Blog | Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Toward Worker-owned Delivery Platforms with the OpenCourier Protocol

May 1, 2026

News from the Institute

May 1, 2026

Co-Designing a Health Services Cooperative in Mexico

May 1, 2026

Digital Platforms as a Pathway for Driving Investment into Small-Scale Fishing Cooperatives and the Blue Economy in Latin America

May 1, 2026

Cooperative Data Centers: Lessons from GAD eG

May 1, 2026

Trustworthy AI Governance in Cooperatives: A Multidimensional Framework for Financial Decision-Making

May 1, 2026

Exploring Regulatory Framework to Promote and Govern the Worker-Platform Co-operatives in Kenya’s Ride-Hailing Sector: Components, Challenges and Reform Recommendations

May 1, 2026

Solidarity Gaps: Why French Nannies Want Their Own Platform Cooperative

May 1, 2026

Sex Work, Autonomy, and Cooperative Refusal

May 1, 2026

Blockchain Governance for Digital Commons and Platform Cooperatives.

May 1, 2026

Ecosystems of Fragility: Feasibility of Platform Worker Cooperatives in Fragile Contexts.

May 1, 2026

Farming Alone? Rethinking Digital Platforms, Collective Action, and Agricultural Mechanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

May 1, 2026

The Double Bind of Public Delivery Platforms: A Case Study of Baedal Teukgeup in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

May 1, 2026

When the State Goes Digital

May 1, 2026

PCC Impact Report

May 1, 2026

Cooperative Interventions in the AI Stack. A Commentary on Infrastructure and Power by Phakin Nimmannorrawong

Apr 21, 2026

Contesting the Cloud

Apr 14, 2026

Designing Economic Belonging for International Families in Aalborg

Apr 13, 2026

The Silent Toll of AI Safety

Apr 9, 2026

Why the Last Mile Needs Multistakeholder Ownership

Apr 9, 2026

Why the Cooperative Movement Should Care About Crypto Still

Apr 8, 2026

Who Decides When AI Decides? A Cooperative Response

Apr 2, 2026

Too Many Islands, Too Little Coordination for Small Farmers in Indonesia’s Digital Food System

Apr 2, 2026

The Trust Map We Need

Apr 2, 2026

Work Shouldn’t Be a Dictatorship

Apr 2, 2026

Can AI Counter Degeneration in Large Cooperatives?

Apr 2, 2026

Beyond Ethical AI

Apr 2, 2026

Why Bread Feels Real

Apr 1, 2026

ICDE Report by Jared Matabi

Mar 19, 2026

ประกาศรับนักวิจัยและผู้ปฏิบัติงาน

Mar 17, 2026

When the State Goes Digital: Public Platforms, Cooperative Hybrids, and the Politics of Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2026

Call for Researchers and Practitioners

Feb 25, 2026

The 2026–2027 ICDE Fellowship Cohort

Feb 14, 2026

Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement

Jan 31, 2026

Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement

Jan 31, 2026

Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement

Jan 31, 2026

The Solidarity Stack

Dec 21, 2025

News from the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (2025)

Dec 21, 2025

Open Call for Applications (2026–2027) ICDE Fellowship Program

Dec 19, 2025

India Launches Bharat Taxi, A National Platform Co-op

Dec 2, 2025

Voices from Istanbul

Nov 23, 2025

Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference

Nov 16, 2025

Jul 30, 2025

[ICDE Report] Notes Toward a Living: How Groupmuse Builds a Platform Cooperative for Musicians

Jul 12, 2025

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

Jun 18, 2025

[ICDE Report] Varieties of Tech Worker Cooperatives: Typologies, Theory, and Policy Implications

Jun 18, 2025

Can Blockchain Bridge the Trust Gap in SEWA’s Healthcare Network?

Apr 30, 2025

Quantos sonhos cabem em um vagão de trem?

