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Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

Music at the Conference

“Amor a mi clase”

(“Love to my class”)

by Pipe Diaz ( La Insurgencia)

The Spanish rapper Pipe Diaz is part of La Insurgencia: an amateur collective of rappers. Pipe Diaz, together with 12 other members of La Insurgencia, was sentenced in 2016 to 2 years and 1 day of prison, accused by the Spanish government of inciting violence and supporting terrorist groups. Diaz’s lyrics are revolutionary, inviting people to fight against the capitalist system and oligarchy, but the main message of his lyrics is a call for the proletariat to take action and start a revolution to lose the chains of capitalism, even if it is necessary to take up arms. At the same time, he supports labor unions and movements for more representation of the proletariat. In his song: Amor a mi clase (“Love to my class”), he professed his love to the working class that is living with precarious wages. The song is Pipe Diaz’ call to start a Socialist Revolution and destroy the system for a better life.

 

Context:

We asked Prof. Daniel Blake and his Music for Political Action course at The New School to select and research the history of songs that relate to our event. We will play the songs throughout the days of the conference. You will find descriptions of these songs, researched and written by his students, after the biographies at the end of this program. We send our heartfelt appreciation to the students in this course: Emma Brown, Martin Cruz Echeverri, Samantha Dilenschneider, Kayla Donald, Reese Fong, Cristy Garcia, Sofia Garcia, Avery Kaplan, Lexi Lane, Emily Leontyev, Kasper Meacham, Kebron Mihrete, Kayla Anne Santos, Lilah Smith, Anaka Steinmetz, Ryan Webb, and Ayla Weissman.

  

Cooperators of the World, Unite! Finale

Nov 9, 2019 5:00–5:30PM

 

The Auditorium - Room A106, Ground Floor

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall

66 West 12th Street, NYC

 

For three days, each session highlighted the strengths, qualities and problems at the heart of our work all over the world. Platform co-ops have been embraced by many as one near-term solution on the way to a post-capitalist society. We can do better than platform capitalism.

 

For this finale, participants read one haiku- or tweet-length sentence inspiring us where to go next.

Tudo que você podia ser

by Clube da Esquina

Brazilian singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Milton Nascimento was known as the voice of his generation. His beautifully haunting vocals express a deep spirituality that is essential to his unique style. Milton and his childhood friends including Lô Borges would play music on the street in their home state of Minas Gerais. Eventually they created a collective known as Clube da Esquina (the Corner Club). While military leaders and politicians planned to overthrow the João “Jango” Goulart government, this collective of musicians came together on the street corners of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais. The collective released two albums in the 1970s. The collective created emblematic expressions pertinent to the social and political concerns of the Brazilian audience, specifically to galvanize the youth. “Tudo que você podia ser,”

(“All that you could be”), the opening track of Clube da Esquina, speaks to the sense of authoritarian social oppression. Clube da Esquina imagined forms of democracy and desire, not only to cope with the political reality, but to inspire imagination that could eventually translate into a new reality.

 

Context:

Music at the Conference

We asked Prof. Daniel Blake and his Music for Political Action course at The New School to select and research the history of songs that relate to our event. We will play the songs throughout the days of the conference. You will find descriptions of these songs, researched and written by his students, after the biographies at the end of this program. We send our heartfelt appreciation to the students in this course: Emma Brown, Martin Cruz Echeverri, Samantha Dilenschneider, Kayla Donald, Reese Fong, Cristy Garcia, Sofia Garcia, Avery Kaplan, Lexi Lane, Emily Leontyev, Kasper Meacham, Kebron Mihrete, Kayla Anne Santos, Lilah Smith, Anaka Steinmetz, Ryan Webb, and Ayla Weissman.

About Senator Gillibrand:

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Learn more about the event:

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Hi, I'm US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. I'm delighted to greet all of you at this important event to bring together leaders across different sectors in support of the cooperative movement. I believe to my core that our country needs to start rewarding work again. And cooperatives are at the heart of the effort to do so, including in the digital economy. I was proud that my Main Street Employee Ownership Act was passed into law last year. It reforms the Small Business Administration to help retiring business owners transfer ownership to workers, consumers, and farmers. That includes co-ops, which have for too long struggled to access this very important federal assistance. I want to extend my gratitude to the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School for all their efforts and pulling together today's event, and then leading the research that is driving new innovation in the cooperative sector.

