Lecture: The Open Food Network

How open source can change the way we buy food

The idea of the Open Food Network project is: what if instead of each community having to find, pay for, customize, a licensed solution, we could all mutualize our energies and money to build a platform that will
answer the needs of all our communities, and make it easier for the next communities to start in order to scale up the emergence of this new distribution system?

Food distribution systems are not transparent: Where does the
food you buy in the supermarket come from? How many intermediates
have taken their margin on it? How much goes into the farmers
pocket? How have the products been grown? More and more
alternatives are offering alternative distribution systems to
both conscious consumers and committed farmers: CSA buying clubs,
food cooperatives, consumers and producers start to organize
themselves to invent a new - and sense-making - distribution
system. But it's hard to build and organize a community, and you
need tools to be able to buy as a group. The idea of the Open
Food Network project is: what if instead of each community having
to find, pay for, customize, a licensed solution, we could all
mutualize our energies and money to build a platform that will
answer the needs of all our communities, and make it easier for
the next communities to start in order to scale up the emergence
of this new distribution system?

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Day: 2015-11-07
Start time: 16:15
Duration: 00:45
Room: Lilla Hörsalen
Track: P2P Society

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