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China has already formed a much larger and better down-top ecosystem, manifesting the ultimate goal of the Maker Movement – democratizing innovation. We call it the New Shanzhai. The Chinese word for Shanzhai can be traced back to year 1999-2000, representing the act of copying and duplicating brand products. In recent years, Shanzhai has ...
The combinatory force of logistical media has a substantive effect on the composition of labor and production of subjectivity. The flexibility of global supply chains and just-in-time modes of production shape who gets employed, where they work and what sort of work they do. Logistical systems, in other words, govern labor.
- Introduction
- Contextual Quotes
- Description
- Typology
- Citations of Examples
- Tools For Commons-Based Platform Cooperatives
- History
- Interview
- Discussion
- The Las Indias / Nathan Schneider Controversy
Concept and practice suggested by Trebor Scholz, in the article: "Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy"; and Also an event: see https://platformcoop.net/ ; and a book, the Platform Cooperativism Book
1. " Worker–owned cooperatives could design their own apps-based platforms, fostering truly peer-to-peer ways of providing services and things " 2. "The solidarity economy is creative and energetic, spawning healthy attitudes toward work and more sustainable forms of financing. But this movement, perhaps because it prioritizes offline essentials li...
1. Menno van Ginkel: "The concept of platform cooperativism has been proposed by Scholz (2014), as a reaction to the dependence of digital tools and platforms in modern society. Since the arrival of the smartphone in the late 2000s, many interactions in both a professional setting and in private life are facilitated by online platforms and apps. Th...
"Trebor offers a series of types of platform coops. Cooperative online labor brokerages & marketplacesIn Germany, Fairmondo started as a global marketplace owned by its users -- like a co-operative ebay. In SF, Loconomics is a freelance co-operative where freelancers have shares and have a voice in running the company.
1. Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz: "Over the past few months, we have been preparing a showcase of actually-existing projects that have collective ownership at their core. We will hear, for instance, from the people behind Stocksy, an artist-owned stock-photography website, and Resonate, a cooperative music streaming platform. Backfeed, Swarm, ...
= « We need to pioneer technical, organizational and financial forms that enable users to mutualize the benefits of their own online sharing ». David Bollier: "Our imaginations and aspirations must begin to shift their focus from open platforms to digital commons. Self-organized commoners must be able to control the terms of their interactions and ...
Nathan Schneider responds to Imperica: 1. You have been influential in developing the term and concept of platform co-operatives. Why did you feel like it was the right moment to do this? NS: "My colleague Trebor Scholz first coined the term in December 2014. That same month, I published a report with Shareable about entrepreneurs around the world ...
Nathan Schneider on Platform Cooperativism and its Prospects
From an interview with Imperica: 1. Internet marketplaces often tend towards monopolies. Is the future of platform co-operatives in opening up new sectors for operation, or in displacing established players from existing sectors? NS: I'm starting to think that we need a new generation of law and custom for dealing with these rising online monopolies. The old trust-busting logic doesn't really make sense; Facebook and Google, for instance, are so useful to us because they're so ubiquitous. Rat...
Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives as the key structure for Platform Cooperatives
Maurie J. Cohen: "In moving toward platform cooperativism, the availability of open-source software like Sharetribe, which enables social entrepreneurs to easily create new sharing networks is likely to be an important new development. While this idea is unquestionably laudable, there is opportunity to push it a little further. Why limit cooperation only to producers while implicitly treating consumers as little more than a mass of aggregate demand? Why elevate workers over their customers wh...
What might a driver-owned Uber look like?
Excerpted from Nic Wistreich: “There’s at least three options… 1. Like Uber/Lyft/etc, but a giant Coop. A logical starting point would be simply to recreate Uber/Lyft/etc, with their global network of offices, drivers, marketing and technical infrastructure, as a driver-owned coop, operating either non-profit or with its profits distributed amongst drivers. It would need to be a large, well financed (Uber has raised $7bn over 12 rounds https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber), dynamic or...
George Dafermos
George Dafermos: "In contrast to proprietary platforms like YouTube and Airbnb, platform cooperatives areowned and governed by their users. The crucial difference lies in their cooperative legalform, which renders them the collective property of their user-members. ‘The centralpremise,’ as Gorenflo (2015) writes, ‘is that those who create the most value for theplatforms -[for example, the] drivers and hosts [of Uber and Airbnb, respectively]-should own and control the platforms.’ According to...
Michel Bauwens: Las Indias, a collective of cooperators in Spain, has written a critique of platform coops as a weak response to current challenges. We republished the text in our blog and you can find the original post in Las Indias’ website here. At the P2P Foundation, we rejoice and support the platform cooperativist movement, as a movement that...
Collaborative Lifestyles. = one of three forms of Collaborative Consumption identified by Rachel Botsman et al.: It’s not just physical goods that can be shared, swapped, and bartered. People with similar interests are banding together to share and exchange less tangible assets such as time, space, skills, and money.
Ryzhom: "Framing Holochain - a non-blockchain architecture for distributed social applications (dApps or hApps) and the ground level for further expanding an evolvable, fully distributed framework for coordinated sense-making and collective value-creation (i.e., means of articulating value) on all scales. Even though it had been conceived of ...
Concept. Maxigas and Peter Troxler: In the last years we have witnessed an incredible proliferation of shared machine shops in a confusing number of genres: hackerspaces, makerspaces, Fab Labs and their more commercial counterparts such as TechShops, co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators.
eric schwartzman: "Three examples where service oriented community network business models fall short: 1. When Buyers Need Protection – The more important relationships are to successful transactions, the more risky peer-to-peer transactions are. When there is very little promise of future revenues, sellers are much less motivated to perform.
