05/11/2019
The Platform Revolution of Our Times:
Platform Cooperativism as the Alternative
Trans-Pacific Dialogue with Nathan Schneider & Michael Cook
Registration: https://forms.gle/KP1HbvHiQKhAAbV39
Come and join us for the night with Nathan Schneider, leading advocate of the platform co-op movement, author of Everything for Everyone (2018) and Director of Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and Michael Cook, CEO of Stocksy, a thriving worldwide online co-op of stock photos and videos, to learn how platform co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.
Time: November 21 (Thur) 7:30-9:30pm
Venue: ACO Bookstore, 14/F Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wanchai
Language: English
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We are witnessing, amidst sustained political turmoil in Hong Kong, a new wave of grassroots cooperation among Hongkongers: car-pooling through Telegram groups, mapping of pro-movement “yellow-businesses”, online shopping sites that support the protest movement, and so on. People are not just networking; they are transforming their personal identities through commoning, and are empowered via internet platforms to mobilize resources in a highly distributed manner without central coordination.
Hong Kong people are exploring creative ways to advance cooperativism by deploying platform technologies and the internet. We are not alone. Across the globe, under the banner of Platform Cooperativism, an emerging network of cooperative developers, entrepreneurs, labour organizers and activists is on the rise, fostering a socio-economic ecosystem that seeks to align the ownership and governance of enterprises with the livelihoods of citizens and the working people. It is a practice of democracy in the context of economic activities and of our everyday life.
Registration: https://forms.gle/KP1HbvHiQKhAAbV39
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Learn about our speakers:
Nathan Schneider | Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
In 2015, Nathan Schneider co-organized “Platform Cooperativism,” a pioneering conference on democratic online platforms at The New School, and co-edited the subsequent book, Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet.
Besides from a movement advocate, Nathan is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Enterprise Design Lab. He is the author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, published by Nation Books, and two previous books, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet and Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, both published by University of California Press. His articles have appeared in publications including Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and others, along with regular columns for America, a national Catholic weekly. He has lectured at universities including Columbia, Fordham, Harvard, MIT, NYU, the University of Bologna, and Yale.
Michael Cook | CEO, Stocksy United, Canada
Michael Cook brings his years in the stock industry at iStockphoto and Getty Images, flavoured with start-up operational experience in another market, to Stocksy. His focus is on working with the incredible team at Stocksy to deliver exceptional products and services while living up to the principles and values that are the DNA of the company – dedication to the co-op ideals the company was founded upon, communication up and down, transparency in action, and responsibility for results.
Throughout Michael’s career he has had success by working collaboratively with stakeholders in any given situation. He believes things are best done with input from all people required in the process:
“Those people need to be heard from to ensure their ideas and concerns are contemplated and addressed. Doing so, ensures a smoother process, a successful result, and ultimately a stronger organization.”
This team-based collaboration facilitates strategy based on organizational goals by determining the tactics needed to succeed and the plan required to implement across the entire organization. This can be easier said than done and having an ability to bridge silos and act as a form of glue (or oil as the case may be!) is something Michael brings to the table to assist in those efforts.
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Organizer:
Platform Cooperativism Consortium -- Hong Kong (PCC-HK)
Co-Organizers:
The C-Centre, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK
The Centre for Social Innovation Studies, CUHK
Venue Support:
Art and Culture Outreach Bookstore (ACO)
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