Thomas Dönnebrink is OuiShare Connector Germany and freelancer in the collaborative economy. He was trained as a language teacher and later became the founding CEO and Headmaster of the German Embassy School in Izmir, Turkey. Now based in Berlin, he is interested in the collaborative economy, especially from the angle of its prospective contribution to new, sustainable and human economy and society. Today, Dönnebrink is involved in the “OuiShare Sharitories” project and interested in Sharing Cities. In this and other contexts and networks he is involved in the convergence of ideas, networks, and movements that aim at having an impact on changing the world for the better. As freelancer, he is involved in convening events, research projects, workshops, presentations, and lectures. He is also consulting on topics in the collaborative economy.
Report from Berlin
After the PlatformCoop event in November 2015 at The New School, PlatformCoopBerlin carried the coming out party of the cooperative Internet to Europe. Here, it ignited additional torches. In his presentation, Dönnebrink will focus on the outcomes of the activities of the PlatformCoopBerlin group, which included more than 10 events in Europe and Mexico, which did not only further disseminate the concept of platform cooperativism but also helped to bring a European and Latin American focus to this political and economical debate and practice.