WHO 谁拥有这个世界？OWNS THE WORLD? दुनिया का मालिक कौन है? ¿QUIÉN ES EL DUEÑO DEL MUNDO? পৃিথবীর মালিক েক? КТО ВЛАДЕЕТ МИРОМ? 誰が世 界QUEM を 所 É 有していますか？ DONO DO MUNDO? વિશ્વનો માલિક કોણ છેે? LE MONDE APPARTIENT À QUI? VEM ÄGER VÄRLDEN? ใครเป็นเจ้าของโลก? WEM GEHÖRT DIE WELT?

1 THE STATE OF PLATFORM CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF DIGITAL LABOR COOPERATIVISM CONFERENCES AT THE NOVEMBER 7–9, 2019 NEW SCHOOL AT THE NEW SCHOOL #COOPERATORSUNITE

Acknowledgements

Conference Convener: Prof. Trebor Scholz Producer: Michael McHugh Production Assistant: Angela Difede Videographer: Haley Snyder Live Streaming: Joly MacFie Photography: Kevin Jones Program Design: Creative Workers Cooperative Catering: Co-op Cafe, Khao’na Kitchen Student Staff: Noelia Avila, Aman Manish Bardia, Claire Haughey, Darcy Keester, Collin McClain

Support for this Event:

The following organizations have taken a stand for the future of cooperatives in the digital economy by joining the PCC Circle of Cooperators as members:

Smart.coop, Fairbnb.coop, Coompanion, NeedsMap, Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (Australia), Datavest, Democracy at Work Institute, Co-operatives UK, Stocksy United, CoLab Cooperative, Cotabo, Ontario Co-operative Association, Fondazione Centro Studi Doc, Center for Cultural Innovation, Cooperatives for a Better World, Unionen, Institute for the Future, Febecoop, La Coop des Communs

In addition, we acknowledge event sponsors including the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University; The New School’s Milano School for Management and Policy; the Open Society Foundations; and the Ford Foundation.

2 Fire the Bosses, Democratize the Internet, and Own the Future

Celebrating ten years of digital labor artistic provocations, and insights from conferences at The New School, Who on-the-ground workers, owners, and Owns the World? The State of Platform users. Who Owns the World? convenes Cooperativism is the most international one hundred fifty speakers from over gathering of its kind. thirty countries to meet each other, co- Following our 2018 conference in Hong design, and learn about topics such as Kong, this much-needed event summons worker power in the platform economy, scholars and founders of platform antitrust, misogyny and racism in co-ops, cooperatives -- businesses that use ecological sustainability, best practices a website, mobile app, or protocol to for cooperation including the allocation sell goods or services while relying on of startup funding, the potential of data democratic decision-making and shared co-ops, new models for distributed ownership of the platform by workers governance, and data sovereignty. and users. Who owns our data, our cities, the Platform cooperativism is not a fleeting world? For three days in November, idea but an iterative process that we’ll field this and other questions. We’ll unfolds with the support of community not stop at slideshows and declarations groups and anchor organizations such challenging current enterprise structures as universities, cooperative banks, and but continue to advance existing accelerators. Impulses for a democratic and near-future alternatives. We can digital transformation come from do better than platform capitalism! numerous domains, which is why this Cooperators the world over, unite now!! event presents theoretical reflections,

3 ENGAGE

Twitter Hashtag Use #CooperatorsUnite on Twitter to share your favorite quotes and impressions. For the various town halls, use the hashtags listed in the program.

Twitter Handle Be sure to follow us @pcc_global for sneak peeks and for live coverage.

Platform Co-op Linkshare Add Your Co-op & Discussion Forum Is your digital enterprise or project following the cooperative principles? Add yourself to a global WhatsApp Group index of the cooperative digital economy by taking the survey.

Telegram Group Livestream Can’t make some of these events? We’re bringing Who Owns The World? to you live. Visit Support Our Work our Livestream page to If you are interested in tune in. becoming a member of PCC’s Circle of Collaborate on the Platform Co-op Cooperators, Development Kit email [email protected] If you would like to learn more about for more information. how the Platform Co-op Development Kit could help your cooperative, email us at Sign Up for Our [email protected]. We look forward to Newsletter hearing from you. The Newsletter of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium

4 Wi-Fi Access at The New School

While on campus, guest and visitors to The New School may use the newschool-guest wireless network to access the Internet. You must register with your email address to obtain access to the guest network. An email will be sent to this address asking you to confirm your account. The easiest way to register is to wait until you’re on campus, and then connect to the newschool-guest network on your device. Follow the directions on the page you are presented with when you connect. Once the activation email is sent to you, you will have 10 minutes of temporary wifi access to retrieve the email and activate your account for 7 days.

If you will not be able to access your email at The New School, please pre-register for a newschool-guest account before arriving on campus, click the “Pre-Register for Access” button below. Then print the email with your username/password and bring it with you. Accounts are active for one week (7 days) after registration, so don’t register too early.

5 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES AFFILIATED EVENTS If I Only Had a Heart. In-Situ Screenings by the Encoding Care on and Offchain, Artist Brett Wallace Open Cooperativism and Distributed Location: Cooperative Organizations Lower Level Event Cafe Tuesday, November 12 University Center Noon-2pmv 63 Fifth Avenue Civic Hall, 118 West 22nd St, 12th floor New York, N.Y. 10003 Space is limited to 30 Cleaners, video, 4 min. 36 sec. (2019) Two cleaners were hired to clean an Distributed Cooperative Organizations apartment in New York City through (or DisCOs) are a cooperative Handy.com. This video explores the reaction to the individualistic and materiality of cleaning. techno-deterministic Decentralised Autonomous Organizations (or DAOs). Uberstrike, video, 5 minutes (2019) Stacco Troncoso will present his DisCO A video documenting Uber strikes in New Manifesto. York City and around the world. Opening of The Workers’ Studio at Queens Museum Sunday, November 10 1-5 pm Queens Museum New York City Building, Corona, NY 11368

The Workers’ Studio is a series of collaborative art projects that use art as a tool for worker organizing. This exhibition showcases a collaboration between artist Sol Aramendi and immigrant women in cooperatives. Co-op partners include: Apple Eco Cleaning, Love and Learn Childcare Cooperative, Adhikaar, Lunicorns, Mirror Trans-led Beauty Cooperative, Brightly Cleaning Cooperative, and Mujeres en Movimiento.

6 AGENDA

Join us for a participatory session on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 how we might index the cooperative digital economy in a way that benefits all The New School has gender neutral and stakeholders. ADA-accessible bathrooms available throughout all of its buildings. Please This gathering invites everyone to feel free to ask a security guard for explore individual opportunities directions. and propose solutions for a simple, searchable, and useful index of our If you require assistance in the unlikely ecosystem. In 2020, the index will be event of an evacuation, please let us designed as part of the Platform Co-op know in advance by emailing Development Kit. [email protected].

Questions motivating our session 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Breakfast for the PCC Circle of include: Cooperators Hosted by the Open Society Foundations • How might we design a user Registration required experience that serves unique (email Michael McHugh) stakeholder information needs, from policy makers and funders to 9:00 AM organizers and technologists and Registration Opens beyond? Thursday check-in will open at 9:00 AM • How might we build a tool to and will remain open until the end of the discover and showcase the range evening. Check-in tables will be located of digital co-op projects around the at: world? • How might co-ops and other Location: stakeholders take ownership and Theresa Lang Community and Student control of this index, ensure it Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor benefits them, and keep it up-to- Arnhold Hall date? 55 West 13th Street, NYC Together, we’ll explore these questions 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM and co-design collective solutions. Coopathon! Designing an Index of the Digital Co-Op Space In order to include diverse and representative participants with Location: limited space, see online program for Theresa Lang Community and Student registration information. Registration is Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor required. Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, NYC Facilitated by Danny Spitzberg Lunch will be provided

7 File Swap 6:30 - 6:40 PM Coopathon! Designing an Introduction by David Van Zandt, Index of the Digital Co-Op President of The New School Space Location: Download PDFs of the presentations and Theresa Lang Community and Student background readings. Share your own Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor documents in this folder. Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, NYC 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM THIS IS ZAMBIA 6:40 PM - 8:00 PM Platform Co-ops & the Green New Location: Deal Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor Location: Arnhold Hall Theresa Lang Community and Student 55 West 13th Street, NYC Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor Arnhold Hall Coming to us from Zambia, the Hip 55 West 13th Street, NYC Hop recording artist PilAto has been called Zambia’s Voice of Inequality. His No issue is more pressing than the contribution to WHO OWNS THE WORLD? climate crisis! Digital technologies can is a remake of Childish Gambino’s THIS either help ameliorate this crisis or IS AMERICA. PilAto’s provocative piece, they can worsen it. Can co-ops be an THIS IS ZAMBIA, is his take on the power alternative to extractive capitalism that captured by multinational corporations refuses to acknowledge the impending and the painful apathy of politicians who catastrophe? How do we democratize fail to build a better tomorrow with all the digital economy in the time of the of us, be that in Zambia or the United Green New Deal? In this session, you’ll States. PilAto whispers and roars: Is this learn about two groups: a platform that Zambia? supports recyclers in Brazil and an e-car sharing cooperative in Spain.

6:15 - 6:30 PM Mundano (Cataki) Welcome by Trebor Scholz Oriol Alfambra (Mensakas) on SomMobilitat Location: Video Address by Dieter Janechek Theresa Lang Community and Student (Member, Deutscher Bundestag) Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor Arnhold Hall Video Address by John McDonnell 55 West 13th Street, NYC (Opposition Finance Minister, British Labour Party, UK)

Respondent: Prof. Raz Godelnik (The New School) + Q&A

8 08:30 PM File Swap Screening of What is Democracy? Platform Co-ops & the by Astra Taylor Green New Deal

Location: Download PDFs of the presentations and The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen background readings. Share your own Auditorium - Room N101, Ground Floor documents in this folder. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC 8:00 PM- 8:30 PM Break “Featuring a diverse cast—including Coffee, tea, and pastries celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, Catered by Co-op Cafe activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this film 08:30 PM - 9:30 PM connects the past and the present, Imagining Common Futures the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to Location: provoke and inspire. If we want to live in Theresa Lang Community and Student a democracy, we must first ask what the Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor word even means.” - Zeitgeist Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, NYC Welcome by Trebor Scholz. Interview with Astra Taylor by Imagining Common Futures is a guided Greg Epstein followed by the screening. creative workshop that will generate a collection of speculative near-future use cases and cautionary tales for File Swap collectively-owned Artificial Intelligence/ What is Democracy? Machine Learning tools.

Facilitated by Ben Gansky Download PDFs of the presentations and background readings. Share your own documents in this folder. File Swap Imagining Common FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2019 Futures

The New School has gender neutral and Download PDFs of the presentations and ADA-accessible bathrooms available background readings. Share your own throughout all of its buildings. Please documents in this folder. feel free to ask a security guard for directions. If you require assistance in the unlikely event of an evacuation, please let us know in advance by emailing [email protected].

9 8:00 AM on the progress of The Platform Co-op Registration Opens Development Kit. The Kit is a multi- Check-in will open at 8:00 AM and will year project, initiated by Scholz at the remain open until the end of the evening Platform Cooperativism Consortium Location: in collaboration with Jutta Treviranus Main Lobby - Ground Floor and the team at the Inclusive Design The University Center Research Centre at OCAD University in 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC Toronto.

As you enter Tishman Auditorium, you’ll The IDRC team members will briefly hear music by Fela Kuti. introduce their progress on the Kit and Read more about the music at the Travis Higgins, a PCC team member, conference in the back of the program will introduce the survey of the digital (Page 69). cooperative economy.

9:30 AM - 9:40 AM It is the goal of the Kit to advance the Welcome & Introduction by cooperative digital economy. In the spirit Tim Marshall, Provost of The New of cooperativism, the kit is co-designed School with prospective and current platform cooperative members. Location: Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, File Swap Ground Floor Who Owns the World? The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC Download PDFs of the presentations and #dontbelate background readings. Share your own documents in this folder. 9:40 AM - 10:30 AM Who Owns the World? 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM The State of Platform Video Address by U.S. Senator Cooperativism by Kirsten Gillibrand. Introduction Prof. Trebor Scholz by Janneke House, Special Advisor Office of Sen. Gillibrand

Location: Location: Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor Ground Floor The University Center The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Prof. Scholz will provide a brief update on platform co-op activities around the world, introduce the newly founded Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School, and report

10 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM As you enter Wollman for the Gig Worker, Freelancer, #Platformcoop Unplugged session, you’ll Self-Employed: hear the following songs: Who Is Watching out for Them? What Can Cities Do? “Tudo que você podia ser” (“All That You Could Be”) Location: by Clube da Esquina Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor “El cinismo de los poderosos” The University Center (“The Cynicism of the Powerful”) 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC by Pablo Cabrera (Cooparte) “Latinoamérica” How can the worker co-op form help (“Latin America”) workers in the informal economy, by Calle 13 marked by deregulated tech firms and a decline of unions, both in the “Amor a mi clase” overdeveloped world as well as in the (“Love to My Class”) economically developing world? How by Pipe Diaz (La Insurgencia) can the “Preston model” help?Where and how does technology play a role in Read more about these songs in the back answering these questions? of the program (Page 69).

Salonie Muralidhara 11:50 AM - 1:30 PM (Senior Associate, SEWA Federation) Platform Co-ops Unplugged Sandrino Graceffa Location: (CEO, Smart.coop) Wollman Hall - Room B500, 5th Floor Yvon Jadoul The Eugene Lang Building (Secretary General, Smart.coop) 65 West 11th Street, NYC Matthew Brown (Leader of the Preston City Council) Think of the Platform Co-ops Unplugged session as a festival of ideas. Ask Respondent: participants anything. You can walk up to Doug O’Brien the 15 delegates who will be showcasing (President & CEO, NCBA CLUSA) their projects on an easel. Ask them questions and make connections. Or, you File Swap can grab an easel and present yourself Gig Worker, Freelancer, on a first-come, first-served basis. Link Self-Employed up with allied projects around the world at various stages of development, swap Download PDFs of the presentations and print material, and find ‘the others.’ Have background readings. Share your own an informal exchange about ongoing and documents in this folder. planned research. Meet old friends and make new ones. Upload materials that 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM you want people to read in the File Swap Break folder, reference below.

11 The following delegates are slated to showcase their work: ■ Chipotle Mexican Grill (504 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Prof. Mark Graham ■ Murray’s Bagels (Fairwork Foundation) (500 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Patrick Karanja (Online Professional ■ Dainobu Japanese Market Workers Association of Kenya) (498 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Nicole Alix (Plateformes en Communs) ■ Pret A Manger Kriangsak Kiang Teerakowitkajorn (821 Broadway, New York, NY 10003) (Just Economy and Labor Institute, Thailand) ■ Taboonette Mediterranean Denny Mews (Coopercarga - Matriz) (30 E 13th St, New York, NY 10003) Stacco Troncoso (Distributed Cooperative ■ Newsbar Cafe Organizations (DisCOs). A Manifesto) (107 University Pl, New York, NY 10003) David O’Connell (University of Kassel) Éder Lemke (Ciclos) Please do not sit down in a restaurant as Jesse Brown (Story Telling, Hudson Valley, NY) it may take too long to get served. Prof. Itir Erhart (Bilgi University, Turkey) Abdul Nasser Feitoza (Sescoop, Platform The hashtag for lunch is Co-op Acceleration by the State of Rio De #AvocadoToast Janeiro, Brazil) 12:00 - 3:00 PM Travis Higgins (Index of the Cooperative Co-Design Potluck: Designing Tech Digital Ecosystem) Together Vitor Romero Moulin Teixeira (CleanClic) Daniel Blake & students This potluck is limited to 30 participants. (Music for Political Activism, The New School) Registration required. See online Dave Boyle (Community Shares) program for details.

Appeal by Hal Plotkin Location: Hirshon Suite - Room I205, 2nd Floor Arnhold Hall File Swap 55 West 13th Street, NYC Platform Co-ops At a potluck, we all bring something Unplugged to the table and benefit from others’ contributions. This workshop provides an opportunity for the cooperative Download PDFs of the presentations and community to collectively identify background readings. Share your own common needs for digital tools and documents in this folder. processes that:

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM • Support the daily operations of Lunch cooperatives • Provide guidance in starting Places we recommend because of their platform co-ops good food & reasonable turn-around • Foster the growth of cooperative time: businesses

12 Participants will identify shared needs precariousness and the intensification and collaboratively develop designs of work. This Brazilian documentary for tools that support the needs of the engages with these developments. cooperative ecosystem. The outcome of this workshop will 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM include requirements, design ideas, and Concurrent Town Halls in Various a plan for next steps, and will provide Locations an opportunity to realise our shared Parallel sessions open up spaces where network of resources and how they you can learn about the projects of might best be applied to achieve our your fellow participants from around common goals. the world. They amplify the unique potential of all of us being together at Join members of the Inclusive Design The New School. Think of the format of Research Centre and our partner this session as a topically-focused town co-ops on the Platform Cooperative hall; it is not a traditional panel. Each Development Kit project to contribute speaker has 5 minutes to introduce their your perspectives. work. The second hour of the session is dedicated to discussion that promptly We are seeking participants who are engages the people who are not on the co-op members or those with resources stage. Find the presentations in the File and skills to contribute. Be prepared to Swap folder. discuss the gaps in your organization’s digital toolkit and share the ingredients Town Hall 1 that make these tools work. We hope this The Capital Conundrum event will connect community members with resources to carry this work Location: forward. We can’t wait to see what you’ll Theresa Lang Community and Student bring to the table! Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor Arnhold Hall Facilitated by the 55 West 13th Street, NYC Inclusive Research Design Centre Lunch will be provided Without access to real capital, the cooperative digital economy cannot 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM thrive. Platform co-ops around the world Screening of “GIG-- The Uberization struggle to access start-up funding of Work” by Carlos Juliano Barros given that traditional venture capital is not appropriate for these enterprises. Location: Various groups have received foundation The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen funding. British cooperators are Auditorium - Room N101, Ground Floor using the Community Shares Model, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center which allows them to benefit from 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC tax incentives for startups. Adapting the Mondragon process, cities like The advance of the so-called “gig Cleveland (US) and Preston (UK) follow economy” has promoted debates on an ecosystem approach to launching and

