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hope is that all participants in the Capital Ownership Group's Virtual Think Tank
will get involved in at least one of the five POLICY GROUPS.
At the same time, we understand that some participants also have the desire to
maintain an ongoing discussion with those who share something in common, ie, country,
region, language. For this reason, we have established this corner of COG's VTT
for Additional Groups. Each
group has a coordinator who maintains the list of participants, updates the group's
archive, and, from time to time, prepares a brief report on the highlights of
the group's discussion to keep the rest of the COG network informed. If
you wish to establish an Additional Group, please send an email explaining the
purpose of the group and why it belongs in COG's VTT to cog@kent.edu.
- EUROPEAN
POLICY GROUP:
What instruments should the European institutions implement as of now to promote
the development of employee share ownership and participation and apply the PEPPER
recommendations? What practical action can be taken at Community level? How and
within what time frame?".
- ESOP
INDIA GROUP:The
objectives of the ESOP India Group are to conceptualize, develop, study and analyze
strategies for promoting employee ownership as a tool for achieving sustainable
economic growth and a just and equitable distribution of economic wealth.
- ECONOMICS
OF OWNERSHIP GROUP:
This group's objective is to expand the number of economists who take a professional
interest in issues of capital ownership. Such economists can help identify important
hypotheses at stake, and suggest appropriate and cost-effective means of testing
whether changes required for implementation of broader capital ownership rights
show plausible improvement in the kinds of indicators that are accepted as marks
of relative economic success or failure.
- SPANISH
DISCUSSION GROUP: This group's objective is to discuss issues that
are related to COG, but the discussants present their information in the Spanish
language. A starting point for the discussion is the RORAC project. This project
seeks to aid indigenous people with their problems of water irrigation and economic
underdevelopment.
- RUSSIAN
DISCUSSION GROUP: This group's objective is to discuss issues that
are related to COG, but the discussants present their information in the Russian
language. A starting point for the discussion is identifying the existing resources
which support broadening ownership in Russia as well as existing obstacles.
- ORGANISED
LABOUR GROUP:
The purpose of this group is to exchange practical experience of worker ownership
and its impact on union organisation with labour representatives around the world.
Does the worker ownership promise of increased local control and greater job security
hold true under modern economic conditions? Can worker ownership be a viable alternative
strategy to privatisation and corporate globalisation? Is worker ownership a threat
or an opportunity to trade union organising? Real life examples of worker ownership
- successful and unsuccessful - will be exposed and discussed. Bring your own!
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