Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Image by KICKOIDLOOP, as part of the Shared Vision visual identity by Alessandro Y. Longo In late May 2026, over fifty artists, cultural workers, researchers, and cooperative practitioners gathered in Nikšić, Montenegro, for five days of working sessions.

This Fellow Hour presents Needsmap Jamaica, a developing cooperative digital infrastructure for connecting unmet needs with available resources and coordinating their fulfillment. I will discuss how the initiative brings together Needs Map's existing plat

When I trained as a lawyer, I learned to read a contract for the one clause that quietly hands all the power to a single party. When I started working around artefacts built by computer scientist, I found the same clause hiding somewhere else. Not in the

Register here. The workshop will introduce Aapti's work on cooperativism, climate action, and data work, including labor standards for data businesses, research on AI labor in the Global South, and bottom-up gender data sovereignty for climate action. It

October 9, 9:00 am ET Online synchronous REGISTER This event brings together people working across cooperative technology, including platform co-op organizers, worker collective members, technologists, researchers, and platform economy workers such as cou

Workshop 1: Friday, September 11, 9:00-10:20 AM EDT (Online) Register Workshop 2: Friday, September 25, 9:00-10:50 AM EDT (Online) Register Workshop 3: November 2026, Solidarity AI Conference, Bangkok (In Person) It feels like we are already living in a d

ABOUT THE SERIES: Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement was a free online series held on April 10, April 17, and April 24, 2026, helping cooperators, cooperative leaders, policymakers, and students understand AI beyond the hype, with a focus on

This online course is distinct from other offerings in four ways. First, it is a course on AI for the co-op movement. Second, it is a course on co-ops and AI for anyone curious about how solidarity enterprises are building alternatives in this sector. Thi

Think cooperatives are just big players in agriculture? It is true that your orange juice and vegetables may come through co-ops. For millions of Americans, so does their electricity. But did you know that co-ops have socialist roots? Take the ECO RADICAL

Louis Cousin's report examines how cooperative associations can shape the emergence of inter-organizational information systems (IOIS) in ways that reflect cooperative values rather than reinforcing the power dynamics of platform capitalism. Drawing on Na