 

I pledge to keep fighting for increased federal support of cooperatives.

 

I wish you all the best for a productive event.

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

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Coopathon! Designing an Index of the Digital Co-Op Space

Nov 7, 2019 11:00AM–4:00PM

 

Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor

Arnhold Hall

55 West 13th Street, NYC

 

Join us for a participatory session on how to map the cooperative digital economy in a way that is useful for all stakeholders. This gathering invites everyone to explore individual opportunities and propose solutions for a simple, searchable, and useful index of our ecosystem. In 2020, the index will be designed as part of the Platform Co-op Development Kit.

 

Questions motivating our session include:

 

How might we design a user experience that serves unique stakeholder information needs, from policymakers and funders to organizers and technologists and beyond?

How might we build a tool to discover and showcase the range of digital co-op projects around the world?

How might co-ops and other stakeholders take ownership and control of this index, ensure it benefits them, and keep it up-to-date?

Together, we’ll explore these questions and co-design collective solutions.

 

Facilitated by Danny Spitzberg

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Coopathon! Designing an Index of the Digital Co-Op Space

Nov 7, 2019 11:00AM–4:00PM

 

Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor

Arnhold Hall

55 West 13th Street, NYC

 

Join us for a participatory session on how to map the cooperative digital economy in a way that is useful for all stakeholders. This gathering invites everyone to explore individual opportunities and propose solutions for a simple, searchable, and useful index of our ecosystem. In 2020, the index will be designed as part of the Platform Co-op Development Kit.

 

Questions motivating our session include:

 

How might we design a user experience that serves unique stakeholder information needs, from policymakers and funders to organizers and technologists and beyond?

How might we build a tool to discover and showcase the range of digital co-op projects around the world?

How might co-ops and other stakeholders take ownership and control of this index, ensure it benefits them, and keep it up-to-date?

Together, we’ll explore these questions and co-design collective solutions.

 

Facilitated by Danny Spitzberg

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AI-transcription of the talk:

 

