Hal Plotkin (Circle of Cooperators) as Part of Who Owns the World? PCC Conference at The New School 2019

Summary

Hal Plotkin (Circle of Cooperators) concludes the Digital Co-op Fractals: Iterations, Patterns, Questions session with an appeal at Who Owns the World Conference, convened by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School in November 2019. For this session, we traced emerging patterns within the cooperative digital ecosystem.

From 2009 to 2014, Hal W. Plotkin served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education, which has responsibility for all federal U.S. higher education policies and programs. In 2003, Plotkin initiated the Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s Policy on Public Domain Learning Materials, which are now more commonly known as Open Educational Resources.