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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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

NTEN

We can break down American values into subatomic particles: communitarian (believe in power of community) versus individualist (believe in power of individual) egalitarian (believe in equality) versus hierarchists (embrace hieracrchy, top-down structure) Millennials are communitarian and egalitarian. 1) Create a space.

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