Hi, everybody. Great to be here in an action-packed day, and I believe I've got eight minutes and we're under strict instructions, not to go over. CooperativesUK is a stone's throw away from Rochdale, the home of the global co-operative movement. The coop sector in the UK is is thriving we currently have around sort of over 7000 co Ops, and as you expect in a wealth of different sectors that sort of read from themselves but as cooperativesUK is the representative body for that. For those 7000 coops. We work to promote, develop and unite the cooperative movement. And when we do that in a number of ways, and in a few minutes, I can't do justice to all the fantastic work all the 7000 cops are doing but I'm going to try to be a bit of a flavor of what of what we've been doing over the last couple of years. We represented well we have 800 were secondary co We have 800 members membership and that represents more than just 800 clubs because we have a lot of federal bodies etc. And it's just really fantastic work going on at the moment. Although those that seem quite robust, they've been static for about 10 years. And so a couple of years ago, Cox's UK, started having conversations with a movement and said, Well, what can we do to start growing the Coptic movement, and one of the things we realized is that we didn't have a cohesive strategy that combined our voices and said, Well, this is our ambition, our collective ambition. And so we crowdsource a strategy development strategy. So we have conversations, ongoing conversations over a period of two years, with over 200 cooperators or corporate organizations and came up with a national strategy that set some really ambitious targets for the next 20 years. Within that strategy, there are three Matic areas that we thought of right for growth or investment and that's health and social care. Co-Ops, for working for freelancers and precarious workers and pattern Pope's emerged after that too. And there's a natural intersect between all of those three. And it's been great to have Emma from equal care court here presenting in a number of occasions, which sort of explains why that's a natural marriage those two things coming together. We're running a business program called the high and the hive is a partnership between Cox's UK and the National Cooperative Bank. And it's the only dedicated support program available to co-ops in the UK. And it's available to co-ops in any parts of the life cycle. So whether you're a startup you're looking to grow or perhaps convert, cooperative ownership or workmanship. Within the hi we created a specific profit data program dedicated to platform co-ops. And unfounded was our that was our first attempt to provide specific support to emerging cops in the UK. We run a pilot program in 2017 we supported a co Ops, it's great to see two of them here. And three of them have gone on to trade quite successfully. We've been campaigning is unfounded since we've been traveling around the UK trying to promote the concept of platform co-ops and try to build relationships and develop a network so that when we come back next year with a more robust and developed offer their participants ready to participate in the program. And through some of this work, we've started to get a much more nuanced understanding of some of the barriers to entry, the course space, we're often cited as being too complex, and there's a certain stigma associated with the term cops in the UK, perhaps, initially that so we create some tools that we think help reduce or remove some of those barriers and level is a start-up in cooperation platform. That through 15 minutes of sort of a basic survey, and providing some information you can incorporate your co-op, whereas it used to take about two and a half weeks. hundreds of pounds and lots of consultation with advice. And we think that this model can replicate. And actually multi stakeholder model, the plastic box is potentially fertile ground. I've just come out of the capital conundrum session. So some of this will look familiar to those of you who are there. But there's, over the last 10 years, we've seen a real growth in the community Co-Op sector, and that largely imparts the ability or the application of something called Community shares. That's a brand new social investment that enables community co-ops to receive inward investment through the growth equity shares to their membership. And over the last 10 years, over 500 clubs in the UK raised 50 million pounds using that mechanism taken over local areas. And while their geographic communities the same model principles could apply to communities of interest and for platform courts, that's particularly interesting. And so we produced a report to explore some of this and we've started to support and invest in some co-ops platform co-ops using the same model We've had some perhaps not as much policy support from our current government. Let's hope that changes towards December. We found that platform co-ops and work attacks are starting to feature in industrial strategies. And beyond sort of the big politics in Whitehall, we're starting to see local government form networks, where they're sharing best practice around Corp development. We're even starting to see some really pioneering local governments creating strategies to develop their local economy, collective economies with some really ambitious targets to double the size of their collective economies by 2025. So it's really encouraging to see the spectrum of sort of political support. And we just heard from Matthew brown for Preston early this morning, who it was who was one of those pioneers. Were campaigning and we campaigning with partners because we can't do this on our own and actually the movement in the UK is rich and There are lots of actors who are contributing to this idea of cooperative development agendas. We've recently launched a campaign called the 1 million owners campaign. And that's in partnership with our sister organization, the employee ownership Association. And we believe with the right support with some with some cash capital injection, that we could see a fivefold increase in the number of employee-owners in the UK by 2030. So we're hoping to push that target and this is starting to attract some grant funding and the opportunity to innovate and test new ideas and new models to enable worker co ops and employee ownership businesses to scale and grow.

 

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

Fire the Bosses, Democratize the Internet, and Own the Future

 

Celebrating ten years of digital labor conferences at The New School, Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism is the most international gathering of its kind. Following our 2018 conference in Hong Kong, this much-needed event summons scholars and founders of platform cooperatives — businesses that use a website, mobile app, or protocol to sell goods or services while relying on democratic decision-making and shared ownership of the platform by workers and users.

 

Platform cooperativism is not a fleeting idea but an iterative process that unfolds with the support of community groups and anchor organizations such as universities, cooperative banks, and accelerators. Impulses for a democratic digital transformation come from numerous domains, which is why this event presents theoretical reflections, artistic provocations, and insights from on-the-ground workers, owners, and users.

 

Who Owns the World? convenes one hundred fifty speakers from over thirty countries to meet each other, co-design, and learn about topics such as worker power in the platform economy, antitrust, misogyny and racism in co-ops, ecological sustainability, best practices for cooperation including the allocation of startup funding, the potential of platform co-ops for data trusts, data co-ops, new models for distributed governance, and data sovereignty.

 

Who owns our data, our cities, the world? For three days in November, we’ll field this and other questions. We’ll not stop at slideshows and declarations challenging current enterprise structures but continue to advance existing and near-future alternatives. We can do better than platform capitalism! Cooperators the world over, unite now!!

 

This conference is convened by Trebor Scholz (Director, Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School ICDE) with support from Michael McHugh, ICDE’s Assistant Director.

