<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:info@platform.coop">info@platform.coop</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:09 AM<br>Subject: The Year in Platform Cooperatives<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>

    
        
        
        
        
        
        

    
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                            <em>January 06, 2020</em><br>


<em>by Trebor Scholz</em><br>
 
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                            <p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#111!important;font-family:'Noto Sans',sans-serif!important;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;font-weight:300!important"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">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. <br>
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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 </span><strong><span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=b03f9f15a1&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">platform cooperatives</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">.”</span></strong><span style="color:#757575"> 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.<br>
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The newsletter is published by the </span><strong><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a4c113e224&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC)</span></a></strong><span style="color:#757575"> 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. <br>
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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: </span><strong><a href="mailto:info@platform.coop" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">info@platform.coop</span></a></strong><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">All the best for the year ahead,</span><br>
<span style="color:#757575">Trebor Scholz & the PCC</span></span></span></p>

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                            <p dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#111!important;font-family:'Noto Sans',sans-serif!important;line-height:150%;text-align:left;font-weight:300!important"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">Start.coop</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=fb9df045f2&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">launched its inaugural cohort</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">of cooperatives in 2019 and is now accepting applications for its 2020 crew.</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d3623c7a93&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Check out their work and consider applying</span></a><span style="color:#757575">!</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Several new platform co-ops emerged in the past several months. Explore more about their work below:</span></span></span></p>

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        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=30e9d3c675&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Beceer</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e"> </span><span style="color:#757575">in Indonesia is a co-operative vegetable delivery service</span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=0fa5ebcc93&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">FoodFairies</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">in Berlin offers cooperative food-delivery services</span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a7f8eb183d&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Kolymar-2</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">is a new food delivery service also in Berlin </span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d4aa4f02a4&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Mensakas</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">is a unionized platform co-op of delivery and messaging workers in Barcelona</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color:#757575">Learn more about the</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=5b0d881701&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">YouTubers Union</span></a>, <span style="color:#757575">which gets support from Europe’s biggest industrial Union, IG Metall.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Don’t miss Leo Sammallahti’s tweets on co-op facts at</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d3e988f9c0&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Co-op Exchange</span></a><span style="color:#006666">.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">At least two events deserve your attention, too.<br>
In October 2019 at Utrecht University, NL, Damion Bunders convened a "</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=641687d269&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Young Scholars Workshop on Platformcoops ‘Governing the platform: Self-help, mutual aid, and cooperativism</span></a><span style="color:#757575">"</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Smart, in partnership with Saw-B and Febecoop, convened "</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a5820819fa&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Platform COOP Brussels</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">,</span><span style="color:#757575">" supported by the Brussels-Capital Region.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">Beyond these events, Ampled, an ethical web platform for music artists became a cooperative. Read </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a9f2970a3f&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">more</span></a><span style="color:#757575">.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">New School professor and opera composer Stefania de Kenessey composed an anthem for the platform cooperativism movement. Listen to it</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ce7c01f2e3&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">here</span></a><span style="color:#757575">.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Write to us with your new projects to be featured in our next newsletter!</span> <a href="mailto:info@platform.coop" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">info@platform.coop</span></a></span></span></p>

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<span style="color:#757575"><em><strong>Who Owns the World? PCC Conference</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color:#757575">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 </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=095ef62514&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">on our conference site</span></a><span style="color:#757575">. We added links to the video documentation in the </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=49d3d5c2df&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">program</span></a><span style="color:#757575">. You can also download most slideshows and presentations by clicking on the hyperlink to the File Swap folder within </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d183ddb04d&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">each session</span></a><span style="color:#757575">. You can also watch a series of short video interviews with 39 participants </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ddca70779e&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">here</span></a><span style="color:#757575">.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">This really was our most extraordinary gathering, with video contributions from NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives, </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=f320ab79d0&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">J. Phillip Thompson</span></a><span style="color:#757575"> and </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=b752e784be&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand</span></a><span style="color:#757575">.<br>
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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.”</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><em><strong>The Platform Co-op Development Kit</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color:#757575">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 </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=1f078bbcfc&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">platform.coop</span></a><span style="color:#757575"> website, and developing first iterations of share infrastructure for platform co-ops. Check out the project’s</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=c2fe141643&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Fluid Project Wiki page</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">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: </span><a href="mailto:platformcoop@newschool.edu" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">platformcoop@newschool.edu</span></a>. <span style="color:#757575">And check out</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a7f023ea56&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">the richly detailed blog post</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">from the coopathon we hosted on mapping, facilitated by Danny Spitzberg.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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 </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=f63412ddc4&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">blog page</span></a>. <br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><em><strong>PCC Out in the World</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color:#757575">In 2019, additional meetings and travels by the PCC have bolstered platform co-ops globally. Meetings and collaborations from 2019 included: </span></span></span></p>

