Impressions from "Who Owns the World" at The New School November 7-9, 2019
platform.coop/events/conference-2019/
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
Impressions from "Who Owns the World" at The New School November 7-9, 2019
platform.coop/events/conference-2019/
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