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The Pioneers of Cooperativism and Climate Justice: Owen, Fourier, Du Bois

Jun 6, 2023

Musician Cooperativism at Groupmuse

Jun 5, 2023

Winning Entry in the 2012 International Year of Cooperatives poster making competition. Winning poster designed by Collage-No cooperative in Valencia Spain

Incorporating International Platform Cooperatives in the Global South

May 26, 2023

Win rider for TamSang-TamSong / Photo courtesy of TamSang-TamSong

A Thai Multi-Stakeholder Platform Co-op for Plastic-Free Food Delivery

May 25, 2023

A Cooperative Learning Approach to Forest Management in India

May 24, 2023

The Avenue of the Baobabs, or Alley of the Baobabs. Photo credit: Noah Grossenbacher.

The Ubuntu Path of Abundance: A Platform Co-op Network Guiding the Journey of Regenerative Agriculture in Madagascar

May 24, 2023

Installing new signs, Central Cooperative Wholesale Records, im111739, Box 40, IHRCA426, Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota.

Revisiting Cooperative Principles: Digital Frictions

May 24, 2023

Photo credit: United Taxi Workers of San Diego, UTWSD

Driving Economic Justice: The Public Option

May 23, 2023

Open Food Network: Non-Capitalist Approaches in France and the United States

May 23, 2023

Supporting Grassroots Women in Hong Kong

May 19, 2023

Cooperativas de plataforma y de la economía digital en Costa Rica: ¿un escenario promisorio?

May 12, 2023

Platform Cooperatives in Costa Rica

May 12, 2023

Cooperatives Should Embrace the Opportunities of AI

May 12, 2023

Understanding Democratic Decision-Making in Cooperatives

May 5, 2023

Pancasila Economics and Cooperatives: The Path to Digital Economic Democracy in Indonesia

May 5, 2023

Reflections on Platform Cooperativism in India (as part of Platform Co-op School)

Apr 24, 2023

Exploring Italian Social Cooperatives with Vera Negri Zamagni: Lessons for Platform Cooperatives

Mar 27, 2023

Scaling Platform Co-ops with Token-based Financing

Mar 24, 2023

Data Intermediaries: An Urgent Need for Democratic Ownership and Governance

Mar 24, 2023

Meet Our 2023/2024 Fellows

Mar 21, 2023

[Report] “DAOs and Platform Cooperatives: Lessons from the Commons” by Philémon Poux

Mar 20, 2023

[Report] “State and Local Policy Foundations for Data Cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area” by Katya Abazajian

Mar 20, 2023

[Report] “The Potential for Platform Cooperatives in the Mondragon Ecosystem” by Sain López

Mar 20, 2023

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[Report] “Walking Backwards Into a More Cooperative Digital Future” by Jad Esber

Mar 20, 2023

[Report] “Lessons From Italy: The Italian Platform Cooperative Ecosystem and the Role of Municipal Institutions” by Pietro Ghirlanda

Mar 20, 2023

[Report] “How Do Platform Co-ops Work? Lessons from Argentina” by Denise Kasparian

Mar 20, 2023

[Report] “A Policy Framework for Platform Cooperatives Grounded in U.S. History” by Sadev Parikh

Mar 20, 2023

Building a More Equitable Internet: Insights from ICDE Fellows

Mar 10, 2023

Platform Co-op School Community Assembly Highlights

Feb 9, 2023

Revitalizing Online Sociality: Exploring New Forms of Community Ownership

Feb 5, 2023

ICDE Research Fellows Presentation (Jun 7)

Jan 26, 2023

Film Discussion The Gig is Up + Book Launch Cooperatives Work (May 10)

Jan 26, 2023

Cooperativas de Plataforma no Brasil: Lições do Rio de Janeiro

Jan 26, 2023

Advancements in Data Collectives and Data Commons: A Community Assembly (April 5)

Jan 26, 2023

Exploring the Opportunities for Platform Cooperatives in India

Jan 26, 2023

Making the Co-op Case for Blockchain and Crypto (March 8)

Jan 26, 2023

ICDE Research Fellows Presentation (Mar 1)

Jan 26, 2023

Sharing Digital Infrastructure (Feb 8th)

Jan 26, 2023

February 1, 12:10 – 2:00 pm ET (NYC time)

Jan 19, 2023

Open Call for Applications for the 2023-2024 ICDE Fellowship Program

Jan 5, 2023

The New School’s Quest For Community Self-Governance

Dec 21, 2022

DFAOS

‘Staking’ Identities: Looking at the Practicalities of Transforming DAOs Into Co-ops

Nov 10, 2022

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The Faces Tell the Story

Nov 8, 2022

Are we ready for platform co-operatives in South Africa?

Sep 15, 2022

photo by Trebor Scholz

For an Economy That Puts People First

Jun 18, 2022

Les cooperatives de plataforma poden beneficiar l’economia social de Catalunya?

Jun 9, 2022

My Journey from Critic to Advocate

Jun 9, 2022

Former President of Brazil Calls for the Creation of Platform Worker Co-ops

Jun 5, 2022

Could Web3 Lead the Way to a More Cooperative Web?

May 23, 2022

Photo credit: “Tools”. @barnimages via Unsplash

DAO Design Patterns:

May 18, 2022

Facttic

¡CoopCycle en Argentina!

May 17, 2022

Saving the Socials: What If We Tried a Multipronged Approach?

May 13, 2022

Kerala Plans to Launch 4,000 Platform Co-ops to Upskill Unemployed Youth

May 12, 2022

Fishermen evaluating PescaData in the field - El Rosario, BC

What Are Blockchain-Based Platform Cooperatives?

May 12, 2022

Why Your City Should Care About Data Cooperatives

May 12, 2022

Mondragon

Cooperativas de plataforma “made in Mondragon”

May 12, 2022

The Overlooked Value of the Social Economy

May 12, 2022

Can Cooperatives Defeat Digital Coloniality?

May 9, 2022

How You Can Help to Preserve Billions of Photos

May 9, 2022

Facttic

Argentina, Meet CoopCycle!

May 6, 2022

Mondragon

Platform Cooperatives “Made in Mondragón”?

May 5, 2022

Photo Credit: Piazza Verdi, Bologna, by Pietro Ghirlanda

Is Bologna on the Verge of Becoming the Italian Co-op Valley?

May 4, 2022