I would like to propose a discussion panel for the OpenVillage Festival 2017.
During the last six months, I have been attending almost all the event on Platform Cooperativism in Europe.
Even tough is exciting what is happening, there isn’t a model that reached a dimension that can be compared to any dominant platform, and some points are missing from the global discussion.
Platform Cooperativism promotes shared ownership among users of the platform in order to create non-extractive alternatives to current platforms.
The digital economy produces enormous amounts of wealth that become profit (often non-taxed) for few billionaires. This money could be used to power the welfare state, nonprofit projects or a collaborative economy.
In the last 5/10 years, our economy has been “platformed.”
The “disruption” didn’t allow proper reflection and to take action to create the most desirable platforms for users.
We have enough data on the externalities of this platforms and the extent of the impact on our economies, it’s now possible to analyze what brought us here, the opportunity that we should investigate and the challenges that we need to face.
Being part of the Fairbnb project helped me to focus on important questions related to the digital economy.
How can we create non-extractive alternatives platforms that can compete with the existing one?
Is it possible to create platforms that are “commons”?
Can we use the wealth unlocked by this technology to fund non-profit community projects?
How can an organization be both efficient and competitive without losing in inclusiveness and openness?
To answer this questions, there are many guests that it would be useful to invite:
Internet of ownership: The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy. Its purpose is to advance platform cooperativism—a vision for online platforms that share democratic ownership and governance among the people who rely on them, especially those who contribute their labor and personal data.
Guest: Nathan Schneider
Fairmondo: Fairmondo wants to create a scalable fair ecommerce platform and is one of the pioneering platform cooperatives with an innovative redistribution scheme that honors unpaid contributions.
Guest: Felix Weth
Ecosia: Is a search engine that plants trees with the value that you generate through your digital actions
Guest: Christian Kroll
Faircoop: Fair.coop is an open global cooperative, self-organized via the Internet and remaining outside nation-state control. Its aim is to make the transition to a new world by reducing the economic and social inequalities among human beings as much as possible, and at the same time gradually contribute to a new global wealth, accessible to all humankind as commons.
Guest: Enric Duran
Platform Design Toolkit: Is a set of open-source tools to design digital and non-digital platforms with ease.
Guest: Simone Cicero
Other Guests: Sangeet Paul Choudary is a platform strategist, probably one of the most skilled person on this planet in understanding platform
Of course, other founders of Fairbnb could join the discussion and hopefully we could launch the platform during the event.
With this broad variety of guests, we will have enough competencies to generate a debate that could be fascinating and could help to further the global discussion on those important thematics.