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        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Interviews at the <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=bc9867f79c&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Brazil Congress of Cooperatives</a> in Brasilia, Brazil.</span></span></span></li>
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        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Trebor met with the President of Japanese Trade Unions, Mr. Koga and with Prof. Mizukoshi at <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=9e8a303813&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Tokyo University</a>, Akiko Taguchi, Director of the ILO in Japan, her colleagues, and Osamu Nakamo of<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=fc4fcffc62&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> Worker Co-ops Japan</a>.</span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Trebor met with the leader of the Preston City Council Matthew Brown to integrate platform co-ops into the “Preston model” in the UK. </span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">We continued exchanges with Dieter Janaschek, a Green Party member of the German Parliament and specifically, the Committee on the Digital Agenda.</span></span></span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color:#757575">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.</span></span></span></p>

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<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ae252c8244&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- Book by Anand Giridharadas</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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.</span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=48eb990d32&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- Book by Keith A. Spencer</span></span></span></p>

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<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=49b540f658&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">"The Decade Tech Lost Its Way"</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">- The New York Times</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Ryan Hayes at Vice wrote this piece inspired by our Who Owns the World? conference.</span><span style="color:#000000"> </span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=7a48142556&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">“Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy’s Exploitation”</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">-- Vice News</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Read Rafael A. F. Zanatta's reflections on the event in Portuguese here: </span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">"</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ff92190f23&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Nem todo Uber é capitalista - Outras Palavras</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">"</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- Outras Palavras</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">The Guardian recently reported that London’s transport regulator canceled Uber’s license, showing the need for a taxi app owned by drivers. </span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=623c928137&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">"Uber’s London woes show the need for a taxi app owned by drivers"</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e"> </span><span style="color:#757575">-- The Guardian</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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. </span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=1f28429cf2&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">“Power for the People: How PG&E’s failures are spurring a movement toward electric cooperatives”</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">-- Shareable</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Coop News’ </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=df613716f3&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Miles Hadfield</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">joined our conference in November. Here is his coverage of the 3-day event: </span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=a3074bfb36&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">“Fire the bosses: Platform co-ops set out their radical stall</span><span style="color:#006666">”</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">-- TheNews.coop</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">After many years of hard work, the Fairbnb.coop website launched!! </span><br>
"<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=5ed72b55fc&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Fairbnbcoop holiday rental website launches</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">.</span><span style="color:#757575">" -- The Guardian</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Writing about apps-based drivers, legal scholar Hiba Hafiz explores the links between innovative unions, and worker co-ops.</span><br>
<span style="color:#000000">"</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=57c9da1f0d&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">How Drivers Can Beat Uber at Its Own Game</span></a><span style="color:#757575">"  --The New York Times</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Nathan Schneider and Sandeep Vaheesan demonstrate how workers and small businesses need to join forces against corporate power.</span><br>
<span style="color:#006666">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=1c1c0ee32e&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">There’s More Than One Way to Fight a Monopoly</span></a><span style="color:#006666">”</span><span style="color:#757575"> -- from The Atlantic</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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.</span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=6676972e37&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">"Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India</span><span style="color:#006666">"</span></a><span style="color:#757575"> -- The New Yorker</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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. </span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d67e3c2480&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">"How Universities Became the New Battlegrounds in the Hong Kong Protests"</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> </span><span style="color:#757575">-- The New York Times</span></span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">PCC friend Francesca Bria, former CTO of Barcelona, <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=796ea837e5&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">published a widely celebrated report</a> 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.”<br>
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In Paris (France), Coop des Communs convened a "<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=55363bfb41&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Forum of plateformes cooperatives.</a>" The group issued a <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=0b6b4f9e27&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">declaration</a>.    <br>
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In Spain, Stacco Trancoso published the <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=6de5327389&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">DisCO Manifesto</a>, a deep dive into the worlds of blockchain, commons, cooperatives, AI, feminism, and economics.<br>
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Co-operatives UK and the Nesta Foundation published<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ada43cc33b&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> “Platform Co-operatives – Solving the Capital Conundrum.”</a> 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.</span></span>
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<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=2d1d1a619b&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">“#CoopTech: Platform Cooperativism as the Engine of Solidarity Growth”</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">-- from Instrat and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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.”</span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=faee242507&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- from the Journal of Critical Sociology<br>
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Massimiliano Nicoli and Luca Paltrinieri rethink ownership of the firm using “the philosophy of the commons.”</span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=2d863a1c8c&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Platform Cooperativism: Some Notes on the Becoming “Common” of the Firm</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- from South Atlantic Quarterly</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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.”</span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=22f9d98044&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Cooperativism and Human-Computer Interaction</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- from the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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. </span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=e858a3b3cf&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">A Framework to Assess the Sustainability and the ProDemocratization of Platform Economy: The Case of Barcelona</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- from UNTFSSE</span> <br>
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<span style="color:#757575">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.”</span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=fb0e4668a4&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">If Uber were a Cooperative: A Democratically Biased Analysis of Platform Economy</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">”</span> <span style="color:#757575">-- from The Law & Ethics of Human Rights</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575">Ronja Puranen from the Aalto University School of Business compares the business models of platform cooperatives versus investor-owned sharing economy platforms. </span><br>
<span style="color:#1c8b7e">“</span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=4506e21292&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Comparing the business models of platform cooperatives and investor-owned sharing economy platforms</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e">” </span><span style="color:#757575">-- from the Aalto University School of Business</span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><strong>Scholars, take note: </strong>The Brazilian Conference on Digital Labor is making a call for papers. The deadline is February 3, 2020. More info here:</span><br>
<a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=aee79ef13f&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">https://digilabour.com.br/brazilian-conference-on-digital-labor/</span></a></span></span></p>

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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">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: </span></span></span></p>

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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em>A Course on the Cooperative Digital Economy</em></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">In Spring 2020, Prof. Trebor Scholz will teach </span><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=ebe717a8d1&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">the first university course on Platform Cooperativism</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">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</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=5731fa9720&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">platform.coop</span></a> <span style="color:#757575">as part of the Platform Co-op Development Kit. Write to us if you’d like to form a local learning group. </span><a href="mailto:info@platform.coop" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">info@platform.coop</span></a></span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em>Writing for the PCC</em></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">Throughout 2020, we will be publishing short, public-facing articles on</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=d69d80fdbe&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Public Seminar</span></a><span style="color:#1c8b7e"> </span><span style="color:#757575">focused on the themes of a democratic internet and the cooperative digital economy. Let us know if you are interested in contributing a short article, written for the general public on these issues. Public Seminar is a great venue to promote emerging ideas in support of platform cooperativism.</span></span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em>Summer Course in Italy</em></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#757575">This July 2020, Trebor will teach at the Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory focused on “Theory, Technology and the Political Imagination” at The University of Bologna, Italy. Consider</span> <a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=84f8cf8bf3&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">applying for participation</span></a>.</span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em>Jobs at the PCC</em></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">We are building an online resource library of texts, books, articles, and other media that address issues in the cooperative digital economy. We need someone with experience and interest in archiving and libraries to help us catalog and organize resources. Please get in touch if you would like to work with us at the PCC for a few months on this project. </span></span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The Platform Co-op Consortium is a grassroots organization, dependent on the contributions of individuals and organizations who believe in fighting for a democratic, cooperative Internet.</span></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be65&id=957158a1d5&e=043e4c678a" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">Consider supporting our work by joining our Circle of Cooperators</span></a></span><span style="color:#1c8b7e"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">.</span></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Your contributions make our work possible. Email us at </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="mailto:info@platform.coop" style="color:#1c8b7e;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1c8b7e">info@platform.coop</span></a></span><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">.</span></span></p>

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