Disrupting the disruptors : Co-operative Business Models for Sustainable Platform Enterprises
Hello ... Canada.coop having an event in September ...Is anybody here participating ?
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disrupting-the-disruptors-tickets-34799836247
Join us in Toronto on September 8-9-10, 2017 to find out how co-operative business models can be used to build a better digital economy.
What can digital entrepreneurs, freelancers, students, policy-makers, community leaders and activists expect at
Disrupting the Disrupters? Inspiration! Learning! Collaboration!
INSPIRATION!
Quite simply, we need better, more sustainable business models. The promise of the sharing economy, powered by peer-to-peer connections on digital platforms, has not delivered. The results of economic disruption by a few monopolies are now clear: platform-driven precarious employment, accelerating disparities, dissolution of labour standards, undermining of regulatory safeguards, and the monetization of private data.
The co-operative enterprise model – joint ownership by stakeholders (employees, and/or customers, and/or communities) – can address two fundamental problems.
Co-op enterprises can disrupt and eventually stop the uberisation of wo
Caroline Smalley Mon 18 Sep 2017 8:08PM
CMC - Cooperatives and Mutuals of Canada. That's the acronym for the latest iteration of a National Federation of Co-ops. This time in both official languages!
Danyl Strype Sat 23 Sep 2017 3:24AM
Aral Balkan from Ind.ie gave a great talk called 'Excuse me, your unicorn keeps shitting in my back yard, can he please not?', in which he sums up in half an hour the points about the VC and "startup" business model that @douglasrushkoff1 laid out in his 'Throwing Rocks...' book. Probably nothing in there that folks here don't know, but it's a great resource to chuck at folks who are still grasping for a systemic understanding of the problems they are seeing.
Caroline Smalley · Mon 18 Sep 2017 5:31PM
Sorry to have missed this. Will mention to Marty Frost (the coop consultant who helped us to set up the I3 Investment Coop that is works with CM) when I see him on Wednesday. He's often asked to join these events - very highly reputed in coop world.