Every week we scour the internet to find the most interesting news on the collaborative consumption front. Here are our picks for the week:
Girl Power!
With its focus on community and decentralized structure, does collaborative consumption create a unique opportunity for more women-led businesses in the space?
Sharing in the Middle East
Can entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North African regions reconcile a habit of cloning Western ideas with a need to innovate for the local market to support an emerging sharing economy in the region?
More Trouble In P2P Accommodation Scene
Read between the lines: Is renting out your home on a p2p platform actually illegal according to body corporate or city laws? You will be the one footing the bill, if so.
A Good Sit-And-Think Moment
As we arrive at the biggest season of consumption for the year, it’s important to step back and think about how to disrupt this pattern of ‘consumption-as-usual’ over the holidays.
What Can We Learn From Microfinance? A Lot!
With decades of experience amassed developing scalable models for microfinance, what lessons can this industry teach the emerging collaborative consumption economy to help these new ideas go mainstream?
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