News and Research articles on Platform cooperativism

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.

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.

Governance, technology, and the limits of digital solidarity economies: A South Korean case study

Jeongone Seo, Rutgers University
Tawfiq Ammari, Rutgers University
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2068

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.

Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies Digital Solidarity Economies

María Belén Albornoz, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Ricard Espelt, Open University of Catalonia
Rafael Grohmann, University of Toronto
Denise Kasparian, University of Buenos Aires
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2075

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.