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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Airbnb is another example of extractive platform capitalism, as the company delivers hearty profits to its private owners, who are far removed from local host communities. They also have many potential benefits for worker-owners and the broader cooperative movement. First, they can become a model for creating a true solidarity economy.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

Note: the speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira. 5 principles from the science of behavior: 1) From the cultural cognition field--we realize that millenials embrace community. Millennial Giving. Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. Roger Martin).

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