This #PlatformCoopBerlin report comprises an introduction into the notion of platform cooperativism, references and links to main activists, activities and further readings. You’ll also find a report on the first #platformCoopBerlin meet-up in Berlin on the 04.03.2016, including a transcript of Michel Bauwen’s speech at this gathering. This article might be useful for whoever wants to get a basic or better understanding of platform cooperativism. People intending to organise a #PlatformCoopX meetup in their own city or researching about the subject will also find helpful information, links and contacts
[Indonesian] Planning a Newsworthy Event - POSTAR ModelMohammad Shihab
This slide will help you to plan a public relations event. Event is an essential tool for public relations to establish relationship between organisation and its publics.
The history of formats and sizes of newspapers is very interesting. The broadsheet newspapers were published to save on taxes and the tabloids focussed on publishing shorter and crispier stories.
Is it really "sharing"?
Presentation of the so-called "Sharing" Economy, for a lecture about service innovation at Linköping University (LiU), during a course in Service Management and Marketing.
I talk about Unicorns; collaborative... consumption-production-finance-learning-governance; “platform cooperativism” and my research focus on shared mobility.
- First upload: 11 March 2016 (v.2016)
- Update: 20 March 2017 (v.2017)
- Update: 14 March 2018 (v.2018 ~ http://bit.ly/2GtkxIk)
[Indonesian] Planning a Newsworthy Event - POSTAR ModelMohammad Shihab
This slide will help you to plan a public relations event. Event is an essential tool for public relations to establish relationship between organisation and its publics.
The history of formats and sizes of newspapers is very interesting. The broadsheet newspapers were published to save on taxes and the tabloids focussed on publishing shorter and crispier stories.
Is it really "sharing"?
Presentation of the so-called "Sharing" Economy, for a lecture about service innovation at Linköping University (LiU), during a course in Service Management and Marketing.
I talk about Unicorns; collaborative... consumption-production-finance-learning-governance; “platform cooperativism” and my research focus on shared mobility.
- First upload: 11 March 2016 (v.2016)
- Update: 20 March 2017 (v.2017)
- Update: 14 March 2018 (v.2018 ~ http://bit.ly/2GtkxIk)
A rapid fire presentation of the activities done in the name of PlatformCoop and PlatformCoopBerlin in the in the time between Nov. 2015 (1. PlatformCoop Conference in NYC and Nov. 2016 (2. PlatformCoop Conference in NYC) as well as a summary, learnings, evalution of the status quo and a look at the next events planned. Presented at the 2. Platformcoop Conference @NewSchool in NYC (see: http://www.platformcoop.net/2016/participants/thomas-doennebrink)
10 min Impuls presentation at the Federal Environment Agency in Berlin about Sharing Cities - with special focus on differences to Smart Cities characteristics and a potential analysis done on the sharing and collaborative economy in Berlin end of 2014 with the subtitle: From a Divided to a Sharing City: Berlin on its way to a Sharing City. The presentation includes a short overview of the different chapters giving the contextualisation and suggesting indicators (I), presents actors in Berlin via a mapping and classification (II), some results from the survey (III), one example of Sharing Cities (IV), generell and more precise recommendations of actions (V) as well as further information about Sharing City networks, Sharing City Amsterdam, two examples of City Government as a Provider of items to share (Paris & Barcelona) and a final case for the fostering Sharing Cities and the Civic Economy/Society. (Some information about OuiShare and the speaker at the end).
Next evolution of the Sharing Economy - One-pager in Baltic-Air-MagazinThomas Doennebrink
Interviewed by airline magazine about next evolution of the Sharing Economy and released as a one-pager trend article in the February 2017 edition of the Baltic Air Magazin.
Giorgio Spedicato_Un approccio pragmatico al diritto d'autore sulle opere dig...Giorgio Spedicato
Le slide offrono una panoramica dei temi relativi al diritto d'autore nel contesto dell'editoria digitale, con particolare attenzione ai rapporti contrattuali tra autori, editori e fruitori delle opere
Nathan Schneider- Introduction to Platform CooperativismOuiShare
The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy—one owned and governed by the people who depend on it. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers’ lives. Online platforms often exploit and exacerbate existing inequalities in society, even while promising to be the great equalizers. Could the Internet be owned and governed differently? What if Uber drivers could set up their own platform, or if cities could control their own version of Airbnb? What if we had an Internet of ownership?
http://ouisharefest.com
The value in the peer economy: who&howIris Network
NOTA. Per attivare i video che intervallano la presentazione, fare il download.
A viable option for «platform cooperativism»
Presentazione di Flaviano Zandonai (Iris Network) a Sharitay 2015 (9 novembre 2015, Milano)
New organizational infrastructures as effective advocates for decent work in the on-demand economy
After analysing causes and effects of the so-called “Uber-ization” of activism (i.e. activism by platform owners), Antonio will discuss strategies for sincere “digital organizing”. It is highly debatable if gig-workers could unionize, especially if they are labelled as contractors.
Since networks are considered the secret weapon of platforms, is there room for building new ones between cloud-workers and gain momentum for collective action? As the “Fight-For-15” campaign has left a promising legacy, the next challenge could consist in strengthening ties between casual workers and putting pressure on platforms in order to improve participation agreements to the benefit of vulnerable workforce.
To this purpose, this presentation will give particular attention to potential sources of worker organisation (from virtual spaces like blogs and forums, to app-based drivers associations or worker-owned co-op). These tools could also represent a way to reduce information asymmetries, compare gig-providers, join forces and therefore increase bargaining power.
In a nutshell, new organizational and social infrastructures will appear (probably in the form of “movements of interests” focused on sectorial issues) and become an effective advocate for decent work in the on-demand economy.
Rückkehr der Genossenschaften: Aufbau der nächsten Generation der Sharing Ökö...Thomas Doennebrink
Im Rahmen des 4-tägigen OuiShareFest#4 in Paris zum Oberthema „After the Gold Rush“ fand ein 90-minütiger Workshop zum Thema Plattform Cooperativismus statt unter dem Titel: „Rückkehr der Genossenschaften: Aufbau der nächsten Generation der Sharing Ökonomie“. Ca. 80 Personen nahmen an der Veranstaltung teil.
Der 90-minütige Workshop bestand aus drei Teilen. Einer Einführung und Überblickaussicht der Kuratoren und Moderatorinnen der Veranstaltung folgten Kurzpräsentationen von jeweils 5 min von den Gründern bzw. Direktoren der Unternehmungen: Part-up, SMartBE, Enercoop, Resecond und Fairmondo. Im zweiten Teil und Hauptpunkt der Veranstaltung wurden zunächst im Plenum die besonderen Interessen herausgearbeitet und sodann die fünf Arbeitsgruppen gebildet zu den folgenden Themen: Politische Steuerung und Koordination (Governance), Beziehung: Plattform & NutzerInnen (Relationship: platform & user), Werte und Verbreitung (Values & Distribution), Geschäftsmodelle, Finanzierung und Technologie (Business Model, Finance & Technology) sowie Mutualisierung (Mutualization). In einem kurzen dritten Teil stellten die Arbeitsgruppen ihre Ergebnisse vor und die Veranstaltung schloss mit einem Aufruf zum Handeln.
Vortrag: OuiShare als Ausdrucksform der Collaborative Economy. Von Thomas Dönnebrink
Im Rahmen der Session 8: Nutzen statt Besitzen – effektive Nutzungsmodelle durch Digitalisierung im Rahmen der BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) Dienstleistungstagung vom 27./28. Mai. 2014.
