Open Platforms for Sustainable Production and Living
= these are open platforms that bring players in a sector together in order to redesign towards sustainable and participative value chains and eco-systems, which mutualize knowledge which a network of producers (and/or Produsers) can use to develop ecosystems that create sustainable livelihoods for communities and their commons
Directory
By Sector
Cross-Sector
- Envienta: "We figured out a new lifestyle, focusing on households. A laterally scaled socioeconomic model begins at the tiniest piece of our society: the individuals and the families. To make our model time and cost-effective, we bring domestic developments under one roof."
Fashion
Food
Housing
By Country
May sound contradictory but even global platforms often are anchored in a key originating country
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Directory of Platform Cooperatives
Via J.Nathan Mathias' review of Trebor Scholz inaugural lecture at the Platform Cooperativism conference:
Cooperative Online Labor Brokerages and Marketplaces
- In Germany, Fairmondo started as a global marketplace owned by its users -- like a co-operative ebay.
- In SF, Loconomics is a freelance co-operative where freelancers have shares and have a voice in running the company.
Produser-Owned Platform Cooperatives
These sites,
- like Resonate (music),
- Members Media (film), and
- Stocksy (stock photography),
allow producers to co-own the platforms to which they are selling their work. The objective of these co-operatives are to create careers for their producers, who co-own systems.
City-Owned Sharing and Exchange Platforms
Trebor notes that even in the US, cities own hotels, hospitals, and many public services. He describes work by Janelle Orsi to imagine publicly-owned platforms: muni-bnb would be a city-owned airbnb system that invests profits into city projects. all-bnb would be modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund and would pay residents for the profits made by sharing hosting. Another idea is the "sharing city" Seoul, who offer a city-operated taxi hailing system.
Union-Backed Cooperative Platforms
- The California App-Based Drivers Association unionizes drivers who participate in sharing economy platforms.
- In New Jersey, the Union Taxi Cooperative also operates its own platform.