Conversation Overview 3rd of September 2020: Working Together - Coworking

[MariaEuler]

Hello dear community,

Let’s check-in what has been discussed in these last last-two weeks of summer. Working together has been very important.

A year ago @jollyorg called out “social media is broken, let’s do better” and a very interesting conversation with by now more than 70 thoughtful responses started. Recently the conversation has gathered new steam. If you are interested in social media at different scales and how to do it better, check it out:

Social Media is broken, let's do better!

Indeed. You also illustrate the reason that the United States Congress needs to write new antitrust laws. Because As Google says, “competition is just a click away.” And they’re not wrong. In a world of zero marginal costs and total abundance on both the supply side (essentially infinite bits) and the demand side (billions of potential customers), the current laws don’t apply. I’m sure serious proposals for antitrust in networked societies exists. If anybody can point me in the direction, I …

@CSS and Suzanne van Geuns have worked together to publish an op-ed for the Brookings Institute, looking at how Internet infrastructure companies engage in content moderation and why their role should be more visible and accountable. You can find the article linked here and comment with your own thoughts and questions.

Infrastructure companies as platform moderations

Hi all, My friend Suzanne van Geuns and I published an op-ed today for the Brookings Institute, looking at how Internet infrastructure companies engage in content moderation and why their role should be more visible and accountable. We focus on the role of invisible Internet companies like Cloudflare and how they make decisions about what content stays online. We also talk about their role against the backdrop of covid and the recent BLM protests. We question whether they should have their cak…

And we all worked together with the participants of the coworking event, programmes and people doing transcription and our great copywriter to filter and present to you the best quotes and ideas form the co-working workshop with 50 members from all over the world from coworking owners over technology providers to network builders.

Here are 4 picks that I think might be especially interesting for you here in NGI:

• How to break the digital divide?

• Coworking throughout Covid: First hand experiences from London, Dublin, Barcelona
  

• How technology can help support the recovery of the coworking sector

• The possibilities of remote working

Thank you for being a great community!

Let’s work together to keep warm, happy and busy in autumn.

[MariaEuler]

ping @marina,@Markus_D, @LauraRoddy