---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julien Lecaille (Loomio) <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:35 AM Subject: [Commons Transition] Disrupting the disruptors : Co-operative Business Models for Sustainable Platform Enterprises To: [email protected]  [image: Julien Lecaille] * Julien Lecaille * started a thread: * Disrupting the disruptors : Co-operative Business Models for Sustainable Platform Enterprises <https://www.loomio.org/ahoy/messages/PeoZAnz61opVomDLS5xIaHLMY3fTAWIO/click?signature=cc90344cef1219423557c163646c6d7c2baf5f70&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loomio.org%2Fd%2FvULAGJN6%2Fdisrupting-the-disruptors-co-operative-business-models-for-sustainable-platform-enterprises%3Futm_campaign%3Dthread_mailer%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dnew_discussion> * Hello … Canada.coop having an event in September …Is anybody here participating ? https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disrupting-the-disruptors-tickets-34799836247 <https://www.loomio.org/ahoy/messages/PeoZAnz61opVomDLS5xIaHLMY3fTAWIO/click?signature=2371a8e52c5a5bbe9db6685a57c9e9cc36a37167&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.ca%2Fe%2Fdisrupting-the-disruptors-tickets-34799836247%3Futm_campaign%3Dnew_discussion%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dthread_mailer> Join us in Toronto on September 8-9-10, 2017 to find out how co-operative business models can be used to build a better digital economy. What can digital entrepreneurs, freelancers, students, policy-makers, community leaders and activists expect at Disrupting the Disrupters? Inspiration! Learning! Collaboration! INSPIRATION! Quite simply, we need better, more sustainable business models. The promise of the sharing economy, powered by peer-to-peer connections on digital platforms, has not delivered. The results of economic disruption by a few monopolies are now clear: platform-driven precarious employment, accelerating disparities, dissolution of labour standards, undermining of regulatory safeguards, and the monetization of private data. The co-operative enterprise model – joint ownership by stakeholders (employees, and/or customers, and/or communities) – can address two fundamental problems. Co-op enterprises can disrupt and eventually stop the uberisation of wo — Reply to this email directly or view it on www.loomio.org <https://www.loomio.org/ahoy/messages/PeoZAnz61opVomDLS5xIaHLMY3fTAWIO/click?signature=cc90344cef1219423557c163646c6d7c2baf5f70&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loomio.org%2Fd%2FvULAGJN6%2Fdisrupting-the-disruptors-co-operative-business-models-for-sustainable-platform-enterprises%3Futm_campaign%3Dthread_mailer%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dnew_discussion>. Change your email preferences <https://www.loomio.org/email_preferences?unsubscribe_token=UGJR4F8ir8sdmUk2KDeY&utm_campaign=thread_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_discussion> to unsubscribe from these emails. [image: Loomio logo] -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens