Introducing ICDE Research Fellow Reports as Part of Who Owns the World? PCC Conference at The New School 2019

Summary

Trebor Scholz introducing speakers and guests to the ICDE Research Fellow Reports session at Who Owns the World Conference, convened by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School in November 2019.

In April, 2019, Prof. Trebor Scholz founded the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School. Hear brief reports from the six inaugural research fellows:

• “Everything Old is New Again: Evaluating the Legal and Governance Structures of Emergent Protocol Cooperatives” — Morshed Mannan
• “The Potential of Platform Cooperativism in Kenya” — Francis Mwongela Mikwa
• “Organizing Precarious Workers in South Korea Through Platform Cooperatives” — Prof. Minsun Ji
• “Connecting Waste Pickers in Brazil – Cataki, a Case Study” — Luciana Bruno
• “Political and Legislative Obstacles for Platform Co-ops in the U.S., Germany, and France” — Jonas Pentzien
• “Funding Cooperatives: New Possibilities” — Amelia Evans