[P2P-F] Fwd: The Year in Platform Cooperatives

Tue Jan 7 10:01:30 CET 2020

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From: Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School <
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Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:09 AM
Subject: The Year in Platform Cooperatives
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A newsletter about the Cooperative Digital Economy
[image: Cooperatives, Digitally: A Newsletter by the Platform Cooperativism
Consortium]
*January 06, 2020*
*by Trebor Scholz*

*The Year in Platform Cooperatives*

With this Year in Review, we inaugurate a periodic newsletter updating you
on the cooperative digital economy. We’ll share practical and theoretical
insights situated in their political contexts -- from research papers, news
articles, and podcasts, to emerging projects, events, and job
opportunities.

This has been a significant year for the cooperative digital economy. In
this age of pessimism, we need bold near-term alternatives such as digital
cooperatives that build a more democratic future with shared prosperity.
Newcomers to this community might not know much about *“platform
cooperatives
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=b03f9f15a1&e=043e4c678a>.”*
They are businesses that use a website, mobile app, or protocol to sell
goods or services. Platform co-ops rely on democratic decision-making and
shared ownership of the platform by workers and users.

The newsletter is published by the *Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC)
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a4c113e224&e=043e4c678a>*
at The New School in NYC. We are a hub that helps you research, start,
grow, or convert to platform co-ops. The PCC works with hundreds of
platform co-op businesses with tens of thousands of worker-owners around
the world.

Whether you are reading this in the Bay Area (US), Kerala (India),
Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Catalonia (Spain), or elsewhere, write us with news
and updates in your language at: *info at platform.coop <info at platform.coop>*

All the best for the year ahead,
Trebor Scholz & the PCC
*Ecosystem Updates *

Start.coop launched its inaugural cohort
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=fb9df045f2&e=043e4c678a>
of
cooperatives in 2019 and is now accepting applications for its 2020 crew. Check
out their work and consider applying
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d3623c7a93&e=043e4c678a>
!

Several new platform co-ops emerged in the past several months. Explore
more about their work below:

   - SignCo.io
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=68eb44b688&e=043e4c678a>
in
   the UK offers health interpreting services for Deaf people
   - Beceer
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=30e9d3c675&e=043e4c678a>
in
   Indonesia is a co-operative vegetable delivery service
   - FoodFairies
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=0fa5ebcc93&e=043e4c678a>
in
   Berlin offers cooperative food-delivery services
   - Kolymar-2
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a7f8eb183d&e=043e4c678a>
    is a new food delivery service also in Berlin
   - Mensakas
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d4aa4f02a4&e=043e4c678a>
is
   a unionized platform co-op of delivery and messaging workers in Barcelona

Also check out this blog on at KU Leuven
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=900997e600&e=043e4c678a>
focused
on the platform economy.

Learn more about the YouTubers Union
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=5b0d881701&e=043e4c678a>,
which gets support from Europe’s biggest industrial Union, IG Metall.

Don’t miss Leo Sammallahti’s tweets on co-op facts at Co-op Exchange
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d3e988f9c0&e=043e4c678a>
.

At least two events deserve your attention, too.
In October 2019 at Utrecht University, NL, Damion Bunders convened a "Young
Scholars Workshop on Platformcoops ‘Governing the platform: Self-help,
mutual aid, and cooperativism
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"

Smart, in partnership with Saw-B and Febecoop, convened "Platform COOP
Brussels
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," supported by the Brussels-Capital Region.

Beyond these events, Ampled, an ethical web platform for music artists
became a cooperative. Read more
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a9f2970a3f&e=043e4c678a>
.

New School professor and opera composer Stefania de Kenessey composed an
anthem for the platform cooperativism movement. Listen to it here
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ce7c01f2e3&e=043e4c678a>
.

Write to us with your new projects to be featured in our next newsletter!
info at platform.coop

*Updates from the PCC*

In 2019, we launched the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at
The New School with an inaugural cohort of Research Fellows. Read about our
Institute
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=dc5f1b46df&e=043e4c678a>
and
watch highlights from our April 2019 launch event
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=4322ada15d&e=043e4c678a>.
Learn more about the research topics
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=06caef1f41&e=043e4c678a>
of our Fellows. Their full-length reports will be published on our website
in spring 2020. In addition to Research Fellows, we also formed a Council
of Advisors
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d708ae6825&e=043e4c678a>
to guide our work.

