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Can co-ops address AI labour inequities in East Africa?

Trebor Scholz, founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, writes from the organisation's conference in Mombasa,…

Meet… Mansib Rahman, co-founder of food delivery co-op Radish

'The goal was to challenge the Deliveroos and the Ubers of the world. And since then,…

MEPs adopt new rules on platform work after campaign by Cecop

Co-ops are in favour of stricter European regulation on digital labour platforms

Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis consider co-op launch

The local union is looking to join the Drivers' Cooperative after the ride-share platforms threatened to…

EU closer to adopting new regulations for the platform economy

Cecop says this is ‘a positive outcome for co-operatives engaged in platform work’

Co-op Group announces delivery partnership with Uber Direct

The move is part of a wider retail sector trend for working with tech platforms, which…

Book review: Nathan Schneider looks for ways to democratise online spaces

'The ways people can and cannot collectively self-govern in daily online life ... have been constrained…

Artisans Cooperative: Makers making their own marketplace

'There are a lot of people with various diversities, differences, disabilities, and everyone is accepted and…

Research fellowships offered on co-op principles in the digital economy

The year-long fellowship is offered by the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, at the New…

End of year Q&A: Nathan Schneider, organiser, Exit to Community

'Without generalised, large-scale capital access for mutualist enterprise, the rising generation of the co‑operative movement will…

Platform Cooperativism conference in India charts new course for digital equality

The event issued the Thiruvananthapuram Declaration calling for shared ownership of technological resources to foster inclusive,…

Platform co-op looks to show a better way forward on AI

As experts warn of the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, Cosy AI looks to create a…