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by Maira Sutton, Cat Johnson and Neal Gorenflo The sharing economy held great promise when it first emerged. It was seen as a way to help people build community, reduce unnecessary consumption, and generate extra income. It was based on the brilliantly simple notion that when we share, everybody has more. 
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Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor for Culture & Media at the New School and author of the book Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016). He is currently touring European cities to talk about platform cooperativism. Platform cooperativism, as he puts it, is "a way of joining the peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on communal ownership and democratic governance." I talked to him about this young movement, its rise, and the steps ahead.
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We recently published our submission to the Libraries Taskforce consultation about its draft strategy – Libraries Deliver: An Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-21.
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Where the Sharing Economy meets PlatformCooperativism the Collaborative Economy 3.0 begins. Cooperativism in general & cooperative banking associations in par…
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Find out more at: https://re-publica.de/16/session/how-platform-cooperativism-can-unleash-network The distrust of the dominant extractive model of th
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As “death star platforms” such as Airbnb and Uber continue their pursuit of global domination, an alternative is rising in its wake: Platform Cooperatives.
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RT @icacoop: What is Platform Cooperativism and Why is it Important? | MIT Center for Civic Media https://t.co/OvCJFdTRUP
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As “death star platforms” such as Airbnb and Uber continue their pursuit of global domination, an alternative is rising in its wake.
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RT @browningphilip1: Events in Mel first to explore #platformcoop in OZ https://t.co/ihprIcVYbA @antonymcmullen good pt for connection. ht…
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John Thackara is a writer and event producer who has spent a lifetime searching for stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realize a sustainable future.
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This #PlatformCoopBerlin report comprises an introduction into the notion of platform cooperativism, references and links to main activists, activities and fur…
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"There are now more self-employed workers than at any time since modern records began. Some 4.6 million people, around 15 per cent of the workforce, are now self-employed and data from the Office for National Statistics show that two thirds of new jobs in the UK created in recent years are down to self-employment.
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The backlash against unethical labor practices in the “collaborative sharing economy” has been overplayed. Recently, The…
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In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears - 'Few places are tilting toward a cashless future as quickly as Sweden, which has become hooked on the convenience of paying by app and plastic.'
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Since the first browser was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee over 25 years ago, the World Wide Web has grown to become a massive ecosystem of information that has democratized access to knowledge and culture on the Internet. But today, the Web is under threat.
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As “death star platforms” such as Airbnb and Uber continue their pursuit of global domination, an alternative is rising in its wake.
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Imagine a transparent, democratic and decentralised economy which works for everyone. A society in which anyone can become a co-owner of the organisations on which they, their family and their community depend.
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Speakers: Marc-David Choukran (La Ruche Qui Dit Oui) Yassir Fichtali (Up Group) Nathan Schneider (Platform Cooperativism) Moderator: Marguerite ...
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I am a pretty assiduous digital commoner, for what it’s worth. I almost exclusively use free/libre/open-source software (hereafter FLOSS), evangelistically so. I try to practice open journalism. I’ve run and developed business models for organizations devoted to producing Creative Commons content. I believe that property is theft, ultimately, and I hold the ancient doctrine of the universal destination of goods. But I also consider my support of the platform cooperative movement to be, in part, a critique of the digital commons movement so far.
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The “sharing economy” wasn’t supposed to be this way. Aided by the tiny computers most of us carry with us all day, every day, we would be free from the burdens of ownership and making money in our spare time by renting out our unused possessions. The vison was—or at least appeared to be—an idealistic one. Even before they enter kindergarten, every child learns the value of sharing, and here were the beneficent forces of Silicon Valley bringing us innovative new tools to strengthen our com- munities, disrupt outdated ways of doing business, and maybe even reduce our carbon footprints.
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The Coopify app lets you order things like house cleaning or babysitting right from your phone. But the people providing the services come fro
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Last November, the Platform Cooperativism conference -- a coming out party for the cooperative Internet -- took place in New York City, initiated by Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz.
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The rapid development of digital interfaces is not exclusively a matter of matching supply and demand. Collaborative platforms have emerged alongside marketplaces.
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A Theory of Everybody is a platform cooperative.
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