13 funding worker cooperatives. Yet others too many people. Labor Law in many explore ways of creating “user trusts” countries including the United States to democratize the Internet. Learn is broken. That’s why we ask: What about diverse financial instruments are innovative forms of associational and strategies that can help groups power for workers in the gig economy? to launch an upstart without venture Can we re-imagine and rebuild the gig capital. Together with the International economy in a fundamentally fairer way? Cooperative Alliance, philanthropists, How important a role does ownership and communities worldwide, we need to - and Employee Stock Ownership Plans urgently take bold steps to meet these in particular- play in creating leverage challenges. for platform workers? How aware are workers of the ownership option? Do Facilitated by Prof. Kevin McQueen cooperatives emerge when unions fail, or do unions have an essential role to play Prof. Chris Mackin (Ownership Associates) in co-op development? How much hope Felix Weth (Fairmondo) do we place in the enforcement of AB5, a Emma Adelaide Back (Equal Care Co-op) law passed by the California State Senate Prof. Nathan Schneider requiring platforms such as Uber and (University of Colorado) Lyft to treat their drivers as employees? Prof. Olivera Marjanovic How can technology help to link up, (University of Sydney) organize, and empower geographically Ludovica Rogers dispersed workers? (Co-operatives UK) Amelia Evans (MSI Integrity) Facilitated by Rebecca Lurie (CUNY Worker Center) The hashtag for this town hall is #capitalconundrum Sabine Kock (Smart) David O’Connell File Swap (United Service Workers Union) Friday- Town Hall 1 Fredrik Söderqvist (Unionen) Ra Criscitiello (California Cooperative Platform Economy Act) Download PDFs of the presentations and Tina Vu Pham background readings. Share your own (National Domestic Workers Alliance) documents in this folder. Maru Batista (Up&Go) Luciana Bruno (ICDE) Town Hall 2 Camile de Araujo Just Labor Power for the Platform (Women in Blockchain in Brazil) Economy Now! Digital Labor Minsun Ji (ICDE) Is Not Free. Erik Forman Location: (Independent Drivers Guild) Room UL104, Basement Level Derick Ongansie The University Center (Platform Co-op Community Organizer, 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC South Africa) The world of work is not working for

14 The hashtag for this town hall is Maggie Hughes (MIT) #LaborPower Jun Kawasaki (Commons Co-op) Rafael Zanatta (Latin American Network File Swap of Surveillance, Technology, and Society Friday- Town Hall 2 Studies) The hashtag for this town hall is #DatacoopsFTW Download PDFs of the presentations and background readings. Share your own File Swap documents in this folder. Friday- Town Hall 3

Town Hall 3 Data Co-Ops as a Path Toward Data Download PDFs of the presentations and Sovereignty background readings. Share your own Location: documents in this folder. Room UL105, Basement Level Town Hall 4 The University Center Intersectional Solidarity: Against 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC Misogyny and Racism in Co-ops

Beyond the analysis of how surveillance Location: capitalism is extracting data and Room A404, 4th Floor controlling our lives, this session is Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall pointing to a way forward for the 66 West 12th Street, NYC democratization of digital infrastructure. Without ownership of the platform While platform co-ops, just like all or protocol, how do we move from cooperatives, promise shared ownership Big Tech’s data extraction to data and democratic governance, they are sovereignty? From “smart cities” to not exempt from conflicts around race, the healthcare sector, music streaming gender, class, ability, sexual orientation and beyond, data cooperatives are and identity. By fighting against becoming more relevant to founders everything from systemic inequities to who work to democratize the Internet microaggressions, how can cooperatives through cooperatively owned digital become more self-aware and inclusive, infrastructure - from social media to and even lead the fight for intersectional cloud services and beyond. solidarity? What are common blindspots in cooperatives that fail to see these Facilitated by Prof. Koray Caliskan issues and act on them? (The New School) Facilitated by Prof. McKenzie Wark (The New School) Vanni Rinaldi (Legacoop) Ron Kim (New York Assembly Member) Prof. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard Yeshimabeit Milner (Data for Black Lives) (John Jay College) Rob Stone (DataVest) Prof. Sujatha Jesudason (The New School) Matthew Cropp (Social.coop) Prof. Mark Lipton (The New School) Morshed Mannan (ICDE) Leo Sammallahti (Co-op Exchange)

15 The hashtag for this townhall is The hashtag for this town hall is #IntersectionalSolidarity #DistributedGovernance!

File Swap File Swap Friday- Town Hall 4 Friday- Town Hall 5

Download PDFs of the presentations and Download PDFs of the presentations and background readings. Share your own background readings. Share your own documents in this folder. documents in this folder. Town Hall 5 Distributed Governance 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Break Location: Coffee, tea, and pastries Room U304, 3rd Floor Catered by Co-op Cafe The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC As you enter Tishman Auditorium for the Global Movement Updates session, you’ll Meet a group of entrepreneurial hear Glory to Hong Kong (anthem, sign platform co-op founders presenting language version). Read more about this on enterprises that range in maturity, anthem in the back of the program from emerging to well-established. They (Page 69). hail from as far as Turkey, Belgium,

Finland, Spain, and Indonesia. The focus 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM of the discussion is the governance of Global Movement Updates geographically dispersed independent contractors. Aggregating members Location: and workers on a platform comes with Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, unique opportunities for increasing Ground Floor participation and potentially also for The University Center distributed decision making. 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Facilitated by Ela Kagel Facilitated by Prof. Trebor Scholz (Platform Co-op Berlin)

Javier Creus We are proud to present an overview (Salus.coop) of activities in several countries. We will Francesca Martinelli hear about successes and failures, too. Chiara Chiappa In quick succession, presenters will offer (Doc Servizi) you a global overview. We’ll go around Ali Ercan Ozgur (Needs Map) the world in 90 minutes. Novita Puspasari (Innovation Hub, James de le Vingne (UK) Universitas Jenderal Soedirman) Osamu Nakano (Japan) Mike Cook (Stocksy United) Derick Ongansie (Platform Co-op Richard Jensen (Resonate.coop) Community Organizer, South Africa) Prof. Simon Pek Ela Kagel (Germany) (Gustavson School of Business) Prof. Mario De Conto (Brazil)

16 Martijn Arets (Netherlands) 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Novita Puspasari (Indonesia) Fireside Chat with Anand Vanni Rinaldi (Italy) Giridharadas by Wilma Liebman Sabine Kock & Lisa Pointner (Austria) (Followed by Q&A) Prof. Jack Qiu (Hong Kong) Location: Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, File Swap Ground Floor Global Movement Updates The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Download PDFs of the presentations and This highlight event of Day 2, will background readings. Share your own feature award-winning author Anand documents in this folder. Giridharadas in conversation with Wilma Liebman, former chair of the National 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Labor Relations Board under the Obama Break Administration and current co-chair of Coffee, tea, and pastries the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Catered by Co-op Cafe Economy. Anand Giridharadas’ Winners Take 7:30 PM - 7:50 PM All shines a spotlight on the moral We Are All Animals, contradictions that capitalism’s wealthy a Children’s Strike philanthropists present — between their Location: stated aims to do good and the realities Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, of the social and economic harms that Ground Floor their wealth accumulation may create The University Center or worsen. Nonetheless, he seems 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC optimistic that there are solutions to our social ills, possibilities for positive cultural The artist Gabo Camnitzer and The change. Creating a cooperative digital Sixth Street Community Center (SSCC) economy is one hopeful response to the are collaborating to facilitate children problems he describes, as we will explore in developing alternative modes of with him. protesting for climate justice. Engaging with the radical history of children’s Pick up a free copy of Anand’s book at strikes of the past 200 years, children the reception. at SSCC are developing their own forms of protest, ones which might point File Swap Anand Giridharadas beyond the confines of sanctioned forms of demonstration. We are proud to offer our conference as the site of this performative intervention. Download PDFs of the presentations and background readings. Share your own documents in this folder.

Appeal by Hal Plotkin

17 9:45 PM - 12:00 AM 09:00 AM - 9:15 AM A Night of Liberation: Welcome by Executive Music & celebration with Rabbi Darkside Dean Mary Watson, & The New School Hip Hop Collective Schools of Public Engagement, The New School Location: Starr Foundation Hall - Room UL102, Special Address by the Basement Level NYC Mayor’s Office The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC Introduction by Prof. Trebor Scholz

Join us for a night of libations, moving Location: bodies, and hip hop music to kick Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, back and relax after the first day of Ground Floor conferencing. The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2019 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM The New School has gender neutral and Owning Our Power: Young Lions of ADA-accessible bathrooms available the Co-op Movement throughout all of its buildings. Please feel free to ask a security guard for Location: directions. Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor If you require assistance in the unlikely The University Center event of an evacuation, please let us 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC know in advance by emailing We are proud to showcase a combination [email protected]. of some of the most inspiring projects that have recently launched, and others 8:00 AM that have distinctly proven themselves Registration Opens over the past few years. We will hear Check-in will open at 8:00 AM and will about strategies for capitalization, remain open until the end of the evening franchisement of the co-op model, the encouragement and facilitation Location: of democratic governance among Main Lobby - Ground Floor distributed producers, collaboration with The University Center unions, technological innovations relying 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC on blockchain, and revenue sharing in the community. In quick succession, presenters will offer you an overview of how they are collectively making cooperative interventions across a range of sectors. Learn from these pioneers.

Facilitated by Trebor Scholz

18 Maru Batista & Sylvia Morse (Up&Go) • How best can platform cooperatives Mike Cook (Stocksy United) contribute to fundamental Oriol Alfambra Serrano, Nuria Soto, community-based system-wide Txiki Blasi (Mensakas) political-economic transformation? Martin Van Den Borre (Eva) • What are the particular challenges Emma Black (Equal Care Co-op) that platform cooperatives face? Matt Schumwinger & Hays Witt • How will the quality of the jobs for (Driver’s Seat Cooperative) the workers you expect to work in Damiano Avelino & Emanuele Dal Carlo the cooperative you are designing (Fairbnb.coop) be better than similar jobs in non- Jen Horonjeff (Savvy Cooperative) worker-owned firms? Riccardo Carboni (Cotabo) • What are the essential elements of platforms that aggregate the power Facilitated by Trebor Scholz and resources of workers rather than atomizing them? File Swap • How to start a platform co-op Young Lions of the Co-op while minimizing the dangers of an Movement authoritarian crackdown?

Facilitated by Download PDFs of the presentations and Luciana Bruno & Amelia Evans background readings. Share your own documents in this folder. Prof. Joseph Blasi (Rutgers University) 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Melissa Hoover Digital Co-op Fractals: Iterations, (Democracy at Work Institute) Patterns, Questions Prof. Gar Alperovitz (Democracy Collaborative) Location: Prof. Jack Qiu Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Ground Floor Prof. Juliet Schor (Boston College) The University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC Appeal by Hal Plotkin

For this session, we are tracing emerging File Swap patterns within the cooperative digital Digital Co-op Fractals: ecosystem. We asked Juliet Schor, Joseph Iterations, Patterns, and Blasi, Gar Alperovitz, Jack Qiu, and Questions Melissa Hoover to each pose a question, Download PDFs of the presentations and which they’ll then answer for 10 minutes. background readings. Share your own Then, we will open it up to everybody for documents in this folder. a People’s Q&A. Here are the questions that will guide our discussion: 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Break Coffee, tea, and pastries Catered by Co-op Cafe

19 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM File Swap Reports by the Research Fellows of Reports by the Research the Institute for the Cooperative Fellows of the Institute for Digital Economy the Cooperative Digital Economy Location: Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Download PDFs of the presentations and Ground Floor background readings. Share your own The University Center documents in this folder. 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC 01:15 PM - 2:45 PM In April, 2019, Prof. Trebor Scholz Lunch founded the Institute for the Cooperative We recommend these places because Digital Economy at The New School. of their good food & reasonable turn- Hear brief reports from the six inaugural around time: research fellows: ■ Chipotle Mexican Grill (504 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011) “Everything Old is New Again: Evaluating ■ Murray’s Bagels the Legal and Governance Structures of (500 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Emergent Protocol Cooperatives” ■ Dainobu Japanese Market Morshed Mannan (498 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011) ■ Pret A Manger “The Potential of Platform Cooperativism (821 Broadway, New York, NY 10003) in Kenya” ■ Taboonette Mediterranean Francis Mwongela Mikwa (30 E 13th St, New York, NY 10003) ■ Newsbar Cafe “Organizing Precarious Workers in South (107 University Pl, New York, NY 10003) Korea Through Platform Cooperatives” Prof. Minsun Ji Please do not sit down in a restaurant as it may take too long to serve all of you. “Connecting Waste Pickers in Brazil - Cataki, a Case Study” The hashtag for lunch is #AvocadoToast Luciana Bruno

02:45 PM - 4:15 PM “Political and Legislative Obstacles for Concurrent Town Halls in Various Platform Co-ops in the U.S., Germany, Locations and France” Parallel sessions open up spaces where Jonas Pentzien you can learn about the projects of your fellow participants from around the “Funding Cooperatives: New world. They amplify the unique potential Possibilities” of all of us being together at The New Amelia Evans School. Think of the format of the town hall as a topically-focused town hall, not a traditional panel. Each speaker has

20 5 minutes to introduce their work. The James de le Vingne second hour of the session is dedicated (UnFound/Co-operatives UK) to discussion that promptly engages the Jonathan Gordon-Farleigh people who are not on the stage. Find (UnFound/Stir to Action) the presentations in the File Swap folder Antti Virolainen (ShareTribe) (find links below each session). Add your Riccardo Carboni (Cotabo) own, relevant material there, too. Lisa Pointner (Smart) Mario de Conto (OCB) Town Hall 1 Osamu Nakano Cooperation: Best Practices (Worker Cooperatives Japan)

Location: The hashtag for this town hall is The Auditorium - Room A106, Ground #CoopBestPractices Floor Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall File Swap 66 West 12th St, NYC Saturday Town Hall 1

Many in the movement are starting a business for the first time. They Download PDFs of the presentations and urgently need to know how and where background readings. Share your own to incorporate, write bylaws, how to documents in this folder. become investor-ready, create a financial Town Hall 2 model, test with users, and establish a Showing Up for One Another sales funnel. They want to learn how to hire, set up a bonus plan, and establish Location: fair performance reviews of members- Room A406, 4th Floor owners. Founders need to determine Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall how to attract people will provide and 66 West 12th Street, NYC use their service. While the United States has somewhat accommodating co-op Social problems don’t exist in isolation. laws, the laws in other countries such This session brings together groups as Canada, Brazil, and Japan are still just that fight for economic justice. Although developing. How do we help national some projects may not be directly cooperative associations develop the working on platform co-ops, our work legal frameworks and language to is connected. Our liberation, likewise, accomodate platform co-ops in their is bound together. In order to win the co-op law? Come and learn about these fight for the next possible system, our legal strategies and hands-on practices. movements need to build together. Not only must we inform, support, Facilitated by Micky Metts and inspire each other, but we have to (Agaric) show up for one another. Cooperative principles compel us to deepen practices Greg Brodsky (Start.coop) of solidarity. That’s why co-ops need Howard Brodsky to more actively project their values (Cooperatives for a Better Life) outward, and link up with a range of

21 groups, whether these are technologists, priority for more tech co-ops? How farmers, domestic workers, or activists. does participation in shaping a design Facilitated by Esteban Kelly help to foster a sense of investment? In (US Federation of Worker Cooperatives) the co-design process, how do diverse perspectives help to surface potential Mariela Benavides Espronceda problems, especially among edge users? (Techo Mexico) How do cooperative values align with Jordi Picas Vilà co-design/participatory design? What is (Suara.coop) in your cooperative tool shed? Sixth Street Youth Program Facilitated by Greta Byrum Lindsey Shute (Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School) (National Young Farmers of America, Farm Generations) McKenzie Jones (CoLab) Damiano Avellino Cheryl Li (IDRC) (Fairbnb.coop) Jill Dimond (Sassafrass) Stacco Troncoso Marcel de Oliveira Coelho (Peer to Peer Foundation) (Cooper Systems) Louis Cousin The hashtag for this town hall is (Startin’blox) #ShowingUp Ned Zimmerman (IDRC) Una Lee (“and also to”) File Swap Bastien Sibille (MobiCoop) Saturday Town Hall 2 The hashtag for this town hall is #CoopToolShed

Download PDFs of the presentations and File Swap background readings. Share your own Saturday Town Hall 3 documents in this folder.

Town Hall 3 Download PDFs of the presentations and Building a Tech Industry That Is background readings. Share your own Better for All documents in this folder. Location: Town Hall 4 Room 404, 4th Floor Wrestling Back Independence with Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Media Co-ops 66 W 12th Street, NYC Location: Tech cooperatives run without venture Room U304, 3rd Floor capital funding. They treat their The University Center workers fairly and give them control 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC over their businesses. Tech co-ops are more resilient and better positioned The role of journalism in public life has to advance participatory design and been re-energized in the face of “post- open source/free software. Why, then, truth” debates. Discussions focus on is open source/free software not a the failures and malfunctions, but rarely

22 on near-term alternatives that could Hear about emerging or expanding democratize the media. What promise platform co-op enterprises working do platforms and cooperatives offer in a range of sectors. From Italy, UK, in a sector that is paradoxically more Spain, U.S., Argentina, and Brazil, these consolidated than ever before? Can projects demonstrate the diversity and media co-ops become the platform impact of platform co-ops in industries business model of the future for literary such as home care, short-term rental, agents, authors, journalists, actors, food delivery, transportation, and and talent agents? Can this model music. Which role can unions play in wrestle back artistic independence and the platform economy? How can co-ops make producers less susceptible to the solve the most seemingly unsolvable takeover of special interests? problems for freelancers? Talk to founders directly about how they have Facilitated by Prof. Manoj Fenelon managed to incorporate, author bylaws, (The New School) become investor ready, and create Prof. Heather Chaplin a financial model. What lessons for (The New School) organizational leadership did they learn? William Clark Come and learn how to lead better. (WM Clark Associates) Victoria Alexander Co-Facilitated by Executive (Dactyl Foundation) Dean Mary Watson and Miles Hadfield Associate Dean Michele Kahane (Thenews.coop) (The New School) Ela Kagel (Platform Co-ops Berlin) Austin Robey (Ampled) Sabine Kock Joseph Cureton (Staffing Cooperative) (Smart) Mariana Vilnitzky (Holidays Exchange) The hashtag for this town hall is Denny Mews (Cargon, Brazil) #MediaCoops Francesca Martinelli (Doc Servizi) Emma Back (Equal Care Coop) File Swap Nuria Soto, Oriol Alfambra Serrano, Saturday Town Hall 4 Txiki Blasi (Mensakas) Leo Sammallahti (Co-op Exchange)

Download PDFs of the presentations and The hashtag for this town hall is background readings. Share your own #WeOwnIt! documents in this folder. File Swap Town Hall 5 Saturday Town Hall 5 Practitioners on Organizational Leadership Location: Download PDFs of the presentations and Room UL104, Basement Level background readings. Share your own The University Center documents in this folder. 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

23 Town Hall 6 Location: The Legal Kit for Starting Platform The Auditorium - Room A106, Co-ops in the U.S. Ground Floor Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Location: 66 West 12th Street, NYC Room 517, 5th Floor Acknowledging techno-authoritarianism Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall and the chasm between the upper few 66 West 12th Street, NYC and the lower many, antitrust scholars As part of the work on Platform Co-op and activists are gaining momentum. Development Kit, the PCC is collaborating They are questioning---and presenting with Columbia Law School. It is the goal alternatives to---current market and firm of this work to make the legal part of structures. Could cooperatives emerge in launching a platform co-op easier. What the wake of antitrust legislation? In the are the pertinent questions that you coming Silicon Valley bust that will spell will have to answer when setting up the the end of many high-flying “disruptors,” various types of platform co-ops in the will we be ready to take over key United States? Which legal problems infrastructure? did you struggle with when launching Sandeep Vaheesan and a co-op in the United States? If you are Nathan Schneider in Conversation a co-op developer in the U.S., join this session to learn about the ongoing work File Swap on the legal side of the Platform Co-op The Morning After the Development Kit. Coming Silicon Valley Bust. Prof. Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) Download PDFs of the presentations and Zachary R. Barker background readings. Share your own (Columbia Law School) documents in this folder. Shannon Zhang (Columbia Law School) 5:00- 5:30 PM Cooperators of the World, Unite!

