The Drivers Cooperative reveals how diverging stakeholders in platform cooperatives can fracture in their pursuit of developing these platforms.
News and Research articles on Digital solidarity economies
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.
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.
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 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.
This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership.