@afewbugs Totally! Someone who sets up coops and mutuals for a living when I was asking for his views on #platformcoops once advised me something like: "set up a worker coop, yes, always! But a user-coop? All you will do is empower retired people, those with private-wealth, and people who like the sound of their own voice, to decide everything."

Very proud of the fantastic cohort of #platformcoops we've supported this year via CooperativesUK's #UnFound Accelerator. You can meet them and vote for your favourite next Tuesday 11 July at 6 pm. I hope some of you can make it! Please also boost and share with anyone interested. Thanks! https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/unfound-accelerator-2023-live-pitch-event

The Grassroots Economic Organizing newsletter is hot off the presses! #Cooperatives #Cuba #Barcelona #PlatformCoops #SolidarityEconomy

https://mailchi.mp/eb983516c5af/geo-weekly-newsletter-cubas-farming-co-ops-putting-fairness-into-the-gig-economy

RT @DJBunders
Really enjoyed presenting my research on member participation in the decision-making of #platformcoops today at @ViliLe's Oxford Platform Economy Seminar. My work has long been inspired by the amazing research going on at @oiioxford.

Really enjoyed presenting my research on member participation in the decision-making of #platformcoops today at @ViliLe's Oxford Platform Economy Seminar. My work has long been inspired by the amazing research going on at @oiioxford.

'Instead of optimizing the online economy for growth, we need to optimize the digital world for all people'. #PlatformCoops are the future! https://www.commonsnetwork.org/2022/11/30/platform-capitalism-and-the-case-for-platform-cooperativism/

What kind of movements and organizations would benefit from working with (or within) #PlatformCoops? Turns out: almost everyone! Read this exploration, written by our colleague Carolyn: https://www.commonsnetwork.org/2022/12/12/platform-coops-but-for-whom/

Great paper by @juntandoletras, @grohmann_rafael and @evilinmcampos on women-owned #platformcoops in São Paulo and Barcelona! Similarities were found in how the cooperatives support members' unpaid care work, differences in how public policies in Barcelona were more facilitative.
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RT @grohmann_rafael
New article! Gendering Platform Co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain.
Gender and Devel…
https://twitter.com/grohmann_rafael/status/1600541732747481089

The #platformcoop movement should not just ask what big and old #coops can do to help #platformcoops; but also, what #platformcoops can do to help the ordinary rank-and-file members of big and old #coops.

The #platformcoop movement should not just ask what big and old #coops can do to help platform coops; but also, what #platformcoops can do to help the ordinary rank-and-file members of big and old coops.

The #platformcoop movement should not just ask what big and old #coops can do to help platform coops; but also, what #platformcoops can do to help the ordinary rank-and-file members of big and old coops.

hey #socialcoop - as new #activitypub apps are built we have an opportunity to suggest tools for features that promote cooperation.

https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe

https://takahe.social/

#platformcooperatives
#platformcoops #platformcoop

looking for accounts interested in #platformcooperatives outside of #socialcoop ->

* @ybaumy
* @strypey
* @jgaehring
* @kAmpesinx

#platformcoops

reading "ours to hack and to own", a book about #platformcoops - one the essays includes a bit about not paying THE DEVELOPERS WHO BUILD THE PLATFORM market rates. Not because they will be worker-owners and nobody getting paid market rate until the platform is self-sustaining, but because they should be passionate about the cause.

This guarantees the project turns into someone's weekend project until they find some other weekend project.

Domain names, and identities on the internet generally, have always seemed like a problem to me, particularly when in comes to conflicting or contested identities.

It seems like this may be become a problem as #platformcoops spread. So, for example, now that social.coop is taken, how do future coops offering social platforms identify themselves at the domain level, if .coop is *the* TLD for coops.

There are probably solutions, but I'm curious what others think about this.

#platformcoops in the hype cycle

https://blog.tsl.io/platform-cooperatives-what-are-they-and-who-is-a-good-fit

RT @coopnews@twitter.com

Steps towards a #cooperative #digitaleconomy: Paper from @PCC_Global@twitter.com and @berggruenInst@twitter.com draws on case studies from California, Kerala, Barcelona, Bologna, Berlin, Paris, and Preston to give policy ideas on #platformcoops to world governments https://bit.ly/3fKm7rm https://t.co/fKefXtptfl

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/coopnews/status/1484231883827335176

We'll be there. #platformcoops

RT @TreborS@twitter.com

#TheNewCommonSense
Forging the Cooperative Digital Economy. 🔥

November 12-18, 2021 Berlin + Online

"We will discuss the possibility of cooperative governance in the digital world, data trusts, and feminist tech infrastructures."

Learn more:
https://platform.coop/events/conference2021/…

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TreborS/status/1455285809444163596

Sobre las plataformas corporativas.
Hoy por hoy, las empresas más rentables son plataformas corporativas transnacionales, líderes en precarizacion laboral y evasión fiscal, gracias a la desregulación, desreglamentacion y la descompartimentalización.
Apostemosle a plataformas cooperativas. #platformcoops #cooperativasdeplataforma #coops

[Débat SIBILLE/STALLMAN] @bastiensibille@twitter.com mentionne d’autres #platformcoops importantes @Coop_Circuits@twitter.com @coopcycle@twitter.com @labelemmaus@twitter.com @Fairbnb_coop@twitter.com et l’#écosystème nécessaire au développement des plateformes @StartinBlox@twitter.com, @CommownFR@twitter.com, @TeleCoopFR@twitter.com, @Enercoop_SCIC@twitter.com