Information Technology

We discuss how software is a commons, what the cooperative movement can learn from Silicon Valley, and how cooperative tech projects can scale up.

Loconomics, a startup that offered shared services to freelancers, became a darling of academics and allies interested in platform cooperativism. After six years of bootstrapping, product pivots, and one big break that didn’t pan out, Loconomics came to an end in 2020.

Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.

Joseph Cureton discusses the holding company model being used by the Staffing Cooperative (now the Orban Cooperative).

Social.coop members talk about the Who Owns the World? platform cooperatives conference.