Date archives "April 2017"

Why AnyShare is the First ‘Complete’ Cooperative in the US

AnyShare has bold plans to help the world. By creating a multi-stakeholder platform cooperative, the Arizona-based organization wants to support local exchange groups and sharing communities. The AnyShare platform lets you start your own sharing network that makes it easy to add, find, and exchange what your community or group needs to thrive. Launched last December,… Continue reading

Josef Davies-Coates on Community Shares and Democratic Equity Crowdfunding for Cooperatives

The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (13 mins) Josef Davies-Coates – Josef will be speaking about recent exciting platform and digital co-operative activity in the UK, and why the legal framework that exists there could serve platform co-ops particularly well. This… Continue reading

Software, Activism and Government Bullying in Australia

Centerlink, a department of Human Services in Australia, recently started an automated debt recovery scheme, starting with a mass mail out to people on the unemployment benefit who they believe have been overpaid. The current center-right Liberal Government claims that many people collecting unemployment have been doing so fraudulently or been overpaid. After targeting the… Continue reading