News and Research articles on Solidarity 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.

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.