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"Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy The backlash against unethical labor practices in the "collaborative sharing economy" has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and others started to rail against online labor brokerages like Taskrabbit, Handy, and Uber because of an utter lack of concern for their workers. At the recent Digital Labor conference, my colleague McKenzie Wark proposed that the modes of production that we appear to be entering are not quite capitalism as classically described. "This is not capitalism," he said, "this is something worse."

Related bookmarks: - Coalition of Automated Legal Applications | Working Groups http://coala.global/?page_id=15461 - Bitlov is a blockchain secured money automation system for individuals, corporations, and also charities. http://www.bitlov.com - How to Write Safe Smart Contracts https://chriseth.github.io/notes/talks/safe_solidity/#/ - Doing Distributed Business | Eris + IPFS https://db.erisindustries.com/distributed%20business/2015/11/01/eris-and-ipfs/ - Slock.it to Introduce Smart Locks Linked to Smart Ethereum Contracts, Decentralize the Sharing Economy | Bitcoin Magazine - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/slock-it-to-introduce-smart-locks-linked-to-smart-ethereum-contracts-decentralize-the-sharing-economy-1446746719 Pay for Performance, Simplified - http://smartcontract.com/ Related articles: - Smart contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20contract - Ethereum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum - Crypto-anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism - Block chain (database) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20chain%20%28database%29

L'internet ou plus globalement la généralisation du numérique est-elle en train d'activer une mutation radicale de l'économie vers le tout gratuit ? C'est la thèse de Chris Anderson, le rédacteur en chef de Wired. Souvenez-vous, il y a peu, il avait déjà secoué notre perception de la distribution en exposant le modèle de la longue traîne.

De ce bref entretien, Charles Eisenstein, théoricien de la décroissance, affirme que dans le cadre d'une économie du don, c'est le don qui fait la richesse.

"A shiny new and rapidly growing interactive database that's showcasing the exciting, solutions-based work being implemented by permaculture projects and practitioners worldwide. If you're getting depressed watching current events, this is the site to reinvigorate the mind with real, lasting, holistic solutions for all the problems humanity currently faces. Have a look around, be inspired, and if you're a permaculture practitioner, be sure to register and upload your profile, add your project(s), and network with others to share inspiration, resources and support, and to advertise your services for a brave new economy."

As reported by Nesta, an innovation charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life: As technology shapes our world, young people need to be able to shape it too. As skills and work become increasingly technologically mediated, the need for digital skills is paramount with some calculating a potential £2 billion loss to the UK economy from unfilled roles requiring such skills. After several years working with organisations supporting digital making, and with creating with technology set to go mainstream through a forthcoming BBC campaign, this report takes stock of what is happening. Key Findings: 82 per cent of young people say they are interested in digital making. However, half of young people make things with digital technology less than once a week or never. Parents are overwhelmingly supportive of digital making. 89 per cent think it is a worthwhile activity for their children. 73 per cent encourage their children to make things with technology. We identified 130,800 opportunities to experience digital making provided by the organisations surveyed. This is a long way from providing for the interest shown by 82 per cent of our survey, which represents a possible 8.2 million school age children and young people in the UK. Digital making is powered not just by money, but also by volunteers. Two thirds of the organisations identified said they relied on volunteers to do their work. Only half of teachers who teach ICT or computing report being confident in teaching the curriculum.

"According to Venture Capital (VC) database CB Insights, the total amount of venture capital financing hit $29.2 billion across 3354 deals in 2013. What's interesting is the number of overall VC deals has remained relatively flat over the past three years, as have the total investments (holding Q1 of 2012 as an outlier)"

Tom Tresser nous donne une présentation vivante de l'économie du don dans cette conférence TedX datant de 2012.

"Is a world where there are almost as many mobile phones as people, more than half the globe can access digital TV signals, and almost 3 billion people are online a better place for journalism? The Global Findings of the Mapping Digital Media project assess these and other forces affecting digital media and independent journalism worldwide. Researched and written by a team of local experts, the 56 country reports, from which these Global Findings are drawn, examine the communication and media environments in 15 of the world's 20 most populous countries, covering more than 4.5 billion of the world's population, and in 16 of the world's 20 largest economies."

Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use in the US

"Plateformes en Communs est un projet de la Coop des Communs. Nous regroupons des personnes venant de cultures différentes (Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Économie collaborative, Communs) qui souhaitent créer des alliances et des convergences entre ces mondes. Nous pensons qu'une nouvelle génération de plateformes collaboratives émergent et nous accompagnons leur structuration et les innovations sociales qu'elles portent : nouvelles gouvernances plus inclusives pour leurs communautés, partage de la valeur, innovations organisationnelles..."

propose une société d'appropriation collective du capital qui évite un centralisme étouffant toute initiative, d'où cette mention du qualificatif « libéral » apposé à celui de « communisme ».

La notion de coopétition désigne l'association de comportements stratégiques de coopération et de compétition (concurrence) simultanés

"Internet des objets et économie collaborative: l'ascension de l'anticapitalisme ?"

Sur l'économie sociale, le gouvernement tient ses promesses

"Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 19-103"

Un peu extrême mais c'est un avis, il faut l'écouter (-;