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Möslein: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik I, insbes. Innovation & Wertschöpfung
Referenten:
Thomas Doennebrink, OuiShare, Berlin
Beitrag: OuiShare als Ausdrucksform der Collaborative Economy
Dr. Alexander Gogoll, Siemens AG, Erlangen
Beitrag: Nutzen statt Besitzen - Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Industrie
Prof. Dr. Stephan Stubner, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Porsche AG Lehrstuhl für Strategisches Management und Familienunternehmen
Beitrag: Digitalisierung und nutzungsbasierte Servicemodelle
Zusammenfassung:
In dem 30 min Vortrag wurde zunächst versucht eine ersten Überblick über den weiten und sich rasant entwickelnden Bereich der Collaborative Economy zu vermitteln bevor auf OuiShare eingegangen wurde in der Frage was OuiShare ist und was OuiShare macht um dann die Frage zu beantworten infern OuiShare als Ausdrucksform der Collaborative Economy betrachtet werden kann. Den Abschluss bildete ein auf sechs Punkte reduzierter Ausblick auf die weitere Entwicklung des Themas: Nutzen statt Besitzen aus OuiShare Sicht.
Im Tagungsband findet sich ein Artikel zum Vortrag.
Bei Interesse sind weitere Information erhältlich via
thomas@ouishare.net bzw. thomasdoennebrink@me.com
#BuyTwitter? German newspaper taz has been there, done that.Thomas Doennebrink
Users want to unite as a cooperative and buy Twitter. This is exactly what saved the German newspaper Taz 25 years ago – and has kept it in good shape to this day.
Article by Thomas Dönnebrink on https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
Airbnb ... war gestern - PlatformCoops ... sind morgenThomas Doennebrink
Sharing & Collaborative Economy trifft auf das Genossenschaftswesen im Allgemeinen und das Genossenschaftsbankwesen im Besonderen.
Willkommen zum Platform Kooperativismus und zur Kollaborativen Ökonomie 3.0.
Das Genossenschaftswesen im Allgemeinen
und die Genossenschaftsbanken im Besonderen
haben das Potential der sich rasant verändernden Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
eine dringend benötigte neue Richtung zu geben,
den sie haben zwei Joker im Ärmel
welche die Plattform Kooperativen dringend benötigen
und ihnen zum Durchbruch verhelfen können und helfen die notwendigen unterstützenden Ökosysteme mitzugestalten: Millionen von Mitgliedern & Milliarden an Kapital. Was noch fehlt ist das Wissen, der Wille und das Tun.
Externe key note “Sharing Economy – Praxiserfahrungen von Ouishare“ zum Cluster-Workshops „Collaborative/sharing Economy“ im Rahmen der Wissenschaftichen Koordination der Fördermaßnahme „Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften" (NaWiKo).
Am 5. Dezember 2016 im Ecologic Institut, Pfalzburger Str. 43-44 10717 Berlin.
http://ecologic.eu/
A rapid fire presentation of the activities done in the name of PlatformCoop and PlatformCoopBerlin in the in the time between Nov. 2015 (1. PlatformCoop Conference in NYC and Nov. 2016 (2. PlatformCoop Conference in NYC) as well as a summary, learnings, evalution of the status quo and a look at the next events planned. Presented at the 2. Platformcoop Conference @NewSchool in NYC (see: http://www.platformcoop.net/2016/participants/thomas-doennebrink)
10 min Impuls presentation at the Federal Environment Agency in Berlin about Sharing Cities - with special focus on differences to Smart Cities characteristics and a potential analysis done on the sharing and collaborative economy in Berlin end of 2014 with the subtitle: From a Divided to a Sharing City: Berlin on its way to a Sharing City. The presentation includes a short overview of the different chapters giving the contextualisation and suggesting indicators (I), presents actors in Berlin via a mapping and classification (II), some results from the survey (III), one example of Sharing Cities (IV), generell and more precise recommendations of actions (V) as well as further information about Sharing City networks, Sharing City Amsterdam, two examples of City Government as a Provider of items to share (Paris & Barcelona) and a final case for the fostering Sharing Cities and the Civic Economy/Society. (Some information about OuiShare and the speaker at the end).
Next evolution of the Sharing Economy - One-pager in Baltic-Air-MagazinThomas Doennebrink
Interviewed by airline magazine about next evolution of the Sharing Economy and released as a one-pager trend article in the February 2017 edition of the Baltic Air Magazin.
Giorgio Spedicato_Un approccio pragmatico al diritto d'autore sulle opere dig...Giorgio Spedicato
Le slide offrono una panoramica dei temi relativi al diritto d'autore nel contesto dell'editoria digitale, con particolare attenzione ai rapporti contrattuali tra autori, editori e fruitori delle opere
Nathan Schneider- Introduction to Platform CooperativismOuiShare
The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy—one owned and governed by the people who depend on it. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers’ lives. Online platforms often exploit and exacerbate existing inequalities in society, even while promising to be the great equalizers. Could the Internet be owned and governed differently? What if Uber drivers could set up their own platform, or if cities could control their own version of Airbnb? What if we had an Internet of ownership?
http://ouisharefest.com
The value in the peer economy: who&howIris Network
NOTA. Per attivare i video che intervallano la presentazione, fare il download.
A viable option for «platform cooperativism»
Presentazione di Flaviano Zandonai (Iris Network) a Sharitay 2015 (9 novembre 2015, Milano)
New organizational infrastructures as effective advocates for decent work in the on-demand economy
After analysing causes and effects of the so-called “Uber-ization” of activism (i.e. activism by platform owners), Antonio will discuss strategies for sincere “digital organizing”. It is highly debatable if gig-workers could unionize, especially if they are labelled as contractors.
Since networks are considered the secret weapon of platforms, is there room for building new ones between cloud-workers and gain momentum for collective action? As the “Fight-For-15” campaign has left a promising legacy, the next challenge could consist in strengthening ties between casual workers and putting pressure on platforms in order to improve participation agreements to the benefit of vulnerable workforce.
To this purpose, this presentation will give particular attention to potential sources of worker organisation (from virtual spaces like blogs and forums, to app-based drivers associations or worker-owned co-op). These tools could also represent a way to reduce information asymmetries, compare gig-providers, join forces and therefore increase bargaining power.
In a nutshell, new organizational and social infrastructures will appear (probably in the form of “movements of interests” focused on sectorial issues) and become an effective advocate for decent work in the on-demand economy.
Rückkehr der Genossenschaften: Aufbau der nächsten Generation der Sharing Ökö...Thomas Doennebrink
Im Rahmen des 4-tägigen OuiShareFest#4 in Paris zum Oberthema „After the Gold Rush“ fand ein 90-minütiger Workshop zum Thema Plattform Cooperativismus statt unter dem Titel: „Rückkehr der Genossenschaften: Aufbau der nächsten Generation der Sharing Ökonomie“. Ca. 80 Personen nahmen an der Veranstaltung teil.
Der 90-minütige Workshop bestand aus drei Teilen. Einer Einführung und Überblickaussicht der Kuratoren und Moderatorinnen der Veranstaltung folgten Kurzpräsentationen von jeweils 5 min von den Gründern bzw. Direktoren der Unternehmungen: Part-up, SMartBE, Enercoop, Resecond und Fairmondo. Im zweiten Teil und Hauptpunkt der Veranstaltung wurden zunächst im Plenum die besonderen Interessen herausgearbeitet und sodann die fünf Arbeitsgruppen gebildet zu den folgenden Themen: Politische Steuerung und Koordination (Governance), Beziehung: Plattform & NutzerInnen (Relationship: platform & user), Werte und Verbreitung (Values & Distribution), Geschäftsmodelle, Finanzierung und Technologie (Business Model, Finance & Technology) sowie Mutualisierung (Mutualization). In einem kurzen dritten Teil stellten die Arbeitsgruppen ihre Ergebnisse vor und die Veranstaltung schloss mit einem Aufruf zum Handeln.