*Who Owns the World? PCC Conference*
In November 2019, the PCC brought together 150 speakers from 30 countries,
with more than 700 participants and thousands of viewers of the livestream!
The event was supported by the PCC Circle of Cooperators, Open Society
Foundations, and the Ford Foundation. You can find photo documentation and
video archive of the event on our conference site
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=095ef62514&e=043e4c678a>.
We added links to the video documentation in the program
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=49d3d5c2df&e=043e4c678a>.
You can also download most slideshows and presentations by clicking on the
hyperlink to the File Swap folder within each session
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d183ddb04d&e=043e4c678a>.
You can also watch a series of short video interviews with 39 participants
here
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ddca70779e&e=043e4c678a>
.

You can also relive
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=bee34af685&e=043e4c678a>
our Friday night keynote conversation between Wilma Liebman and Anand
Giridharadas.

This really was our most extraordinary gathering, with video contributions
from NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives, J. Phillip Thompson
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=f320ab79d0&e=043e4c678a>
 and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=b752e784be&e=043e4c678a>
.

Senator Gillibrand noted: “I was proud that my Main Street Employee
Ownership Act was passed into law last year. It reforms the Small Business
Administration to help retiring business owners transfer ownership to
workers, consumers, and farmers. That includes co-ops, which have for too
long struggled to access this very important federal assistance. I want to
extend my gratitude to the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the
Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School for all
their efforts and pulling together today's event, and then leading the
research that is driving new innovation in the cooperative sector.”

*The Platform Co-op Development Kit*
The Platform Co-op Development Kit continues to evolve and move forward as
a collaboration with the Inclusive Design Research Centre. The Kit is
supported by a grant from Google.org. The work ahead focuses on building an
online resource library hosted on our revamped platform.coop
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=1f078bbcfc&e=043e4c678a>
website, and developing first iterations of share infrastructure for
platform co-ops. Check out the project’s Fluid Project Wiki page
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=c2fe141643&e=043e4c678a>
online
to read up on what’s next! And consider getting involved with our mapping
project, to survey the global movement of digital co-ops! Reach out to
Travis Higgins, Survey Project Lead, for how to take our short survey by
writing to him at: platformcoop at newschool.edu. And check out the richly
detailed blog post
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a7f023ea56&e=043e4c678a>
from
the coopathon we hosted on mapping, facilitated by Danny Spitzberg.

Community Hangouts from this past year included talks with Namya Mahajan on
the SEWA Model, Greg Brodsky and Stephen Gill on Financing Platform Co-ops,
Jack Qiu and Gigi Lo on Platform Co-ops in Hong Kong, Jutta Treviranus and
Colin Clark on the co-design approach for tech development, and several
others! See highlights on our blog page
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=f63412ddc4&e=043e4c678a>
.

*PCC Out in the World*
In 2019, additional meetings and travels by the PCC have bolstered platform
co-ops globally. Meetings and collaborations from 2019 included:

   - A workshop at The New School with immigrant worker advocates
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=912ef753bc&e=043e4c678a>
   .
   - Trebor Scholz met with the President of Sewa, Mirai Chatterjee,
   discussing future collaborations. Sewa Federation brings together some
   300,000 working-class women in the informal economy in India. Sewa is also
   a union with 1.7 million members.
   - Interviews at the Brazil Congress of Cooperatives
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=bc9867f79c&e=043e4c678a>
   in Brasilia, Brazil.
   - Trebor presented to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala, India.
   - A discussion of our research with Kerala’s Finance Minister Thomas
   Isaac.
   - Trebor met with the President of Japanese Trade Unions, Mr. Koga and
   with Prof. Mizukoshi at Tokyo University
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=9e8a303813&e=043e4c678a>,
   Akiko Taguchi, Director of the ILO in Japan, her colleagues, and Osamu
   Nakamo of Worker Co-ops Japan
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=fc4fcffc62&e=043e4c678a>
   .
   - Trebor met with the leader of the Preston City Council Matthew Brown
   to integrate platform co-ops into the “Preston model” in the UK.
   - We continued exchanges with Dieter Janaschek, a Green Party member of
   the German Parliament and specifically, the Committee on the Digital Agenda.
   - In South Africa, Trebor met with leaders Omar Parker, of the National
   Union of Public Service & Allied Workers (NUPSAW); Myrtle Wittboi, General
   Secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union;
   Gloria Kente, of WC SADSAWU, and Professor Darcy Du Toit & his research
   team at University of Western Cape.

