Dossier
Sharing Economy
Digital platforms have enabled the development of a collaborative economy based on new models for the exchange and shared use of products and services. We explore the new possibilities offered by social currencies or crowdfunding systems, but also the negative effects that these platforms may have on labour rights.
Commons
The Rules of the Game of Platform Cooperativism
Guido Smorto
Legal regulations play a crucial role in the capacity to successfully design and implement cooperative platforms.
Commons
The User Experience in Platform Cooperativism
Enric Senabre | Ricard Espelt
Some thoughts on the design of collaborative platforms and reputation systems that make it possible to build trust and solidarity networks.
Commons
A New Economy: Social, Commons, Feminist, and Environmental
Mayo Fuster Morell
Airbnb, Uber or eBay have popularized the collaborative economy, but where cooperativism is? The concentration of wealth continues in corporations.
Technology
The Keys of Bitcoin and Blockchain
Alan Lazalde
Bitcoin and Blockchain are a new generation of internet systems that eliminates middlemen, financial services that are fairer, transparent and accessible.
Commons
P2Pvalue. Collaborative Production Online
How does value work in the emerging organisational forms? What conditions favour online collaborative production?
Commons
The Wealth of Networks
Mayo Fuster Morell
A review of the book The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler.
Commons
Mayo Fuster: “There is social production in the digital world, but there is no social economy”
Mayo Fuster, a researcher specialising in the fields of the Internet, politics and social innovation, talks about the commons and collaborative production.