Vortrag: OuiShare als Ausdrucksform der Collaborative Economy. Von Thomas Dönnebrink
Im Rahmen der Session 8: Nutzen statt Besitzen – effektive Nutzungsmodelle durch Digitalisierung im Rahmen der BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) Dienstleistungstagung vom 27./28. Mai. 2014.
Moderation:
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Möslein: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik I, insbes. Innovation & Wertschöpfung
Referenten:
Thomas Doennebrink, OuiShare, Berlin
Beitrag: OuiShare als Ausdrucksform der Collaborative Economy
Dr. Alexander Gogoll, Siemens AG, Erlangen
Beitrag: Nutzen statt Besitzen - Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Industrie
Prof. Dr. Stephan Stubner, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Porsche AG Lehrstuhl für Strategisches Management und Familienunternehmen
Beitrag: Digitalisierung und nutzungsbasierte Servicemodelle
Zusammenfassung:
In dem 30 min Vortrag wurde zunächst versucht eine ersten Überblick über den weiten und sich rasant entwickelnden Bereich der Collaborative Economy zu vermitteln bevor auf OuiShare eingegangen wurde in der Frage was OuiShare ist und was OuiShare macht um dann die Frage zu beantworten infern OuiShare als Ausdrucksform der Collaborative Economy betrachtet werden kann. Den Abschluss bildete ein auf sechs Punkte reduzierter Ausblick auf die weitere Entwicklung des Themas: Nutzen statt Besitzen aus OuiShare Sicht.
Im Tagungsband findet sich ein Artikel zum Vortrag.
Bei Interesse sind weitere Information erhältlich via
thomas@ouishare.net bzw. thomasdoennebrink@me.com
#BuyTwitter? German newspaper taz has been there, done that.Thomas Doennebrink
Users want to unite as a cooperative and buy Twitter. This is exactly what saved the German newspaper Taz 25 years ago – and has kept it in good shape to this day.
Article by Thomas Dönnebrink on https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
Airbnb ... war gestern - PlatformCoops ... sind morgenThomas Doennebrink
Sharing & Collaborative Economy trifft auf das Genossenschaftswesen im Allgemeinen und das Genossenschaftsbankwesen im Besonderen.
Willkommen zum Platform Kooperativismus und zur Kollaborativen Ökonomie 3.0.
Das Genossenschaftswesen im Allgemeinen
und die Genossenschaftsbanken im Besonderen
haben das Potential der sich rasant verändernden Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
eine dringend benötigte neue Richtung zu geben,
den sie haben zwei Joker im Ärmel
welche die Plattform Kooperativen dringend benötigen
und ihnen zum Durchbruch verhelfen können und helfen die notwendigen unterstützenden Ökosysteme mitzugestalten: Millionen von Mitgliedern & Milliarden an Kapital. Was noch fehlt ist das Wissen, der Wille und das Tun.
Externe key note “Sharing Economy – Praxiserfahrungen von Ouishare“ zum Cluster-Workshops „Collaborative/sharing Economy“ im Rahmen der Wissenschaftichen Koordination der Fördermaßnahme „Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften" (NaWiKo).
Am 5. Dezember 2016 im Ecologic Institut, Pfalzburger Str. 43-44 10717 Berlin.
http://ecologic.eu/
This is lecture 5 of a course on social media at the University of Winchester. This covers a brief overand history of blogs, microbloggs and Twitter, the public sphere and some of the research on # hastags and the consequences of using twitter.
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
Presentation on key social trends related to digital technologies, presented at the infoactivism workshop organized by Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska for the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
Public policies for productive innovation in information societySusana Finquelievich
Despite the assumption that large cities produce more innovation than smaller cities, evidence shows that innovation-friendly policies and the use of digital technology to open new pathways to innovation are more important than the city size.
Media technology and the transformation of the public sphere: a media / socia...Marcus Leaning
Academic conference paper that looks at how technology has been understood to bring about a rebirth of the public sphere and the problems of such an approach. Paper offers a case study of an anonymous NGO who adopt a more grass-roots approach to civic regeneration that uses media technology. Recommendations for future work are approaches should be holistic, recognizing the need to take on all stages of technology dissemination and not just the cheap technological bits and that approaches should be socially led.
M a n u e l Castells Toward a Sociology of the Network Soc.docxsmile790243
M a n u e l Castells
Toward a Sociology of the Network Society
Manuel Castells
The Call to Sociology
The twenty-first century of the Common Era did not
necessarily have to usher in a new society. But it did.
People around the world feel the winds of multi-
dimensional social change without truly understanding
it, let alone feeling a grasp upon the process of change.
Thus the challenge to sociology, as the science of study
of society. More than ever society needs sociology, but
not just any kind of sociology. The sociology that people
need is not a normative meta-discipline instructing
them, from the authoritative towers of academia, about
what is to be done. It is even less a pseudo-sociology made
up of empty word games and intellectual narcissism,
expressed in terms deliberately incomprehensible for
anyone without access to a French-Greek dictionary.
Because we need to know, and because people need
to know, more than ever we need a sociology rooted
in its scientific endeavor. Of course, it must have the
specificity of its object of study, and thus of its theories
and methods, without mimicking the natural sciences
in a futile search for respectability. And it must have a
clear purpose of producing objective knowledge (yes!
there is such a thing, always in relative terms), brought
about by empirical observation, rigorous theorizing,
and unequivocal communication. Then we can argue
- and we will! - about the best way to proceed with
observation, theory building, and formal expression of
findings, depending on subject matter and methodo-
logical traditions. But without a consensus on sociology
as science - indeed, as a specific social science - we
sociologists will fail in our professional and intellectual
duty at a time when we are needed most. We are needed
because, individually and collectively, most people in
the world are lost about the meaning of the whirlwind
Source: Contemporary Sociology, 29, 5, September 2000:
693-9.
we are going through. So they need to know which
kind of society we are in, which kind of social processes
are emerging, what is structural, and what can be changed
through purposive social action. And we are needed
because without understanding, people, rightly, will
block change, and we may lose the extraordinary
potential of creativity embedded into the values and
technologies of the Information Age. We are needed
because as would-be scientists of society we are posi-
tioned better than anyone else to produce knowledge
about the new society, and to be credible - or at least
more credible than the futurologists and ideologues
that litter the interpretation of current historical
changes, let alone politicians always jumping on the
latest trendy word.
So, we are needed, but to do what? Well, to study the
processes of constitution, organization, and change of
a new society, probably starting with its social structure
- what I provisionally call the network societ ...
Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal universityRichard Hall
Slides for my presentation at the CAPPE, Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference on 4 September 2014 http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cappe/conferences/conferences/annual-conference-neoliberalism-and-everyday-life
On the 7th of November another Refugee Academy meeting took place at the Aurora room at VU Amsterdam. Together with the audience and a panel we talked about the reception of refugees and what influence this has on the integration.
Old vs. New Economy. Keynote speech at EUKN EGTC Conference - Civic Economy i...OuiShare
Keynote @Conference on the Civic Economy - Time to get ready Organized by European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam & Pakhuis de Zwijger. Amsterdam 20.10.2014.