*Ongoing Research on Platform Co-ops*
The PCC has continued its on-going research projects exploring the
potential for platform co-ops in India, funded through an Open Society
Foundation grant, with additional explorations focused on the potential for
platform co-ops in South Africa, Brazil.
*Books*

Writer Anand Giridharadas wrote about platform co-ops recently: “If it is
so easy to build platforms these days … why couldn’t workers and customers
create their own platforms? Scholz [has] embarked on a global adventure to
locate and study various attempts to do just this. The idea lived already …
Here was a rarity: a no-strings-attached idea for actually changing the
world.”
“Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ae252c8244&e=043e4c678a>
” -- Book by Anand Giridharadas

Keith Spencer's recent book follows the history of people exploited by or
made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area
to the present day.
“A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits
Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=48eb990d32&e=043e4c678a>
” -- Book by Keith A. Spencer

*Articles & Blog Essays*

The New York Times shockingly revealed that Big Tech “lost its way” in the
past decade. Their report chronicles the growth of various tech companies
and their effects on our elections, privacy, and health.
"The Decade Tech Lost Its Way"
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=49b540f658&e=043e4c678a>
-
The New York Times

Ryan Hayes at Vice wrote this piece inspired by our Who Owns the
World? conference.
“Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy’s Exploitation”
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=7a48142556&e=043e4c678a>
--
Vice News

Read Rafael A. F. Zanatta's reflections on the event in Portuguese here:
"Nem todo Uber é capitalista - Outras Palavras
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ff92190f23&e=043e4c678a>
" -- Outras Palavras

The Guardian recently reported that London’s transport regulator canceled
Uber’s license, showing the need for a taxi app owned by drivers.
"Uber’s London woes show the need for a taxi app owned by drivers"
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=623c928137&e=043e4c678a>
 -- The Guardian

Our friends at Shareable published a piece showing us how the failures of
Pacific Gas and Electric Company are spurring a movement toward electric
cooperatives.
“Power for the People: How PG&E’s failures are spurring a movement toward
electric cooperatives”
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=1f28429cf2&e=043e4c678a>
--
Shareable

Coop News’ Miles Hadfield
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=df613716f3&e=043e4c678a>
joined
our conference in November. Here is his coverage of the 3-day event:
“Fire the bosses: Platform co-ops set out their radical stall”
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a3074bfb36&e=043e4c678a>
--
TheNews.coop

After many years of hard work, the Fairbnb.coop website launched!!
"Fairbnbcoop holiday rental website launches
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=5ed72b55fc&e=043e4c678a>
." -- The Guardian

Writing about apps-based drivers, legal scholar Hiba Hafiz explores
the links between innovative unions, and worker co-ops.
"How Drivers Can Beat Uber at Its Own Game
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=57c9da1f0d&e=043e4c678a>"
 --The
New York Times

Nathan Schneider and Sandeep Vaheesan demonstrate how workers and small
businesses need to join forces against corporate power.
“There’s More Than One Way to Fight a Monopoly
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=1c1c0ee32e&e=043e4c678a>
” -- from The Atlantic

As we are working with cooperatives in India, we are deeply concerned about
our brothers and sisters in that country where Prime Minister Narendra Modi
branded two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
"Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India"
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=6676972e37&e=043e4c678a>
--
The New Yorker

Equally heartbreaking is the news from Hong Kong. The very campus where we
convened our 2018 global conference was turned into a battleground between
protesters and police.
"How Universities Became the New Battlegrounds in the Hong Kong Protests"
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d67e3c2480&e=043e4c678a>
--
The New York Times
*Reports & Manifestos*

PCC friend Francesca Bria, former CTO of Barcelona, published a widely
celebrated report
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=796ea837e5&e=043e4c678a>
about
her work as Barcelona City Council Commissioner for Digital Technology and
Innovation. Her report develops a vision for cities worldwide to adopt
“ethical, open, and responsible innovation, moving towards technological
sovereignty.”

In Paris (France), Coop des Communs convened a "Forum of plateformes
cooperatives.
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=55363bfb41&e=043e4c678a>"
The group issued a declaration
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=0b6b4f9e27&e=043e4c678a>.

In Spain, Stacco Trancoso published the DisCO Manifesto
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=6de5327389&e=043e4c678a>,
a deep dive into the worlds of blockchain, commons, cooperatives, AI,
feminism, and economics.

