---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nurul E. <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:19 AM Subject: FYI: "The Internet needs a new economy—here’s why" + NYC Event 11/13 -14 (videostreamed) To: [email protected] ------- Forbes blogger Adam Hartung ----- As Goes Apple, So Goes The Nation: Jobs In The Digital Service Economy http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2015/11/06/as-goes-apple-so-goes-the... Snippet: "Today’s growth companies, those powering the American economic engine, are filled with intellectual assets rather than physical assets. Apple, Google and Facebook (et.al.) are creating intellectual capital, and they need employees able to add to that capital base. It is not enough for job candidates to have a college degree any longer. Today’s job hunter has to be information savvy, digital savvy, tech savvy. In the 1960s the gap widened dramatically between those in manufacturing and those in farming. By the 1970s farms were closing by the hundreds as value shifted out of agrarian production to industrial production. It was devastating to farm communities and farm families. Today the gap is widening between those skilled in manufacturing or general knowledge and those with information-based skills..." -------Original Message------- AND Yet ... "The tech industry, meanwhile, for all its talk of “sharing” and “democratizing,” has become addicted to a business model of massive early investment in exchange for massive short-'term returns. Ordinary users are made to think that the platforms that they use every day are meant for them, and that they’re free, even as the personal information they share is sold off to pay investors" From: "The Next System Project" <[email protected]> Subject: The Internet needs a new economy—here’s why Dear Friend, The Internet. Ownership. Democracy ** A Different Online Economy is Possible. We are writing to tell you about a great article we just published on TheNextSystem.org that argues why we need a new economy for the Internet—one based in cooperation, not exploitation and precarity. We also want to invite you to an exciting conference exploring pathways to a more cooperative digital economy. With all of its success, the growing movement to build a solidarity economy has yet to really shape the ways the Internet is creating new forms of work and finance. In their recently published article ( http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e...) for TheNextSystem.org, Nathan Schneider, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Trebor Scholz, Professor for Culture and Media at The New School, write that “the tech industry, for all its talk of ‘sharing’ and ‘democratizing,’ has become addicted to a business model of massive early investment in exchange for massive short-term returns.” What’s needed instead is a reimagining of forms of cooperative and community ownership, scaled up to Internet size, and building a digital economic ecosystem for a flourishing social economy, not the relentless extraction of profits for venture capital. And next week, Scholz and Schneider are convening the Platform Cooperativism conference from November 13-14 ( http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e...) at the New School (NYC) to address this issue and to discuss – among other things – how the Internet and the businesses it creates can be owned and governed differently. Live video strream: http://platformcoop.net/video-stream Many of the Next System statement signatories ( http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e7...) will be presenting at the conference including our colleague, Democracy Collaborative Communications Director John Duda. Duda will discuss how we can tackle the challenges of scale, inclusion, and empowerment in building platform cooperativism ( http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e7...) by learning from parallel efforts across the country that reorient local economic development towards more cooperative and community based solutions. In Solidarity, The Next System Project P.S. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this email to your friends. Read Full Article ( http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e... ) http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e... On November 13 and 14, the New School in New York City will host a coming-out party for the cooperative Internet, built of platforms owned and governed by the people who rely on them. The program will include discussion sessions, screenings, monologues, legal hacks, workshops, and dialogues, as well as a showcase of projects, both conceptual and actual, under the purview of celebrity judges. We’ll learn from coders and worker cooperatives, scholars, and designers. Together, we’ll put their lessons to work as we work toward usable apps and structural economic change. This is your chance to get on the ground floor of the next Internet, and to help make it a reality. We’re operating on the hunch that many of the economic challenges we face – wealth inequality, job security, health coverage, pensions – can’t be addressed adequately without the reorganization of how online platforms are owned and governed. Platforms are already reorganizing our economy; let’s reorganize them first, putting solidarity at the center. 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