Internet of Ownership
Since co-organizing the first “platform cooperativism” conference with Trebor Scholz at the New School in 2015, MEDLab director Nathan Schneider has been active in organizing and documenting this growing movement aiming to build an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy.
Publications
- Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (eds.), Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (OR Books, 2016)
- Nathan Schneider, “An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy,” The Sociological Review 66, no. 2 (March 2018)
- Nathan Schneider, Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy (Nation Books, 2018)
Related
- The Internet of Ownership directory of the platform co-op ecosystem
- Platform.coop, a portal for platform cooperativism
Posts
- Meet KOSAKTI, a Creative New Cooperative in Indonesia / - How one organization is enabling many more to get started
- Co-ops Need Leaders, Too / - The co-op tradition is full of leaders, but we pretend they don't exist
- Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law / - How democratic innovators are hacking incorporation statutes
- Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy / - Introducing a research project on user-owned trusts