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
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.
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.