Platform Cooperatives
- see: Platform Cooperativism for more detailed explanations
Typology
- Cooperative Online Labor Brokerages and Marketplaces
- Produser-Owned Platform Cooperatives
- City-Owned Sharing and Exchange Platforms
- Union-Backed Cooperative Platforms
Directory
- see the Internet of Ownership, "A directory for the online democratic ecosystem", which aims to be a directory of cooperative online platforms and their back-end infrastructure.
First items via J.Nathan Mathias' review of Trebor Scholz inaugural lecture at the Platform Cooperativism conference:
By Type
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.
Update:
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.
By Sector
Art
- Ampliative Art, a reciprocity-based web platform with which those actors may to contribute to the art community and be rewarded through alternative means.
- ArtsPool, insourcing and entrepreneurial commons for the art institutions in NYC
- Brooklyn Raga Massive, a cooperative alliance between Indian Classical Musicians in the Brooklyn, NYC
Cooperatives
- Cooperative Networks, A distributed cooperative innovation organisation
- Data Commons Cooperative, " greases the flow of data between communities in the cooperative, solidarity, new, call-it-what-you-will economy."
Data
See also our entry on Data Cooperatives
- Data Commons Cooperative, " greases the flow of data between communities in the cooperative, solidarity, new, call-it-what-you-will economy."
- Our Data Coop: "We want to explore whether there may be scope for third sector organisations to develop data coops for community benefit".
Directories
- Find Coop, Find.Coop is a directory of alternative economic initiatives
Finance
- Seed Coop: The Seed.Coop platform connects members to build sustainable and just cooperatives.
Labor
- Loconomics, A marketplace owned by the people doing the work
Media
- Banyan Project, " to help seed independent community news cooperatives, then support them with mentorship and educational and administrative tools."
- Member’s Media: " a revolutionary new business model called a “Platform Cooperative” where the USERS who generate the real value of the platform through its utilization own the majority of the platform ... Think of an Etsy majority owned by its designers".
Trade
- FairCoop, earth cooperative for fair trade, using the Faircoin currency
- Fairmarket, FairCoop Marketplace for The Fair Economy
- Fairmondo, German fair trade ecommerce site, [2]
Transportation
- Modo: member-owned Carsharing in Vancouver and beyond