The document discusses the Italian Sharing Economy Association (AISE) and its perspective on the sharing economy as a sustainable model of social organization and consumption, rooted in cooperation and community-building. AISE aims to support collaborative projects and social innovation through events, training, and consultations, emphasizing the need for new economic models amid the crisis. It highlights challenges faced by Italian companies in this field due to excessive regulations and lobby influences, while advocating for the advantages of collaborative and sustainable practices.

1. AISE - Italian Sharing Economy Association

2. Sharing Economy is. not a a solution to the crisis.
Rather, i t is a comprehensive world view based on
exchange and sharing.
It is founded on cooperation, taking advantage of
the potential of networks in order to propose new
models of social organization and consumption.
The motto sharing is caring, suggests that
on innovation and collective responsability.
our final target is building a new system, based

3. The scenario
The current economic crisis mainly reflects a
general crisis of values. The collapse of the tradi-tional
logic of profits urges each of us to look a
new, sustainable models.
No more bending over backwards, trying to cope
with the uncertainty of casual work, rather a new
kind of community, overcaming individualism in
order to build an articulated economy, based on
interaction and collaboration with others.
Social capitalism is an entrepreneurship made up
of individuals helping each other to improve their
quality of life.

4. A new economy
Many doubt that Sharing Economy can produce
real advantage. Yet some of the most important
websites specifically dedicated to it, thanks to
the collaboration of their users, have achieved
impressive results. The model is widespread,
low cost economy, making it possibile to buy a
service, often offered by other users, in a
sustainable way.
Collaboration is its added value. Saving money
is its strategy. Absence of intermediation is its
competitive advantage.

5. Obstacles
What prevents Italian companies in operating in
the filed of digital service today?
Sharing Economy projects prefer a short opera-tional
chain (peer to peer, without intermedia-ries),
therefore it is evident that there are too
many lobbies and interest groups, excessive
regulations, and heavy bureaucratic system to
deal with.
As a result, the most important Sharing Eco-nomy
platforms are foreign based, while Italy is
still suffering from serious delay.

6. .sharing
is not just a word

7. Social innovation
It is evident that the advantages of coopera-tive
behaviour cannot be limited to a mere
economic dimension. Increasingly, Sharing
Economy projects reward social innovation,
expressing, as an added value, a concrete and
positive impact on quantity of life and on
values underlying communities.
Sustainability, innovation, societing,
community-building, requalification, integra-tion.
Social innovation is a product, a pro-cess,
an idea leading to the betterment of
our society.

8. What about AISE
AISE was founded in Rome in June 2014, as a
government association focused on Sharing
Economy. Aise’s general goals are acting as a
coordinating structure, supporting projects revol-ving
around themes, processes, and values of
Sharing culture and social innovation.
- Event organization
- Training
- Management
- Fundraising

9. Culture and event organization
AISE organizes a national event on the issue of
sharing and collaborative economy. Moreover, it
arranges a series of workshops involving the
partecipation of entrepreneurs, opinion leaders,
journalists and artists operating in such area.
Our aim is spreading the philosophy and values
of this new approach to a sustainable world.
The association works as a consultant with town
administrations, public institutions, foundations,
and companies wich are sensitive and committed
to these findamental issues.

10. Traning and tutoring
AISE offers professional training courses on the
topics of social media management, digital
economy, social innovation, service design and
fundraising.
The aim of our courses is to train new expertise
in the field of collaborative economies.
AISE is a valuable partner for universities, trai-ning
centers, local development agencies, pro-fessional
associations, public admnistrations,
able to provide educational programs and tuto-ring.

11. Management e fundraising
AISE stands as a technical partner for manage-rial
activities aiming to develop projects on digi-tal
and sharing economy. From design to imple-mentation,
including the organizational, technical
and economic aspects, our aim is contributing to
consolidate innovative designs on the market.
Another important task is foundraising, thanks to
a network of qualified references, wich becomes
an important strategic instrument to support the
feasibility of a shared product or service.

12. .sharing
changing the model