International Year of Co-operatives
2012 is the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives - a year aimed at boosting understanding of the benefits that the co-operative approach to business brings to tens of millions of people across the world.
Co-ordinated by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), the global voice of co-operatives, the year will show how 'co-operative enterprises build a better world'.
Watch Charles Gould, Director General of the ICA, discuss the year at this year's Co-operative Congress:
#coops2012 tweets
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@GarethCUK that's brilliant many of them flash mobbed the statue of robert Owen too this morning! #coops2012
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#coops2012 El Salvador still has scars from the civil war of the 1980s, but for a community in the San Salvador... t.co/IZIKEmZf
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Impressed that one of the #littleclaymen is a co-operator, and has found a home at @CooperativesUK! Happy #coops2012! t.co/OH45mvFd
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Imagine if each of the #littleclaymen represented a #coops from across the world!Where would yours be from? #coops2012 t.co/Pb2hRPOA