Co-operatives UK and the Nesta Foundation published “Platform Co-operatives
– Solving the Capital Conundrum.”
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ada43cc33b&e=043e4c678a>
Authored
by Simon Borkin, the report is a concise introduction to platform co-ops
and the British Community Shares Model of capitalization. Platform
co-ops struggle to attract much-needed funding but this report outlines
pathways for solving the problem.
*Papers*

Anna Burnicka and Jan J. Zygmuntowski are exploring the potential of
platform co-ops in Europe and specifically in Poland. They write that "The
investment potential of platform cooperatives in Europe is significant, as
can be seen from the estimation model. There is nearly €1.3 billion of
financial resources that could be allocated to such entities annually. In
Poland, this potential amounts to 47.7 million PLN."
“#CoopTech: Platform Cooperativism as the Engine of Solidarity Growth”
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=2d1d1a619b&e=043e4c678a>
--
from Instrat and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Marisol Sandoval explores the platform co-op movement, arguing that it is
shaped “by tensions and contradictions between politics and enterprise,
democracy and the market, commons and commercialisation, activism and
entrepreneurship.”
“Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and
Co-optation
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=faee242507&e=043e4c678a>
” -- from the Journal of Critical Sociology

Massimiliano Nicoli and Luca Paltrinieri rethink ownership of the firm
using “the philosophy of the commons.”
“Platform Cooperativism: Some Notes on the Becoming “Common” of the Firm
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=2d863a1c8c&e=043e4c678a>
” -- from South Atlantic Quarterly

An international group of researchers authored this paper bringing together
researchers from different Human-Computer Interaction sub-communities to
“identify future research directions in HCI around cooperativism and
platforms.”
“Cooperativism and Human-Computer Interaction
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=22f9d98044&e=043e4c678a>
” -- from the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

PCC friend Ricard Espelt studied numerous case studies in Barcelona to
build a framework for assessing the pro-democratic qualities of platform
economy initiatives, taking into account governance, economic models,
technological and knowledge policies, and social responsibility and impact.
“A Framework to Assess the Sustainability and the ProDemocratization of
Platform Economy: The Case of Barcelona
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=e858a3b3cf&e=043e4c678a>
” -- from UNTFSSE

Haifa-based researcher Yifat Solel recently wrote that “Platforms create
opportunities to enhance users’ democratic involvement in different aspects
of their economic and social life. The technology allows direct and long
distant participation and thus can help develop — perhaps for the first
time in such magnitude and scale — a democratic economy.”
“If Uber were a Cooperative: A Democratically Biased Analysis of Platform
Economy
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=fb0e4668a4&e=043e4c678a>
” -- from The Law & Ethics of Human Rights

Ronja Puranen from the Aalto University School of Business compares the
business models of platform cooperatives versus investor-owned sharing
economy platforms.
“Comparing the business models of platform cooperatives and investor-owned
sharing economy platforms
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=4506e21292&e=043e4c678a>”
-- from the Aalto University School of Business

*Scholars, take note: *The Brazilian Conference on Digital Labor is making
a call for papers. The deadline is February 3, 2020. More info here:
https://digilabour.com.br/brazilian-conference-on-digital-labor/
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*What's Next in 2020?*

*Global Conference in Berlin*
Mark your calendar for our 2020 global platform co-op conference to be held
in Berlin in November. An informal organizing committee is already taking
shape -- do let us know if you would like to be involved! So far, several
Berlin groups have taken the lead in putting together the conference, in
collaboration with the Platform Cooperativism Consortium here in New York
City. These Berlin-based groups are:

   - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=aabcc9ffcd&e=043e4c678a>
(Berlin
   Social Science Center)
   - Weizenbaum Institute
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=bf772b006b&e=043e4c678a>
   - Institute for Ecological Economy Research
   <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=cd967a75c2&e=043e4c678a>

*A Course on the Cooperative Digital Economy*
In Spring 2020, Prof. Trebor Scholz will teach the first university course
on Platform Cooperativism
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ebe717a8d1&e=043e4c678a>
at
The New School. Guest speakers from across disciplines will join Prof.
Scholz. Course materials will be eventually organized into an online course
available on platform.coop
<https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=5731fa9720&e=043e4c678a>
as
part of the Platform Co-op Development Kit. Write to us if you’d like to
form a local learning group. info at platform.coop

*Writing for the PCC*
Throughout 2020, we will be publishing short, public-facing articles on Public
Seminar
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focused
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promote emerging ideas in support of platform cooperativism.

*Summer Course in Italy*
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catalog and organize resources. Please get in touch if you would like to
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