Impulsvortrag zu OuiShare am 17.01.2018 im Reallabor Spacesharing der AKB Stuttgart im Rahmen der Reallabor Lounge zum Thema: ökonomische Strukturen für eine Akteurs-basierte Stadtproduktion
Überblick über die Entwicklung der Sharing- & Kollaborative Ökonomie als Einstieg zur Learning Journey zum Thema Plattform Kooperativen der ADG nach Berlin
Presentation sur l'économie collaborative. "Partage au lieu de l'achat. Moins de déchets par moins de consommation?"
dans le cadre du projet "Baladiya - nouvelles voies dans le développement urbain", effectuée par "Europäische Akademie Berlin" à l'initiative et avec le soutien de la Robert Bosch Stiftung, et en étroite collaboration avec la GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH / Société allemande pour la coopération internationale. S'adress aux urbanistes algériens, marocains et tunisiens. (31.01. 2018)
PeerSharing - Internetgestützte Geschäftsmodelle für gemeinschaftlichen Konsu...Thomas Doennebrink
Wie grün, wie nachhaltig, wie dynamisch … ist die Sharing Economy? Dies waren die zentralen drei Fragen des dreijährigen Forschungsprojektes “PeerSharing – Internetgestützte Geschäftsmodelle für gemeinschaftlichen Konsum als Beitrag zum nachhaltigen Wirtschaften“ welches das Teilen von Privat zu Privat (Peer-to-Peer Sharing) untersuchte. Gefördert wurde das Forschungsprojekt vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, koordiniert vom Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) im Verbund mit den Instituten für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT) in Berlin und für Energie- und Umweltforschung (IFEU) in Heidelberg.
Dieses Dokument besteht aus zwei Teilen. Im ersten Teil werden die einzelnen Veröffentlichungen und Ergebnisse – in Gruppen zusammengefasst und in Kurzform – aufgelistet. Somit ergibt sich ein schneller Überblick über das Gesamtwerk, und über die eingebundenen Links können Interessierte schnell an entsprechenden Stellen in die dahinterliegenden ausführlichen Dokumentationen eintauchen. Sie behandeln unter anderem Definitionsfragen und eine Bestandsaufnahme des P2P Sharings, Ergebnisse qualitativer und quantitativer Befragungen, Szenarien zu Zukünften des P2P Sharings, Nachhaltige Entwicklungsperspektiven für Geschäftsmodelle des P2P Sharings u.a.
Im zweiten Teil wird ausführlicher auf einzelne Veröffentlichungen eingegangen. Schwerpunkt wird hierbei gelegt auf die Themenbereiche: Kontroversen ums Teilen, Kontexte des Teilens, und Kompromisse des Teilens (wobei es um Nachhaltige Governance von Peer-to-Peer Sharing Praktiken geht), sowie um die Ökologie des Teilens. Jeweils am Anfang steht zunächst eine möglichst objektive Zusammenfassung bzw. Präsentation von Schlüsselergebnissen. Abgetrennt durch den Vermerk “Hervorhebung:” folgt dann jeweils eine selektive und subjektive Auswahl aus den Veröffentlichungen - und deren teilweise Kommentierung - aus der Sicht des Autors dieses Artikels, ein Vertreters der Praxis/Fach-Community, der in dieser Eigenschaft das Forschungsprojekt begleitet hat. Was erscheint aus diesem Blickwinkel und für diesen Kontext besonders informativ und erhellend? Was ist sprachlich und terminologisch gut formuliert? Was möchte diskutiert und kommentiert werden?
Sharing Economy 3.0 Potenziale & Herausforderungen
(Impulsvortrag am 20. Oktober 2017 im Umweltbundesministerium, Berlin.
Im Rahmen der Abfallvermeidungsdialoge: Abfallvermeidung durch neue Nutzungsformen)
Keynote on the 24.03. @Fourth Conference on Good Economy in Zagrep Croatia organized by ZMAG Green Network of Activist Groups. Sponsored by République Francaise, Rosa Luxemburg, Goethe Institut & Institut ZA Politicku Ekologiju.
Article about the keynote published in Croatian newspaper: http://www.vecernji.hr/gospodarstvo/napustamo-eru-konkurentnosti-i-ulazimo-u-eru-kolaborativnosti-1158925
Plattform Kooperativismus als Antwort auf den Plattform KapitalismusThomas Doennebrink
Deutsche Übersetzung der Präsentationen zum Thema Plattform Kooperativismus bzw. Digitale Kooperativen während Events auf Tenerife und in México Stadt. Erklärung, Geschichte, Einbettung, Appell.
Introductory lecture on the Collaborative Economy and attempt to embed into a...Thomas Doennebrink
45 min. lecture as kick-off event for a visitor programme tour of international journalists and academics in Germany on the topic of sharing and collaborative economy organised by the Goethe-Institute and on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office. Lecture consists on three parts
1.) Introduction to the share- & collaborative economy (areas, developments, phases, drivers, (pre)conditions, collaborative a) consumption b) production c) finance d) learning & open everything, effects, etc.)
2. Attempt to embed into a wider context in form of a juxtaposition of old vs. new economy/society characteristics.
3. Look at the current status (quo) and current trends (quo vadis) of the collaborative economy (collaborative economy 1.0, UBER, AIRBNB et al., Uberisation, monoculture, platform capitalism, collaborative economy 3.0 (platform cooperativism et al.), front end vs. back.
10 min Impuls presentation at the Federal Environment Agency in Berlin about Sharing Cities - with special focus on differences to Smart Cities characteristics and a potential analysis done on the sharing and collaborative economy in Berlin end of 2014 with the subtitle: From a Divided to a Sharing City: Berlin on its way to a Sharing City. The presentation includes a short overview of the different chapters giving the contextualisation and suggesting indicators (I), presents actors in Berlin via a mapping and classification (II), some results from the survey (III), one example of Sharing Cities (IV), generell and more precise recommendations of actions (V) as well as further information about Sharing City networks, Sharing City Amsterdam, two examples of City Government as a Provider of items to share (Paris & Barcelona) and a final case for the fostering Sharing Cities and the Civic Economy/Society. (Some information about OuiShare and the speaker at the end).
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AIRBNB/UBER ... was yesterday - PlatformCooperativism ... will be tomorrowThomas Doennebrink
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Cooperativism in general & cooperative banking associations in particular have the potential to give the rapidly changing economy and society an URGENTLY needed and
in the meantime by more and more people wished turn, as they have two aces up their sleeves which are strongly needed by platform cooperatives and can give them leverage, and would help to co-create the necessary and supportive ecosystem: millions of members and billions of capital. What is still lacking is the knowledge, willingness and the action.
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http://ouisharefestbcn2015.sched.org/event/05abb7bcff46dca84018b72058a39cd7
Intention of the workshop: take the idea for the platform cooperativism conference of the New School in NYC (see: http://platformcoop.net/) and plant, discuss, disseminate and further develop it during successive events in Europe.
Links:
Workshop Follow-up FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/908775275826716/
Platform Cooperativism Conference http://platformcoop.net/
Rise of the Digital Cooperative FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/897768210315282/
OuiShare http://ouishare.net/en/908775275826716/
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Die Power von Null
UBER Nach 6 Jahren die weltweit größte Taxifirma - > 140 Mio. Fahrten in 2014 - besitzt NULL eigene Autos.- Börsenwert 41 Mrd.$
FACEBOOK Nach 11 Jahren die weltweit populärste Medienplattform produziert NULL eigenen content – Börsenwert 184 Mrd $
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AIRBNB - Nach 7 Jahren weltweit größter Übernachtungsanbieter - > 23 Mio. Gäste/J besitzt NULL eigene Immobilien 20 Mrd $
1. These
Der Vorteil von gestern wird zum Nachteil von morgen.
