Platform Cooperative Ecosystem in Brazil
Description
Trebor Scholz:
"For the past five years, a dedicated group of individuals and organizations have been working tirelessly to promote the adoption of platform cooperatives in Brazil, not solely in Araraquara. And their efforts are about to pay off: they will come together at the first-ever conference on platform co-ops in Brazil. The upcoming conference will be a pivotal moment in the history of the Brazilian co-op movement.
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The platform co-op ecosystem all over Brazil (consists of):
- Senoritas Courier,
- App Justo,
- Contrate quem luta, and
- Pedal Express.
- Also Sistema OCB has long experimented with a taxi platform cooperative for all of Brazil and supported the broader movement.
In 2017, my book on platform co-ops was published in Portuguese, introducing platform co-ops to Brazil. Since then, support organizations like
- Digilabour,
- Cootravipa,
- Coonecta.me,
- Instituto Lula,
- Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo,
- Co-operative Faculty of Technology (ESCOOP), and
- Mundukide,
- SESCOOP-RJ,
- Sistema OCB, and
- Observatório do Cooperativismo de Plataforma
... have helped to accelerate the progress of platform cooperatives. The legal scholar and former PCC/ICDE research fellow Rafael Zanatta has written a report on the evolution of platform cooperativism in Brazil."