This document discusses online platforms for collaborative consumption. It defines collaborative consumption as sharing, swapping, trading, or renting products and services where the cost is shared among users rather than borne by one individual. It identifies types of collaborative consumption platforms, including those for transportation, food, and language learning. It also outlines impacts like changing lifestyles, providing job opportunities, and maximizing resources. However, it notes limitations in ensuring quality and legal issues. Overall, the document concludes that collaborative consumption platforms are becoming more widely accepted and will likely continue growing in the future as a new economic model.

1. GCIT1015 IT Innovations shaping Our World
Online Platforms for
Collaborative Consumption
Tsang Shun Hung 17203457
HUI Yu 17251222
Ng Ka Yan 17201160
Group 2

2. Content
1. Definition
2. Types of collaborative consumption platforms
3. Impact
4. Limitation
5. Future development
6. Conclusion
7. Reference

3. Definition

4. Definition
● based on sharing, swapping, trading or renting
products and services
● the cost is not borne by one individual
● emphasize on shared access to service or product

5. Types of collaborative consumption online platforms
● Most of the
respondents
concentrated
on
transportatio
n and food
aspects.
However
language
learning is
the least used
aspect.

6. Types of collaborative consumption online
platforms

7. Impact
● Change people’s lifestyle
● Provide society with job opportunities
● Maximize existing resources

8. Impact
Change people’s lifestyle
● Provide people with more convenient ways in
accommodation, transportation, diet, service etc.
● People use them more frequently.

9. Impact
Provide society with job opportunities
● Society can receive many job opportunities such as
driver, agent and teacher.
● Firms need employees with professional skills.
● Part-time jobs.

10. Impact
Maximize existing resources
● Consumers can rent their products to other consumers
to reduce the unused time of items which not only
maximizes existing resources, but also has less impact
on the environment.

11. Limitation
● 34% of the
respondents
believes that the
quality of goods
and products is
the most
important
consideration
and the area
that needs to
improve the
most.

12. Limitation
● hard to ensure the quality of goods and services
● Usually based on the experience of previous
consumer
● violating the legal system of people carriage car

13. Future development
● All the respondents
think that collective
consumption
platform have the
positive impact to
the society
nowadays,
enhancing the
liquidity.

14. Future development
● collective consumption = success model
● sharing economy become main trend in the future
● has generated more than $350 billion
● increase the efficiency for different industries

15. Conclusion
● Online platforms for collaborative consumption is a reinvention of
traditional market behaviours
● Which also brings various impacts on the society in the different aspect
including our lifestyles.
● It has a very promising future and is accepted by the public.
● However, it also has limitations in security and service quantity.

16. Reference
HK Uber drivers fined HK$7,000, licences suspended for 12 months. (2016, January 22). Retrieved October 23, 2017,
from https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/01/22/uber-drivers-fined-hk7000-licences-suspended-for-12-months/
Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms. (n.d.). Retrieved October 23, 2017, from
http://bruegel.org/2016/02/uber-and-the-economic-impact-of-sharing-economy-platforms/
Ward, C. (2013, December 06). Collaborative Consumption: A Winning Model for the Future Economy. Retrieved
October 23, 2017, from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-ward/collaborative-consumption_2_b_4388470.html

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