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Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

The Bad: Sascha Lobo and Martin Kenneyrecently introduced the term platform capitalism, which I’d define in reference to subcontracting and rental economies with big payouts going to small groups of people. Occupations that cannot be off-shored, the pet walkers or home cleaners, are now subsumed under platform capitalism.

The Good: Worker-owned cooperatives can offer an alternative model of social organization to address financial instability. They will need to be · collectively owned, · democratically controlled businesses, · with a mission to anchor jobs, · offer health insurance and pension funds and, – a degree of dignity.

2014/12/082014/12/08

Jean Lievens: Want to Hurt Wall Street? Displace the Lending Industry with BitCoin and P2P Lending!

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Money

This bitcoin alternative is a threat to Wall Street

Peer-to-peer loans imperil banks, and cryptocurrencies may finish the job

EXTRACT

Digital currencies circumvent the fees and roadblocks to access that come with traditional financial services. The possibilities, especially in the underdeveloped world, are enormous. As much as $9.6 trillion in assets locked out of the global economy could be freed up, according to the International Monetary Fund.

2014/12/072014/12/07

Patrick Meier: Digital Jedis, Micro-Mappers, UN, Typhoon Ruby

Crowd-Sourcing, Data, Geospatial

Calling All Digital Jedis: Support UN Response to Super Typhoon Ruby!

The United Nations has officially activated the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) in response to Typhoon Ruby. The DHN serves as the official interface between formal humanitarian organizations and digital volunteer groups from all around the world. These digital volunteers—also known as Digital Jedis— provide humanitarian organizations like the UN and the Red Cross with the “surge” capacity they need to make sense of the “Big Data” that gets generated during disasters. This “Big Data” includes large volumes of social media reports and satellite imagery, for example. And there is a lot of this data being generated right now as a result of Super Typhoon Ruby. To make sense of this flash flood of information, Digital Jedis use crowdsourcing platforms like MicroMappers, which was developed in partnership with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Read more.

2014/12/042014/12/04

JZ Liszkiewicz: Lawsuit – True Cost of Oil Includes Destruction of Louisiana

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Government

There's a lawsuit against 92 oil-related companies to pay to restore the land they have helped erode in Louisiana which will get worse if something is not done.

Website: Restore Louisiana Now

2014/12/032014/12/03

Dev Balkind: Nathan Schneider on Owning

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Economics/True Cost

Nathan Schneider is one of the best chroniclers of the emergence of the new solutions. This piece places places a lot of innovations into context, connecting various movements and ideologies together to give the reader a picture of what's next.

Owning is the New Sharing

Nathan Schneider

“We’re moving into a new economic age,” says Marjorie Kelly, who spent two decades at the helm of Business Ethics magazine and now advises social entrepreneurs. “It needs to be sustainable. It needs to be inclusive. And the foundation of what defines an economic age is its form of ownership.” … There are many ways to own. Simply giving up on ownership, however, will mean that those who actually do own the tools that we rely on to share will control them. People who want an economy of genuine sharing are coming to recognize that they must embrace ownership — and, as they do, they're changing what owning means altogether.

2014/12/022014/12/02

Dev Balkind: Greg Bloom on Community Data Commons

Access, Data

Towards a Community Data Commons

Greg Bloom

This all points to a question that the civic technology movement must consider: whose responsibility is it to produce and share knowledge about a community?

2014/12/02

Mark Dixon: In Mexico, open government includes social justice, press freedom, and innovation

Access, IO Impotency

In Mexico, open government includes social justice, press freedom, and innovation

The Presidency of Mexico's national digital strategy coordinator, Alejandra Lagunes, speaks with Alex Howard about the country's plan for open government and digital innovation.

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Yoda: Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism