David Van Zandt as Part of Who Owns the World? PCC Conference at the New School 2019

Summary

David Van Zandt at Who Owns the World Conference, convened by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School in November 2019.

David E. Van Zandt became The New School’s president in 2011. He has advanced a vision for The New School that elevates the university’s core values of creativity and social engagement and connects its strengths in design, social research, liberal arts, and performance. He has led the development of strategic initiatives to deepen The New School’s commitment to student success, global education, new and distinctive educational models, and institutional effectiveness and assessment.David has spoken and written widely on higher education, including regular articles in the Huffington Post on topics such as college accountability, universities and the creative economy, and the importance of education that fosters innovation and the courage to bring about positive change in the world.

On Thursday-Saturday November 7-9 2019 Who Owns the World? convened one hundred fifty speakers from over thirty countries in NYC to meet each other, co-design, and learn about topics such as worker power in the platform economy, antitrust, misogyny and racism in co-ops, ecological sustainability, best practices for cooperation including the allocation of startup funding, the potential of platform co-ops for data trusts, data co-ops, new models for distributed governance, and data sovereignty. The event was webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.