Früher brachten eigene Assets i.d.R. Vorteile. Heute können die damit verbundenen (hohen) Fixkosten, (starre) Bürokratien & (schwerfällige) Hierarchien zum Mühlstein werden.
2. These
Wenn ihr Geschäftsmodell einzig basiert auf dem Abverkauf Ihrer (eigenen) Produkte werden Sie in wenigen Jahren prozentual einen spürbar geringeren Marktanteil haben –
Wenn es Ihr Unternehmen dann noch gibt.
3. These
Es gibt eine Verschiebung in die folgende Richtung:
Produkt -> Service -> Marktplatz -> Plattform (-> Commons)
Firmen die sich und Ihr Geschäftsmodell daraufhin ausrichten werden in Zukunft besser dastehen als diejenigen, welche diese Entwicklung verschlafen.
@pentagrowth von Javier Creus, Vordenker aus Barcelona,
Es fasst in 5 Hebeln die Schlüsseldimensionen zusammen: Netzwerke, Inventare, User (nicht Konsumenten), Partner (nicht Konkurrenten), Wissen
Für Netzwork gilt der Appell: Connect: Je größer die Anzahl der Knotenpunkte (nodes) die eine Entität in der Lage ist zu verknüpfen, desto größer das Wachstumspotential
(hier in der wachsenden Gradierung: sozial, mobile, IOT)
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(hier in der wachsenden Gradierung: Nutzer (1 Rolle), Nutzer/Produzent (2 Rollen) Mehrere/beliebige Rollen)
4. Für die Partner gilt der Appell: Enable: Je größer die Anzahl der Partner die das von der Entität bereitgestellte tool nutzen um ihr eigenes Geschäft aufzubauen, desto größer das Wachstumspotential (hier in der wachsenden Gradierung: Zur Verfügungstellung, Co-Märkte, Co-Kreierung)
5. Und für das Wissen gilt der Appell: Share: Je größer die community, die einen Gemeinschaftsinn mit dem Ressourcenbesitz der Entität entwickelt (Identifikation), desto größer das Wachstumspotential
45 min Präsentation in 3 Teilen
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Platform Cooperativism
1. Platform Cooperativism:
an international movement
on the rise
#PlatformCoopBerlin
Impressions of the 1. PlatformCoopBerlinEvent
@SUPERMARKT 04.03.2016
Thomas Dönnebrink, Ela Kagel
2. Table of contents
Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise ................................................... 2
About the recent history of Platform Cooperativism ............................................................................ 3
Michel Bauwens view on Platform Cooperativism: What it is & why it matters .......................... 4
What is value? Getting aware of the historical context ............................................................ 4
A scattered rebellion ..................................................................................................................... 4
The shift towards open value creation commoners vs netarchical capitalism ...................... 5
How to build platform coops the “right” way ............................................................................... 6
The need for and potential of openness ..................................................................................... 7
Report on #PlatformCoopBerlin1 meet-up ............................................................................................... 9
Who was there? .............................................................................................................................. 9
What were the open barcamp workgroups all about? ............................................................. 9
Next steps .................................................................................................................................................... 12
Links to PlatformCoop events, topics, groups & URLs ....................................................................... 12
PlatformCoopBerlinEvents ......................................................................................................................... 13
Credits ........................................................................................................................................................... 15
Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 1/15
#PlatformCoopBerlin
3. Platform Cooperativism:
an international movement on the rise
This article comprises an introduction into the notion of platform cooperativism, references and links to main activists,
activities and further readings. You’ll also find a report on the first #platformCoopBerlin meet-up in Berlin on the
04.03.2016, including a transcript of Michel Bauwen’s speech at this gathering. This article might be useful for whoever
wants to get a basic or better understanding of platform cooperativism. People intending to organise
a #PlatformCoopX meetup in their own city or researching about the subject will also find helpful information, links
and contacts.
Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 2/15
#PlatformCoopBerlin
SUPERMARKT, Berlin
4. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 3/15
It was Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor of Culture and
Media at the New School in New York City, who put the
concept of platform cooperativism on the agenda. „Plat-
form cooperativism, says Trebor, is about cloning the
technological heart of online platforms and puts it to
work with a cooperative model, one that puts workers,
owners, communities, and cities - in a kind of solidarity
that leads to political power.“ For more information have
a look at Trebor Scholz’s reader: platform cooperativism.
Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider, reporter and a visi-
ting assistant professor of media studies at University of
Colorado Boulder, initiated the Conference Platform Co-
operativism The Internet. Ownership. Democracy in NYC
in November 2015. This event brought together about
100 participants and each day an unexpected 1000+
coders and designers, scholars and researchers, worker
cooperatives and builders of platforms owned and go-
verned by their workers / participants. 1.800 people fol-
lowed the twitter-account @platformcoop and the hash-
tag #platformcoop was leading the national hitlist on the
13.11. for 5h. As intended the conference turned into „a
coming-out party for the cooperative Internet“ and did
not just spread the concept of #platformcooperativism,
but also generated a new and important political debate
about economy and society at large.
The facilitators of the 1st local #Platformcoop Berlin
meetup, Thomas Dönnebrink and Michel Bauwens, also
led a session about Platform Cooperativism In The Con-
text Of Alternative Infrastructures For The Commons
Economy, at this conference where they tried to con-
verge the collaborative economy, cooperativism and the
open source/data/knowledge movement. (Documenta-
tion: Presentation / Videostream).
Nevertheless, it didn’t stop with the closing of the con-
ference: participants carried the momentum on to suc-
cessive events like workshops, reunions or talks at the
OuiShareFest BCN in Barcelona, Madrid, Badajoz or pu-
blications about the topic – just to name our own un-
dertakings prior to the first event in Berlin. Also, The In-
ternet of Ownership was initiated by Nathan Schneider
as a „directory for the online democratic ecosystem“,
is showcasing further events and organisations on this
site.
In this line of tradition, the first #PlatformCoopBerlin
meet-up took place in Berlin at the new SUPERMARKT.
It was enabled and organized by a collaborative effort of
the SUPERMARKT Group, OuiShare Connectors and the
Heinrich Boell-Foundation. Michel Bauwens was invited
as the keynote speaker. Even though space was limited
and had filled up already with direct invitations, more
than 50 people attended instead of the 30 expected.
About the recent history of Platform Cooperativism
#PlatformCoopBerlin
2. Thomas Dönnebrink @ PlatformCooperativism Conference in NY
1. Trebor Scholz
5. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 4/15
Michel Bauwens opened his speech by pointing out that
we are already living in a transition period. More and
more people are waking up to the fact that we are in
a crisis and that our extractive system cannot continue
infinitely in a world that is destroying the biosphere and
busting planetary boundaries. According to research
done in the Netherlands civic initiatives are growing li-
nearly since the 1980s until about 2005, since then ex-
ponentially. Michel calls it the birth of a “sensitive cons-
ciousness”. “What many activists worldwide are doing is
already changing society. We all know it is difficult. We
know it is precarious to do this, but the fact that so many
have gathered here shows that we believe in it – and we
are not alone.”
What is value? Getting aware of the histo-
rical context
Michel compares the grand transformation underway
with the great historical transformations of the 10th
and 15th/16th centuries: Until the 10th century, if one
wanted to get rich they went out to plunder their neigh-
bours. This changed gradually with the peace of God
movement in southern France, a social revolt against
the plunder economy. A revolution that laid the basis for
a new social contract. If you wanted to become rich you
had to plunder the earth and toil the land and the peop-
le bound to the land. Then around the 15th/16th century
another change in value regime occurred, producing or
induced by new social or technological innovations like:
double book accounting, printing press, Calvinism pro-
mising those becoming rich to go straight to heaven as
opposed to hell waiting for those who led an idle life.
