The pandemic has plunged the whole world into disarray. One significant shift has been the ever-greater emphasis on the internet in our daily lives. Platform cooperatives allow us to take control of our relationship with the internet and the myriad of services it mediates. From November 12 to 18, 2021, the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) will host #TheNewCommonSense, this year’s edition of the annual PCC Conference. Over seven days, more than 80 cooperative pioneers, workers, trade unionists, policymakers, researchers, and activists from over 20 countries will come together to take stock of how platform co-ops have responded to the pandemic, to analyze supportive policy, and to discuss current experiments with data co-ops, token systems, and feminist tech infrastructures, among other subjects. Confirmed speakers include Francesca Bria, Trebor Scholz, McKenzie Wark, Philipp Staab, Primavera de Filippi, Jonas Pentzien, and many more.

https://platform.coop/events/conference2021/

#TheNewCommonSense

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