News on Social and Solidarity Economy
July 2020
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IT for Change hosts a webinar on the potential of cooperatives as a means to organize workers in the platform economy
29 July 2020
IT for Change organized a session “Going co-op: A platform model for workers in the South” as part of RightsCon, an annual summit bringing together multidisciplinary actors from technologists, business leaders, and activists to journalists, and academics from all around the world to tackle the most pressing issues of human rights and technology.
October 2019
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ILO participates in the Forum on Cooperative Platforms in Paris
30 October 2019
A representative from ILO Cooperatives Unit participated in a panel on positive externalities that can be brought by emerging cooperative platforms.
September 2018
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ILO’s message for the “Sowing the Seeds: Platform Cooperativism for Asia” Conference in Hong Kong
28 September 2018
ILO has sent a video message to the first conference seeking to explore ways in which cooperatives can join the digital economy in Asia.
February 2018
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Interview with Trebor Scholz – connecting cooperatives to the future of work, digitally
09 February 2018
"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Professor Trebor Scholz from The New School, a scholar and an activist who developed the concept of “platform cooperativism”.