 

Support

The following organizations have taken a stand for the future of cooperatives in the digital economy by joining the PCC Circle of Cooperators as members:

Smart.coop, Fairbnb.coop, Coompanion, NeedsMap, Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (Australia), Datavest, Democracy at Work Institute, Co-operatives UK, Stocksy United, CoLab Cooperative, Cotabo, Ontario Co-operative Association, Fondazione Centro Studi Doc, Center for Cultural Innovation, Cooperatives for a Better World, Unionen, Institute for the Future, CoLab Cooperative, Febecoop, La Coop des Communs

 

In addition, we acknowledge event sponsors including the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University; The New School’s Milano School for Management and Policy; the Open Society Foundations; and the Ford Foundation.

 

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Gig Worker, Freelancer, Self-Employed: Who Is Watching out for Them?

Nov 8, 2019 10:40–11:30AM

 

Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor

The University Center

63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

How can the worker co-op form help workers in the informal economy, marked by deregulated tech firms and a decline of unions, both in the overdeveloped world as well as in the economically developing world? Where and how does technology play a role in answering this question?

 

How can the worker co-op form help workers in the informal economy, marked by deregulated tech firms and a decline of unions, both in the overdeveloped world as well as in the economically developing world? Where and how does technology play a role in answering this question?

 

Salonie Muralidhara (Senior Associate, SEWA Federation)

 

Sandrino Graceffa (CEO, Smart.coop) & Yvon Jadoul (Secretary General, Smart.coop)

 

Matthew Brown (Leader of the Preston City Council)

 

Respondent:

Doug O’Brien (President & CEO, NCBA CLUSA)

 

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

  

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Gig Worker, Freelancer, Self-Employed: Who Is Watching out for Them?

Nov 8, 2019 10:40–11:30AM

 

Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor

The University Center

63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

How can the worker co-op form help workers in the informal economy, marked by deregulated tech firms and a decline of unions, both in the overdeveloped world as well as in the economically developing world? Where and how does technology play a role in answering this question?

 

How can the worker co-op form help workers in the informal economy, marked by deregulated tech firms and a decline of unions, both in the overdeveloped world as well as in the economically developing world? Where and how does technology play a role in answering this question?

 

Salonie Muralidhara (Senior Associate, SEWA Federation)

 

Sandrino Graceffa (CEO, Smart.coop) & Yvon Jadoul (Secretary General, Smart.coop)

 

Matthew Brown (Leader of the Preston City Council)

 

Respondent:

Doug O’Brien (President & CEO, NCBA CLUSA)

 

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We Are Animals, A Children’s Strike

Nov 8, 2019 7:30–7:50PM

 

Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor

The University Center

63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

The artist Gabo Camnitzer and The Sixth Street Community Center (SSCC) are collaborating to facilitate children in developing alternative modes of protesting for climate justice. Engaging with the radical history of children’s strikes of the past 200 years, children at SSCC are developing their own forms of protest, ones which might point beyond the confines of sanctioned forms of demonstration. We are proud to offer our conference as the site of this performative intervention.

 

Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South

 

November 4–6, 2022

 

Museum of Tomorrow

Rio de Janeiro-

Brazil

 

The event was co-hosted by the PCC and the Institute for Technology and Society (ITS Rio). The event was sponsored by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (SESCOOP-RJ), Coopersystem , Needsmap, and Mondragon University.

 

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Coopathon! Designing an Index of the Digital Co-Op Space

Nov 7, 2019 11:00AM–4:00PM

 

Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor

Arnhold Hall

55 West 13th Street, NYC

 

Join us for a participatory session on how to map the cooperative digital economy in a way that is useful for all stakeholders. This gathering invites everyone to explore individual opportunities and propose solutions for a simple, searchable, and useful index of our ecosystem. In 2020, the index will be designed as part of the Platform Co-op Development Kit.

 

Questions motivating our session include:

 

How might we design a user experience that serves unique stakeholder information needs, from policymakers and funders to organizers and technologists and beyond?

How might we build a tool to discover and showcase the range of digital co-op projects around the world?

How might co-ops and other stakeholders take ownership and control of this index, ensure it benefits them, and keep it up-to-date?

Together, we’ll explore these questions and co-design collective solutions.

 

Facilitated by Danny Spitzberg

Impressions from "Who Owns the World" at The New School November 7-9, 2019

 

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Special Address by the New York City Deputy Mayor

Nov 9, 2019 9:05–9:15AM

 

Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor

The University Center

63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

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Co-Design Potluck: Designing Tech Together

Nov 8, 2019 12:00–3:00PM

 

Hirshon Suite - Room I205, 2nd Floor

Arnhold Hall

55 West 13th Street, NYC

 

This potluck is limited to 30 participants. Registration required.

