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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world. If the Uber and Lyft drivers in a particular city united to develop or purchase their own ride-hailing app, and collectively governed the use of the app and the equitable distribution of resulting revenues, this would be a platform cooperative.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal).

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