***Archival video of this session is hyperlinked in each speakers’ name below.***
In April, 2019, Prof. Trebor Scholz founded the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School. Hear brief reports from the six inaugural research fellows:
“Everything Old is New Again: Evaluating the Legal and Governance Structures of Emergent Protocol Cooperatives” — Morshed Mannan
“The Potential of Platform Cooperativism in Kenya” — Francis Mwongela Mikwa
“Organizing Precarious Workers in South Korea Through Platform Cooperatives” — Prof. Minsun Ji
“Connecting Waste Pickers in Brazil – Cataki, a Case Study” — Luciana Bruno
“Political and Legislative Obstacles for Platform Co-ops in the U.S., Germany, and France” — Jonas Pentzien
“Funding Cooperatives: New Possibilities” — Amelia Evans
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Speakers
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Minsun Ji Professor, University of Colorado Denver; Drivers Cooperative Colorado
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Luciana Bruno Brazilian journalist
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Jonas Pentzien Ph.D. Researcher, Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW)
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Francis Mwongela Mikwa Senior Director of Communication, Office of the Deputy President, Republic of Kenya
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Morshed Mannan Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technologies at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
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Amelia Evans Research Fellow at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy