[ICDE Report] Incubating New Narratives in the Solidarity Economy Through Social Technology: Lessons from the Chasqui Project

Cite this Report: Cancela, Cecilia M. 2025. “Incubating New Narratives in the Solidarity Economy Through Social Technology: Lessons from the Chasqui Project” Institute for the Cooperative Economy. New York City.

Cecilia Muñoz Cancela’s report for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) explores how technological innovation, rooted in participatory and solidarity-driven values, can incubate new narratives in the social and solidarity economy. Centered on Argentina’s Chasqui Project, an e-commerce platform for socially and cooperatively produced goods, the report examines the project’s decade-long development as a collaborative endeavor between public universities, tech cooperatives, and grassroots organizations. Ultimately, Chasqui emerges as a case study of socio-technical innovation that challenges market-centric logics and suggests new pathways for democratizing digital infrastructure in the Global South.

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