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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
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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
This article was originally published on Imperica
High-tech tools of exploitation are being repurposed to build a fairer economy. The digital platforms that have become the connective tissue of our lives – the likes of Airbnb and Google –...
Saturday night is not the time most people chose to meet to discuss disrupting democracy. But that’s what happened at the Platform Co-ops event in London on the 21st of May 2016.
Whilst most of Brick Lane was quaffing vast quantities of craft beer...
A nice talk by Loomio‘s Ben Knight at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference
Emerging in response to the need for a scalable way to make inclusive group decisions during the Occupy movement in 2011, Loomio, an activist-driven tech co-op, developed...
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...
Alanna from Loomio met Romain Chanut at POC21, a 6 week innovation camp in France focused on open source hardware for sustainability. Romain was there with his “Do It Together”JerryCan – a low cost computer you can assemble from recycled materials. We...
Image: The Battle of Yavin where the first Death Star was destroyed. Credit: Fanpop
We have an epic choice before us between platform coops and Death Star platforms, and the time to decide is now. It might be the most important economic...
Enric Duran of the Catalan Integrated Cooperative has taken the time to comment on Michel Bauwens’ recent article on Open Coops, contrasting Bauwens’ proposals with the practical realities already under way in the CIC’s own forward thinking cooperativist...