Our time together starts with framing the concept of platform cooperativism. Later in the day, we will discuss the governance, legal realities and financing of platform co-ops. Friday will culminate in a showcase that will introduce a number of actually-existing projects that put these principles into action.
Saturday morning begins with a brief recap, followed by a showcase of projects that can provide essential infrastructure to the platform-cooperative ecosystem. In the afternoon and into the evening, discussions and workshops will enable us to coalesce our projects and ideas into strategies for meaningfully expanding ownership and governance of online platforms.
08:00 AM | Registration/Coffee |
09:30 AM | Opening Plenary |
10:00 AM | Unpacking Platform Cooperativism |
11:00 AM | Making It Work |
11:00 AM | Conditions of Possibility |
11:00 AM | Platform Society |
01:00 PM | Special Lunch Session with Richard Stallman |
01:00 PM | Lunch Friday (venture into the neighborhood) |
02:00 PM | Co-op Development: Incubators and Decelerators |
02:00 PM | Friday Workshops |
02:00 PM | Co-op Law |
04:00 PM | Building New Supports For the New Workforce: The Role of Solidarity and New Labor Institutions |
04:00 PM | Student Town Hall |
04:00 PM | Policy and the Partner State |
06:00 PM | Owning Is the New Sharing: Actually-Existing Platform Co-ops |
09:00 AM | Taking Stock |
09:30 AM | Platform Showcase: Ecosystem Infrastructure |
11:00 AM | Social Infrastructure |
11:00 AM | Worker Voice |
01:00 PM | Lunch Saturday (venture into the neighborhood) |
01:00 PM | Special Lunch Session with Michel Bauwens |
02:00 PM | Cooperative Financing |
02:00 PM | Saturday Workshops |
02:00 PM | Blockchained Together |
04:00 PM | The Design for Co-Op Apps |
04:00 PM | Organizing Workers (and Non-Workers) |
06:00 PM | Cooperativism to Come |