Location: File Swap The Auditorium - Room A106, Ground Saturday Town Hall 6 Floor Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Download PDFs of the presentations and 66 West 12th Street, NYC background readings. Share your own documents in this folder. For three days, each session highlighted the strengths, qualities and problems at 04:15 PM - 4:30 PM the heart of our work all over the world. Break Platform co-ops have been embraced by many as one near-term solution on the 04:30 PM - 5:00 PM way to a post-capitalist society. The Morning After the Coming Silicon Valley Bust For this finale, participants read one haiku- or tweet-length sentence inspiring us where to go next.

24 The 2020 annual platform co-op event, focusing on the cooperative commons, will be held November 12-14 in Berlin, Germany. It’ll be facilitated by the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Berlin Social Science Center), the Weizenbaum Institute, and the Institute for Ecological Economy Research.

25 BIOGRAPHIES founded MSI Integrity, a non-profit organization that examines the impact and value of voluntary initiatives that Abdul Nasser address business and human rights. Abdul Nasser is a specialist with an Amelia has investigated and reported MBA in Tax Law from Fundação Getúlio on business and human rights-related Vargas, Professor of Cooperative and issues in a number of countries, most Tax Law in MBA FGV courses, and LL.M particularly in the Central African and IBMEC. He is the organizer of Fintech Asia-Pacific regions. Previously, she Week with IBMEC and the World’s First was the Global Human Rights Fellow at Platform Cooperativeness Cluster on a Harvard Law School and was a clinical 1,000-programmer Hackaton, the largest supervisor at Harvard Law School’s Hackaton.Rio in Latin America. International Human Rights Clinic. She https://www.linkedin.com/in/ also clerked at the New Zealand Court abdulnasserco of Appeal, and worked at the Crown Law Office in New Zealand and the Ali Ercan Özgür Victoria Government Solicitor’s Office in Ali Ercan Ozgur holds a Ph.D. Australia. Amelia obtained her LL.M. from from Marmara University on the Harvard Law School, and LL.B. (Hons.) “Development Agencies in Turkey under and B.C.A. (Economics and Finance) the auspices of the EU”. He also holds a from Victoria University of Wellington, BA in Political Science and International New Zealand. Amelia also works on Relations from Marmara University and nonfiction/ documentary film projects. an MSc in Governance and Development She is a fellow of the Institute for the Management degree from the University Cooperative Digital Economy at The New of Birmingham. Ali Ercan is currently School. the founder and Managing Director @MSIIntegrity of IDEMA International Development Partners and co-founder of Needs Anand Giridharadas Map, Inogar (Innovation Garage) and Anand Giridharadas is the author of InogarArt (Art Incubation Center). Needs Winners Take All, The True American, and Map is a non-profit platform co-op India Calling. He is an editor-at-large for where people in need meet the people TIME and was a foreign correspondent who want to support. Our map-based and columnist for The New York Times platform enables supporters to see from 2005 to 2016. He has also written location-based needs (around their for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and neighborhoods, city of their interest, The New Yorker. He is an on-air political etc.), thus serving to create responsible analyst for MSNBC, a visiting scholar at communities. the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute https://needsmap.coop/ at New York University, and a former McKinsey analyst. He has spoken on Amelia Evans the main stage of TED. Anand’s writing Amelia Evans is an international human has been honored by the Society of rights lawyer and an expert on business Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship and human rights. In 2012, She co- at Yale, the 800-CEO-READ Business Book

26 of the Year award, Harvard University’s their community with direct, recurring Outstanding Lifetime Achievement payments. Structured as a co-op, Ampled Award for Humanism in Culture, and is 100% owned by its artists, workers, and the New York Public Library’s Helen community (not VC investors) with the Bernstein Award. He lives in Brooklyn, ultimate goal of creating a permanent New York. Anand will be in conversation vehicle for artist prosperity—not an with Wilma Liebman (former Chair of acquisition or exit. As an organization, the National Labor Relations Board) Ampled has positioned itself in stark about his book Winners Take All, the New contrast to Silicon Valley ethos through York Times bestselling, groundbreaking a commitment to radical transparency, investigation of how the global elite’s democratic governance, and broad- efforts to “change the world” preserve based user ownership. Founded in the status quo and obscure their role 2019 by a group of designers, software in causing the problems they later engineers, and musicians, Ampled helps seek to solve. An essential read for artists gain sustainable and predictable understanding some of the egregious income in today’s streaming economy, abuses of power that dominate today’s and gives them agency and ownership of news. a platform they rely on. @AnandWrites https://www.ampled.com

Antti Virolainen Bastien Sibille Antti is the Co-founder and COO at President of Mobicoop cooperative, Sharetribe, a Helsinki-based startup Bastien has had three main dimensions that creates software tools that make to his work since 1999: A political it easy and affordable for all teams, dimension, through his commitment entrepreneurs, and co-ops to start their to digital forms of common goods own platforms. A web developer turned and, especially, free software. This culture lead and life coach, Antti knows commitment has led him to be Secretary how to fix things in the digital and General of the International Free human code. Software Association and to take public @gnomet positions (National Assembly, Senate, Economic and Social Council, media Astra Taylor etc …) on the political issues related to Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American digital monopolies. An entrepreneurial documentary filmmaker, writer, activist dimension, through the creation and musician. She is a fellow of the and management of several social Shuttleworth Foundation, for her work enterprises: TALCOD, the digital agency on challenging predatory practices of the general interest; the POP Group; around debt. Mobicoop cooperative, main cooperative @astradisastra carpooling platform in Europe. Finally, an academic dimension, through the Austin Robey completion of a PhD in the Canada Austin is the co-founder of Ampled, a Research Chair in Governance and his Brooklyn based ethical web platform teachings at York University (Toronto). that allows musicians to be supported by Bastien graduated from Sciences Po

27 Paris. He holds a Master’s degree in opens discussions about work among philosophy from the Sorbonne and a PhD artists, citizens, organizers, and workers. from the Université de Montréal. His work has been published in The New https://www.mobicoop.fr/ York Times, Brooklyn Rail, ARTnews, Artnet, Artslant, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Ben Gansky Magazine, BmoreArt, and WHITEHOT Ben Gansky is excited to facilitate a magazine, and included in exhibitions forum for organizers and entrepreneurs at Silas Von Morisse Gallery (New York), to leap over short-term, reactionary SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York), thinking to get to visionary possibilities Reshaping Work (Amsterdam), Gallery 46 for a future radically different than (London), and NURTUREart (New York). our present. Through guided creative He holds a BFA from the University of collaboration, participants will envision Massachusetts at Amherst and an MFA stories of the future products + programs from the Maryland Institute College of that could shape our world over the Art. next generation — for better and for @brett_wallace worse. Ben is an artist, game designer, Camile Just and community organizer with over a Just Virtual launched in 2016, when decade of experience creating narrative Camile Just already worked by herself experiences as platforms for community providing office services remotely and organizing, culture shift, and policy started to connect with other women change. He is a co-founder and the who wanted to do the same. It then executive director of Free Machine, a became a community of working women nonprofit collective developing creative who earn their incomes from home, programs that awaken civic participation transforming unemployed and mothers at the intersection of emerging who were seeking new professional technology and public policy. Ben is also alternatives into virtual assistants. the Research and Engagement Manager Just Virtual has been changing these at Institute for the Future’s Equitable women’s relationship with work, Futures Lab, where he was a 2018 IFTF providing them with autonomy, ethics Fellow for Good. Ben holds an MFA from and freedom! We are launching an Carnegie Mellon University. exclusive platform to connect Virtual @bengansky Assistants directly to their customers, Brett Wallace without intermediates. “The project Brett Wallace is a New York-based artist came from my desire to create a field whose practice involves a multi-level where people could have another kind exploration of work, technology, and the of relationship with work, using their greater economy. Working in writing, skills and knowledge, allowing work- video, installation, and performance, life balance. Since the beginning of my he is best known for the use of socially journey as a virtual assistant, I have focused documentary to explore the always wanted to expand, but not as a labor practices, spaces, and economic regular business with office schedules systems of advanced capitalism. and wage-based employees”. He is also the founder of AMAZING https://www.justvirtualreal.com.br/ INDUSTRIES, a research engine that

28 Camille Kerr Repórter Brazil, a benchmark of decent Camille consults with businesses work promotion in Latin America, he advancing economic and racial justice. has already directed six short and She specializes in developing innovative feature-length documentary films. worker-centered legal structures and Some of them have been selected for supporting existing businesses to prestigious festivals around the world, become worker-owned. Before starting such as DOK Leipzig (Germany), Queer an independent consulting firm, Camille Lisboa (Portugal), Doc Point (Finland) served as the Associate Director of The and FIDOCS (Chile). Carlos has also ICA Group, the Director of Field Building been nominated for some of the most at the Democracy at Work Institute and important Brazilian journalistic awards. the Director of Research at the National Carlos is the director of the documentary Center for Employee Ownership. Camille The Uberization of Work, which will be also supports the work of academic shown at the conference. institutions, field-building nonprofits, @CarlosJulianoB2 labor organizations, policy makers, social enterprises, and community Cheryl Li groups promoting economic democracy. Cheryl is a designer at the Inclusive Camille is currently a board member Design Research Centre at OCAD of the Interaction Institute for Social University, where she’s working on the Change, a steering committee member Platform Co-op Development Kit. She’s for the Cooperative Professionals Guild, particularly passionate about using a member of the Council of Cooperative participatory and inclusive practices to Economists, an executive fellow with translate creative expression and lived the Institute for the Study of Employee experiences into tangible experiences. Ownership and Profit Sharing at the https://idrc.ocadu.ca/ Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, on the advisory board Chiara Chiappa for start.coop and Certified Employee Chiara Chiappa is a labor consultant Owned, and was on the planning specializing in cooperatives, social committee for the Platform Cooperative enterprises, show business enterprises, Conference 2017. She has a law degree and self-managing platform from the University of Cincinnati College cooperatives. A member and advocate of of Law where she was awarded a human cooperatives since 1982, she is a founder rights fellowship and graduated cum member of six cooperatives in the laude. cultural, creative, press, IT and publishing @camilleakerr fields. She is president of the Centro Studi Doc Foundation, where she studies Carlos Juliano Barros the application of the cooperative model Carlos Juliano Barros is an investigative to different sectors of the economy and journalist and a documentary filmmaker social issues. Chiara collaborates with from São Paulo, Brazil. He has covered Italian unions to study how to protect labor, environmental and human rights the dignity of work and she is the issues for GQ, Rolling Stone and Folha promoter of the first National Collective de S. Paulo. One of the founders of Labor Contract for show business

29 cooperatives. She is also the founder and digital economy, promoting platform spokesperson of the “Table of Legality cooperativism as a fair alternative to and Security in Show Business”, and part creating platforms based on solidarity of “ShowNet”, a network of technician and inclusion. cooperatives. @Fairbnb_coop @chiarachiappa1 Daniel Blake Christopher Mackin Saxophonist and composer Dan Blake Christopher Mackin is the Founder and has led a wide-ranging career that spans President of Ownership Associates, Inc. many genres and musical communities. of Cambridge, MA. Ownership Associates His work has been commissioned by new provides “after the transaction” music luminaries like Mivos Quartet, the assessment, training and corporate Tri-Centric Orchestra, and has received governance services to companies support from The Jerome Foundation, broadly owned by their employees. He New Music USA and ASCAP. He also also serves as a partner at American produces the annual Concert To Feed Working Capital, LLC, an investment The Hungry, an event celebrating the banking firm that specializes in broad struggle to end hunger and malnutrition based employee ownership transactions. in poor communities around the world. Chris is a Lecturer at the Rutgers He has toured and performed with University School of Management and Grammy-winner Esperanza Spalding, Labor Relations where he teaches an Julian Lage, NEA Jazz Master Anthony undergraduate course called Employee Braxton, Velvet Underground founding Ownership and Group Incentives. He member John Cale and many others. held the Sidney Harman Fellowship at the He holds a Ph.D. in composition from Kennedy School of Harvard University the City University of New York and is and earned a Doctorate in Human on faculty at Lang College at The New Development at the Harvard Graduate School, where he currently teaches the School of Education with a thesis called seminar “Music for Political Action.” The Social Psychology of Ownership: A http://danielblake.net/ Case Study of a Democratically Owned Firm. He writes occasionally for the Daniel Sauter PBS Newshour, The New Republic, The His works have been shown Nation and Challenge: The Magazine of internationally, including the OK Economic Affairs. Center for Contemporary Art (Ars http://ownershipassociates.com/ Electronica Festival, Linz ’04 and ’09), ACM SIGGRAPH Convention and Damiano Avellino Exhibition Centers (Boston ’06 and Damiano Avellino is the co-founder of Los Angeles ’10), China Millennium Art Fairbnb.coop, a platform co–operative Museum (Beijing International New that allows people to travel in a Media Arts Exhibition ’06), Metropolitan sustainable way while giving back to Museum of Photography (Tokyo ’05), the communities in the destinations National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts they travel to. Damiano advocates new (Taichung ’05), Witte de With Center alternatives to the current extractive for Contemporary Art (International

30 Film Festival Rotterdam ’06), Microwave existing firms to employee ownership, International Media Art Festival (Hong and the benefits to the workers and Kong ’06), Art Center Nabi (Seoul ’06), the union in terms of increased power Luminale Biennial for Light Culture resources which result from this strategy. (Frankfurt ’10), Hangar Bicocca Center https://www.linkedin.com/in/oconnelluk/ for Contemporary Art (Mixed Media Milan ’06), Armory Center for the Arts David Van Zandt (Pasadena ’05), Ospedale Degli Innocenti David E. Van Zandt became The New (Beyond Media Festival Florence ’05), School’s president in 2011. He has Telic Gallery (Los Angeles ’04), and the LA advanced a vision for The New School County Museum of Art LACMALab (Los that elevates the university’s core values Angeles ’03). of creativity and social engagement and http://danielsauter.com/gallery.php connects its strengths in design, social research, liberal arts, and performance. Danny Spitzberg He has led the development of strategic Danny Spitzberg is a principal initiatives to deepen The New School’s researcher at Peak Agency, based in commitment to student success, Oakland, California. He volunteers with global education, new and distinctive #BuyTwitter, a campaign to transform educational models, and institutional Twitter into a user-owned co-op. Danny effectiveness and assessment.David has does fieldwork with community and spoken and written widely on higher researches ways to build powerful education, including regular articles community platforms. He sees in the Huffington Post on topics such cooperative conversions as key to closing as college accountability, universities loopholes in our political and economic and the creative economy, and the system. importance of education that fosters @daspitzberg innovation and the courage to bring about positive change in the world. He David O’Connell has spoken on panels at the United David is a trade unionist from the United Nations, the World Cultural Forum Kingdom currently writing his doctoral (Taihu, China), and the World Summit on thesis in Germany. As a trade unionist, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.David he has organized workers in a number was dean of the Northwestern University of industries, including construction, Pritzker School of Law from 1995 to 2010. retail and logistics, in three countries. Under his leadership, Northwestern Law He is currently a member of the United transformed its approach to admissions, Service Workers Union (ver.di) and education, and social engagement. He the Industrial Metalworkers Union (IG led changes in the school’s academic Metall) in Germany. In Germany, he has programs to prepare students for the established a works council in a small new demands of the global marketplace. company, served in it, and assisted other Earlier in his career, David was an works councils in the metal industry. His associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell current research, funded by the Hans in New York. He also served as a law Boeckler Foundation, focuses on the clerk for Judge Pierre N. Leval, U.S. means by which trade unions can convert District Court for the Southern District

31 of New York (now on the U.S. Court of member of the German Parliament since Appeals for the Second Circuit), and 2013. He was elected as a spokesperson for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. for the digital economy and digital Blackmun.He holds an AB from Princeton transformation for the parliamentary University, a JD from Yale Law School, group of his political party Bündnis 90/ and a PhD in sociology from the London Die Grünen (Green Party). Furthermore, School of Economics. he is holding positions in the following https://www.newschool.edu/ bodies of the German Bundestag:

Denny Mews • Chairman of the Green Denny’s purpose is to teach and help parliamentary group of the people through technology, education Committee on the Digital Agenda and awareness. He has worked on • Member of the Green parliamentary technology and logistics for over 20 group of the Committee on years. He was responsible for the Economic Affairs and Energy creation and consolidation of the • Member of the Green parliamentary innovation sector of Coopercarga. group of the Committee of Enquiry Coopercarga realized that it was on Artificial Intelligence necessary to innovate to remain in the • Janacek is also engaged in a wide market. Thus, they created, 3 years ago, range of other political or civil the first closed innovation program associations and committees (e.g. and started training about it. They the political advisory committee of understood that digital transformation the Federation of the Entrepreneurs was inevitable so they then created Associations, the political advisory an open innovation program, which committee of the German AI attracted many new businesses. As Federation, the political advisory they evaluated the market, they saw a committee of the Federation 3D necessity and deficiency in transport, printing). warehouse and distribution. They @DJanecek decided to completely separate the Doug O’Brien business and this way Cargon, a digital Doug O’Brien is the President & CEO logistics operator, emerged with a focus of NCBA CLUSA, where he works with on people, cooperation and logistics. the cooperative community, both The separation was crucial, because domestically and internationally, to they created a new culture and a new deepen its impact on individuals and business model which today is already in communities. NCBA is the primary voice the market, creating disruptions in actual for cooperatives in the United States for logistic and cooperative model. using the cooperative business model https://www.linkedin.com/in/ to empower people in their businesses dennymews/ and communities. Doug has been with NCBA since 2016, where he has served as Dieter Janecek the Executive Vice President of Programs Dieter Janacek was born in Pirmasens before becoming president and CEO in on May 25, 1976. He is a Roman Catholic, January 2018. married with three children. Dieter is a @ncbaclusa

