]]>Ten Years After Uberworked and Underpaid: What Changed, What Held, What’s Next
https://platform.coop/blog/ten-years/
Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:27:07 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17908Continued]]>Date: Registration Required Time: 9 am ET In 2016, when the first essay on platform cooperativism appeared, the platform economy was still celebrated as innovation and “sharing,” not recognized as a new regime of labor governance. Uberworked and Underpaid intervened in that moment, arguing that platforms were not neutral technologies but infrastructures that organize, direct…
]]>When the State Goes Digital: Public Platforms, Cooperative Hybrids, and the Politics of Infrastructure
https://platform.coop/blog/when-the-state-goes-digital/
Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:51:22 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17902Continued]]>Date: May 11 Time: 9:00 AM ET Speakers: Jeongone (Joh) Seo (Korea National Open University) Kenzo Soares Seto (Yale University) Trebor Scholz (The New School / Harvard University) Ganesh Gopal (Gandhigram Rural Institute) Registration Required Across Brazil, South Korea, and Kerala (India), governments have stepped into digital markets to confront platform monopolies, reduce labor precarity…
]]>Call for Researchers and Practitioners
https://platform.coop/blog/call-for-researchers-and-practitioners/
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:33:45 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17853Continued]]>Conference website and registration/updates Building Solidarity Stacks What would it mean to design artificial intelligence in service of climate justice, communal care, and local values? The 2026 Solidarity AI conference, hosted at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and co-convened by PCC Global and PCC Thailand with regional partners, brings together movement builders…
]]>The 2026–2027 ICDE Fellowship Cohort
https://platform.coop/blog/icdefellows2026-2027/
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:52:49 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17827Continued]]>We are pleased to announce the 2026–2027 ICDE Fellows, a cohort advancing research on cooperative digital infrastructure across governance, finance, labor, food systems, and AI, representing 10 countries across 4 continents. Democratic Governance & Institutional Design Jeremias Meyer is a Ph.D. student at the Research Institute for Cooperation and Cooperatives at WU Vienna whose work…
]]>Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement
https://platform.coop/blog/making-sense-of-ai-april17/
Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:11:58 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17738Continued]]>April 17, 10:00 AM ET – 11:30 AM ET The Commons & Open Cooperativism Speakers: Vangelis Papadimitropoulos and Astha Kapoor Discussant: Nana Nwachukwu For cooperators, policymakers, cooperative management students, and cooperative leaders across sectors — plus the Solidarity-AI-curious (you know who you are). This online event is free is free but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED About the series…
]]>Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement
https://platform.coop/blog/making-sense-of-ai-april24/
Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:55:06 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17729Continued]]>For cooperators, policymakers, cooperative management students, and cooperative leaders across sectors — plus the Solidarity-AI-curious (you know who you are). April 24, 10:00 AM ET – 11:30 AM ET Cooperative Digital Infrastructure & Data Centers Speaker: Tara Merk & Kenzo Soares Discussant: Phakin Nimmannorrawong This online event is free is free but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED About the…
]]>Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement
https://platform.coop/blog/making-sense-of-ai-april10/
Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:39:15 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17718Continued]]>For cooperators, policymakers, cooperative management students, and cooperative leaders across sectors — plus the Solidarity-AI-curious (you know who you are). April 10, 10:00 AM ET – 11:30 AM ET AI for Cooperatives? Risks, Dependencies, and Ethical Limits Speaker: Trebor Scholz & Morshed Mannan Discussant: Dorleta Urrutia Oñate This online event is free is free but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED…
]]>The Solidarity Stack
https://platform.coop/blog/the-solidarity-stack/
Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:22:45 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17660Continued]]>[I delivered this keynote at the Cooperative AI Conference in Istanbul on November 11, 2025, as part of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium’s annual convening, addressing the stakes of AI governance, cooperative digital infrastructure, and worker-led alternatives to extractive platform systems.] Convening events like this—our eleventh PCC conference—usually means last-minute visa…
]]>News from the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (2025)
https://platform.coop/blog/news-from-the-platform-cooperativism-consortium-2025/
Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:01:35 +0000https://platform.coop/?p=17650Continued]]>The Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) is a global research and organizing network advancing cooperative, worker-led, and solidarity-economy approaches to digital platforms and artificial intelligence. PCC connects scholars, cooperatives, unions, technologists, policymakers, and social movements to develop democratic alternatives to extractive digital economies. PCC is anchored at The…