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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

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. But in the end, all of these avenues are quite limited in terms of the capital they can provide.

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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 know that the carbon impact of all that travel is bad for the planet, and the personal impact of all that travel is bad on our bodies. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. I recently hit three million lifetime miles on American Airlines. Not sure whether to celebrate or mourn this milestone.

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