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Just like traditional co-ops, platform co-ops are organisations that are owned and managed by their members. While traditional co-ops are normally based around a physical community of members, platform co-ops live online and are normally populated by...
What are ‘Platform Co-ops’? Platform cooperatives are online organisations which are owned and managed by their members. Platform co-ops follow the principles of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). They are democratically governed and support...
Platform co-ops, and the burgeoning movement behind them, are big news. For the first time since the inception of the internet a consensus is forming around a new model of economics and governance. At The Open Co-op we have been working on this concept...
In 2010, when Transition Towns started growing into the hundreds in the UK, with another 250 worldwide, it felt like something was really happening. Like ‘the people’ might me about to start taking control of their town’s futures. When...
Platform Co-op Support The Open Co-op welcomes the support for Platform Cooperatives outlined in Jeremy Corbyn’s Digital Democracy Manifesto (pdf). Recent Deliveroo and UberEats strikes highlight the importance of “the inalienable right of...
Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled “11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy“. It’s a really nice list of projects who are all moving in the right direction (i.e. toward greater sharing of ownership...
Open Value Networks are very similar to Bettermeans’ Open Enterprise ideas and variously described as “people creating value together, by contributing work, money and goods, and sharing the income” a “framework for many-to-many...
Originally published on 3CR Community Radio A podcast on The Internet of Ownership and Platform Co-ops with Nathan Schneider and others: https://open.coop/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/06/201606081730_renegade-economists_64.mp3 Download MP3 Rising...
Image: Shareable Originally published on ABC Radio National Life Matters Show http://198.38.77.184/~open/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lms_20160607_0905.mp3 Are you part of the virtual sharing economy? Do you drive an Uber, use Airbnb or make videos...
A video from OuiShare Fest 2016
Speakers:
Marc-David Choukran (La Ruche Qui Dit Oui)
Yassir Fichtali (Up Group)
Nathan Schneider (Platform Cooperativism)
Moderator:
Marguerite Grandjean (OuiShare)
https://ouisharefest.com