Take back the App! A dialogue on Platform Cooperativism, Free Software and DisCOs
Laura Flanders talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement.
Category: Interviews
On Return to the Commons & Digital Distributed Carework. Interview with Stacco Troncoso
In this interview with Stacco Troncoso, co-author of the DisCO Manifesto, we talk about the role of decommodification, return to the commons and radical workplace democracy, in practice.
Guerrilla Translation, DisCOs & the marketplace
Stacco Troncoso co-founded Guerrilla Translation with his partner, Ann Marie Utratel, as a living project to ground P2P and Commons theories in real practices.
He talks with Owen Kelly about the work of the group, and the ways in which they see the structure of their group as a vital part of its practice.
If I Only Had a Heart: Accounting for Care Work in Organizations
Too often, the necessary care work that generates and sustains our lives occurs at the margins of the economy, unaccounted for and under-recognized. Spain-based activist Stacco Troncoso is part of a movement to change that. Troncoso, a member of the Guerrilla Media Cooperative, is part of a collective developing a new model—the DisCO, or Distributed Cooperative Organization.
Elena Martinez and Silvia Díaz of P2P Models on Blockchain, Feminism and Affective P2P
P2P Models examines the infrastructure, governance and economy of decentralized, democratic organizations and their value allocation and distribution.
Susana Martín Belmonte on de-commodification and abundance
An interview with Spanish economist Susana Martín Belmonte on her work on monetary reform, commons-oriented P2P systems and future economies.
This is how people power wins an election: the story of Ahora Madrid
How do you win an election? According to Ahora Madrid’s activist councillors, the key is keeping it real – with real openness and participation.
P2P Foundation: Concentrated Knowledge for All
The P2P Foundation is this year’s recipient of the Golden Nica in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Communities category, find out more in this interview with Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel.
Interviewed: Stacco Troncoso on Loomio, Guerrilla Translation and the P2P Foundation
“Guerrilla Translation was inspired by the P2P Foundation. We tried to imagine how to apply all of what an Open Coop should be, but applied to translation.”
Stacco Troncoso 