via Mayo Fuster: Reactions to the European agenda on collaborative economy <http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/strategy/collaborative-economy/index_en.htm>: "From the corporate collaborative economy to platform cooperativism" - Debate on 9th June, 18:30h Barcelona & online. The European Commission presented on 2nd June the European agenda of collaborative economy <http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/strategy/collaborative-economy/index_en.htm>, which establishes guidelines for Member States on how they should regulate and what should be the collaborative economy policy.
From Procomuns.net - space for the promotion of commons collaborative economy - we would like to initiate a debate. Procomuns started as an event that brought together 400 people linked to experiences of collaborative economy in March 2016, in Barcelona, with the aim of defining public policies for commons collaborative economy. Unfortunately, the European agenda does not refer to the commons collaborative economy model. It mainly adopts the "unicorn" model as a reference of large corporations like Uber and Airbnb, without distinguishing models and without considering other kind like small businesses, free/libre technology and / or licenses that encourage open knowledge, like the digital commons model or platform cooperativism. They are different economic models for their formats and their impacts, and they require a different regulatory approach.
Moreover, the agenda does not pay enough attention to the dilemmas and the needs for protecting citizens producers and workers. It is positive that the Commission emphasizes the qualities of collaborative economy on environmental impacts; but is not considering that, apart from the impact on the natural environment, the collaborative economy mainly takes place on the Internet, so it is important to also keep in mind the impact of different models on the internet sustainability as we know it today. Models based on open protocols, open data and open source are more beneficials to Internet preservation itself, and also through data availability, favor impact assessment and collaborative economy management by citizens and administrations. Finally, since important changes are taking place nowadays -especially in cities- but many effects of the collaborative economy are still unknown, we believe that the European Commission should aim at the role of governments to preserve the general interest, enhancing models that could better give answer to social challenges, and keep informed and consult citizens. In this context we would like to draw attention to the Procomuns Commons Declaration <http://procomuns.net/en/policy/> with public policy recommendations for administrations for a Commons-oriented collaborative economy, and we would like to invite you to the event that will take place on Thursday 9th June at 18: 30h in Barcelona (CCCB) and through streaming under the title “From the corporate sharing economy to platform cooperativism", with the participation of Trebor Scholz presenting and discussing his book on platform cooperativism and Mayo Fuster about collaborative economy public policies. "From the corporate sharing economy to platform cooperativism" Thursday, 9th June at 18:30 - 20:30 followed by a networking meet up. C/ Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona (Sala Mirador) Streaming: <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/