Grassroots Economic Organizing

Lessons from the Chasqui Project

""

Incubating new narratives in the Solidarity Economy through social technology

Repost
August 28, 2025

full screen

 

Cecilia Muñoz Cancela’s report for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) explores how technological innovation, rooted in participatory and solidarity-driven values, can incubate new narratives in the social and solidarity economy. Centered on Argentina’s Chasqui Project, an e-commerce platform for socially and cooperatively produced goods, the report examines the project’s decade-long development as a collaborative endeavor between public universities, tech cooperatives, and grassroots organizations. Ultimately, Chasqui emerges as a case study of socio-technical innovation that challenges market-centric logics and suggests new pathways for democratizing digital infrastructure in the Global South.

Cite this Report: Muñoz Cancela, Cecilia M. 2025. “Incubating New Narratives in the Solidarity Economy Through Social Technology: Lessons from the Chasqui Project” Institute for the Cooperative Economy. New York City.

 

    Information Technology Support Organizations Cross-Sector Alliances Linking Opposition & Alternatives Solidarity Economy Organizing Strategies for Change Latin America

    Add new comment

    The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

    About text formats

    Plain text

    • No HTML tags allowed.
    • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
    • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
    CAPTCHA
    This question is to verify that you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam.
    4 views