The Drivers Cooperative reveals how diverging stakeholders in platform cooperatives can fracture in their pursuit of developing these platforms.
Based on a digital-urban ethnography of two queer spaces in Hong Kong, this paper argues that material, affective, and cultural forms of reproductive work with digital platforms illuminate both the tensions and potentials of platformised solidarity economies.
Although they are breaking with uberisation, bike delivery platform cooperatives are nonetheless two-fold organisations - political and economic - whose compromises generate grey zones explored in this article through the economic relationships, labour process and knowledge management of a Barcelona-based case study.
This study demonstrates that digitalisation within Social and Solidarity Economy organisations reproduces the sexual division of labour, with men continuing to dominate both the more technical and specialised competences as well as the most technically oriented positions.
As a civic tech community-driven fact-checking initiative, Taiwan’s Cofacts platform exemplifies how digital solidarity economy (DSE) concepts can be enacted in the practice of false information governance, while its practical challenges offer a generative space for expanding, deepening, and pluralising theoretical understandings of DSE.
Beyond Big Tech: how Catalan cooperatives are adopting digital tools through collective learning and commons-based principles.
Digital platforms are entering community supported agriculture. This paper explores what a cooperative model for such platforms entails for work, governance and accessibility in the solidarity economy domain.
This study examines the Lunch Bell project, a state-supported, women-centred meal delivery platform in Kerala, India, embodying a digital solidarity economy that promotes sustainability and addresses gender inequalities through its inclusive labour model.
This study examines how a government-led mobility platform in South Korea, framed as a cooperative digital solidarity project, faltered due to socio-technical misalignments, opaque governance, and limited community control.
The clash between law power and code power in the controversy over Meta’s “pay or okay model”.