32 Éder Lemke Emanuele Dal Carlo Éder is Vice President of a credit union Emanuele Dal Carlo is an entrepreneur and member of the Board of Directors of and a social activist in Venice. With more the platform co-op Ciclos, which operates than 30 years of experience in marketing in the areas of energy, telephony, and design, he has often put his skills and health. He graduated in Business in the service of public causes and Administration with an MBA, focusing on social activities. Along with friends and project management, e-business, and colleagues, he has spearheaded various cooperative management. For over 20 grass-roots initiatives in Venice. More years, he has worked with credit unions, recently, he has launched a think tank focusing on technology and innovation called RESET Venezia that in summer services. 2015 has lifted the lid on the growing http://ciclos.coop.br/ phenomenon of short-term rentals in Venice. Following that research, Ela Kagel Emanuele Dal Carlo and his colleagues Digital strategist Ela Kagel specialises in have launched Fairbnb.it, developing the the intersection of society, technology basic business model that later — after and economy. Since the 1990s she joining forces with the homonymous has produced media art exhibitions, group in Amsterdam– became the core designed spaces for cultural exchange of the Fairbnb.coop project. Emanuele and helped establish digital platforms, Dal Carlo’s main company DNA Italia is networks and communities. She is a also the first funder (sovventore) of Fair long-time collaborator and researcher Bnb Network Società Cooperativa, the at the Public Art Lab in Berlin. From co-op structure behind Fairbnb.coop 2009 to 2011 she was program curator project. He is currently President of Fair for the Transmediale Festival for Art Bnb Network Società Cooperativa. and Digital Culture in Berlin. While at https://fairbnb.coop/ Transmediale Ela developed the Free Culture Incubator, a series of workshops Emma Adelaide Back and events based on free and open After working in community-based culture. Central to Ela’s practice is charities, mental health and advocacy supporting bottom-up initiatives deeply services, Emma founded Equal Care rooted in particular communities of Co-op in 2018 with the aim of redressing practice. From this perspective, she also the power imbalance in the UK’s social established and curated Upgrade! Berlin, care system. People getting support, as well as a number of commons-related their families, and the workers giving research projects. In 2010 Ela co-founded the help get very little say in how care SUPERMARKT, an independent hub and support services work and how for digital culture and collaborative they’re funded. Equal Care is developing economy. Ela is co-initiator of the a platform to match caregivers and #Platformcoop Berlin meetups. Since receivers and to facilitate how the 2018, Ela is also a board member of care happens, keeping the decision- RChain Europe, a technology cooperative making power in community hands. based in Berlin. Through an alternative currency, they @elakagel are also intending to increase the peer

33 and volunteer support available to Council and won a Social Innovation those receiving care. They are a multi- Award for Public Policy in 2018. stakeholder co-operative, owned by @USFWC those who do the work and the people who get the support. they have an Fairuz Mullagee Investor member class, which has a Fairuz Mullagee is a researcher and smaller proportion of the vote share coordinator of the Social Law Project at and they recently closed a successful the UWC, South Africa. She has about community share offer (hooray!). thirty years of extensive research and That said, it’s still very early, very exciting management experience that includes days – their journey is just beginning. policy design and analysis, program https://www.equalcare.coop/ delivery and monitoring and evaluation for improving efficiency. She has Erik Forman worked with a number of government Erik Forman is implementing strategies departments, parastatals, and NPOs to transform the gig economy through including the Constitutional Assembly cooperative development and worker where she served as the Submissions ownership with the Independent Drivers Secretary in the process of drafting Guild, a Machinists Union affiliate the first democratic Constitution for organizing app-based drivers in New South Africa. Her vast experience has York City and beyond. Prior to his work provided her with great insight into with the IDG, Erik spent a decade leading many spheres of society. Pursuance of a groundbreaking efforts to unionize the social justice agenda has enabled her to US fast food industry and other initiatives craft innovative and sustainable solutions in the labor movement. He is pursuing for a broad range of problems such as a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the the promotion of rights for domestic CUNY Graduate Center. workers. She currently manages a @_erikforman project for the establishment of a cooperative platform for domestic and Esteban Kelly care workers. Through cooperation with Esteban is the Executive Director for the the PCC, the project hopes to contribute US Federation of Worker Co-ops and through co-design of the Platform a founding worker-owner in AORTA, Development Kit, to building model for a co-op whose facilitation supports worker empowerment and democratic organizations fighting for social justice ownership. and a solidarity economy. https://www.uwc.ac.za/Faculties/LAW/ Esteban previously worked at the New Pages/Social-Law-Project.aspx Economy Coalition and has worked in co- ops for over 20 years. Felix Weth He is a board member of the American Felix is the founder of Fairmondo, an co-op apex organization, the National online-marketplace owned by its users. Cooperative Business Association, known He holds degrees in political science, internationally as CLUSA. philosophy, economics, public policy, and He is a mayoral appointee and co-chair administration. As an anti-corruption of the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory activist, he traveled through Africa and

34 other “developing countries” where he Marketing. He is the Chief Public saw how corruption deprives especially Relations Officer of the National Council young people of life chances. For him, for Population and Development in this experience highlighted the structural Kenya.Mwongela is a Public Relations deficiencies of our economic and political Professional offering comprehensive systems. Later, he developed the model experience in Journalism and corporate of “cooperative 2.0” and founded with communications. He has served as Fairmondo its first implementation as the editor of Kenya’s The Co-operator a corruption-resistant, transparent, magazine and an editorial board platform cooperative. member of Kenya’s Co-operative @fairmondo Magazine. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication; Francesca Martinelli a Masters Degree in Communication Francesca Martinelli, after a Masters Studies; and currently a Ph.D. candidate Degree in Philosophy and Ethics, in Communication Studies at Masinde obtained at the Università del Sacro Muliro University of Science and Cuore of Milan in 2012, she got in 2017 Technology in Kakamega, Kenya. a Ph.D. in “Human Capital Formation Mwongela has attended various national and Labour Relations” at the University and international conferences. of Bergamo in co-tutorship with Paris @mwongelaf VIII Vincennes-St.-Denis. Now, she is in charge of institutional communication Fredrik Söderqvist and international relations at the Italian Fredrik is a senior economist at Unionen, cooperative Doc Servizi, and she is in a Swedish trade union organising white the board of Doc Creativity. By the end collar workers in the private sector, a of 2018, she is the director of the Centro PhD student in industrial economics at Studi Doc Foundation, where she is in the Blekinge Institute of Technology, charge of research and development and currently a visiting researcher at and advocacy. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Work and Employment the prize “Astrolabio del sociale – Pierre Research at MIT Sloan. His work focuses Carniti” announced by Centro Studi CISL on atypical employment arrangements, with an essay about cooperatives as new algorithmic management practices, and forms of representation from a European collective bargaining. perspective, that has been published in https://www.unionen.se/ 2019. https://www.docservizi.it Fumba Chama The Zambian Hip Hop recording artist Francis Mwongela Mikwa PilAto has been called Zambia’s Voice Mwongela is a Kenyan journalist of Inequality. His contribution to WHO and researcher in ICTs, focusing on OWNS THE WORLD? is a remake of the growth of co-ops in Third World Childish Gambino’s THIS IS AMERICA. countries. He has six years of work PilAto piece is called THIS IS ZAMBIA. The experience at Kenya’s Co-operative song discusses the capture of political University where he taught and served and economic power by multinational as the Head of Public Relations and corporations and the unwillingness of

35 politicians to unite the people for a better Gar Alperovitz tomorrow. Gar Alperovitz is an American historian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PilAto and political economist. Alperovitz served as a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Gabo Camnitzer a founding Fellow of the Harvard Gabo Camnitzer is an interdisciplinary Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at artist and educator working at the the Institute for Policy Studies; a Guest intersection of experimental pedagogy Scholar at the Brookings Institution; and sculpture. Through installations and and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of workshops which place emphasis on Political Economy at the University of embodied learning processes, Camnitzer Maryland Department of Government develops sites for experimentation and Politics from 1999 to 2015. He also with alternative forms of meaning- served as a Legislative Director in the making. Drawing on his experience US House of Representatives and the working in early childhood education, US Senate and as a Special Assistant in Camnitzer often works collaboratively the US Department of State. Alperovitz with children to examine the interplay is a distinguished lecturer with the of agency and social structure in subject American Historical Society, co-founded formation. Camnitzer has presented the Democracy Collaborative and co- projects at Queens Museum, New York; chairs its Next System Project with James GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York; Gustav Speth. Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Nurture @GarAlperovitz Art, New York; Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne; and Kunstsaele, Greg Brodsky Berlin, among others. He received Greg Brodsky is the founder and an MFA from Valand Academy and executive director of Start.coop, which attended the Whitney Independent Study is an accelerator for shared ownership Program. In 2015 he received a research businesses. Greg brings a powerful fellowship from The Royal Institute of background of strategy, tech, and Art, Stockholm, Sweden. He currently sits entrepreneurship. Perhaps best on the editorial board of the art journal, known for launching the nation’s only Paletten. Camnitzer is Visiting Assistant purchasing co-ops for bicycle stores Professor in Visual Art at Columbia and for craft breweries, Greg’s work has University, New York. At Who Owns ranged from business development to the World, Gabo Camnitzer and The strategic planning. Greg also currently Sixth Street Community Center (SSCC) serves as board chair of the Cooperative will facilitate children in developing Development Institute. alternative modes of protesting for @startdotcoop climate justice. Engaging with the radical history of children’s strikes of Gregory Martin Epstein the past 200 years, children at SSCC are A prominent leader in the national developing their own forms of protest. movement to build positive, inclusive http://gabocamnitzer.com/ and inspiring humanist communities, Greg M. Epstein has served the country’s rapidly growing population

36 of nonreligious people for nearly two as a curriculum and manual for 2020 decades. Described as a “godfather to digital decennial census preparedness. the [humanist] movement” by The New An urban planner, poet, and digital York Times Magazine in recognition of justice organizer, Byrum also serves on his efforts, Epstein was also named “one the board of the Metropolitan New York of the top faith and moral leaders in Library Council. the United States” by Faithful Internet, @gretabyrum a project coordinated by the United Church of Christ with assistance from the Hal Plotkin Stanford Law School Center for Internet From 2009 to 2014, Hal W. Plotkin and Society. Greg currently serves as served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard the Office of the Under Secretary of University, a position he has held since Education, United States Department 2005. He also serves the Massachusetts of Education, which has responsibility Institute of Technology (MIT) Office of for all federal U.S. higher education Religious Life as Humanist Chaplain at policies and programs. In 2003, Plotkin MIT and “Convener,” and is the Executive initiated the Foothill-De Anza Community Director of the Humanist Hub at Harvard College District’s Policy on Public Domain and MIT, a secular community-building Learning Materials, which are now more that was the first of its kind. Greg has commonly known as Open Educational helped establish similar organizations at Resources. Yale, Stanford, USC and other academic @HalPlotkin institutions. @gregmepstein Hays Witt Hays is a long-time progressive organizer Greta Byrum and a subject matter expert in the new Greta Byrum reimagines the way we mobility and future of workers fields. design, build, control, and govern He’s lead major organizing projects communications systems. As Co-Director and policy initiatives at SEIU and the of the Digital Equity Laboratory at Partnership for Working Families, the New School and Director of the consulted for the cities of Portland and Community Tech New York project, she Seattle, and advised non-profit clients like builds digital justice through applied the National Employment Law Project. research, co-designed community Driver’s Seat Cooperative empowers technology projects, and policy strategy. gig workers to capture the value of the Previously Byrum founded and led the data they create, while challenging the Resilient Communities program at New deep information asymmetries manifest America, where she developed and led in platform work. We give rideshare Resilient Networks NYC, an initiative drivers and on-demand delivery workers bringing training, tools, and equipment the technology and the organization to for storm-hardened mesh WiFi to five collect and share their data, and put it to neighborhoods in NYC’s flood plains. use improving their work lives and their Current projects include community communities. wireless network collaborations in rural @DriversSeatCoop Tennessee and the Hudson Valley as well

37 Heather Chaplin independent family businesses. Brodsky Heather Chaplin is the founding director was awarded the 2019 Global Leadership of Journalism + Design at The New Award by the World Affairs Council, School, co-host of the podcast Tricky,a inducted into the Cooperative Hall of columnist at Columbia Journalism Fame, Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame, Review, and a former fellow at The Tow World Floor Covering Industry Hall of Center for Digital Journalism. Chaplin Fame, and awarded New Hampshire started her career at Salon where she Business Leader of the Year. Brodsky wrote The Reluctant Capitalist column. is the Founder and Chairman of the Over the years, she’s worked for many Cooperatives for a Better World, a publications, such as The New York worldwide non-profit, which aims to Times and All Things Considered. She is scale the global cooperative movement. the co-author of Smartbomb: The Quest Brodsky serves on the Board of for Art, Entertainment and Big Bucks in Directors for SolutionHealth, Southern the Videogame Revolution, a New York New Hampshire University, National Times Notable Book of 2006. Chaplin has Cooperative Business Association, and been recognized for her work on digital Chairman of the Better Business Bureau. culture and the future of journalism in Brodsky is a published author and can be places including The New York Times seen as part of the highly-selective TEDx Magazine, The New Yorker, The Believer, talk series. CBS Sunday Morning, Talk of the Nation @_HowardBrodsky and The Nieman Report, among other places. Chaplin is also a frequent speaker Itir Erhart on these topics. Her most recent book, Itir Erhart is Associate Professor at Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and lstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She Madness was published by Simon & studied philosophy and Western Schuster in 2017. Languages & Literature at Bogaziçi @heatherchaplin University. Itir completed her M.Phil in Philosophy at the University of Howard Brodsky Cambridge. Since 2001, she has been Howard Brodsky is a world leader of teaching and conducting research on co-operatives and a prolific American gender, human rights, sports and civil entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder, society. Chairman, and CEO of CCA Global She is the co-founder of Adim Adim (Step Partners, one of the largest Cooperatives by Step) a volunteer-based organization in the United States with sales of over that promotes charitable giving through 10 billion. A pioneer of the cooperative sponsorship of athletes in local sports business model, Brodsky dedicated his events. career to helping entrepreneurs build Erhart is also co-founded Açik Açik a successful businesses by providing platform which unites donors with NGOs the scale and resources they needed that respect the rights of donors. In to compete. CCA Global Partners 2016 Açik Açik received Transparency has more than 2800 retail locations, International’s award for civil society. She services 20,000 childcare centers, 2,000 is an Ashoka Fellow and Ashoka Turkey nonprofits, and services over 1,000,000 Board Member, a TEGV (Educational

38 Volunteers Foundation of Turkey) Trustee Javier Creus and Advisory Board Member at Sabanci Javier is considered to be one of the Foundation. primary strategists and thought leaders @itirerhart in open and contributive business models, collaborative economy, citizen Jack Linchuan Qiu innovation and the networked society. Jack Linchuan Qiu is a Professor Creator of the Pentagrowth methodology at the School of Journalism and for business model design. He has been Communication, the Chinese University a strategic planner, co-founder of the of Hong Kong, where he serves as multidisciplinary space @Kubik, and director of the C-Centre (Centre for marketing professor at ESADE. Co-author Chinese Media and Comparative of the book We Are Not Ants. Advisor Communication Research). His at Ouishare and Secretary of the Open publications include Goodbye iSlave (U Knowledge Foundation in Spain. He of Illinois Press, 2016), World’s Factory in is one of the promoters of Saluscoop, the Information Era a citizen data cooperative for health 信息时代的世界工厂 (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2013), research. New Media Events Research @saluscoop 新媒体事件 (Renmin U Press, 2011), Working- 研究 Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009), Jen Horonjeff Mobile Communication and Society Jen Horonjeff, PhD, is the founder and (co-authored, MIT Press, 2006), some of CEO of Savvy Cooperative, the first which have been translated into German, and only patient-owned public benefit French, Spanish, Portuguese, and co-op that helps healthcare companies Korean. Associate Editor for the Journal connect directly with diverse patients of Communication, he is on the editorial in order to get the insights they need boards of a dozen international academic to build better and more inclusive journals, including six indexed in the innovations. Jen was named one of the SSCI. He also works with grassroots 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018 NGOs and provides consultancy services by Entrepreneur Magazine, alongside for international organizations. the likes of Elon Musk, Chance the @jacklqiu Rapper and Reese Witherspoon, for her application of the cooperative model. James de le Vingne Savvy has additionally won seven awards, James is the Head of Development at and has been featured in Fast Company Co-operatives UK. He is interested in new and the Boston Globe. Jen grew up with ways of organizing and ownership, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis and survived how this informs systems change with a brain tumor as an adult. She is also a a focus on tech solutions. Recent work health outcomes researcher at Columbia involves launching Level, a new business University Medical Center, a human registration platform of sole-traders factors engineer, and an FDA Consumer looking to work cooperatively, and Representative. Jen earned her Master’s UnFound, a platform co-op accelerator. in Ergonomics and Biomechanics and @CooperativesUK PhD in Environmental Medicine, both from New York University. Utilizing her

39 unique perspective, Jen is a sought after Jessica Gordon-Nembhard thought leader on patient engagement Jessica Gordon Nembhard (born July 3, around the globe. She strives to give 1956) is an American political economist. patients a platform to have their voices She is the author of Collective Courage: A and expertise be heard, included, and History of African American Cooperative equitably valued–because the future of Economic Thought and Practice, and has healthcare is co-designed with patients. written many articles in major economic @jhoronjeff journals. She is currently Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Jesse Brown Development in the Department of Jesse is a humanistic storyteller focusing Africana Studies at John Jay College, City on working with clients and teams that University of NY. Gordon-Nembhard was align with values first. He spent the inducted into the U.S. Cooperative Hall of last 15 years developing and honing Fame in May, 2016. his storytelling crafts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. He is now Jill Dimond back in the Hudson Valley where it all Jill Dimond is a founding worker-owner started. He co-founded and ran The of Sassafras Tech Collective, a worker- Jackson Hole Snowboarder Magazine owned tech consultancy based in Ann for 7 years, unknowing at the time Arbor, Michigan. She has over 15 years that he was setting himself up with of experience in tech holding diverse a passion in the localism movement. roles such as a designer, researcher, Having filmed on mountains in Alaska developer, and product manager. to the streets of Rwanda to studios in She holds a PhD in Human Centered Brooklyn, he specializes in all aspects of Computing from Georgia Tech, and a cinematography and is very comfortable computer science in engineering degree in any situation he may find himself in. from the University of Michigan. She has Jesse also takes projects from conception published many scholarly works in the to completion with a skill set that field of social computing and has been includes: writing, producing, directing, awarded numerous grants from the NSF, and editing. Looking for deeper NIH, and the Knight Foundation. Her tech connection and collaboration, Jesse is work in anti-harassment movements on now focusing his efforts on building and the street and online has been featured understanding platform cooperatives in the New York Times, the Washington to challenge the current distribution Post, the BBC, and others. She is also a models. He is a co-founder of Hudsy facilitator with training from cooperative TV, a platform cooperative focused on and justice movements. Because she just localized storytelling in the Hudson can’t get enough of consensus in her life, Valley. He strongly believes in the power she lives at Touchstone Cohousing in Ann of storytelling and the collective power Arbor with her partner and four year old we hold as artists. kid. https://hudsy.tv/ @sassafrastech