Signs of the new value regime was not more so much
exploiting the land, but to make and sell commodities
which would eventually create the capitalistic system.
According to Michel the struggle of the last 200 years
was mainly between labour and capital and about who
gets which part of the cookie, but the real social and
not so apparent fundamental struggle is: who decides
what is value?
Following the current economic value logic: an oil spill
of a tanker is producing economic value, if you are vo-
lunteering to clean the beach, you are destroying econo-
mic value. If you help children to become autonomous
adults you have no recognition whatsoever. If you are
in the care economy you do not exist. The struggle is to
move from an extractive system to generative practices
and to co-creating shared resources for human groups,
communities and nature.
A scattered rebellion
Michel compares the grand transformation underway
with the great historical transformations of the 10th
Michel points out three big social movements:
– transition to sustainability
– fairness (around creation and distribution of value like
solidarity economy)
– commons (around open source, open software, open
hardware e.g. a shared/common knowledge base – to
create a vibrant society)
Michel Bauwens view on Platform Cooperativism:
What it is & why it matters (edited transcript of his keynote)
Michel Bauwens
#PlatformCoopBerlin
6. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 5/15
Many people and millions of organisations and initiati-
ves are active in these spaces, but the problem is that
they are all fragmented. Michel mentions 12 different
software programmes for ordering food of community
supported agriculture in Italy alone. Local is fine, but if
we don’t find a way to connect and collaborate to form a
strong social force, we will lose. This is the story of tran-
sition: Changing the rules of the game.
The shift towards open value creation:
commoners vs netarchical capitalism
And according to Michel the game changer is the chan-
ge to open value creation. The current system considers
the private labour and private capital the creator of
value: market value, that is.
In a new system the value is – or should be – created
through the mutualisation of knowledge: Wikihouse
or Wikipedia are just two of the 1000s of open source
communities where people decide to mutualise their
knowledge and thus generate and distribute value, crea-
ting commons. Not labour or capital, but citizens are the
productive entity here. Through their contribution they
create the condition for value creation.
Under the dominant system one can’t make a living di-
rectly from one’s open and contributory action. So even
if we create value, it is not recognized by the system, as
it has no market value. Abundant knowledge can’t be a
market value. This is one of our fundamental problems
today. Michel considers the current situation to be even
worse for workers/users as he sees that the extractive
netarchical economy is a shift in capitalism from labour
system (I pay people to create and market products
which I sell at a higher price) to direct exploitation of
collaboration of others. Think about Google, Youtube,
flickr, Uber, airbnb - all companies which do no longer
pay anyone for creating content and services but enab-
le us to do this and then they have a vacuum cleaner
and suck the value out of our exchange system. Think
about facebook: 1,5 Billion people co-creating value
– but 100% of the market value is privatized, captured
and is not reinvested in the capacity of the users to con-
tribute. This is the real problem. Even though with this
hyper productive system of peer production - Commons
based peer production - in place. This the value is direc-
tly captured by netarchical platforms. You can call them
the “capturists” creating a financialised exploitation of
human cooperation. Here the concept of platform co-
operativism comes in. Michel suggests that the circula-
tion of the commons should be achieved through open
input, participatory processes and commons-oriented
output which then creates the condition for open input
again – thus closing the loop. This works collectively, but
it doesn’t work individually, because the system doesn’t
allow and provide the resources for the commoner to
reproduce oneself. Livelihoods can not be reproduced
in this way.
In this netarchical system it is actually worse than be-
fore, because one even gets less money than in the old
system. This is why we have to change this system. The-
se are the death stars as Neal Gorenflo puts it. This is
where platform coops become interesting. They create
livelihoods around the commons and co-create liveli-
hoods for the commoners.
Michel strikes a blow for open cooperatives and here he
sees where platformcoops fit in – or should fit in. One
contributes to an open commons. In order to create a
living, one creates his/her own cooperative entity. As a
commoner one creates abundant goods that are avai-
lable to all (especially in the form of knowledge). Ever-
ybody can contribute to it. Everybody can use it. In or-
der to make a living, cooperatives which connect to the
(current) market have to be created. Michel’s argument
is that non-capitalistic, post-capitalistic markets can be
created. He suggests community supported agriculture
(CSA ) as an example: This is not capitalism. Capitalism
is separating value from the means of production. It is
about lucrative property, if one owns the land or if one
owns the platform receiving a rent from the activities
on the platform. In a coorporative context one creates
a form - like CSA - that practices solidarity with the pro-
ducer – a group of consumer. Money might be used, but
one is not buying commodities, but a share of the pro-
#PlatformCoopBerlin
7. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 6/15
duction of a farmer. Michel asks: can we create non-ext-
ractive new models and why should they be open?
Looking at the history of cooperatives – e.g. Mondragon,
which Michel says he still loves as a good intent into the
right direction – they often only work for their own bene-
fit: for the benefit of its members instead of just certain
individuals, nevertheless it still stops there. What you
are getting is worker capitalism. On the inside you have
democracy at the workplace, but what happened when
Mondragon went to Poland for example and didn’t want
to share their bonuses, they hired Polish workers at a
minimum wage and then they had a strike. So these co-
operatives are better, but it is not enough. Nowadays co-
ops should co-create shared resources. This could mean
using free software licenses. So guaranteeing that the
work you are doing is also available outside your com-
munity, that it is a gift to the common good. These can
be done virtually/digitally or can also be done physical-
ly. Michel gave the example of a housing coop in Quito
in one of the poorest areas of the city. Members of the
cooperative are benefiting from special housing arran-
gements and in return they pledge to contribute a 100
hours of community work in which they clean dumps
and turn them into public parks for the citizens - thus
creating Commons.
Then Michel emphasised the meaning of Open Coopera-
tivism, which he proposes have the following characteri-
stics: That coops need to …
… be statutorily (internally) oriented towards the com-
mon good
… have governance models including all stakeholders
… actively co-produce the creation of immaterial and
material commons
… be organized socially and politically on a global basis,
even as they produce locally.
How to build platform coops the “right”
way
Platform coops aren’t there yet, but they are moving into
the right direction.
The effect UBER and airbnb has on local economies is
similar to a great grocery-shop that takes about 30% of
the value out of a local community. UBER and airbnb do
the same. They suck out a big part of the value, but they
don’t (re)invest in apartments or cars, they don’t make
anything. The only thing they do is creating an APP -
which is no rocket science - but they create a lot of con-
trol around it.
Platformcoop is a normal reaction to it. For example Ar-
cade City in Vermont is a Coop of drivers that create their
own UBER, creating their own platform (and now using
Ethereum and launching in 27 cities). How is it related to
the commons? In UBER, airbnb and others of their ilk are
no commons, but a platform can be a commons. When
we are exchanging on a platform that is a market fun-
ction, but the platform itself can be our common. This
is the connection of the emerging commons economy.
Nevertheless for Michel, this is not enough. He shared
his recent experience of taking a taxi in Amsterdam whe-
re he was charged 18€ one way and 9€ same way back.
So a monostakeholder platform can still exploit others.
That is why Michel considers multi-stakeholder approa-
ches to be better.
