Digital community supported agriculture? Exploring a cooperative platform model for fair work and governance

Anne-Pauline de Cler, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM-CNRS)
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2076

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.

Solidarity across borders: Decoding the functionality of CoopCycle in Latin America

Alexandra Belén Gualavisí, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Ecuador)
Daniel Vizuete-Sandoval, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Ecuador)
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2040

This paper analyses CoopCycle’s adaptation processes across Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, showing how solidarity, as a programmatic idea, shapes socio-technical change and challenges dominant models of the digital economy.

Engineering platform cooperativism: Contributions from the Brazilian solidarity economy

Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Camilla de Godoi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Flávio Chedid Henriques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2051

This study reveals how conventional digital platforms hinder worker collectives, and how engineering, reimagined through solidarity, can build cooperative alternatives from the ground up.

A workers’ inquiry in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Insights and policies to align blockchain-based work with the solidarity economy

Tara Merk, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/University of Paris II
Laura Lotti, Independent researcher
Nick Houde, Independent researcher
Morshed Mannan, University of Edinburgh
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2053

This article explores working conditions in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and proposes mechanisms for DAOs to become more equitable workplaces, aligned with the solidarity economy.

Institutionalising data solidarity? The making of expertise in the EU Social Economy Code of Conduct for data sharing

Dwayne Ansah, Utrecht University
Mai Ishikawa Sutton, Commons Network
Sophie Bloemen, Commons Network
Bonno Pel, Utrecht University
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2059

This paper offers an insider account of collaborative drafting of the EU Code of Conduct for Data Sharing in the Social Economy, revealing institutionalisation dynamics in data governance geared towards solidarity.

Beyond platform capitalism: Digital solidarity economy and free culture networks in Argentina and Brazil

Leonardo Foletto, University of São Paulo
Daniel Santini, University of São Paulo
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2061

This article shows how Latin American experience is an essential reference for why free culture principles are essential to the idea and the concept of the digital solidarity economy.

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.

Beyond Big Tech: how Catalan cooperatives are adopting digital tools through collective learning and commons-based principles.