40 John McDonnell Universidad Complutense de Madrid John Martin McDonnell is a British (Spain) and has taught classes on the politician serving as the Member of Digital Economy at the Free University Parliament since 1997. A member of Berlin. Currently, he is a fellow of the the Labour Party, he has been Shadow Institute for the Cooperative Digital Chancellor of the Exchequer (opposition Economy at The New School. Finance Minister) since 2015. He served @ioew_de as chair of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament and Labour Representation Jonny Gordon-Farleigh Committee; McDonnell also chaired the Jonny Gordon-Farleigh is the co-founder Public Services Not Private Profit Group. of Stir to Action, a co-operative building The Labour Party announced that it will a new economy through democratic roll out “community car clubs” run by co- ownership. Our work directly supports operatives and local authorities, focusing economic change through national on marginalized areas. workshop programs, strategic economic @johnmcdonnellMP development, and a quarterly magazine that focuses on how democratic business Jonas Pentzien can transform social inequality, climate Jonas Pentzien is a researcher at the change, mental health, and our political Berlin-based Institute for Ecological culture. Economy Research (IÖW), where he @StirToAction investigates and compares the rise of the platform economy in different Jordi Picas Vilà institutional contexts. A political scientist Jordi Picas is the director of innovation by training, he is interested in the role at Suara Cooperative, a social economy political institutions play in processes company from Catalonia with more of technology-driven change. What than 35 years of experience in the care mechanisms do governments employ for people sector. With more than 4,500 in order to adapt to and influence professionals, SUARA responds to care, these changes? Do these mechanisms assistance and educational needs of differ between countries? If yes, are children and young people, families, there maybe other platform economies people who require some kind of besides the often-discussed Chinese and support to be more independent, people American models? Since 2017, Jonas is who seek to overcome crisis situations also a member of platforms2share, a or want to enter the labor market or five-year long research project funded improve professionally. by the German Federal Ministry of He is the Director of Suaralab, a Education and Research. As part of this laboratory for social innovation, which project, he tries to identify the framework aims to transform ideas into projects conditions that allow democratically while also incorporating technology into owned and governed platforms to thrive. our business. Jonas has studied Political Economy @suaracoop and Comparative Politics at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA), Free University of Berlin (Germany) and

41 Joseph Blasi social communities in Japan. Next, he Joseph R. Blasi is an American economic established several digital start-ups sociologist, currently a Distinguished such as “Tokyo Otaku Mode.” In 2016, Professor and the J. Robert Beyster he established “GIFTED AGENT Co. Ltd.” Professor at Rutgers School of to support people with developmental Management and Labor Relations. He disabilities. At the same time, Jun started graduated with an Ed.D from Harvard to develop a blockchain operating University. system while also taking on an advisory @JosephBlasi role in that sector. In 2017, he became co-founder of “Commons Inc” and Joseph Cureton devoted himself to advancing the The Staffing Cooperative is the first small, alternative, economic projects worker-owned cooperative holding that connect people with one another. company. It starts and acquires human- Through “Commons Coop,” Jun now centered businesses for its cooperative promotes experimental projects which membership. Through its subsidiaries are run on blockchain. the cooperative builds power for https://hello.commons.love/ workers through shared ownership and democratic control. Joseph works Jutta Treviranus to bring new worker enterprises to life Jutta Treviranus is the Director of the within the cooperative. He is a founding Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) member of Core Staffing, Bmore Black and professor at OCAD University Techies, and Tribe Works all projects that in Toronto http://inclusivedesign. the fight to overcome the challenges ca, formerly the Adaptive Technology faced by modern workers. He is a Resource Centre. The IDRC conducts software engineer and chef by trade. proactive research and development @staffing_coop in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication Juliet Schor technology and practices. Jutta also Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at heads the Inclusive Design Institute Boston College. She has studied trends a multi-university regional center of in working time, consumerism, the expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is relationship between work and family, the Co-Director of Raising the Floor women’s issues and Economic inequality, International. She also established and and the environment and concerns about directs an innovative graduate program climate change. From 2010 to 2017 she in Inclusive Design. Jutta has led many studied the sharing economy under a international multi-partner research large research project funded by the networks that have created broadly MacArthur Foundation. implemented technical innovations that @JulietSchor support inclusion. These include the Fluid Project, Fluid Engage, CulturAll, Stretch, Jun Kawasaki FLOE and many others. Jutta and her At age 17, Jun participated in the project team have pioneered personalization “Q&A Now,” which was acquired by as an approach to accessibility in OK Wave, one of the biggest Q&A the digital domain. She has played a

42 leading role in developing accessibility 2014 she received the Allen & Overy Prize legislation, standards, and specifications for the best working paper on law of internationally. the European Corporation Governance @idrc_ocadu Institute; and in 2015 she was elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Kirsten Gillibrand Academy of Sciences. She is also the One of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s top recipient of research grants by the priorities in the United States Senate Institute for New Economic Thinking and is to build an economy that works for the National Science Foundation. Pistor every New Yorker. Senator Gillibrand is received her law degree from Freiburg determined to make sure that all New University in 1988 and qualified for legal Yorkers have the opportunity to reach practice in 1992 after clerking for the their full potential. She is fighting every Hamburg Court of Appeals. She obtained day to create more good-paying jobs and a Masters in Law from the University to support entrepreneurs around the of London in 1989; a Masters in Public state. Senator Gillibrand has authored Administration from the Kennedy School and passed bipartisan legislation to of Government in 1994; and a Doctorate reward work, such as the Main Street in Law from the University of Munich Employee Ownership Act to provide in 1998. Prior to joining Columbia federal support to cooperatives, and Law School, Pistor has held academic bipartisan legislation to provide the skills positions at the Kennedy School of training our workers need for success, Government (Harvard University), and such as the 21st Century SHOP CLASS the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Act. She also passed into law bipartisan and International Law in Hamburg. She legislation to rebuild manufacturing has held visiting positions at several communities across the state. universities, including University of https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/ Pennsylvania Law School, New York University Law School, Frankfurt Katharina Pistor University, London School of Economics, Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Oxford University, and Harvard Law Professor of Comparative Law at School. Columbia Law School and Director of the Law School’s Center on Global Koray Caliskan Legal Transformation. Her research and Koray Caliskan is faculty fellow at teaching spans corporate law, corporate the New School’s Heilbroner Center governance, money and finance, for Capitalism Studies and Associate property rights, and comparative law Professor of Politics at Bogazici and legal institutions. She has published University. He received his Ph.D. with widely in legal and social science distinction from New York University’s journals. Her most recent book is “The Politics Department, with which he won Code of Capital: How the Law Creates the Malcolm Kerr Social Science Award Wealth and Inequality” (Princeton from MESA. His book Market Threads: University Press, 2019). In 2012 she How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create was co-recipient (with Martin Hellwig) a Global Commodity came out from of the Max Planck Research Award on Princeton University Press and focused International Financial Regulation; in on global commodity markets and

43 relations of economization. He is the and discussion forum similar to Reddit founder of mamame.com.tr, a social owned cooperatively by its users and innovation project bringing together the a co-director of Platform6 cooperative organizational form of cooperative and that seeks to build an easily accessible, limited liability in economizing under- global online community of cooperative represented women’s labor, which won developers. the Entrepreneurship of the Year Award @Sammallahti in 2017 from Microsoft Turkey. Currently, he works on blockchains and teaching Lindsey Shute design (and) economies at Parsons Lindsey Lusher Shute is CEO of the Farm and NSSR. He is an Affiliate Faculty at Generations Agricultural Cooperative the Institute for the Cooperative Digital and co-owner of Hearty Roots Farm Economy at The New School. in New York. Farm Generations offers @koraycaliskan GrownBy, a software platform for farmers that will launch for the 2020 Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn farming season. GrownBy helps farmers Kriangsak is the founder and Managing organize direct market sales through an Director of Just Economy and Labor online marketplace, and will help farmers Institute (JELI), a Bangkok-based build the overall market for locally and organization working to foster solidarity, sustainably grown produce through autonomy, and movements for economic consumer campaigns. Digital food justice. He is a trained economist, labor sales are critical and farmers’ survival geographer, and facilitator for social depends on their ability to build equity change, with a decade of experience and ownership in this marketplace. promoting human rights and grassroots Current platforms are destabilizing and movements in Thailand and Southeast extractive for farmers who are already at Asia. Since 2017, Kriangsak has led JELI’s risk under climate and market changes. innovative programs, which use research Farm Generations and GrownBy will help as a tool for capacity-building and these growers gain stronger footing, movement-building with workers. JELI’s strengthening farm communities and partners include the Asia Pacific Women, national food systems. Before FarmGen, Law and Development (APWLD) and Lindsey co-founded the National Dignity Returns, one of the first worker- Young Farmers Coalition and served as owned cooperatives in Bangkok. JELI executive director for ten years. is currently building on its research on @llshute platform-based work and worker-owned Lisa Pointner initiatives to support the development Lisa Pointner is the internal legal advisor of a movement for solidarity economy in of the cooperative Smart in Austria. She Thailand. focuses on finding solutions regarding https://www.justeconomylabor.org/ social security and taxation issues in Leo Sammallahti the autonomous workers sector. Lisa Leo works for Coop Exchange, a platform studied Law at the University of Vienna co-op that will enable cooperatives and specialized in copyright and artist to raise capital by issuing non-voting contracts. From 2009 – while still a shares for investors. He is also a co- student – she founded InTension Music, founder of WeCo, an online link-sharing a music publishing house and an artist 44 management agency. Since 2014, she is management of international projects on also part of the project SmartAt Mobility cooperative innovation, implementation – an online platform and counceling of international cooperation program center to inform artists who work trans- for sustainable development, and co- nationally in various legal fields. Lisa founding a cooperative business. His works as an advisor and editor of the current activities are both academic website and entrepreneurial. As a PhD student www.smartatmobility.com at Laval University (Quebec, Canada), he specializes in digital transformation Lisa Strausfeld of cooperative ecosystems, involving Strausfeld studied art history and cooperative associations, cooperative computer science at Brown University platforms, and “traditional” primary and received master’s degrees in cooperatives. As a cooperative architecture from Harvard University and entrepreneur at Startin’blox (Paris, in media arts and sciences from the MIT France), he participates in the Media Lab. In 1996, Lisa Strausfeld and development of open-source technology two MIT classmates launched Perspecta, enabling decentralized collaboration a software company in San Francisco among cooperatives. The project entails that made visual user-interfaces for data standardization (through Solid large databases. It was sold to Excite@ standards), interoperability, modularity Home in 1999. After the sale of the and peer-to-peer exchange of data. company, Strausfeld joined Quokka @LouisCsn Sports, staying until the company folded in the early 2000s.[1] In 2002, Strausfeld Luciana Bruno became a partner in the New York Luciana Bruno is a Brazilian journalist. office of Pentagram, the distinguished For the last 15 years, she worked for international design consultancy. At international news agencies such as Pentagram, Strausfeld and her team Reuters and AFP, covering especially specialized in digital information Economics. She now works for the projects, including the design of large- United Nations Information Centre scale media installations, software (UNIC Rio), covering Peace, Human prototypes and user interfaces, signage Rights and Sustainable Development. and websites for a broad range of civic, Last year, she concluded her Master’s cultural and corporate clients. Strausfeld degree in Information Science. Her left Pentagram in 2011 to establish Major dissertation was about the work in League Politics, and subsequently left start-up companies — autonomy versus MLP in 2012 to head up Bloomberg’s precarious work. data visualization efforts. She is a research fellow of the Institute @strausfeld for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School. Luciana is researching Louis Cousin the case of Brazilian platform Cataki, Louis is a researcher and consultant in an app that matches individuals who cooperative development and innovation. have recyclable waste in their homes He draws his expertise from a diverse with waste pickers, or “catadores” professional background, including in Portuguese, operating in their

45 neighborhoods. Through interviews, the over 100 shared electrical cars operated research purpose is to know whether by citizens communities are managed Cataki actually increases the income of through our platform. Lukas’ projects the collectors and whether it allows some will be represented at WHO OWNS THE kind of organization of those workers. WORLD by Oriol Alfambra of Mensakas. The study is important for analyzing https://www.sommobilitat.coop/ the conditions of a widely marginalized group of workers in Brazilian society. Maggie Hughes https://platform.coop Maggie is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and a researcher within Ludovica Rogers the Lab for Social Machines. With Ludovica Rogers is the program manager a background in social science and for new co-op ventures at Co-operatives design, Maggie dove into the world UK, where she is developing a support of computational social sciences and program for the platform co-operative helped build classifiers for Electome, a sector in the UK. She is also an architect, project that analyzed the social media process designer and activist and her discussion on the 2016 presidential personal work and research focus on the election. In 2018, her thesis analyzed and overlaps between the commons, tech visualized the public’s response to and and finance. polarization around mass shootings on @CooperativesUK Twitter, and she observed concerning public discourse. As a part of her Lukas Reichel graduate studies, she contributed to After graduating in Electrical Engineering projects like the Local Voices Network in (ETH Zurich), Lukas worked for 10 years an effort to nurse maladies in the public as the control engineer, project and sphere through in person facilitated team leader in the traction converter conversations and participatory media. BU of ABB Switzerland and as founder Now, in an attempt to aid remote of a Smart Grid startup company. and online group collaboration and In 2016 he co-initiated the Catalan cooperation, she is designing and platform cooperative for sustainable developing online environments mobility Som Mobilitat SCCL. In the informed by and modeled after ancient same year, Som Mobilitat joined forces social technologies like Circle Process. in APP development for e-car sharing In the long term, she’s interested in with the Belgium cooperative Partago designing these environments with CVBA. This collaboration resulted in modern grassroots movements and the foundation of The Mobility Factory co-ops in mind, hoping to support SCE in December 2018, as a second their mission of radical, transformative level European cooperative to provide social change by enabling structurally technological platform services to its sustainable, bottom up facilitation and members. As today (Sept. 2019) we count decision making methods online. 10 cooperatives from four European countries and REScoop.eu, the European Matthew Brown federation of renewable energy Councillor Matthew Brown is Leader cooperatives as our members. Actually, of Preston City Council in the north of

46 England, where he has been widely also a radically new leadership training credited as the driving force behind the experience developed by grassroots Preston Model, an economic strategy at employees. the city and county level that presents a comprehensive, interlinked approach to Manuela Bosch community wealth building as a practical Manuela is designing, guiding and transformative alternative to and supervising processes for and austerity and disinvestment. First elected between people and their visions to represent the Tulketh ward in 2002, by integrating mindfulness-based Councillor Matthew Brown subsequently leadership with project-management took on portfolios that included and knowledge around self-managed community engagement and inclusion, teams and change processes. She is social justice and policy initiatives, applying this in facilitating Retreats, leading to his election in 2018 as Council Workshops, Consulting, Incubators, Leader, and to a position as an advisor Rituals, Vision-, Mission-, Brand-Design, to the Labour Party’s Community Wealth Entrepreneurship, Team Communication, Building Unit. Community Building – in offices, in @MatthewBrownLab nature and in digital environments. Manuela brings 13 years of experience Manoj Fenelon in consulting and project management, Manoj is a futurist and inner-space helped around 80 cooperative teams with explorer. He believes we are living in Dragon Dreaming, inspired facilitation interesting times — when all that we over the past 9 years and reached know is turned downside up, and our hundreds of founders, leaders, and collective soul is turned inside out in seekers through workshops and retreats. all its monstrosity and splendor. Manoj @BoschManuela has dedicated himself to a mission of helping those who think they are lost Marcel de Oliveira Coelho realize they are not as lost as they think. Marcel is a software analyst at He draws from his lived experience Coopersystem, a Brazilian tech to design, facilitate and otherwise cooperative of some 120 developers. He guide processes that contribute to the is part of Coopersystem’s Innovation conscious evolution of individuals and Board, which is researching and groups. His service manifests through modeling new business models– from his teaching and research, advising artificial intelligence chatbots and on foresight and leadership, public company automation to financial speaking, writing, and music. Manoj services. Coopersystem is deeply explores leading with compassion and enmeshed in the Brazilian startup scene. designing for a regenerative economy at They are interested in learning how to The New School(s) for Design, and Public bring together the scaling ability of the Engagement in New York. Previously, he sharing economy with the humanizing was a social intra-preneur in a Fortune 50 economy of cooperatives. corporation, starting a strategic foresight One of their initiatives is Tiva, a platform practice to co-envision and pilot more for cooperatives that offer housekeeping, sustainable and equitable futures, as repair and cleaning services.

