We are actively pursuing a range of philanthropic, environmental, health and social impact initiatives.
Mentoring
We are award winning volunteer mentors with international experience, we focus on enabling communities to self-help by connecting.
Focus areas are tech startup founders and potential founders and their teams and enablers. In specific circumstances we also do personal mentoring outside the business context.
Currently we do mentoring in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, France and Nigeria. There are no geographical restrictions this has just evolved through other initiatives over time.
We encourage senior community members with technical and commercial experience to consider being a volunteer or commercial mentor. Typically first session is free and then we discuss longer term mutual benefits if any.
Coco Life Records
Connect community, live better.
A Coco Project provides open source software for community clinics and life long medical and personal records for families, friends and communities.
Focused on developing countries but useful for everyone especially large and or mobile populations, this software-as-a-service is free for most people and paid for commercial businesses and can be used by small, medium and large enterprises across a range of industries.
We hope coco can help billions of people find and engage with millions of providers.
The Start Society
An umbrella of services for tech startup founders and innovation enablers to create new economic and social impact. Mentoring, founder and enabler introductions, online library and other resources including iCentral Coworking.
We hope StartSoc can help grass roots entrepreneurship create high value global grade jobs in nascent innovation communities and accelerate development and international connections and hence competitiveness.
iCentral
Subsidised Coworking Community Space for tech startup founders and their teams and enablers as a means of connecting the tech and innovation communities. Past venues in Sydney, Australia and Yangon, Myanmar (currently on hold due to local situation). Future venues being considered in Thailand, initially Koh Samui.
We hope iC can help entrepreneurs when they are least supported and gradually bridge across to commercial self sustainability with community connections.
Lending
We provide non-recourse micro loans to developing countries via and excellent long term service we love called Kiva.org and you can view our live profile at https://www.kiva.org/lender/cooperco here are some sample statistics from late 2024 showing our activity over the last decade or so.
Burma Heritage
New timber furniture and modern minimalist designs of an international standard made from aged recycled timber as used in iCentral. Original designs distributed on an open source basis to help create jobs. Made by hand to create sustainable products and skill development for citizens in developing nations. Facebook
A Yeik
Food bank for those in need, based on assumption local donors in developing countries already have preferred effective channels for donating food. A Yeik is using anew approach to originate new international donors directly connecting them to local ecommerce providers distributing a pre-agreed standard package of family food, care and shelter supplies.
Typically USD 100 will feed up to ten small families for up to a month with 10 standard packs delivered direct to an informal housing village. These are free to the recipients (including delivery) and paid for online by international donors directly to local ecommerce providers. This is not a proprietary model and we would be happy to educate others on how to implement this bulk buy/sell/distribute model in other locations globally.
Ayeik means ‘comfortable or shaded place’ in Myanmar / Burmese.
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