 

At a potluck, we all bring something to the table and benefit from others’ contributions. This workshop provides an opportunity for the cooperative community to collectively identify common needs for digital tools and processes that:

 

Support the daily operations of cooperatives

Provide guidance in starting platform co-ops

Foster the growth of cooperative businesses

Participants will identify shared needs and collaboratively develop designs for tools that support the needs of the cooperative ecosystem.

 

The outcome of this workshop will include requirements, design ideas, and a plan for next steps, and will provide an opportunity to realise our shared network of resources and how they might best be applied to achieve our common goals.

 

Join members of the Inclusive Design Research Centre and our partner co-ops on the Platform Cooperative Development Kit project to contribute your perspectives.

 

We are seeking participants who are co-op members or those with resources and skills to contribute. Be prepared to discuss the gaps in your organization’s digital toolkit and share the ingredients that make these tools work. We hope this event will connect community members with resources to carry this work forward. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring to the table!

 

Facilitated by the Inclusive Research Design Centre

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Digital Co-op Fractals: Iterations, Patterns, Questions

Nov 9, 2019 10:45AM–12:00PM

 

Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor

The University Center

63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

For this session, we are tracing emerging patterns within the cooperative digital ecosystem. We asked Juliet Schor, Joseph Blasi, Gar Alperovitz, Jack Qiu, and Melissa Hoover to each pose a question, which they’ll then answer for 10 minutes. Then, we will open it up to everybody for a People’s Q&A. Here are the questions that will guide our discussion:

 

How best can platform cooperatives contribute to fundamental community-based system-wide political-economic transformation? What are the particular challenges that platform cooperatives face? How will the quality of the jobs for the workers you expect to work in the cooperative you are designing be better than similar jobs in non-worker-owned firms? What are the essential elements of platforms that aggregate the power and resources of workers rather than atomizing them? How to start a platform co-op while minimizing the dangers of an authoritarian crackdown?

 

Prof. Jack Qiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Prof. Joseph Blasi (Rutgers University)

Melissa Hoover (Democracy at Work Institute)

Prof. Gar Alperovitz (Democracy Collaborative)

Prof. Juliet Schor (Boston College)

Facilitated by Luciana Bruno & Amelia Evans

 

About Francesca:

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Town Hall 5- Practitioners on Organizational Leadership

Nov 9, 2019 2:45–4:15PM

 

Room UL104, Basement Level

The University Center

63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

Concurrent Town Halls in Various Locations

Parallel sessions open up spaces where you can learn about the projects of your fellow participants from around the world. They amplify the unique potential of all of us being together at The New School. Think of the format of this session as a topically-focused town hall; it is not a traditional panel. Each speaker has 5 minutes to introduce their work. The second hour of the session is dedicated to discussion that promptly engages the people who are not on the stage. Find the presentations in the File Swap folder linked below.

 

About This Town Hall

Hear about emerging or expanding platform co-op enterprises working in a range of sectors. From Italy, UK, Spain, U.S., Argentina, and Brazil, these projects demonstrate the diversity and impact of platform co-ops in industries such as home care, short-term rental, food delivery, transportation, and music. Which role can unions play in the platform economy? How can co-ops solve the most seemingly unsolvable problems for freelancers? Talk to founders directly about how they have managed to incorporate, author bylaws, become investor-ready, and create a financial model. What lessons for organizational leadership did they learn? Come and learn how to lead better.

 

The hashtag for this track is #WeOwnIt!

 

Learn about Edith:

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Together with Arthur Hay, Edith Darin is representing the association CoopCycle. CoopCycle’s core mission is to build a European network of local bike delivery co-ops to fight the worsening working conditions of precarious riders. How can we create an alternative ecosystem for bike delivery that would give the couriers decision making power?

 

CoopCycle supports local delivery activities with various services including the development of a digital platform, tailored insurance coverage, information about market prospects, and legal expertise about the rights of workers. But that’s not all! CoopCycle also offers co-ops all over Europe with a space to share their knowledge and experiences.

 

At the heart of CoopCycle’s commitment is the desire to strengthen local, worker-owned structures through the power of collectivity.

 

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