47 Coopersystem is currently working with Mexico. She participated in investigation various cooperatives that employ former projects about gender quotas in politics prisoners that have a hard time finding throughout Latin America. employment. In 2011, she became as a youth volunteer Through the platform, Coopersystem for Techo to fight extreme poverty aims to bring economic stability to them in Latin America, by constructing and their families. transitional housing and implementing https://www.linkedin.com/company/ social inclusion programs. In 2013, coopersystem she was hired as Local Director for the volunteer team in Monterrey which, Mariana Vilnitzky under her leadership, became one of Founder of the magazine Alternativas the most recognized volunteer teams Económicas, Vilnitzky is a journalist in the city. Since 2017, she participated specialized in social economy issues, in Techo’s national fundraising team. with several years of dedication to the Mariela strongly believes that decisions cooperative movement. She is also a made by a collective, however small they former editor of La Nación Press Group may seem, are those that can change the in Buenos Aires. Today Vilnitzky is world. engaged in promoting, with Jose Grau, @techomx Daniel Tamajón and Margot Pascual, the International Platform Coop “Holidays Marina Gorbis Exchange” (HEC). Marina Gorbis is Executive Director of the The monopolistic practices that are Institute for the Future (IFTF), a 50-year taking place at the home exchange old non-profit research and consulting market have monetized and weakened organization based in Silicon Valley. the old swap atmosphere. A worker/ She has brought a futures perspective consumer owned coop will permanently to hundreds of organizations in business, guarantee the philosophy of the education, government, philanthropy, exchanges (cultural exchange, peace, and civic society. Marina’s current solidarity, friendship…); and that the data research focuses on transformations of its members will not be transferred in the world of work and new forms to third parties, as has happened of value creation. She launched the elsewhere. Workable Futures Initiative at IFTF Although investors are very welcome, with the aim of developing a deeper good part of the trading surplus will be understanding of new work patterns used to promote projects of responsible and to prototype a generation of tourism, tackling climate change, poverty Positive Platforms for work. She has and inequality, according to policies introduced the concept of Universal decided by the members. Basic Assets (UBA) as a framework for @maruvilni thinking about different types of assets and the role they play in economic Mariela Benavides Espronceda security, as well as highlighting a variety Born in Tamaulipas in 1990, Mariela of approaches and tools we can use to studied International Affairs at achieve wider asset distribution and Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, greater equity. Marina’s book,

48 The Nature of the Future: Dispatches ICTs and development. A full list of his from the Socialstructed World, explores publications and projects is available many of these themes and draws at www.markgraham.space. He is the connections between the changes in Director of the Fairwork Foundation: our technology infrastructure and our a project that conducts research organizational landscape, from education measuring digital labour platforms to governance and health. She holds a BA against indices of fairness in order to in psychology and a MA in public policy encourage better working conditions in from UC Berkeley. the sector. @mgorbis @geoplace

Mario De Conto Mark Lipton Mario De Conto is Ph.D. in Law, lawyer, Mark Lipton is graduate professor of and Professor of Cooperative Law, and management at The New School in Director of the Co-operative Faculty New York City. For over forty years, he of Technology ( ESCOOP) in Brazil. has been a trusted adviser to a diverse Mario is interested in the worldwide client base, including founders of legal environment for cooperatives, transformative start-ups, global Fortune conducting studies in comparative law. 500 companies, think tanks, and some of Since 2017, he is conducting studies the world’s largest NGOs. Mark’s latest about innovation in cooperatives, book, Mean Men, synthesizes decades of in particular about a suitable legal psychological research to expose what environment for platform cooperatives. really drives this subset of America’s In 2018, the research project leaders. As surprising as it is alarming, “Platform Cooperatives and the Legal the book reveals dark truths about a Environment,” coordinated by Mario, psychological disorder that rules many was selected following a call by the of our boardrooms, and challenges Brazilian National Research Council and the status quo with a more effective the Brazilian Service of Learning about humanistic approach to leadership. Cooperativism. The general purpose of @MarkFLipton the project is to analyze the drivers and restrictive factors to the development Martijn Arets of a platform for cooperatives in the Martijn is an international expert Brazilian legal system, proposing and thinker in the field of emergence measures for its development. and development of the platform @mariodeconto economy. Since 2012 years Martijn is traveling the world to (so far) talk to Mark Graham 500+ entrepreneurs, experts and other Mark Graham is the Professor of stakeholders in 16 countries behind Internet Geography at the Oxford the upcoming collaborative economy. Internet Institute, a Faculty Fellow at To find out what is really happening, the Alan Turing Institute, and a Visiting who the stakeholders are, what the Researcher at WZB Berlin. He leads a main dilemmas are and to explore the range of research projects spanning conditions under which platforms can topics between digital labour, the gig contribute to a more inclusive society. economy, internet geographies, and As a bridge builder and independent 49 professional outsider, he uses these of Worker Cooperatives for the past 4 insights and this network to get years, and has also served on the Board stakeholders like platforms, trade of the Democracy at Work Institute since unions, government, and incumbents 2016. Maru is originally from Puebla, together to address relevant issues in a Mexico. She moved to Brooklyn 8 years constructive way. Martijn has a special ago to pursue an M.A. in International interest in multi-stakeholder ownership Development from the New School. and governance models like platform Loving all things cooperative, Maru’s cooperatives and steward owned family is in a babysitting cooperative, companies. she sends her 3-year old daughter to a http://www.martijnarets.com/ worker-owned daycare, she is a member of a food cooperative, and has a car- Martin Van Den Borre sharing agreement with a friend. Maru Agricultural technologist by training, is a firm believer in collaboration as the it is in the post-civil war context of only path forward! El Salvador that Martin entered the https://sco.org/ world of the social economy. He has since been participating in several Mary Watson collective endeavors at the local and Mary Watson was appointed Executive international level. He worked a dozen Dean of the Schools of Public years as a cooperative developer where Engagement in July 2014. In this capacity, he demonstrated a keen interest for she leads the founding division of The projects that ventured off the beaten New School with the aim of advancing paths. For the last 18 months, he has its innovative approaches to action been leading C.I.T.I.E.S. a knowledge and oriented, engaged learning in the innovation transfer center on the social world. Her current work at The New economy that facilitates cross-pollination School includes co-leading a university- processes between the cities of Seoul, wide management, leadership, and Barcelona, Puebla, and Montreal. At the entrepreneurship initiative, Management Who Owns The World?, Martin will present @ The New School, which bridges the protocolary cooperative Eva.coop. programs in strategic design and http://cities-ess.org/ management, media management, arts entrepreneurship, and nonprofit and Maru Bautista organizational change management. Maru Bautista is the Director of the Watson is a key leader worldwide in Cooperative Development Program at university networks advancing change in the Center for Family Life in Brooklyn higher education, including the Globally New York. For the past 6 years, she has Responsible Leadership Initiative and the worked with her team and the Sunset Ashoka Changemaker campus initiative. Park community to strengthen and scale She is co-founder of The New School’s immigrant-led worker cooperatives university-wide Social Innovation in New York City. Most notably, Maru Initiative and Impact Entrepreneurship has supported the development of the Initiative, which includes The New School Brightly franchise and Up &Go. Maru has Collaboratory, a Rockefeller Foundation- served on the Board of the US Federation funded initiative on university community

50 partnerships. Watson contributed the turned social scientist bringing a chapter “Designing the University of deep commitment to service and the Future: A New Global Agenda for equity into her work with CoLab Higher Education” for the forthcoming Cooperative. She received a BS in Human book, The New Global Agenda: Priorities, Development and Family Studies from Practices, and Pathways for the The Pennsylvania State University and International Community (Rowman & an MS in Design and Environmental Littlefield, 2018) edited by Diana Ayton- Analysis from Cornell University. She Shenker. Watson’s creative practice has stewarded radical organizations and scholarship on the human rights such as the Center for Sustainability in of workers reflect her commitment to a State College, PA and Ithaca Biodiesel more just and equitable world. She has Cooperative in Ithaca, NY and has more than two decades of experience in been a strong advocate for affordable higher education as a faculty member, housing while serving on the City of chair, associate dean, and interim dean, Ithaca Planning and Development Board as well as broad experience in change for the past seven years. McKenzie leadership consulting for organizations is a founding member of the Aurora and universities. She is a recipient of The Pocket Neighborhood Cooperative, a New School’s Distinguished University co-owned, urban, intentional community Teaching Award. Watson holds a PhD in that she still calls home with her two Organization Studies from Vanderbilt children. McKenzie is a manager with University. CoLab Cooperative and believes in www.newschool.edu worker ownership as a pathway out of oppressive economics toward a just Matthew Cropp working environment for all. McKenzie Matt Cropp works as Co-Executive enjoys riding her homemade bike, going Director of the Vermont Employee on road trips with her kids, and her band Ownership Center, a non-profit that Strange Heavy. promotes and fosters broad-based https://colab.coop/ employee ownership primarily via the worker co-op and ESOP models. He McKenzie Wark cut his teeth in the co-op movement McKenzie Wark is the author, among studying the origins of the credit union other things, of A Hacker Manifesto movement while getting his master’s in (Harvard 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard History, and is involved in a number of 2007), The Beach Beneath the Street co-op movement roles, including chair (Verso 2011) and Molecular Red (Verso of the Vermont Solidarity Investing 2015). She teaches at Eugene Lang Club, board president of Full Barrel co- College and The New School for Social op, and Community Operations Team Research, in New York City. Coordinator for social.coop. He lives in @mckenziewark Burlington, Vermont. @MattCropp Melissa Hoover Melissa Hoover is the founding McKenzie Jones Executive Director of the Democracy McKenzie Jones is an off-grid farmer at Work Institute, the think-and-do-

51 tank that expands worker cooperatives was a full-time employee of The New as a strategy to address economic School’s Eugene Lang College and a and racial inequality. A leader in the part-time graduate student at The New worker ownership movement for over School for Social Research. In May 2018, fifteen years, Melissa helped start and under the advisement of economist grow the United States Federation Richard D. Wolff and media theorist R. of Worker Cooperatives, the national Trebor Scholz, he completed his master’s grassroots membership organization degree and graduate thesis on worker for worker-owned businesses. She cooperatives, focusing on how The New was a cooperative business developer School could transition to a cooperative for many years with the Arizmendi structure. Association of Cooperatives in Oakland, http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/08/ doing business and capital planning newschool-coop-envisioning-a- for two startups, training cooperative cooperative-university/ members, and serving as CFO in the first year of each startup’s operations. In Michele Kahane 2018, Melissa was named an Executive Michele Kahane has more than 25 Fellow of the Rutgers Institute for the years of experience in the global Study of Employee Ownership and business, nonprofit, and philanthropy Profit Sharing. She currently sits on the sectors. Currently, she is the Associate Board of Directors of The ICA Group/ Dean of Educational Innovation and Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, The Social Engagement and Professor of Working World, and Safe Passages Professional Practice in Management of Oakland, and serves as a strategic at The New School’s Milano School of advisor to foundations, investors, Policy, Management, and Environment. nonprofits, local governments and other Her teaching and professional practice organizations that want to incorporate are focused on social entrepreneurship, worker ownership into their economic social innovation and social investment. development and community wealth- As Associate Dean, she is responsible for building programs. Originally from developing, resourcing and promoting Kansas City, Melissa attended Stanford new innovations in applied, field-based, University on a full scholarship, earning and project-based learning in support a BA in History with a research focus of the graduate and undergraduate on immigrant women’s role building programs within the Schools of Public cooperative movements in the U.S. Engagement and across the university. https://institute.coop/ She is also faculty director of The New School’s Impact Entrepreneurship Michael McHugh Initiative and Collaboratory. Prior to Michael McHugh is the Assistant her faculty appointment at The New Director of the Platform Cooperativism School, she worked in executive positions Consortium working primarily on the at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Platform Cooperative Development Kit, a Ford Foundation and the Center for new initiative homed at The New School Corporate Citizenship at Boston College working to develop cooperatives in the where she worked with companies, digital economy. From 2014 to 2018, he social entrepreneurs, and the public

52 sector to forge innovative market-based shared ownership.” Working within approaches to global development. organizations such as Ujima Boston, Earlier she was a Vice President at Resource Generation, CommonGood Chemical Bank focused on corporate and The Greater Boston Chamber of finance in emerging markets and Cooperatives, Micky enjoys raising started her career with Catholic Relief awareness of free software, cooperative Services. She is co-author of the award- business models and local opportunities. winning book Untapped: Creating As a member of MayFirst/PeopleLink Value in Underserved Markets (2006). Leadership Committee, Micky works Michele has served on a wide array with technical activists to connect people of boards and advisory committees with the information and tools they need focused on education, philanthropy, to move from being a global network impact investing, entrepreneurship to being a global movement based on and women’s issues. She has been a solidarity. She grew up in Weston, CT and founding board member of the Criterion now lives in Boston, MA with her long- Institute and one of the initial change time partner John M. Crisman. leaders in the Ashoka U Changemaker @mickymetts Campus Consortium. Michele has an MBA and Masters in International Affairs Mike Cook from Columbia University. CEO of Stocksy United, a platform co- @KahaneM op created by and for artists. Michael brings his years in the stock industry at Micky Metts iStockphoto and Getty Images, flavored Micky is involved in the “free software with start-up operational experience for community building” movement and in another market, to Stocksy. His the Platform Cooperativism movement. focus is on working with the incredible She helps Agaric’s work contribute back team at Stocksy to deliver exceptional to these movements. She also handles products and services while living up to some administrative tasks, public the principles and values that are the outreach, and support as part of the DNA of the company – dedication to the team. co-op ideals the company was founded Micky is a worker/owner of Agaric and upon, communication up and down, a member of the “free software for transparency in action, and responsibility community building” movement – using for results. tools like VOIP, Drupal, and GNU/Linux. Throughout Michael’s career he has had She is liaison between the US Solidarity success by working collaboratively with Economy Network (SEN) a group devoted stakeholders in any given situation. He to ongoing dialog on building the new believes things are best done with input economy network – and US Federation from all people required in the process: of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the “Those people need to be heard from national grassroots organization of to ensure their ideas and concerns 4,000 US worker-owners “building power are contemplated and addressed. with national and international partners Doing so, ensures a smoother process, to advance an agenda for economic a successful result, and ultimately a justice rooted in community-based, stronger organization.” This team-based

53 collaboration facilitates strategy based center in Denver, Colorado, El Centro on organizational goals by determining Humanitario para los Trabajadores the tactics needed to succeed and the (Humanitarian Center for Workers), plan required to implement across the organizing immigrant day laborers and entire organization. This can be easier domestic workers. She was also a labor said than done and having an ability to union organizer with Service Employees bridge silos and act as a form of glue International Union (SEIU) and was a (or oil as the case may be!) is something labor activist in her native country, South Michael brings to the table to assist in Korea. She received her Ph.D. from the those efforts. Josef Korbel School of International @StocksyUnited Studies at the University of Denver and her special interests of research Miles Hadfield include international political economy, Miles Hadfield is the digital editor worker cooperatives, social movements, at Co-op News – the world’s oldest labor politics of different countries and co-operative publication – where he solidarity economy. has worked since 2010. A UK-based https://platform.coop operation, Co-op News is a monthly magazine and website which provides Morshed Mannan coverage about, and for, the co-op Morshed Mannan (1990) is a Ph.D. movement around the world. candidate attached to the Company Law As the digital editor, Miles is helping Co- Department of Leiden University. His op News to develop its online presence Ph.D. research concerns cooperative and takes day-to-day responsibility for and democratic business ownership publishing articles to its website and in the platform economy. Morshed’s promoting content on social media. other research interests include Along with the rest of the Co-op News the regulation and governance of team, he takes a keen interest in emergent technologies (e.g. blockchain), platform co-ops, and in the more general comparative corporate governance, digital issues affecting the co-op sector, corporate social responsibility, freedom which have been extensively covered of establishment and international by the magazine. Prior to joining Co-op insolvency law. His two most recent News, he worked in the UK newspaper peer-reviewed articles are “Fostering sector on a range of titles from local to Worker Cooperatives with Blockchain national level, including editorial roles on Technology: Lessons from the Colony the web team at Trinity Mirror. Project,” published by the Erasmus @coopnews Law Review, and “Now the Code Runs Itself: On-Chain and Off-Chain Minsun Ji Governance of Blockchain Technologies,” Minsun is the Director of the Center for published by Topoi, an International New Directions in Politics and Public Review of Philosophy. He also teaches Policy program, in the Political Science international business law courses and Department at the University of Colorado comparative corporate governance Denver. She was the founder and long- and supervises theses at Bachelor and time executive director of a worker Masters level. Morshed is an alumnus of

54 the Advanced Masters in International Nathan Schneider Civil and Commercial Law program at Nathan Schneider is an Assistant Leiden University. Prior to his move Professor of media studies at the to Leiden, he worked as a lawyer and University of Colorado Boulder, where he lecturer in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has leads the Media Enterprise Design Lab. been enrolled as an Advocate by the He is the author of Everything for Bangladesh Bar Council and was called to Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is the Bar of England & Wales in 2012. Shaping the Next Economy, published by https://platform.coop Nation Books, and two previous books, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from Mundano the Ancients to the Internet and Thank Mundano is a Brazilian street artist and You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy activist whose work makes people stop Apocalypse, both published by University and think about the issues swirling of California Press. around them every day. In 2007, he His articles have appeared in publications began using his graffiti skills to paint including Harper’s, The Nation, The “carroças,” the wooden and metal New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher carts used by the trash collectors Education, The New York Times, The New throughout Brazil who haul off junk and Yorker, and others, along with regular recyclables. He painted 200 carroças columns for America, a national Catholic and in the process made these invisible weekly. superheroes visible—not only in the He has lectured at universities including streets, but also in the media. The effort Columbia, Fordham, Harvard, MIT, NYU, led to “Pimp My Carroça,” which made the University of Bologna, and Yale. this initiative do-it-yourself, crowdfunded In 2015, he co-organized “Platform and global. It has brought in 170 trash Cooperativism,” a pioneering conference collectors in cities around the world, on democratic online platforms at teaming them up with 200 street The New School, and co-edited the artists and 800 volunteers. It is quickly subsequent book, Ours to Hack and to becoming a movement. At home in Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, Brazil, Mundano works on other projects a New Vision for the Future of Work and too. Since 2008, he has used the posters a Fairer Internet. and banners that plaster Brazilian cities @ntnsndr during elections to create thought- provoking art. For the election in 2014, he Ned Zimmerman turned these enormous plastic banners Ned Zimmerman is a Senior Inclusive into a giant voting booth filled with Developer at the Inclusive Design waste in a square in Rio de Janeiro. “I Research Centre (IDRC). His work on the use these ads to get people to reflect on Platform Cooperative Development Kit the corrupted political system. On all the is informed by experiences as a worker false promises, and all the awful waste,” co-op member-owner (2007-2010), open he explains. source maintainer (2015-2019), and @mundano_sp co-founder and board member of a non- profit arts co-op in his home province of Nova Scotia, Canada (2016-present).

