Social Sustainability
Platform Cooperativism
Digital platforms owned and governed by their workers or users, offering a cooperative alternative to investor-owned gig platforms.
Definition
Platform cooperativism is a model in which digital platforms — marketplaces, ride-hailing, delivery, freelance exchanges — are owned and democratically governed by the people who work on or use them, combining platform technology with cooperative principles of member ownership, democratic control and fair distribution of value. The term was coined by scholar Trebor Scholz in 2014.
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