This document discusses the intersection of collaborative economies and social economies, as well as technological implications. It notes that collaborative economies are growing due to societal desires to connect and share resources, as well as economic drivers like available idle resources. Technology enablers like the internet and mobile devices are fueling this growth. It proposes that social economy actors explore innovations from startups and provide more cooperative membership models. It also suggests that policymakers support economic alternatives, cooperative business models, and research at this intersection.

1. Bridging the collaborative economy
and the social economy:
technological implications
Enric Senabre Hidalgo
@esenabre
Digital Commons Research Group
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) -
Open University of Catalonia
Member of BarCola & Procomuns.net

2. Node about Collaborative Economy
and Commons Based Peer Production

3. v
Procomuns: from event to community & policies

17. Few examples:
Hybridization: growth of “sharing economy”
KEY MARKET FORCES
SOCIETAL DRIVERS
● Desire to connect
● Sustainable mindset
● Pupulation dynamics
ECONOMIC DRIVERS
● Financial climate
● Unttaped idle rerources
● Startups heavily funded
TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS
● Internet of everything
● Mobile technologies
● Social networks
2015: aggregate turnover reached by “sharing
economy” businesses = 28 billion €

18. Hybridization: growth of “sharing economy”

19. Expansion to more areas of activity

21. Platform cooperativism
" Worker–owned cooperatives could
design their own apps-based platforms,
fostering truly peer-to-peer ways of
providing services and things"
Trebor Scholz

22. Platform cooperativism
Platform cooperativism

23. Platform cooperativism

24. Platform cooperativism

25. Platform cooperativism
Platform cooperativism
http://platformcoop.net/2016

27. Some reflections and steps
FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY ACTORS
● Will need to explore innovation from startups at digital market levels
● Can provide more “membership” and less “usership” to sharing economy
● Pay attention to “real sharing” elements: open source and open data
FOR POLICY MAKERS
● Move from regulation to promotion of economic alternatives
● Forget the “unicorn” model and support coop values for incubation
● Support more dissemination, collaboration and research