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Critics of the ‘co-operative university’ have questioned our commitment to the idea of the ‘public university’. Indeed, co-operatives are anti-statist, but they also exceed the idea of ‘public ownership’ with that of ‘common ownership’, a social form of property that is the antithesis of the right of free alienability (which distinguishes capitalist private property). In short, co-operative higher education is entirely compatible with the idea of the ‘public’ if we reconceive it as an autonomous, open, democratically governed ‘commons’: An academic commons, democratically controlled by academic and support staff, students, cleaners and others.
Community powered tourism
50% of our platform fee is used to fund a project of your choice for the communities you visit.
This is a way to empower local communities and promote authentic, fair and conscious tourism.
50% of our platform fee is used to fund a project of your choice for the communities you visit.
This is a way to empower local communities and promote authentic, fair and conscious tourism.
The co-op proved a turning point in solving these problems, many of my interview subjects told me. In addition to the creation of a high value-added greenhouse industry, the co-op has helped villagers who’ve left the village in search of work in the city, as well as those too old to farm to contract out their land use rights to those willing and able to farm it.
A história de como ocas cenográficas de "Hans Staden" deram lugar a uma tribo de verdade no litoral paulista.
The web platform and the apps to manage your bike delivery activity. Made according to the needs and feedback of our members that are cycling daily with it.
The Luc Hoffmann Institute aims to be the world’s leading catalyst for innovation and transformative change to maintain biodiversity, the foundation for all life on Earth. We create the conditions for new approaches to emerge, identify and mobilise the most promising innovators and ideas, and provide a flow of impactful, de-risked and exciting initiatives for investors.
Tortuga Guardian es un dispositivo flotante de tecnologias y licencias abiertas, bajo costo y equipado con un sistema de sensores para la toma y obtención de datos in situ, pensado para el monitoreo de la calidad del agua marina en tempo real
Translating the abstraction—and banalities—of the Anthropocene into readable cartography has resulted in many past attempts that often ended up reproducing those same qualities. But, as Brian Holmes asserts in this essay, we seem to have found ourselves in a moment where collaboration, engagement, and new forms of knowledge exchange are breaking that deadlock. Tracing his own involvement with artistic practices that both engage with and attempt to represent a “political ecology,” Holmes explains how the evolving, collaborative cartographic practice that brought the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River map into being simultaneously reveals and interrogates the power structures of Anthropocence society.
Saiu o livro resultante do nosso projeto na @OCSDNet, Ciência Aberta Ubatuba, "Open Science and Social Change: a Case Study in Brazil". Disponível em varios formatos: https://idrc.ca/en/book/contextualizing-openness-situating-open-science
Um adolescente de 16 anos muito esperto chamado Thomas uniu duas de suas paixões, ciclismo e eletrônicos, numa invenção prática que qualquer um pode fazer. Usando a CPU (unidade central de processamento) de ventilador velho, uma bateria de telefone antigo, um monte de peças eletrônicas e algumas ferramentas simples, ele criou um carregador de telefone celular para acoplar na bicicleta gastando $ 5 dólares. O sistema alimenta a bateria do telefone enquanto você pedala por aí.
As the gig economy grows, more and more stories of worker exploitation are coming to the fore. And as reports of shady labor practices at Uber, Lyft, Taskrabbit, Postmates, and Amazon Mechanical Turk show, these issues run rampant across all sectors of the gig economy. In the home services industry, the platform Handy has made a name for itself, connecting people with pre-screened professional cleaners, fixers, and other professionals. Within three years of its founding, however, the company already faced lawsuits for allegedly underpaying workers and making them pay severe fees for minor transgressions.
To counter poor labor practices, gig workers and entrepreneurs are now taking matters into their own hands by launching their own digital platforms for various services. Called "platform cooperatives," these businesses bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance, to the digital world.
To counter poor labor practices, gig workers and entrepreneurs are now taking matters into their own hands by launching their own digital platforms for various services. Called "platform cooperatives," these businesses bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance, to the digital world.