55 Ned has a BFA in Theatre and developing a National Middle Term Plan Development from Concordia University 2020-2024 for the cooperative sector, in Montréal. conducting research with the Indonesian @greatislander Ministry of Cooperative and Small Medium Enterprises, and mainstreaming Nicole Alix innovation in local cooperative Nicole Alix is chairwoman of “La Coop communities. des Communs,” which aims to build http://unsoed.ac.id/id/ alliances between Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons. Nuria Soto At HEC Business School, she has been May 2017 Barcelona couriers from involved for 15 years in Crédit Coopératif, companies such as Deliveroo, Glovo or a French cooperative bank for which UberEats created the RidersXDerechos she served as Director of Development. (Riders4Rights) union campaign For 25 years, Nicole worked in social to defend our rights. We have services of general interest in institutions demonstrated and gone on strike such as DDG of UNIOPSS, focusing on against the situation of falsely self- social welfare and at DG of “Maisons employed workers. As a consequence, Isatis,” which is comprised of a group we have suffered dismissals, which we of care institutions and homes for have already reported to the courts. elderly persons. She has participated Mensakas is an app for online ordering in several European and international and home delivery. In April 2018 we networks, and established the French created the Mensakas SCCL cooperative “Code of Conduct Committee for NGO company. It is self-managed by its own fundraising.” workers. Everyone has an employment @CoopdesCommuns contract, not a false freelance contract, and therefore taxes and social security Novita Puspasari contributions are being paid. We offer Novita Puspasari is a Lecturer at the an alternative model of consumption, Faculty of Economics and Business, one that allows people to consume in Universitas Jenderal Soedirman in a socially responsible manner through Indonesia. She is the Head of the Co- their smartphone. The cooperative operative and SMEs Innovation Hub helps strengthen self-organization at the campus, sits on the executive among riders so that they can continue committee of the Indonesian Consortium struggling against precarious work, for Co-operative Innovation (ICCI), and as well as providing a real experience serves as a Research Coordinator at of collectivization and economic Kopkun Institute. She is also on the sovereignty. Supervisory Board of Kopkun Indonesia, @ridersxderechos a consumer cooperative in Indonesia. Currently, she is working on developing Olivera Marjanovic an innovative ecosystem for Indonesian Professor Olivera Marjanovic (Ph.D.) cooperatives by serving as a staff- is a former Deputy Director (2010 – member for the Indonesian Ministry of 2015) and the Director (2015-2017) of National Planning. In this work, Novita is the Cooperatives Research Group at

56 the University of Sydney – the leading manner through their smartphone. multidisciplinary research group in The cooperative helps strengthen the area of CMEs in Australia. Through self-organization among riders so that her applied research and innovative they can continue struggling against teaching, Olivera seeks to link data and precarious work, as well as providing analytics, processes, human-centric real experience of collectivization and services, knowledge and technology economic sovereignty. in innovative organizations, including @ridersxderechos cooperatives & mutuals (CMEs) and more recently digital platform cooperatives. Osamu Nakano Her current large research grants include Osamu Nakano is the Director of an innovative industry-wide Visual Atlas International Relations at Japan Workers’ of the Australian Cooperatives (an online Co-operative Union (JWCU), a position he platform for mapping and visual data has held since July 2017. He concurrently exploration of the history of Cooperatives serves as a board member of JWCU. in Australia from the early 1900s to He is also working as an active staff of today) and a world-wide study of Digital the Japan Co-operative Alliance (JCA), Nomadism and new forms of digital an apex organization of all cooperative working. sectors in Japan. He further serves as a https://sydney.edu.au/business/our- visiting researcher at the University of research/research-groups/co-operatives- Tokyo, and an advisor of the Institute for research-group.html the Cooperative Digital Economy. Osamu is playing a key role in developing Oriol Alfambra Serrano platform cooperative movements in In May 2017 Barcelona couriers from Japan by connecting various stakeholders companies such as Deliveroo, Glovo or such as worker cooperatives, other UberEats created the RidersXDerechos cooperative sectors, labor unions, (Riders4Rights) union campaign scholars/activists and so forth. to defend our rights. We have He is an organizer of the symposium demonstrated and gone on strike against entitled “What is platform the situation of falsely self-employed cooperativism?”, which was held in workers. As a consequence, we have Japan on September 21st 2019, and in suffered dismissals, which we have which Trebor Scholz delivered a keynote already reported to the courts. Mensakas speech, introducing the concept of is an app for online ordering and home “platform cooperativism” into Japan for delivery. In April 2018 we created the the first time. Mensakas SCCL cooperative company. https://jwcu.coop/en/2019/01/25/hello- It is self-managed by its own workers. world/ Everyone has an employment contract, not false freelance contract, and Patrick M. Karanja therefore taxes and social security Patrick M Karanja is a program associate contributions are being paid. based at the Rockefeller’s Foundation’s We offer an alternative model of Africa Regional Office in Nairobi. consumption, one that allows people Reporting to the Managing Director, to consume in a socially responsible he supports the Digital Jobs Africa

57 (DJA), an initiative that seeks to catalyze Dynamex decision and AB5. In the new new and sustainable employment worker-driven democratic landscape, opportunities for young people in her model allows for on-demand labor Africa. His role provides the vital link without compromising traditional union between the work, the partners, and the values or worker control. SEIU-UHW Foundation. He also provides key support members are frontline caregivers, to the developing work on energy in including respiratory care practitioners, Africa. Prior to joining The Rockefeller dietary, environmental services, and Foundation, he was the Regional nursing staff who aim to improve the Business Engagement Manager at World healthcare system by providing quality Vision’s Eastern African Regional Office, care for all patients, expanding access responsible for the development and to excellent, affordable healthcare for effective implementation of strategies to all Californians, and improving living drive the effectiveness of offices across standards for all workers. 9 countries Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, @seiu_uhw Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan. With a diverse Rafael Zanatta staff and a very dynamic environment, he Rafael Zanatta is a Brazilian activist and also led ICT4D interventions that utilized lawyer. He is one of the leading voices in the ubiquitous nature of technology to the movement of digital rights in Brazil complement development outcomes in and helped in the enactment of the health (use of mobile phones to support Brazilian General Data Protection Law. Maternal Child Health) and in economic In 2016, together with other activists, he opportunities. In this latter role, he co-founded the Coalition “Direitos na successfully initiated and spearheaded Rede”, a network of think tanks, NGOs an Impact Sourcing center in Ghana and research centers. Zanatta is a Ph.D. under the support of World Vision Candidate at the University of São Paulo, Ghana. where he founded the Center of Ethics, @mutuota Technology and Digital Economies with Prof. Ricardo Abramovay. He Ra Criscitiello translated Trebor Scholz’ book “Platform Ra Criscitiello is Deputy Director of Cooperativism” into Portuguese and Research at SEIU-United Healthcare organized the book “Sharing Economies Workers West in Oakland, California, a and the Law.” He holds an LL.M in Law labor union of nearly 100,000 healthcare and Political Economy at the University workers. Her work focuses on the of Turin and a Master of Science at the intersection of organized labor and University of São Paulo Faculty of Law. worker cooperatives, and she has helped He is a member of the Latin American build several innovative employment Network of Surveillance, Technology and models that collectivize the employment Society Studies (Lavits). status of unionized workers on scale. @rafa_zanatta Her most recent project seizes upon the opportunity in California created by the

58 Raz Godelnik initiatives in NYC, including pre- Raz Godelnik is an Assistant Professor apprenticeship programs, a Bronx of Strategic Design and Management green jobs network, a kitchen business at Parsons School of Design – The incubator and the design of Best for NYC. New School in New York. His research She serves on the boards of the Bronx explores connections between Cooperative Development Initiative and innovation, sustainability, business Democracy at Work Institute. and design strategies. Currently, She is Trustee Emerita with the Brooklyn he is involved in projects focusing Society for Ethical Culture. on developing sustainable business She holds a Master’s in Organizational models, design for the climate crisis, and Change Management from The New redefining sustainability in business. He School, a certificate in Adult Occupational is also leading a collaboration between Education from CUNY and is certified Parsons students and refugees, working in Permaculture Urban Design. She is together on entrepreneurial initiatives a native New Yorker raised with the to address refugee needs in cities and spirit and passion of dedication to social refugee camps. justice. Raz is the co-founder of two green @rebecca_lurie startups – Hemper Jeans and Eco-Libris and has been writing on issues related to Riccardo Carboni sustainable business, climate change and Riccardo Carboni is the president of strategic design. Cotabo, one of the leading taxi driver @godelnik cooperatives in Italy. Cotabo was founded in 1967 and since Rebecca Lurie then has provided services to more than Rebecca Lurie is the founder of the 500 taxi driver associates, with the aim to Community and Worker Ownership improve their working conditions. Project at the City University of NY The taxi drivers are the real Cotabo School for Labor and Urban Studies and owners. Cotabo is eco-friendly: 48% of the Murphy Institute where she also the fleet are low emissions cars and the serves as faculty in the Urban Studies headquarters are located in a Class A Department. She is a founding member building. of the worker-owned cooperative, New Carboni is also part of the Legacoop Deal Home Improvement Company. Bologna board of presidents. She began her working career as a Legacoop Bologna has more than 2 union carpenter and transitioned into million members and represents about worker education through the union’s 200 different cooperatives, providing apprenticeship program and the job opportunities to more than 70,000 construction industry. people. Carboni has also taken an active Using a sector approach for part in negotiating taxi reforms with the understanding industries and businesses Government. Carboni is also a founder and their employment needs, she of Apptaxi, a 19-radio taxi network with has remained dedicated to inclusive more than 5000 taxi drivers. community economic development. http://www.cotabo.it Rebecca has collaborated on numerous

59 Rich Jensen Georgetown University. He is a proud Rich Jensen is the Global Navigator member of the Platform Cooperativism and Co-op Executive for Resonate Co- Consortium Circle of Cooperators and op , an international fair-trade music holds the view that those who currently streaming cooperative where artists, own the data, own the platforms, that​ listeners, curators, and developers own the world. govern the platform as voting members. @robnstone A former artist and label executive, he brings decades of experience with Ron Kim decentralized, interdependent, cross- Assemblymember Ron Kim represents cultural collaborations occasionally the 40th district of the New York State embraced by global markets and popular Assembly. Elected in 2012, Kim’s culture. Origins: KAOS-fm, K Records, Sub public policy solutions have gained Pop, Up Records, Cabin Games. national attention and garnered him @resonatecoop the reputation as a key thought-leader in the economic development policy Rob Stone space. Most notably, Assemblymember Rob Stone is Founder and CEO Kim was the first public official to of Datavest where he leads the lead the opposition against Amazon development of the world’s first Data HQ2. His policy stance lead to a larger Investment Platform, ​which offers discussion around corporate subsidies, individuals the ability to turn their economic development, and the rate personal data into a personal (and ​ of return of these investments. Since investable) ​capital-asset. Prior to then, Assemblymember Kim catalyzed Datavest, he served as a Financial Advisor a nationwide inter-state compact, with at Morgan Stanley where the focus of nearly 20 state representatives, who his efforts centered upon increasing legislatively agree to end the “race to the the availability of ESG, SRI and impact bottom” competition designed to lure investment opportunities to both the mega-corporations into their states. His firm’s individual and institutional clients. latest legislative initiative, The Inclusive Rob previously co-founded the creation Value Ledger (IVL), is a transformational of a nonprofit microfinance institution new savings and payments platform that (MFI) in Argentina in collaboration will massively accelerate value creation, with Pepperdine University that reward undervalued work – carework, continues to offer interest-free lending and steadily grow the health and wealth opportunities to entrepreneurs who of New York State citizens, businesses, lack affordable access to capital. Rob is and communities. The digital technology a frequent speaker at leading industry that undergirds the IVL enables New conferences and venues; including Yorkers to generate, capture, and the Aspen Institute, Know Identity, exchange value that has gone untapped Draper University, Rutgers School of for centuries. Management and Labor Relations, as @rontkim well as the PCC conference held in Hong Kong in 2018. Rob received his MPP from the McCourt School of Public Policy at

60 Sabine Kock Law Journal, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Dr. Sabine Kock is founder and manager Nebraska Law Review, University of of the smart coop, Austria. As a cultural Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, and researcher, she works on new solutions Yale Law Journal Forum. He received a B.A. for the future of work and social security. from the University of Maryland and a J.D. She is also a philosopher who focuses on and M.A. from Duke University. the research fields of aesthetics, discourse @sandeepvaheesan of remembrance, gender & diversity. www.smart.coop Sandrino Graceffa Sandrino Graceffa is the CEO of the Salonie Hiriyur Muralidhara european cooperative Smart.coop. He has Salonie works as a Senior Associate been managing businesses in the social at SEWA Cooperative Federation. The economy in France and Belgium since Federation works as an accelerator, 1991. In 2008, he initiated Smart in France. providing support services to women’s Since 2014, he has managed the European cooperatives and collectives, including group Smart in Brussels, Belgium. digital inclusion. Salonie has been working Smart is a European cooperative of self- on developing ways to sustainably include employed workers (i.e. freelancers) from informal women workers in the digital all backgrounds and offers a set of shared space. She works with partners like the services (legal, financial, administrative, ILO, IDRC, the Platform Cooperativism training, economic support, shared Consortium, IT for Change and others workspaces), thereby enabling them to develop these service platforms for to develop their professional activities women workers. In the past, Salonie has in complete autonomy. The status of worked in the research department of the entrepreneur-employee within the Smart ILO in Geneva. She graduated from the shared structure makes it possible to London School of Economics and Political reconcile social protection with a true Science, with a degree in gender and entrepreneurial dynamic. Smart is present development. in 40 cities in 9 different European https://www.sewafederation.org/ countries. By 2018 it had a turnover of nearly 200 millions euros supporting more Sandeep Vaheesan than 120.000 workers in Europe since Sandeep Vaheesan is legal director at its creation. Sandrino Graceffa is also a the Open Markets Institute. Vaheesan recognized speaker on developments in previously served as a regulations counsel the world of work and social protection. at the Consumer Financial Protection He is an Ashoka Fellow and is the author Bureau, where he helped develop and of the 2016 book titled, Reinvent the World draft the first comprehensive federal rule of Work: An Alternative to the Uberization on payday, vehicle title, and high-cost of the Economy. installment loans. Vaheesan has published @sandrinograceffa articles and essays on a variety of topics in antitrust law, including the relationship Simon Pek between antitrust and workers and the Simon Pek works as an Assistant Professor political content of antitrust. His writing of Sustainability and Organization Theory has appeared in the Berkeley Business at the Gustavson School of Business at

61 the University of Victoria. He teaches and organizations. The curriculum is centered researches in the area of sustainability around empowering young people to be and organization theory. His primary change-makers in their communities. We research explores how organizations and teach urban sustainability and food justice the individuals within them embed social through experiential education at 5th and environmental sustainability into their Street Rooftop Farm. During afterschool, cultures, strategies, and daily operations. we go to the garden weekly and during He is particularly interested in novel the summer we are the primary caretakers forms of democratizing organizations of the garden! This year our youth and platforms by drawing on concepts program took on a big challenge, working including deliberative democracy and to become the first zero-waste after school sortition. He is very excited to attend this in the Lower East Side. conference, and is particularly excited @6thstreetcenter to connect with any practitioners and academics working in this space and Stacco Troncoso interested in collaborating. Stacco Troncoso teaches and writes on the @SimonPekProf Commons, P2P politics and economics, open culture, post-growth futures, Sixth Street Youth Program Platform and Open Cooperativism, Sixth Street Youth Program is a dynamic decentralized governance, blockchain after school program that offers New and more as part of the P2P Foundation, York City youth (ages 5 and up!) quality Commons Transition, and Guerrilla Media after school workshops in an intimate Collective. class setting. With a limited enrollment @StaccoP2P of up to 30 students per day and an average staff to student ratio of 1:5, Stefania de Kenessey each child receives thoughtful guidance Composer Stefania de Kenessey’s and support that is needed to foster opera adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s best- their individual and creative growth. Our selling novel “Bonfire of the Vanities” program is committed to developing (bonfiretheopera.com) premiered in New strong community, expressive creative York City in 2015 to considerable acclaim: skills, mindfulness, and social and “melodically ingratiating…skillfully environmental awareness and activism wrought…caustically witty” (Financial among our youth. Our mission is to Times); “unlike a lot of contemporary cultivate a warm and inclusive atmosphere opera, tuneful and grateful to the voice” that honors each student’s unique (The Observer). A darkly funny political strengths. Sixth Street Youth Program satire, updated to contemporary concerns, has quality enrichment in the arts, urban the music now concludes with the collapse gardening, urban sustainability, and of the Stock Exchange, firm after firm community activism. From the start, we crumbling on Wall Street… De Kenessey’s teach the kids about the history of the music has been performed extensively Lower East Side, housing rights, food in venues both traditional and off-the- justice, and climate justice! We creatively beaten path, ranging from Carnegie Hall engage them through kid-led, inquiry- and Lincoln Center to LaMama and Joe’s based projects with local businesses and Pub. Premieres in 2018-2019 featured her

62 (mostly) humorous cabaret songbook, and philanthropy at the intersection of The Well-Tempered Woman, for which race and gender; social justice ethics of she wrote both music and lyrics, as well human genetics and biotechnologies; as SHE, her first purely electronic score design thinking methodologies for for Ariel Rivka Dance. Stefania composed community engagement, advocacy an anthem for platform cooperativism. and organizing; and reimagining social http://www.stefaniadekenessey.com/ movements. @SujathaMusings Sujatha Jesudason Sujatha Jesudason, Ph.D., has worked Sylvia Morse as an activist, organizer and scholar Sylvia Morse is the Project Coordinator for over 25 years in a range of social in CFL’s Cooperative Development justice movements. She is a leading Program, where she is helping to voice on new practices in movement implement initiatives to scale immigrant building, the ethics of reproductive worker-owned cooperative businesses in genetics, gender justice, disability New York City and nationally. rights and racial inclusion. In her Since September 2016, she has focused work, she focuses on forging unlikely her time on the development of Up & Go, collaborations and looking past forced a web app for booking home services simplifications at the intersection of from worker cooperatives. issues too often considered separately: Prior to joining CFL, Sylvia worked economic inequality, domestic violence, in housing policy and participatory racial discrimination, disability rights, planning. Sylvia is a lifelong New Yorker, and gender roles. Sujatha has worked and earned her Master’s Degree in skillfully with a wide and diverse range of Urban Planning from the City University leaders, community members, activists, of New York Hunter College.Sylvia scholars, researchers, and academics, Morse is the Project Manager in CFL’s listening for patterns and trends in order Cooperative Development Program, to prepare for the challenges around the where she is helping to implement corner and into the future. Before The initiatives to scale immigrant worker- New School, Sujatha was the Executive owned cooperative businesses in New Director of CoreAlign, a reproductive York City and nationally. Since September justice organization teaching innovation 2016, she has focused her time on the for social change to frontline activists, development of Up & Go, a web app for which she founded in 2012. With a booking home services from worker focus on race and power, CoreAlign cooperatives. trains organizers to think and act Prior to joining CFL, Sylvia worked innovatively, generate creative solutions in housing policy and participatory to complex problems and develop planning. Sylvia is a lifelong New Yorker, processes for designing solutions with and earned a Master’s Degree in Urban their communities. As Professor of Planning from the City University of Professional Practice in Management at New York Hunter College.Sylvia Morse the Milano School, Sujatha focuses on is the Project Coordinator in CFL’s innovative approaches to: social justice Cooperative Development Program, and start-up nonprofit leadership and where she is helping to implement management; leadership, management initiatives to scale immigrant worker-

63 owned cooperative businesses in New He came to Parsons in 2004 as associate York City and nationally. Since September dean for Academic Affairs. He holds 2016, she has focused her time on the a faculty appointment as a tenured development of Up & Go, a web app for associate professor. Previously he was booking home services from worker director of academic and international cooperatives. programs and chair of the School of Prior to joining CFL, Sylvia worked Design at the University of Western in housing policy and participatory Sydney, where he held a range of planning. Sylvia is a lifelong New Yorker, academic leadership positions over 14 and earned her Master’s Degree in years. He has written, lectured, and Urban Planning from the City University consulted internationally on design of New York Hunter College. research and design education. He co- @UpandGoNYC edited Design Dictionary: Perspectives in Design. Educated at the City Art Institute The New School Hip Hop Collective of Australia and the University of New The New School Hip Hop Collective South Wales, Tim has a background in explores and engages with all elements photography and fine arts. of Hip Hop culture and community with www.newschool.edu a focus on social activism, student-led ciphers spanning music creation and Tina Vu Pham critical conversation, and connecting and Tina brought with her over ten transforming communities through the years of organizing experience with art form. We host weekly jam sessions, immigrant communities and unions in social gatherings, and educational Washington D.C. and New York before experiences in relation to all elements unions and immigrant communities of Hip-Hop (Rapping, Breaking, Graffiti, before becoming NDWA’s gig economy DJing, Beatboxing, Archiving). We strive organizer. As the gig economy organizer, to involve students across the colleges she is working to understand and at The New School, build with other like- improve the working conditions of care minded organizations and individuals and cleaning workers in the gig economy and create and maintain safe, inclusive, through research, organizing, and creative spaces for expression. At WHO advocacy. Her goal is to reach the many OWNS THE WORLD?, The New School Hip domestic workers that are moving to Hop Collective invites you to come and online platforms to find “gig” jobs and to dance, dance, dance. build community and power. https://www.instagram.com/hhc_tns/ @tinavupham

