Bio
Anne-Pauline De Cler is an interdisciplinary scholar with an academic background in economics. She’s currently pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Lise) in Paris, France. Her research focuses on alternatives to platform capitalism in the food sector. Using ethnographic methods, she studies digital commons, cooperative platforms, and solidarity economies in local food hubs in both France and the United States.
Anne-Pauline is especially interested in how these alternatives become institutionalized at a broader social scale. As an ICDE Fellow in the 2023–2024 cohort, she examined the Open Food Network—a nonprofit that develops and distributes an open-source “digital food commons” across about twenty local branches federated at the transnational level. The Open Food Network is building data interoperability projects for local food hubs, creating digital infrastructure to support farmers and local food systems at scale. Drawing on this case study, she aims to explore the ambitions, outcomes, and limitations of such projects for scaling alternatives at the Cooperative AI Conference.
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