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"This paper uses Transformative Social Innovation theory to develop a comparative analysis of Shareable's Sharing Cities Network and Airbnb's Home Sharing Clubs. It argues that narrative framing of the sharing economy for community empowerment and grassroots mobilisation have been used by Shareable to drive a "sharing transformation" and by Aitbnb through "regulatory hacking" to influence urban policy".

"what do we mean with 'sharing economy'? What kind of positive innovations or possible criticalities might this socio-economic model bring? Does 'sharing' really represent an alternative to capitalism, or an example of its transformation? In which areas, and how, is the way of doing business in society changing as a result of the diffusion of 'sharing economies'?"

"These examples demonstrate why urban commons are so important for a sharing city. When there are more urban commons, more residents can directly experience the effectiveness and empowerment of sharing practices. They cultivate the skills needed to create a sharing city by commoning over smaller urban resources, like parks, and becoming more familiar with working together and sharpening their capacities to govern the whole city as a commons."

Interview de Tom Slee, auteur de "What's yours is mine : against the sharing economy". "As the money in the Sharing Economy has grown, so has the driving ideology behind it, and now it's become basically a deregulation movement, with companies like Uber and Airbnb building business models that demand deregulation of their industries in cities around the world."

"Civil society of Latin America and the Caribbean must understand that the sharing economy means to rebuild communities where people are willing to share, or exchange, their time, financial resources and knowledge to strengthen and empower organizations. "

D'après les auteurs de l'article, la diversité de l'économie de partage est telle qu'il conviendrait mieux de parler de l'émergence de plusieurs "cultures du partage".

"Philanthropists today should follow the instructive example of Edward Filene. Filene played a leading role in developing an institution that allowed ordinary people to build their own wealth - credit unions, a high-impact model that could be and has been replicated. Philanthropists should use their resources to help do the same across a whole range of new institutions including sharing cities, platform cooperatives, and much more. This will help ordinary people build and access wealth, reduce resource consumption, and reweave the social fabric"

"Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons, a fantastic new book that describes more than 100 case studies and model policies for urban commoning. Researched and published by Shareable, the book is an impressive survey of citizen-led innovations now underway in more than 80 cities in 35 countries."

Exposé de Josef Davies-Coates sur les "Community Shares", une forme de crowdfunding démocratique pour les coopératives, qui existe depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, et connaît un regain de succès depuis la crise de 2008.

"In May 2016, the Mayor of Sao Paulo, South America's largest city, announced that TNCs - commercial entities who match drivers with passengers via an app or web platform - could operate in the city in exchange for prepaid fees that will average of 0.10 reals ($0.03) per vehicle/kilometer traveled (the regulation exempts free ride-sharing services). This approach means TNCs would contribute revenue on a pay-as-you-drive basis to help the city maintain the road network and other public infrastructure."

"Tim's way of supporting local control like that starts with his software, which any community can use for free. It lets people list what they need and can offer each other. Each community group has its own unit of account for measuring how much members are sharing with others. The Collective doesn't advertise or sell data to advertisers. All Tim asks for is a small promise of goods or services from each group as payment in kind. It could be candles, garden honey, an old washing machine or a lift in a neighbor's car. The only money he has received for 15 years of building a free software platform was a three-year grant from the Ashoka Foundation."

'Juliet Schor explores the tension between for-profit and nonprofit sharing groups.(...) For starters, she argues that for-profit companies like Uber and Airbnb are contributing to inequality in America"

Article qui porte sur un rapport de Business for Social Responsibility, qui cherche à encourager la participation des populations défavorisées à l'économie collaborative, en tant que contributeurs et qu'utilisateurs. D'après l'auteur, le rapport souffre toutefois de trois limites majeures : - En premier lieu, le rapport dresse un bilan très optimiste de l'impact des plateformes « for profit » : par exemple, il indique que Airbnb a un impact annuel de 312 millions d'euros à Los Angeles, occultant le fait que cette plateforme et d'autres ont un effet sur la crise du logement (abordable) dans les grandes villes ; - Ensuite, le rapport mentionne surtout les plateformes de partage « for profit » ; - Enfin, le rapport ne fait aucune proposition sur la manière dont les plateformes pourraient partager leur propriété ou leur gouvernance.

Le 5 décembre, conférence à Bruxelles sur le rôle et la place du platform cooperativism.

L'impact de l'économie collaborative et du numérique sur les entreprises "traditionnelles" et leurs modèles d'affaires.

"Siôn Whellens, Co-Founder of the Worker Co-op Solidarity Fund, Dave Boyle, Founder of The Community Shares Company, and Alex Bird, Chair of Co-operatives and Mutuals Wales, leading a practical session on How to start a co-op, covering legal entities, model rules and governing documents."

"What the cooperatives are doing on Up and Go is they're sharing best practices, they're learning from each other, they're creating a space where they can see each other as professionals, and learn from each other…"