Tim Marshall Travis F. Higgins Tim became provost in March 2009. Systems engineer with 14 years of As dean of Parsons School of Design experience delivering substantial from 2006 to 2009, he led a major improvements in over 30 organizations restructuring effort and developed (large, small, public, private, non- an academic plan that emphasized profit and cooperative) in 14 countries. stronger faculty culture and a more Passionate about using business as a integrated and comprehensive suite of force for good and promoting people & undergraduate and graduate degrees. planet over profit. Founded a Zero Waste

64 network in Brazil’s 3rd largest metro area Txiki Blasi and studied Strategic Management of Txiki is a member of the Riders X Cooperatives at the Pontifical Catholic Derechos union that was born in 2017 University of Minas Gerais. Currently from the fight for labor rights against serving as an adviser to Coonecta (a Glovo and Deliveroo in Barcelona. Brazilian hub for cooperative innovation) From that fight, Mensakas was born, a and as Global Survey Project Lead for cooperative project that he has been the Institute for the Cooperative Digital a part of since December 2018 as a Economy. member and worker. He currently @platformcoop performs the function of governance of the cooperative and at the same time Trebor Scholz cover delivery tasks. He loves working in Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and friendly environments and he considers founding director of the Institute for myself a privileged dreamer to be part of the Cooperative Digital Economy at The this project with his colleagues. New School in New York City. In 2014, https://www.mensakas.com/ he introduced the concept of “platform cooperativism” as a way of bringing the Una Lee co-op model into the digital economy. Una Lee is a Vermont-based design Who Owns the World? brings together practitioner, collaborative design the global community around this facilitator, and community organizer. work and marks ten years of the Through her practice and organizing influential digital labor conferences at work, she attempts to use design to build The New School. Scholz’ books include the world we need, while also pushing Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How the design field to be accountable for Workers Are Disrupting the Digital its impact on the world we live in. Una Economy, Digital Labor: The Internet is the creative director of the co-design as Playground and Factory, and the studio And Also Too and design director co-edited Ours to Hack and to Own: at Allied Media Projects. She founded Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision the Consentful Tech Project, and is a for the Future of Work and a Fairer co-founder and steering committee Internet. Scholz’ articles and ideas have member of the international Design appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Justice Network. She has been a visiting Higher Education, The Washington Post, designer at the Berkman Klein Center for Le Monde, and The New York Times, Internet & Society at Harvard University, among many other publications. Today, a fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Prof. Scholz is working to advance the Technology, Society, and Policy, and is a cooperative digital economy through the recipient of a Royal Society of Arts award. Platform Co-op Development Kit while @lovexjustice also keynoting conferences worldwide. Vanni Rinaldi He presented at the Harvard Law Forum Cooperator by choice and innovator and is currently an Open Society Fellow. by-election, he was also a journalist and @trebors publisher. He founded several companies in the world of communication, internet

65 and Big Data. He is now President of Vitor Romero Moulin Teixeira the digital start-up Hoda. The company Vitor is an economist with an MBA in launched the App- Weople, that is the Business Management and Business first People’s Data Bank that act as Intelligence from Fundação Getúlio a People Aggregator on the basis of Vargas, International Business Executive the EU-GDPR. He is also President of from the University of California, Irvine. Cooptech that is an incubator dedicated He has been active in the energy sector to the technological innovation of the for over 10 years and he is dedicated to Italian cooperatives, that has carried the “shared energy generation” market. out various projects in the internet CEO of an Energy CleanTech CleanClic, and telecommunications sectors, whose mission is to democratize or including CoopVoce: the first Italian access clean and renewable energy virtual cooperative mobile operator. in Brazil. He is also the founder of the He contributed in 2013 to launch the YouTube channel “Compartilhando “Cooperative Commons” Manifesto Energia”, which is also shown by for a conscious and democratic use of TV Ambiental, an open TV channel. digital technologies. At present, he is in He provides qualified and technical charge of the Legacoop’s programs for information on the concept of shared innovation technology. Recently wrote energy generation and the electricity the book: From the Co-op to the Co-app: sector for more people who can for an ethical sharing of Big Data. sustainably generate their own energy. @weople_it William Clark Victoria Alexander William Clark is a native of Virginia and Victoria is a philosopher of science/ was educated in the United States, biology, specializing in complex France, and England. Moving to New York systems and self-organization and is in 1992, he worked at several agencies, a leader in the newly developing field including Virginia Barber Literary Agency of biosemiotics. She studied at CUNY and William Morris Agency, before Grad Center and the Santa Fe Institute founding the agency in 1999. He is a and is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio member of the Association of Authors’ Center alum, former Public Scholar with Representatives Board of Directors and is the NY Council for the Humanities and the board liaison to the Media and Digital currently a Fulbright Scholar, soon to Innovations Committee. He is a longtime be conducting research in biological Buddhist practitioner. computation at ITMO University in https://www.wmclark.com/ St Petersburg Russia. In two words, her work is focused on decentralized Wilma B. Liebman intelligence. She is also a literary fiction President Obama named Wilma Liebman novelist. Her latest, Locus Amoenus to be Chairman of the National Labor (2015), was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize Relations Board in January 2009. She nominee. She is interested in using her served as Chairman until August 27, understanding of self-organization to 2011, when her third term expired. Since design and implement a self-organizing then, she has been engaged in various publishing co-operative, specifically for advisory roles and consulting projects literary fiction.

66 and has taught at several universities, Yeshimabeit is an Echoing Green Black most recently New York University Law Male Achievement Fellow and joins School. the founders of Black Lives Matter and Ms. Liebman was first appointed to be Occupy Wall Street in the distinguished a Member of the NLRB by President inaugural class of Roddenberry Clinton and was twice reappointed by Foundation Fellows. Yeshimabeit has a President Bush. Earlier, she served as BA from Brown University and serves Deputy Director of the Federal Mediation on the board of the historic Highlander and Conciliation Service (FMCS) and Center for Research & Education held positions as Labor Counsel for the @Data4BlackLives International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, and Legal Counsel Yvon Jadoul to the International Brotherhood of Yvon Jadoul is the General Secretary of Teamsters. She holds an A.B. degree the European Smart Cooperative. After from Barnard College, and a J.D. from a career of nearly 10 years in ministerial George Washington University Law offices in Belgium as a public policy School. She is a member of the Board of advisor in various fields (employment, Directors of the Economic Policy Institute economy, and housing), he joined Smart and a senior fellow of the Institute for in 2018 as political advisor to the CEO, the Study of Employee Ownership and Sandrino Graceffa. His role has quickly Profit Sharing at Rutger’s School of evolved and today he manages a team Management and Labor Relations. She is that implements functions related to the Co-Chair of the Council of Advisors at political lobbying, communication, the Institute for the Cooperative Digital international development and the Economy at The New School. animation of the company’s cooperative life. Smart is a European cooperative Yeshimabeit Milner of self-employed workers (who can Yeshimabeit Milner is the Founder & also be called ‘freelancers’) from all Executive Director of Data for Black backgrounds and offers a set of shared Lives. She has worked since she was services (legal, financial, administrative, 17 behind the scenes as a movement training, economic support, shared builder, technologist and data scientist workspaces), enabling them to on a number of campaigns. She started develop their professional activities Data for Black Lives because for too long in complete autonomy. The status of she straddled the worlds of data and entrepreneur-employee within the Smart organizing and was determined to break shared structure makes it possible to down the silos to harness the power of reconcile social protection with a true data to make change in the lives of Black entrepreneurial dynamic. people. In two years, Data for Black Lives @SmartBe_fr has raised over $2 million, hosted two sold-out conferences at the MIT Media Lab and has changed the conversation around big data & technology across the US and globally. As the founder of Data for Black Lives, her work has received much acclaim. 67 Music at the Conference

We asked Prof. Daniel Blake and his Music for Political Action course at The New School to select and research the history of songs that relate to our event. We will play the songs throughout the days of the conference. You will find descriptions of these songs, researched and written by his students, after the biographies at the end of this program. We send our heartfelt appreciation to the students in this course: Emma Brown, Martin Cruz Echeverri, Samantha Dilenschneider, Kayla Donald, Reese Fong, Cristy Garcia, Sofia Garcia, Avery Kaplan, Lexi Lane, Emily Leontyev, Kasper Meacham, Kebron Mihrete, Kayla Anne Santos, Lilah Smith, Anaka Steinmetz, Ryan Webb, and Ayla Weissman.

Thank You

A very special thank you to Prof. Stefania de Kenessey and vocalists Lisa Daehlin (soprano) and Waundell Saavedra (bass) for their live rendition of the platform co-op anthem! In addition, we’d like to thank our wonderful team of student volunteers who helped make this conference possible! Many thanks to Hal Plotkin for his indefatigable support.

68 Learn About the Songs You’re Hearing Throughout the Event

Tudo que você podia ser by Clube da Esquina

Brazilian singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Milton Nascimento was known as the voice of his generation. His beautifully haunting vocals express a deep spirituality that is essential to his unique style. Milton and his childhood friends including Lô Borges would play music on the street in their home state of Minas Gerais. Eventually they created a collective known as Clube da Esquina (the Corner Club). While military leaders and politicians planned to overthrow the João “Jango” Goulart government, this collective of musicians came together on the street corners of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais. The collective released two albums in the 1970s. The collective created emblematic expressions pertinent to the social and political concerns of the Brazilian audience, specifically to galvanize the youth. “Tudo que você podia ser,” (“All that you could be”), the opening track of Clube da Esquina, speaks to the sense of authoritarian social oppression. Clube da Esquina imagined forms of democracy and desire, not only to cope with the political reality, but to inspire imagination that could eventually translate into a new reality. https://youtu.be/pn_xs6EIG4E (Researched and written by Kayla Donald, The New School)

69 Glory to Hong Kong

The people of Hong Kong face the threat of a permanent change to their way of life. China is Hong Kong’s only border country and has long intended to control the region. Since 2014, the umbrella movement has fought to maintain the democratic independence and social freedoms of Hong Kong. In 2019, the conflict escalated when the Chinese Government passed a bill that allows the extradition of Hong Kongers to mainland China. Millions of Hong Kongers protested every weekend to show their discontent with this bill and more broadly the Chinese Authoritarian Regime. Due to the militarization of the police, protestors have been forced to engage in isolated violent acts. Some of them led to bloodshed. A strategy recently used to divert the protests away from violence has been song. The people of Hong Kong have used music to draw strength and unify their movement. An anthem for Hong Kong did not previously exist but Glory to Hong Kong was created amidst the protests. The anthem circulated on the Internet and has quickly become a worldwide symbol for Hong Kong’s fight for independence. The Hong Kong Anthem does not have any composer specifically associated with the song which reflects the nature of the umbrella movement as a whole. Leaders of the movement have chosen to remain anonymous and members were masks to conceal their identities. The leaderless composition of the Hong Kong anthem protest movement displays the selflessness and unity of their fight for freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDUjVOZBgk (Researched and written by Reese Fong, The New School)

70 “El cinismo de los poderosos” (“The Cynicism of the Powerful”) by Pablo Cabrera (Cooparte) Pablo Cabrera inspires audiences to open their hearts and ears to traditional sounds of Uruguayan folkloric music. Pablo Cabrera is a founding member of Cooparte, a collective composed of local musicians located in Montevideo, Uruguay. Also known as Cooperativa de las Artes del Uruguay, Cooparte is a collective composed of local musicians working to share social and political issues through music and poetry. Pablo Cabrera presents an acoustic, raw and folkloric-styled musical product. In response to Mexican singer Gabino Palomares’ song “La Letanía de los Poderosos”, Cabrera offers his audience “El Cinismo de los Poderosos.” Translating to, “The Cynicism of the Powerful,” the song criticizes the uneven distribution of power and wealth. In his lyrics, Cabrera notes the hypocrisy and evil of the powerful. They “smile with sweetness when [the poor] come to their side; [but then they] tell them with tenderness that they will never give them what is theirs.” This message is applicable on a global socio-economic perspective as the greed he refers to unfortunately is not exclusive to Uruguay. Alongside Cooparte collaborators, Cabrera presents this piece other musical works of his work in free, public and local settings; Seeking to encourage this questioning of environment amongst their audiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOinbzHp3ZA (Researched and written by Sofia Garcia, The New School)

71 Zombie by Fela Kuti

The iconic Fela Kuti was an incredible musician and political activist from the 1960s through the 1990s, who used his talents to rebel against Nigeria’s fascist government. Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, Fela birthed a sonic style to what we now know today as afrobeat. Fusing blues, jazz, funk, salsa, and calypso with traditional Nigerian Yourba music, Fela Kuti and his band became a powerful channel for social change, vocalizing issues of the disadvantaged, unemployed, and oppressed. Known for his lengthy songs, his records are sung in a broken English, Pidgin, keeping close connections with his audience across Africa. All of his actions were highly political and his lyrics spoke directly to the problems caused by the military government in Nigeria. Fela Kuti, who was also a saxophonist and pianist, was hated by the military government, which arrested him nearly 200 times. Overcoming many military threats, his radical resistance widely exposed the corrupt political system. Songs like “Zombie” relayed the truth about soldiers who had died obeying the orders of the regime. Producing over 50 albums, Fela ran a recording studio out of a communal shack in Lagos, Nigeria, where members of his large band would also call home. Constantly pushing through social and political barriers, Fela strived by any means necessary to keep the fight for change active. Fela passed away from AIDs at age 58, his son Femi Kuti now takes leadership in their everlasting band, now known as The Positive Force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5x6pbJMyU (Researched and written by Kebron Mihrete, The New School)

72 “Amor a mi clase” (“Love to my class”) by Pipe Diaz ( La Insurgencia)

The Spanish rapper Pipe Diaz is part of La Insurgencia: an amateur collective of rappers. Pipe Diaz, together with 12 other members of La Insurgencia, was sentenced in 2016 to 2 years and 1 day of prison, accused by the Spanish government of inciting violence and supporting terrorist groups. Diaz’s lyrics are revolutionary, inviting people to fight against the capitalist system and oligarchy, but the main message of his lyrics is a call for the proletariat to take action and start a revolution to lose the chains of capitalism, even if it is necessary to take up arms. At the same time, he supports labor unions and movements for more representation of the proletariat. In his song: Amor a mi clase (“Love to my class”), he professed his love to the working class that is living with precarious wages. The song is Pipe Diaz’ call to start a Socialist Revolution and destroy the system for a better life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7axXkSWXdY (Researched and written by Martin Cruz Echeverri, The New School)

73 “Latinoamérica” (“Latin America”) by Calle 13

A popular hip hop group from Puerto Rico, Calle 13 was primarily composed of step brothers Rene Perez Joglar and Eduardo Jose Cabra Martinez. They shot to fame after releasing a rap video denouncing FBI’s assassination of Puerto Rican independentista Filiberto Ojedo Rios. Using an amalgam of Latin and indigenous music, they aimed to rap about “everything that surrounds us - political, social and sexual”. “Latinoamerica” was inspired by a trip the step brothers took across the continent. An acutely political song, they present an imaginary along the lines of Hugo Chavez’s ‘Bolivarian Revolution’: pointing to the diversity of Latin American lives and their deep interconnectedness as ‘one people’ at the same time. They reflect on the socio-political themes of Latin American history: particularly criticizing the influence of U.S. there, while emphasizing the collective strength of marginalized voices in the region. It seeks to be an anthem for Latin Americans contra Western imperialism and colonization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA2FAVRAO2Y (Researched and written by Aman Manish Bardia, The New School)

74 ABOUT OUR WORK

Platform Cooperativism The Institute for the Cooperative Consortium (PCC) Digital Economy:

The Platform Cooperativism Consortium Where, when, and how work is done (PCC) at The New School is a hub for is changing. Advances in artificial co-ops that make the digital transition. intelligence, automation, and Rather than supporting cooperatives data processing continue to shift individually, the PCC identifies the responsibilities from workers to digital systemic needs of hundreds of digital systems. These disruptions are often cooperatives, including platform co-ops, unpredictable and still unfolding. with tens of thousands of worker- To navigate these challenges, we need owners around the world. PCC advances research that imagines, builds, and research and supports the building of explores new visions of a fairer future shared digital infrastructure that helps of work. One starting point is the this sector to grow. platform co-op model, which carries the The PCC convenes a large annual cooperative principles into the digital conference, which has reached at least economy. Platform cooperativism 8,000 visitors in person and 200,000 addresses the root causes of systemic unique viewers in 30 countries through inequality and presents a near-term live streaming. For a list of members of solution for the problems plaguing our the PCC Circle of Cooperators, please see economy and democracy. page 2 in this program. The cooperative digital economy is an under-researched area in the fields of PCC Affiliates include: anthropology, political science, sociology, The Center for Civic Media MIT, Oxford history, and economics. This emerging Internet Institute, United States field is closely linked with labor studies Federation of Worker Cooperatives and cooperative studies. In business (USFWC), Berkman Klein Center schools, this field of study is situated in for Internet and Society at Harvard the areas of finance, entrepreneurship, University, The U.S. Solidarity Economy and organizational studies. In law Network, Civic Hall, Sustainable schools, the pertinent areas are Economies Law Center, Dimmons. governance and corporate structure. net, National Cooperative Business Acknowledging these research gaps, it Association, IG Metall, Cooperative is the purpose of the Institute to provide University College of Kenya, ICA group, prospective and existing platform co-ops FEBE Coop, P2P Foundation, Smart, with applied and theoretical knowledge, Ver.di, The National Domestic Workers education, and policy analysis. Alliance (NDWA), Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet Society, and the Commons Transition Coalition.

75 The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy is committed to realizing new visions for a fairer future of work grounded in relevant research, driven by imaginative proposals. We are committed to realizing new visions for a fairer future of work grounded in relevant research, driven by imaginative proposals. Initial research questions focus on distributed governance, scaling, marketing, and start-up funding. The ICDE makes this knowledge accessible to diverse audiences in innovative formats. Through rigorous research, the Institute builds a novel field of research relevant for workers and all implicated by the digital economy alike.

Activities 2019/2020

• Research Fellowship Program • Annual conferences • Work with affiliated faculty and student fellows across The New School

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