We scour the internet to find the most interesting news on the collaborative consumption front. Here are our picks for the week:
Sharing economy: government response to the independent review
Gov.uk
This publication sets out the UK government’s response to the independent review on the sharing economy.
How The Sharing Economy Could Help The Poorest Among Us
Ben Schiller, FastCompany
The sharing economy is often identified with a certain hip middle-income demographic. But the biggest beneficiaries may in fact be the poor. According to a new paper from N.Y.U. researchers, it’s people living on below-average incomes who stand to gain most from sharing high-value assets.
Budget 2015: Government reveals initiatives to help UK spearhead sharing economy
Sam Shead, TechWorld
Sharing economy businesses allow people to utilise and outsource their homes, cars, possessions and skills for a fee. The disruptive firms at the heart of this new sector, such as Uber and Airbnb, are causing traditional companies to rethink their business models.
Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy
Trebor Scholz, Medium
There isn’t just one, inevitable future of work. Let us apply the power of our technological imagination to practice forms of cooperation and collaboration. Worker–owned cooperatives could design their own apps-based platforms, fostering truly peer-to-peer ways of providing services and things, and speak truth to the new platform capitalists.
Interest is Rising in Cooperative Alternatives to the “Sharing Economy”
Micah Sifry, TechPresident
A panel discussion called “Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy,” tackles how the 21st century economy can be built on more cooperative and less exploitative principles than the libertarian “gig economy” exemplified by companies like TaskRabbit and Uber.
What Workers Need in the On-Demand Economy
Leah Busque talks to Entrepreneur about the implications of the growth of the on-demand economy.
Sharing economy changing nature of work: Lyft CEO
Michelle Fox, CNBC
The sharing economy is changing the nature of work, providing flexibility to workers who may not be looking for the same type of jobs all the time, Lyft CEO Logan Green told CNBC.
