Alvaro Porro (Barcelona Activa) i Mayo Fuster (IN3) Collaborative Economy Action Plan. How can cities support the commons collaborative economy?

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February_2017
Alvaro Porro & Mayo Fuster
Barcelona:
Collaborative policies
for the collaborative
Economy

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Barcelona City Council
Collaborative Economy Action
Plan
How can cities support the
commons collaborative
economy?

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The policy framework: Solidarity Economy Strategic Plan

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Common Good Economy
Green Economy
Green entrepreneurship
Conceptual map of transformatives economies
Cooperative Economy
Social and Solidarity Economy
Social Economy
Social
Entrepeneurship
Third Sector
Author:
Álvaro Porro Grassroots innovations

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Why should Barcelona have a specific policy?
• Growing phenomenon
• Sharing and DIY culture are interesting
paradigms and practices for our society
• Digital disruption is here to stay
• Window of opportunity for socioeconomic
innovation and economic democratization
• Real impacts already going on
• Different stakeholders are demanding City
Council action
• Media and public debate going on

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Open and explicit conflict with
specific economic/professional
sectors and some
neighbourhood inhabitants
Challenge!!

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Very active scene of
communites, people,
projects, action,
business….
Internationally awarded
and recongnized
Opportunity!!

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P2Pvalue Dimmons IN3 - UOC Research
980 initiatives of commons collaborative economy documented
in Barcelona

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First steps: Define an
approach to the collaborative
economy
Vision that commons
collaborative economy is the
model to support

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How City Council approaches collaborative
economies?
1. Face challenges with determination, looking at other cities’ experiences
2. Do not look for general regulation model, look into each sector or theme
3. Share a common approach framework within different city council
departments to the phenomenon understanding its potential and diversity
4. Help Barcelona to become an international reference
5. Facilitate development of initiatives, projects and companies specially
those with a more social and commons orientated perspective
6. Collaborative economy policy to be collaborative. Build up a framework of
co-creation of commons collaborative economy promotion policies in
Barcelona.

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What distingues commons collaborative economy?
Open Commons Unicorn Platform coops
Type of
economy
Not-for profit/Foundations
Participative governance
Corporations
Centralized
governance
SME &
cooperatives
Participative
governance
Type of
technology
Free and Open Source
Software
Over closed
technology
Free and Open
Source Software
Type of
knowledge
Open data Locked knowledge Vary

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Gover-
nance
Services
Digital → physical
Direct contact: donations
Membership fees
Public funding
Advertising
Intra-firm
Market
Peer production
Legal Entity
Membership policy
Funding
Value distribution
Co-budgeting
Replicability
Copyleft
Permissive
CopyFair
NonCommercial
NonDerivative
All rights reserved
Licensing
Revenue
Models
Modes of
Production
Commons/Open
Business Model
framework
data
software
art work
design
documentation
External
Regulatory
Framework
Impact
Assessmentco-creation
AUTHOR: WOUTER TEBBENS

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Why the commons model?
Strategic lines – procommons production model
The re-appropriation of the economy. Place well-being and life at the centre
of the economy.
Innovation and economic competitiveness. Boost the competitive
advantages of the new technologies, based on open knowledge, fostering
collaboration, innovation and capacity of internationalisation of the economy of
Barcelona.
Sustainability. Promoting a productive model and of consumption based on the
reuse of resources and existing infrastructures and renewable energy.
More democratic and efficient government institutions. Better public use of
resources, open up more channels of participation and activation of the civil
society in the resolution of common problems and public needs.

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Second step: Set up a
co-creation policy framework

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Policy co-creation framework: Actors structure
Internal municipal areas cross-cutting group
BarCola - Group Council & sector in the city
Procomuns.net - Open encounter & annual event
Decicim.Barcelona - Participative democracy website

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Policies co-creation process
1) First diagnostic - SWOT among experts & sector
2) Online open collaborative writing tool to collect proposals (DemocracyOs)
3) Procomuns event in March 2016
With 400 people discussing proposals
Institutional participation
Declaration of public policies recommendations of 120 proposals
4) PAM - Decidim Barcelona: Online voting
5) Procomuns declaration was sent to European Commission

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Procomuns II
will take place on 28-29 June
2017 in Barcelona
Announcement

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Barcelona collaborative economy action plan
Meetings and connections: Tecchnological track at social economy annual
meeting, support DIY, Free software, guifi networks, Ouishare fest, etc
Match Funding: Goteo crowdfunding
Digital Social Innovation funding for neighbourhood-based projects
Circular economy - Reuse programme: Reuse of computers and
collaborative uses of public administration infrastructure
Experimentation: Piloting basic income and local currency
Guifinet pilot project: neighbourhood-based project to tackle digital gap
La Communificadora: Support training for collaborative economy initiatives

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