Recommendations

Institutional and financial consolidation
• Build a stable institutional architecture by creating a Secretariat for Digital Solidarity Economy and Platform Cooperativism within the proposed Ministry of Popular and Solidarity Economy, complemented by a permanent interministerial group and a National Council with transparent goals to reduce the discretionary allocation of resources.

• Move financing beyond ad hoc parliamentary amendments by operationalizing the National Solidarity Economy Fund, digitizing CADSOL to enable access to public procurement systems (Contrata+Brasil, SICx, InovaCPIN), and negotiating dedicated credit lines with public banks (BNDES, FINEP), the Diffuse Rights Fund, and the FNDCT, while updating Law 5.764/1971 and the Paul Singer Law to recognize digital cooperative forms.

• Broaden the scope of public investment beyond technical platform development to include dedicated resources for marketing, business model design, user adoption strategies, and cooperative management, ensuring that state-funded platforms can effectively compete with the dumping practices and brand power of dominant proprietary platforms.

• Establish sustainable financing and market protection by creating preferential public procurement mechanisms for cooperative platforms across all levels of government, taxing Big Techs to fund a Digital Sovereignty and Solidarity Innovation Fund, and developing anti-dumping mechanisms with CADE to shield cooperatives from predatory pricing by dominant proprietary platforms.

Technological sovereignty and capacity-building
• Consolidate the UFSC white-label platform and the Liga Coop application as enduring public infrastructures by securing long-term funding, ensuring worker control over data and source code, building a public national cloud for solidarity economy initiatives, prioritizing national data centers, and expanding partnerships with public IT companies (SERPRO, DATAPREV).

• Revitalize PRONINC through stable LOA funding and launch a National Training Program that combines technical education and data literacy for workers with Paulo Freire’s popular education methodology, providing stipends for precarious workers and integrating cooperative principles into the National Education Plan (2024–2034).

Political mobilization and movement building
• Strengthen legislative and judicial capacity by forming a Parliamentary Front for Platform Cooperativism and the DSE, partnering with DIEESE to monitor PPA and LOA budget cycles, and deepening engagement with Labor Courts and digital rights organizations to influence Supreme Court cases affecting cooperative taxation and OCB affiliation.

• Consolidate the movement through regular national meetings independent of state and academic mediation, a dialogue table with OCB and UNISOL Brasil to build a minimum common program, and the collective construction of a Second Action Plan for Platform Cooperativism and the DSE to be presented during the 2026 elections.