How could this apply to the creation of platformco-
ops? Their could be certain shares, Michel called them
“Fairshares”, reserved for founders (acknowledging and
recognizing that they are heavily investing their time for
the first 2-3 years), but these shares will diminish over
time, not turning into a life-long-rent. A similar share ar-
rangement could apply to (ethical) investors, recognising
their input and risk-taking. Another share arrangement
including workers and users. A platform(coop) design
like this will recognise and acknowledge that in the open
systems of today co-creation is the norm. Users of Fa-
cebook co-create the value of Facebook, without them
Facebook is not worth anything.
According to Michel we have to work on three circles:
sustainability, openness, solidarity and especially on
building bridges between the three to make the mode
#PlatformCoopBerlin
8. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 7/15
of production and distribution – free – fair – and sus-
tainable. Nature creates abundance and – used wisely
– provides enough for everybody’s needs, but capitalism
is scarcity engineering in order to turn abundant nature,
knowledge etc. into market goods. Distribution is ext-
remely unfair: inequality is rising all over the world. So
we need a system that gives answers to all three circles.
We have to work together. So the dozen CSA ordering
software in Italy should talk to each other and create an
open source platform where they can share their infra-
structure investments.
The need for and potential of openness
This is also connected to the intents of the open source
circular economy. Michel does not see how the circular
economy can create sustainability without openness. If
everybody has, wants and sticks to its private logistical
chain, it will take 50 years or so to make it. But in the
context of an ethical coalition of entrepreneurs around
the commons, cooperation becomes easier. Take for ex-
ample the enspiral network in New Zealand - “a virtual
and physical network of companies and professionals
working together to create a thriving society” – they
have full transparency internally, consisting of 18 ven-
tures with open logistics, open book accounting, etc.
Here we go. Then happens what is already happening
in the material world which is called stigmergy: coordi-
nation without command by signalling without pricing.
Looking at Linux or Wikipedia: people see what needs
to be done, and whoever wants is free to allocate ones
time or resources to it. With open supply chains and lo-
gistics one can actually move this to the physical sphere.
Imagine the hyper productivity that can be achieved if
this gets done. Capitalism cannot match it. We already
know something like Wikipedia or Linux cannot be done
in this way. It has been calculated, it is impossible. We
can do it. We did it. We can turn Wikihouse into a global
platform for public carbon neutral housing. We can do it.
We can use Wikispeed or similar mutualised productive
knowledge for sustainable transportation and without it
I doubt that we will be able to move to a circular eco-
nomy.
And same thing for the solidarity economy. By all sym-
pathy if you are a solidarity company but privatising
your knowledge you are playing a different game. The
same game as capitalism. It makes much more sense
to mutualise your knowledge and contribute more value
than private companies because you are sharing your
knowledge and everybody in the ecosystem can use
your innovation. Take Wikispeed again, they release a
new design every week. How about Volkswagen? Well,
we know about Volkswagen.
If you want to combine all the circles: sustainability,
openness, solidarity - there is currently no money for it.
So a lot of work remains to be done. Nevertheless there
is already a lot of knowledge and experience out the-
re. There are more than 20.000 articles of transition on
P2P foundation, Commons transition et al. and Michel
brought up examples like Sensorica, Ethos, Enspiral, Las
Indias to learn from. There are coalitions out there ex-
perimenting and they are doing fine and are growing.
This is not utopia. This is something real, but we need to
spread the knowledge. The transition has started alrea-
dy, we just need to speed it up because we do not have
that much time.
#PlatformCoopBerlin
Friederike Abitz
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SUPERMARKT, Berlin
Joy Lohmann
#PlatformCoopBerlin
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The three-hour-workshop consisted of two parts, about
90 min each.
The first round of input was all about contextualisation,
the motivations of the Boell Foundation and the SUPER-
MARKT. A quick presentation of all participants showed
which actors and interests had gathered. Thomas Dön-
nebrink provided the introduction and the context. Mi-
chel Bauwens, researcher, activist and director of the
P2P foundation, gave an introductory speech.
In the second part of the evening, participants were as-
ked to organise themselves in the form of an open bar-
camp. The barcamp evolved into five workshops and
a final closing round presenting the outcomes of each
group. A final discussion about learnings, findings and
patterns emerging closed the official part of this work-
shop. The rest of the evening was dedicated to networ-
king, drinks and snacks.
Who was there?
This first meeting of the local Berlin initiatives brought
together more than 50 people:
· Founders, CEOs and members of platforms and/or co-
ops such as:
Fairmondo, Fairleihen, SMART, Yunity, WeChange, Co-
liga, Jolocom, DCrow, Leihbar, Central Association of
Consumer Cooperatives
· Networks and Network Platforms such as:
OuiShare, Open Source Ecology, Solidarische Ökonomie,
berlinerpool, das-kooperativ, StopResetGo
· Members of Foundations such as:
Boell, P2P, Anstiftung, Free Software Foundations
· Institutes & Organisations such as:
Commons-Institut, Institut für ökologische Wirschafts-
forschung, Konzeptwerk neue Ökonomie
· Individual journalists, artists, programmers, activists,
changemakers, foresight strategist, researches and faci-
litators interested in the topic.
For more information about the participants and their
contributions see: bit.ly/PlatformCoopBerlin1Voices
What were the open barcamp workgroups
all about?
1. Why Platforms? Centralised platforms vs distribu-
ted network
Almost everyone liked the idea of cooperativism, but
some people also criticised the idea of platforms. Initi-
atives, such as Jolocom, explicitly strive towards distri-
buted, autonomous nodes and being in favour of the
network concept, rather than the centralised platform.
Felix Weth from Fairmondo took up the challenge and
brought another perspective into the debate: We have
to think big in order to be able to provide real alternati-
ves to proprietary, large-scale user platforms.
These were the main questions debated in this work-
group: Can we outcompete multinational corporations
Report on #PlatformCoopBerlin1 meet-up
#PlatformCoopBerlin
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by creating our own platforms? Will we manage to ad-
here to our principles of openness and safety while
operating fast-growing, international platforms? Or is a
network of decentralized autonomous organisations the
only viable and sustainable solution?
2. Mapping the ecosystem: Overview of people and
platforms
In this group Adrien Labaeye urged the community to
start mapping the platformcoop ecosystem. „We have to
know what’s out there and with whom we can coopera-
te“. He is part of a larger group working on transformap,
a techno-social architecture to visualize the commons
transition. The workgroup tried to define basic criteria
helping to source data for the creation of maps. Adri-
en Labaeye presented a first metamap to get started
with an overview of concepts, tools, directories, activists,
platforms, movements, foundations and other entities
in the field of platformcoops – or related to it.
3. Linking the ecosytem - Interoperability of existing
platforms
Another group, mainly consisting of the programmers
of the various platforms present, discussed terms, chan-
ces and difficulties of interoperability and collaborati-
on between platforms. One of the outcomes were that
technical and interpersonal solutions are both key in or-
der to establish collaboration and cooperative thinking.
Further collaboration is envisaged.
4. A coalition between cities
Discussed were the vision of forming a coalition of diffe-
rent cities working together with the open source and
open makers movement creating a platform for their ci-
tizens making sure that the money/value generated on
and via the platform also stays in the region. A coaliti-
on of cities that start pooling infrastructure investment
costs for collaboratively creating a common kernel plat-
form seems ideal and logic given the fact that one per-
son can only be in one city at a time, making competition
and the development of expensive own proprietary so-
lutions little sense and not a smart move. On the ground
of fairness and solidarity rich cities and entities would
contribute more, poorer less. At the end each member
contribute what they can and just take what they need.
