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Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup. 
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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The logic of platform economics explained: it is now more expensive to internalize than to link and network. An analysis by Esko Kilpi.
jean lievens's insight:
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELSecon
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According to the Shadow Chancellor, the Labour Party will double the size of the UK co-operative sector if in power, as a way to boost the economy.
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A bedrock of any solidarity economy is the old idea of cooperativism—sharing ownership among those affected by an enterprise and governing it democratically
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Cooperatives UK have just released an in depth report full of examples of best practices for co-operatives collaborating to meet the needs of workers
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For more than two decades, Douglas Rushkoff has provided incisive commentary on our increasingly connected, digitized, and corporatized world. From Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace to Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back to his newest, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, he’s chronicled both the promise and the peril of of a global society being remade by the Internet and high-tech corporations.dou
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The founding groups, the pioneers in almost any community, hold a different status: equal rights, more responsibility, and more prominence.
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The gig economy as we know it is unacceptable. It’s an entirely parasitic arrangement in which a capitalist corporation inserts itself in P2P interactions
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The backlash to the corporate “sharing economy” is gaining momentum, and one key player is the movement to develop “platform cooperativism.”
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“We believe that a new economy cannot be built in vacuum. We see this as a process of metamorphosis. The ethical and aware classical players will join first to transfer their classical store value and production assets into new assets. This is in essence a transfer of resources from the old economy into the new.... Continue reading →
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An in-depth explorations of the types of signals needed for a post-capitalist, mutual coordination, economy
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The Sharing Economy has to be a genuine form of economic sharing that addresses the power structures and politics that maintain an unjust status quo
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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 and control), but some of them aren’t actually co-operatives. This got me thinking: Should organisations that are not... Continue reading →
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Don’t wait for the system out there to change — make your own rules and live in the economy you want, right now.
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My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
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BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES DEFAULT ETHICAL ECONOMY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P BUSINESS MODELS P2P FOUNDATION P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P MONEY
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This new economy is not really about sharing it is an on-demand service economy that it spreading market relations deeper into our lives.
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Self employment levels used to be a measure of how underdeveloped an economy was. Now it has become something that is celebrated across developed countries.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELS PEER PROPERTY
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Thomas Greco to conduct a course on innovative exchange, finance, and economics this summer in Greece.
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Gratipay and Liberapay are open source tipping systems for developers and creators who contribute to the commons. They have had their fair share of trouble.
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” capitalism is the source of everything good in the world, although it's never existed.
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Christopher David has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It's called Arcade City
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OuiShare Fest Forward is an accelerator for open source projects with measurable positive impact.
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Video interview of co-founder Christopher David: “The former ‘illegal Uber driver’ Christopher David — who provides rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire residents when cab companies will not — has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It’s called Arcade City.” Watch the video here:
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