Apr 24, 2025

How Many Dreams Fit Inside a Train Car? The Story of Rede Mulheres do Maranhão

Apr 23, 2025

Call for Practitioners and Researchers

Apr 15, 2025

Save the Date: Cooperative AI Conference

Apr 15, 2025

In Lagos, Nigeria, A Farmers’ Market That Sells All Week

Apr 10, 2025

From Thesis to Startup in Trujillo, Peru

Apr 2, 2025

Mumbuca: Reclaiming the Economy from Both Above and Below

Mar 28, 2025

When the State Goes Digital

Mar 28, 2025

BaedalTeukgeup: A Case Study of South Korea’s Public Food Delivery Platform

Mar 27, 2025

AI for Co-op Financing?

Mar 26, 2025

The Paradox of Mexico’s Healthcare System

Mar 26, 2025

AI Labor Council for Healthcare: Exploring Models for Worker-led AI Governance

Mar 26, 2025

Welcome to the 2025/2026 Cohort of ICDE Research Fellows

Mar 26, 2025

Exploring Brazilian Public Policies for Platform Cooperativism

Mar 18, 2025

Cooperatives and the Digital Commons: Governance, Sustainability, and Shared Infrastructure

Mar 18, 2025

Bridging Digital Divides: How PescaData is Connecting Small-Scale Fishing Cooperatives to the Blue Economy

Mar 18, 2025

The Promise and Perils of Cooperative Data Centers

Mar 17, 2025

We Care– A Platform Cooperative Supporting South African Domestic Workers

Feb 13, 2025

Open Call for 2025-26 ICDE Fellowship Applications

Feb 8, 2025

Varieties of Worker Cooperatives in Tech

Feb 2, 2025

Revolutionary Cooperatives in Rojava: Reimagining Justice and Ecology Through Jinwar

Feb 1, 2025

What 2024 Built Together

Dec 28, 2024

Building Together

Dec 26, 2024

The Untold Rise of Punjab’s Collective Ecosystem

Dec 23, 2024

At the Crossroads of Digitization: The ICA Africa CEO on the PCC Conference in Mombasa and Cooperatives in the Digital Labor Market

Dec 11, 2024

Kaseb Cooperative, Iran’s First Platform Cooperative Experiment

Dec 7, 2024

Can Digital Cooperatives Expand Financial Access in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania?

Dec 6, 2024

From Member-Managed LLCs to Cooperative Reform for Inclusive Economies

Dec 6, 2024

Can co-ops address AI labour inequities in East Africa?

Dec 3, 2024

Enyorata Loviluku– A Data Cooperative Supporting Maasai Women in Tanzania

Dec 2, 2024

Uyghur Food Couriers

Dec 2, 2024

Why Cooperatives for Content Moderators and Tech Workers in Africa?

Dec 2, 2024

Waste Pickers in Colombia: Organization, Rights and Digitization

Nov 30, 2024

Introduction for #DigitalAfricaRising

Nov 5, 2024

Unlocking the Social Value of Platform Cooperatives

Sep 11, 2024

Building a Fairer Beauty Industry for 5,000 Bay Area Workers

Aug 13, 2024

Tech-Driven Innovations in Agriculture and Cooperative Decision-Making

Aug 12, 2024

Guiding Young Farmers

Jul 29, 2024

Friends or Foes?

