Mounting a successful challenge to the extractivist economics of platform capitalism requires a whole-of-economy approach. Feminist research and worker initiatives on the platform economy emphasise the need to reinvent dominant business models of the platform firm in order to re-appropriate the gains of digitalisation.
What does DisCO governance accomplish? It encourages and rewards all types of work: care, love and livelihood. It values forms of power to act and highlights effective and movement building work, which is often hidden. It optimally balances the workload to avoid activist burnout. It creates community empowered platforms for sustainable activism.
Berlin poetry performance on DisCO and taking back power by taking back ownership of our time.
DisCO is an accessible approach to people working together to create value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics. Get the lowdown here.
Celebrating ten years of digital labor conferences at The New School, 2019’s Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism was the most international gathering of its kind.
Laura Flanders talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement.
A keynote presentation on DisCOs. DisCO stands for “Distributed Cooperative Organization” and it’s a friendly, yet challenging, critique of DisCOs older cousin, the Decentralised Autonomous Organization or DAO.
How can we have a more human-centered economy if we delegate some of our more sensitive interactions to on-chain governance, as seen in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations?
Watch these engaged young commoners share their project ideas, hinting at the future of Open Coops and P2P Politics. These two videos showcase their eye-opening proposals, integrating assorted contexts with clear, common patterns.
Stacco Troncoso from the P2P Foundation; Mònica Garriga Miret from the Free Knowledge Institute; Guillaume Compain from Plateformes en communs and Tiberius Brastaviceanu, Co-Founder of Sensorica discussing strategies for Growing the Commons.
Stacco Troncoso 