[P2P-F] Fwd: FYI: "The Internet needs a new economy—here’s why" + NYC Event 11/13 -14 (videostreamed)

Wed Nov 11 05:35:04 CET 2015

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From: Nurul E. <ne_atl at onebox.com>
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: ne_atl at onebox.com

------- 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-nation-jobs-in-the-digital-service-economy/

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" <nextsystem at democracycollaborative.org>
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=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=02ebf706c3&e=91fe6daa38)
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=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=d07ac2c4ed&e=91fe6daa38)
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=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=b7c17c8831&e=91fe6daa38)
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=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=877192fcb9&e=91fe6daa38)
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=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=608e993f9b&e=91fe6daa38
)

http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=a17222ae0c&e=91fe6daa38

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.

Free Registration (
http://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=ed4d713f30&e=91fe6daa38
)

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