Platform Cooperativism Consortium
A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.
Présentation
What is a platform? A platform is an online application or website used by individuals or groups to connect to one another or to organize services.
Platform co-ops are based on principles including: Broad-based ownership of the platform, in which workers control the technological features, production processes, algorithms, data, and job structures of the online platform; Democratic governance, in which all stakeholders who own the platform collectively govern the platform; Co-design of the platform, in which all stakeholders are included in the design and creation of the platform ensuring that software grows out of their needs, capacities, and aspirations; An aspiration to open source development and open data, in which new platform co-ops can lay the algorithmic foundations for other co-ops.
Platform co-ops create fair and dignified working conditions for users and workers, offering profits for the many, not the few.
Building on the almost 200-year-old history of cooperatives, and the digital platform model, platform co-ops combine and reconfigure the best features of these two models to create a distinctive, innovative approach.
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