#PlatformCoopBerlin
Friederike Abitz
SUPERMARKT, Berlin
12. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 11/15
5. Sustainability
A fifth group looked into another big topic: Sustainabili-
ty. While it is certainly important to work with sustainabi-
lity as a main standard, it is also essential for activists to
sustain themselves and to avoid activists’ burnout. The
group came up with the idea of creating a social char-
ter, a set of values and measures that takes effect at the
core of any action.
How to integrate the users of coop services? How to cre-
ate principles of mutualism?
Up to this date the cooperative world has not much he-
ard, understood, used or put its teeth into the fast-gro-
wing sharing and collaborative economy and digital
platforms. Almost the same applies to the sharing and
collaborative economy who has little or no knowledge
about cooperatives and has rather looked to old system
when it comes to ownership and governance models.
To bring both separated worlds together showing and
exploring the potentials that lay in the part where they
overlap, is the main purpose and aim of this and the
successive #PlatformCoop meet-ups, events and pub-
lications. The first #PlatformCoopBerlin meet-up with
Michel Bauwens and many very knowledgeable and ex-
perienced participants from either or both worlds was a
very good start and has created a momentum beyond
Berlin, where several of the platformcoops and activists
are located. #Convergence and mutual learning and ex-
perimenting as well as carrying it to a wider audience
and into the political sphere came on the to do list for
the next events.
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13. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 12/15
First suggestions for the to-do list to foster the topic and
(local) community around #PlatformCoop. (feedback, re-
commendation, participation all welcomed)
• #PlatformCoopBerlin meet-ups should not only take
place in and be organized by the Supermarkt Group, but
in the spaces and with the help of other players in the
field.
• Define clear goals for those meet-ups and the way it
can relate to other commons-oriented communties,
groups.
• Reflect on existing proposals/principles like in Trebor
Scholz‘s report and existing critique by Bauwens and
discuss positions and ideas within the PlatformCoop
(Berlin) community.
• Create a pathway and best practice solutions on how
to achieve sustainable platforms and economic entities
that will operate for the interest and the benefit of the
common good and the workers, users and contributors
of the platforms and will not be undermined or taken
over by corporations or serving just particular interests.
• Put together some guidelines and share expertise.
• Build an infrastructure/space/forum for mutual lear-
ning and support
Next steps
#PlatformCoopBerlin
Click link for future and past #PlatformCoopBerlinEvents
Click link for topics of interest around PlatformCoop
In both documents you are welcomed to add further interesting events and suggestions and your topics of interests
– via the comment function there.
Click link for joining one of the current PlatformCoop Facebook Groups.
PlatformCoopBerlin or PlatformCoopBarcelona or Rise of the Digital Cooperative
Click link für PlatformCoop Internetsites: NYC Conference 11/2015 or Internet of Ownership
Links to PlatformCoop events,
topics, groups & URLs
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#PlatformCoopBerlin
PlatformCoopBerlinEvents – upcoming
(for past events see bottom)
PlatformCoopEvents listed here will take place in Berlin OR are co-organized by members of the PlatformCoopBerlin
team and community in other cities or countries. For further PlatformCoopEvents by other platformCooperativist in
other cities and countries see: http://internetofownership.net/
2016-04-22
#PlatformCoopBerlin2 meet-up @Fairmondo in Berlin – Glogauerstr. 21
Platform Cooperativism in practice: Fairmondo - Crowdfunding to avoid the venture capital trap.
A series of six #PlatformCoopBerlin meet-ups are planned every 6 - 9 weeks and taking place in the locations of dif-
ferent hosts (if you/your entity or initiative wants to host one event please leave comment or contact us with date,
location and topic suggestions)
2016-05-01
Co-op DiscoTech (good occasion for #PlatformCoopBerlinEvent - to be discussed/planned?)
MIT’s Co-Design Studio is calling for people to organize Co-op DiscoTechs—simultaneous events around the world
designed to connect people into the intersection of cooperative enterprise and technology.
2016-05-03
How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash the Network @Re:publica in Berlin
Trebor Scholz et al.
2016-05-09
Berlin auf dem Weg zur Sharing City? Die Potenziale der Share und Collaborative Economy in Berlin. Diskussion der
Chancen und Handlungsempfehlungen. im Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin, Niederkirchnerstr. 5, Raum 376
2016-05-18ff
Several #PlatformCoop Events @OuiShareFest in Paris (see programme)
2016-05-31f
Genopreneurship Summit in Köln (Akademie Deutscher Genossenschaften)
Thomas Dönnebrink, Ela Kagel, et al.
2016-06-9/13
Second Open Source Circular Economy days in Berlin & 30+ cities worldwide
(good occasion for #PlatformCoopBerlinEvent - to be discussed/planned?)
2016-06-15
Konferenz: Sharing Economy zwischen Gemeinwohl und Gewinn. Neue Herausforderung für Zivilgesellschaft, Wirt-
schaft und Politik (BMBF/FONA gefördertes Forschungsprojekt mit IÖW, IZT, ifeu)
Thomas Dönnebrink, et al.
2016-07-02
Internationaler Tag der Genossenschaften
(good occasion for #PlatformCoopBerlinEvent - to be discussed/planned?)
15. Platform Cooperativism: an international movement on the rise 14/15
#PlatformCoopBerlin
2016-08-30ff
#PlatformCoop Event @Degrowth in Budapest: Platform Cooperativism & Co Workshop.
Access INSTEAD of ownership was yesterday. Access AND ownership will be tomorrow.
Thomas Dönnebrink, Ela Kagel, Andreas Arnold, Cristobal Gracia
2016-09-29f
#PlatformCoop Event @Goethe-Institute in Mexiko City, Mexiko
Thomas Dönnebrink, Felix Weth
2016-10-26f
Tacit Futures: a 24 hour workshop on platform cooperativism at the Volksbuehne
Trebor Scholz, Ela Kagel, et al.
Past Events
2016-03-04
#PlatformCoopBerlin1 meet-up @Supermarkt with Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens, Thomas Dönnebrink, Ela Kagel, Documentation: bit.ly/PlatformCoopBerlin1
2016-02-22
#Platformcoop & #Convergence Event in Badajoz (part of OuiShareSummit)
Thomas Dönnebrink
2016-02-14
#Platformcoop & #Convergence Event in Madrid
Thomas Dönnebrink
2016-02-11
#Platformcoop & #Convergence Event in Barcelona
Thomas Dönnebrink
2016-02-04
The New “Sharing Economy” - #PlatformCooperativism @Goethe-Institute in NYC
Trebor Scholz, Felix Weth
2015-11-20
Präsentation & Workshop – Inmersión en las plataformas cooperativas digitales /OuiShareFest Barcelona
Thomas Dönnebrink & Elena Dinaro: Documentation: Profil@Conference / Presentation
2015-11-14
Special Lunch Session with Michel Bauwens Platform Cooperativism In The Context Of Alternative Infrastructures For
The Commons Economy @Platform Cooperativism Conference NYC
Michel Bauwens, Thomas Dönnebrink: Documentation: Profil@Conference / Presentation / Videostream
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Authors:
Thomas Dönnebrink, thomas@ouishare.net
Ela Kagel, ela@supermarkt-berlin.net
Text contributors:
Andreas Arnold, andreas@leihbar.net
Adrien Labaeye, adrienlabaeye@gmail.com
Graphic recordings:
Joy Lohmann, j.lohmann@artlab4.de
Friederike Abitz, friederikeabitz@gmail.com
Graphic design:
Jammrath – Produkt / Grafik / Text
post@jammrath.de
Credits
#PlatformCoopBerlin
Kooperationspartner: