Disrupting the Digital Economy: The rise of platform co-operatives

Green Industries SA is a South Australian State government department, and first-mover in the collaborative economy as an approach to supporting the development of green industry.

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What does the rise of co-operatively owned digital platforms mean for entrepreneurs?
Only a small percentage of startups will succeed. What happens to the majority that fail?
What if many of those were great ideas that would have flourished with a different business model? What other possibilities are there to make a living doing the work you choose?
<A HREF="https://platform.coop/about" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Platform co-operativism</A> challenges the ‘winner takes all’ culture exemplified by Silicon Valley.
Come and talk with Trebor Scholz, a founder of the platform co-operativism movement, and learn about the benefits of this model, how it is being taken up around the world, and how you can start your own platform co-op.
 
About the Speaker
<A HREF="http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty/?id=4d54-5533-4d44-5534" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Trebor Scholz is Associate Professor for Culture &amp; Media from The New School in New York</A>. His work analyses the challenges posed by digital labour and introduces the concept of platform cooperativism as a way of cloning the technological heart of online platforms and reinventing it into a cooperative model, one that puts workers, owners, communities, and cities in charge of the platforms they use to live, work and play.
 
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