{"id":1855,"date":"2022-07-11T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/11\/1855\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T14:24:16","slug":"1855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/11\/1855\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform cooperatives in urban mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I realize that up to now most of the news items i\u2019ve reposted speak about digital tech as a threat to urban public life as we know it. Or – perhaps more accurately – we tend to judge new urban media tech in retrospect, through lenses tainted in nostalgia for an ideal type urban society that never really was, or at least not for everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, i wanted to also repost an item from Wired<\/a> that strikes a more optimistic tone, on co-ops in the so-called \u2018sharing economy\u2019. I am not convinced this is the<\/em> answer to exploitative labor and other woes, but at least commons-based collaborations have been tried and tested. Surely they come with their own problems of in- and exclusion, though\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As Uber and its ilk face high prices, increased regulation, and labor shortages, a new cooperative model is thriving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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URL without all the tracking: https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/gig-economy-worker-owned-apps\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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