Photo credit: Timeout.com Guest post written by Natalie Batlle, Steven Douglas and Emily Elwes, Trip4Real Barcelona: A sharing city on the rise, Barcelona is the place to go if you want to share a taxi with a stranger, have dinner at a professional chef’s house or live like a local when you’re traveling. These… Read more
Chelsea Rustrum, our global curator representing the United States has a new book that offers a how-to guide on how to share in your daily life. In this interview, she answers a few questions about where she draws her inspiration from, as well as what to expect from the book. What personally drew you to… Read more
It’s a sign that the collaborative (or sharing) economy has reached the next stage of its maturity, given the number of research studies that have been conducted through the past year aiming to get a clearer picture of who, how and why people are participating in different services and activities. To get a sense of… Read more
It’s been interesting and busy year of coverage on the collaborative economy with over a few thousand articles written about the space. While this new movement is still in its early stages, we can now see a shift in articles discussing not just its many monikers or new verticals i.e. ‘the new Airbnb for X ‘ but… Read more
The Unlocking the Sharing Economy review led by Debbie Wosskow, chief executive of Love Home Swap, was commissioned in September by the UK Government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
New UK trade body for sharing economy businesses, UKShareCo, hopes to ensure both vendors and customers can be certain of each other’s trustworthiness. The announcement comes as a government review is underway into the sharing economy. UkShareCo is chaired by Sooqini’s CEO Raj Singh. Member companies include Sooqini, GoCarShare, RentMyItems,OpenPlay, Hire Space, StreetPin, JustPark, storenextdoor, andRentez-vous…. Read more
Peers, a member-driven organisation to support the sharing economy movement, relaunched its website on the 12th of November. The website now focuses on supporting the people who work in the sharing economy by making new tools available on the website. It now has the following: income discovery tool to help people find work, a support… Read more
A new report, The Emerging Collaborative Economy in Australia, produced by Vision Critical in partnership with Collaborative Lab and Nine! Rewards, reveals promising uptake of and enthusiasm for collaborative economy platforms that use technology to enable people to connect to share and exchange a variety of goods and services. There is already high penetration of many… Read more
The new report, Making Sense of the Collaborative Economy, from Nesta UK in collaboration with Collaborative Lab, aims to answer some big questions regarding this new economic activity, focusing on the UK context. Read the report here.
Uber said there had been an 850 percent increase in new users, following a rush of publicity as London’s black cabs went on strike against the company on the afternoon of June 11 causing gridlock to the city centre. Organisations including the Rail and Maritime Transport union (RMT), London Cab Drivers Club (LCDC) and the… Read more