Jul 17, 2024

FairWork’s 12 Policy Proposals for Fairer Platform Work in the UK

Jul 3, 2024

Open-Agriculture, AI, and Data

Jun 24, 2024

The Potential of Data Cooperatives in the Nonprofit and Social Service Sectors

May 30, 2024

A Silver Buckshot, Not A Silver Bullet

May 21, 2024

Owner’s Remorse

May 20, 2024

No Longer Taken for a Ride in Ghana

May 17, 2024

Post-Mortem for Ampled

May 12, 2024

[ICDE Report] Thai Delivery Reimagined

May 7, 2024

June 13th, 2024. 12:15 pm ET

Apr 30, 2024

From Squat to Cooperative

Apr 25, 2024

Public-Cooperative Partnerships

Apr 17, 2024

[ICDE paper] Driving Economic Justice: Cooperative Taxis in San Diego

Apr 7, 2024

A Story of Tech-Forged Food Solidarity in Kerala

Apr 7, 2024

Waking Up to Data

Apr 4, 2024

[ICDE paper] Food Commons: Nurture vs. Capture

Apr 3, 2024

Legislating on Data Commons: What It Should (Not) Be

Apr 3, 2024

[ICDE paper] Legalize Global Co-Ops

Apr 2, 2024

Seeding Tomorrow: Generative AI, Farming Data, and the Commons

Mar 29, 2024

[ICDE Report] Cooperative Roots for Climate Justice

Mar 29, 2024

[ICDE Essay] Principles for a Cooperative Technopolitics

Mar 29, 2024

Lessons from Failed Platform Co-ops

Mar 26, 2024

Cooperative DAOs Shift Management from Hierarchies to Networks

Mar 26, 2024

[ICDE Report] Regenerative Co-op Farming in Madagascar

Mar 26, 2024

Why Worker Cooperatives in the Tech Sector?

Mar 25, 2024

Focus group discussion with farmers, Volta region, Ghana

The Need for Collective Action for Digital Tractor Lending Platforms in Ghana

Mar 23, 2024

Coding for a Fairer World. The Chasqui Platform Story

Mar 23, 2024

Advancing Alternative Digital Futures for Online Sex Work

Mar 22, 2024

Why French Nannies Are Building Their Own Platform Cooperative

Mar 22, 2024

Platform Cooperativism and the Political Philosophy of Workplace Technologies

Mar 20, 2024

Shaping the Future of E-Hailing in Kenya

Mar 18, 2024

Cooperatives for All? Refugees in the Platform Economy

Mar 17, 2024

The 2024/2025 Cohort of ICDE Research Fellows

Mar 15, 2024

Navigating Political and Economic Realities Through Governance at CoopCycle

Mar 14, 2024

Synergies Among Fair Trade and Cooperative Economic Principles

Mar 14, 2024

Symposium June 8th at The New School

Mar 14, 2024

Why Your Cooperative Needs More Young People: A Urgent Call to Action

Mar 12, 2024

Charting the Course to a Commons-Oriented Economy with Open Cooperativism

Mar 4, 2024

Tech Cooperatives (Founders Unplugged)

Jan 18, 2024

Democratizing Social Media

Dec 21, 2023

A Way to Go: Creating a Support System for Platform Cooperative in Thailand

Dec 21, 2023

Photo credit Victor Barcellos

Open Call for Applications for the 2024-2025 ICDE Fellowship Program

Dec 15, 2023

Platform Cooperatives x Fairwork

Dec 13, 2023

The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration on A New Innovation Ecosystem for Our Collective Digital Futures

Dec 13, 2023

Scaling Solidarity with Digital Resilience

Dec 8, 2023

Platform Cooperatives in France. Plateformes Coopératives en France

Aug 4, 2023

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

[ICDE Report] DAOs and Platform Cooperatives: Lessons from the Commons

Mar 20, 2023

[ICDE Report] State and Local Policy Foundations for Data Cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area

Mar 20, 2023

[ICDE Report] The Potential for Platform Cooperatives in the Mondragon Ecosystem

Mar 20, 2023

Picture of Jad Esber

[ICDE Report] Walking Backwards Into a More Cooperative Digital Future

Mar 20, 2023

[ICDE Report] Lessons From Italy: The Italian Platform Cooperative Ecosystem and the Role of Municipal Institutions

Mar 20, 2023

[ICDE Report] How Do Platform Co-ops Work? Lessons from Argentina

Mar 20, 2023

[ICDE Report] A Policy Framework for Platform Cooperatives Grounded in U.S. History

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

Jan 26, 2023

Film Discussion The Gig is Up + Book Launch Cooperatives Work

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

Jan 26, 2023

ICDE Research Fellows Presentation

Jan 26, 2023

Sharing Digital Infrastructure

Jan 26, 2023

Beyond Twitter

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

gallery screenshot

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

President of Brazil Calls for the Creation of Hybrid Public-Cooperative Ride-Hailing Platforms

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

Towards Cooperative Inter Organizational Information Systems

May 7, 2026