Web-based platforms dominate our daily lives, offering new customer-friendly services cheaply and conveniently. But the standard platform business model relies on extractive financing, the monetisation of user data and often disregards privacy and workers’ rights. It’s time for an alternative.
Over the last nine months, Nesta and Co-operatives UK have convened groups of experts and pioneering practitioners to explore the potential for cooperatively owned and operated platforms to create a more equitable and socially beneficial alternative to ‘platform capitalism’.
We are now delighted to invite you to the launch of our joint research paper “Platform Coops - Solving the Capital Conundrum”.
Join us for an informal gathering of practitioners and champions from across the sector. We will discuss our research findings and share a new programme of work to establish new funding models for platform co-operatives in 2019, supported by Open Society Foundations.
Registration will open at 17:30 with the event starting promptly at 18:30. The session will finish at 19:30 with the opportunity to continue the conversation and learn what your peers might be doing in this space until 20:00.
Robin Greenwood is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a television anchor and investigative reporter whose work also appears on HBO. A series of stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018. He is the author of “Book on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”
Robert Henderson is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a television anchor and investigative reporter whose work also appears on HBO. A series of stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018. He is the author of “Book on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”
Ariel Pink is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a television anchor and investigative reporter whose work also appears on HBO. A series of stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018. He is the author of “Book on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”
Taylor Burgoyne is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a television anchor and investigative reporter whose work also appears on HBO. A series of stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018. He is the author of “Book on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”
