co-operative are doing some really exciting stuff and if you look at the the youth research in the role played in unemployment so there's a lot going on there's a lot that's speaking to our young people and I do think it's really important to make sure that we enhance and amplify that and make the the potentials of tech really accessible to that generation but why then you know why why do I believe that co-ops are well placed to lead on digital and because actually ultimately for all those principles and values of which as you've seen there's lots of bullet points what all co-operatives do is that they distribute power so they distribute power via this one member one voice so it doesn't matter if you put way more money into an organisation than the person next to you it's one member one vote now once you start distributing that power and letting everybody have a say you get a different process and you get a different outcome and you get different results so the distribution of power is really critical to why I believe that co-operatives are well placed to lead on digital thinking into the future of tech and then the distribution of wealth actually the distribution of wealth is distribution of wealth because again you know you have the dividends any surfaces that are made in co-ops go back to the members those members might be tenants of a housing association those members might be or the businesses that have or the co-operative businesses that have come together however you look at that the distribution of wealth actually results in what again a growing awareness of what is called community wealth that idea of retaining wealth within that community so whether that's in your locality you know or whether that's your community of say for example a worker co-op that might be working remotely across data but the idea that you're anchoring that wealth in community again really plays well to you know why the principles and values of co-operation lend themselves wealth to deliver in on digital so far the great Bertrand Russell I put a challenge out there I think he's got a word wrong I believe the only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operative tech so that's you know taking the idea like say that tech isn't an abler and co-operatives really would benefit it would benefit the world to make sure that the data set is the programming the way we look at things like AI and machine learning do have those principles and values built into them and then secondly tech as a sector so you know tech that is driven by different considerations other than profit again I believe would really be pivotal for the development of mankind in a good way and so I am going to be taking some questions apologies I've got to say that early on so I don't know if any of you have been putting questions in the chat and I know that the co-op UK team have been collating questions that have been coming in previously so I'm going to take those stops sharing my screen and take those questions now and if you do want to pick up this debate further that's how you can find me on various social media channels so while you're thinking about whether or not you've got any questions at this stage would you let me know Irene if you've already got some questions yes so um so one about the youth sector so the term co-operative amongst especially the the kind of digital aware youth is generally associated with digital games so how are we going to bridge between the co-operative term as used in in gaming and the real co-operative message of the movement with our youth who are not really associated with more established co-operative movement that's an excellent question and it's fundamental actually because the way different generations communicate is a challenge and the understanding of different generations and it's something that I strongly believe as a movement the co-operative sector does need to look at something like say we talk about co-operative platforms but actually describing that as collaborative tech might be more in keeping with the language of our youth and it's a growing problem not just in gaming and digital it's across the whole kind of rise of conscious capitalism if you like where it's really difficult for the individuals or the average individual on the street to distinguish between you know what is sometimes just a marketing message around sustainability or ethics or you know putting back uh compared to actually a deep constitutionally rooted way of doing business that ensures that you're distributing power and wealth so in answer to that question Irene there's a whole host of things that we do need to do as a movement so we don't educate our young people about co-operatives and co-operative business you know most people know the co-opers there's the shop at the end of your street and don't really necessarily understand that that little card that you get not only gives you money back but it's not a marketing tool it's actually you know part of your membership right to get that money back for that financial contribution that you're making but also that you can vote at the AGM you know I sat and at the AGM for the co-op group this year and some of the discussions you know we're really interested around things like you know modern slavery and the customers we're getting to have a say and have a view through that process so we really need to create an awareness with our young people about co-operative business models and that starts in the skills space so when you do you know business studies for example at school the co-operative business model isn't really talked about there's this whole education piece there to do and in addition you know so the best way to learn is by action so if you look at things like credit unions which obviously are mutual and co-operative in their very design and that working together you know for a greater good you know I'd like to see that we actually start making things like credit unions visible to young people like to start into look to save you know for their own futures and again it's really challenging because they get approached by all sorts of different organisations particularly when the young are starting out in the careers and payday loans and all that type of stuff so you know we kind of battling against a lot of you know sort of marketing budgets and funds to do that but I believe is to start to raise awareness of credit unions that will do that and again it's really important Irina that we're not predictive and you should do this and you should do that you know with young people actually like you say gaming gaming at you know I've got a 16 year old that is fascinating because as the older generation if my 16 year old was you know in a forest with all his friends doing the kinds of things doing gaming like trying to work out how to go up that tree and then how to get across that one you know as my generation wasn't it lovely that they're all working together and actually what my generation does is because they're in the room all the time gaming well actually we need to recognise that they are developing skills and it might not be our experience of how they learn to collaborate but gaming you know in that kind of format is actually demonstrating how collaboration achieves goals so again being in the right place with the right message isn't about you should do this and you should do that it's about going would you know you're already using cooperation to deliver that and have you considered that that might be something that you want for your sports club or you want for the way that you work or the way that you intend to be able to live your lives like saying this particularly pivotal period for mankind so a lot to do with young people and any more questions Irina? I've got one more question so data is a big issue for a lot of people who are losing all trust in tech today and especially when it comes to the big tech giants do you think cooperative ownership will enable more trust in tech and why? Yeah I absolutely think cooperative ownership will enable more trust because like I say the members of that cooperative you know it's their job to govern the cooperative and deliver that and but I'm not as naive to think that all of those organisations are ever going to become cooperative so we've still got this big piece around like you say data gathering big tech I touched on it before with insurance you know we're getting into biotechnology now where like I say you know it's not just about the data being collected that you're providing you know it's about I did get asked that in my last insurance quote I got asked what I've been prepared to wear a wristband so they could monitor my activity I was actually asked that and I really was very uncomfortable about it and so actually this is my point about it's not just the cooperative businesses and business models it's about cooperative experts you know in things like AI and data you know open data cooperative are a good example being on the panels being on the government's AI panel actually feeding into you know organisations that are delivering this already and like I say cooperative's really standing you know up for what they believe in it was fascinating to see with the with the ESL you know when the footballers got everyone was so angry about the exploitation of wealth and now of course those angry people were very famous footballers and pundits who could galvanise that support of the general public we need to find more ways to do that we need to challenge what's happening with our data and our tech on a regular basis so it's not just about the models it's about as a movement us being the ones that stand there and say is that operating ethically is that how you want to to see that roll out so I'm under no illusion that it's you know this is a David and Goliath situation but I'm delighted so many of you have joined today to join that that charge because I really believe that you know like I said you know the potential to redeem mankind will sit in cooperative tech both as an enabler and as a platform so thank you very much for joining me today it's been really great to see so so many of you here and I do hope that I've given you plenty to think about and let's say if you're looking for any further information go to uk.coop and if you think that you might be suitable for our unfound accelerator programme the applications will be open on the 1st of July so thank you so much for joining me and yeah have a think about what we might do with our co-operative futures in digital thank you