Tag: Collaborative Consumption

Lego Serious Play & Collaborative Economy

Sharecollab´s focus is to promote shareable cities in Colombia, and one of the business strategies is to spread collaborative economy knowledge through meetups and Ouishare events every month. Our next Meetup “Strategy in Real Time with Lego (TM) Serious Play (R)”, will be held jointly with Universidad de los Andes, aiming to build a shared vision of collaboration based economy….  Read more

PIONEER INTERVIEW WITH GERARD KIELY OF MENTORPITCH

MentorPitch is a global mentoring platform for companies, universities and interest groups that manages and measures mentoring programs online. In this interview, founder Gerard Kiely explains how he started the platform in Dublin, Ireland. The easiest way to explain MentorPitch is … MentorPitch is the home of mentoring and offers structured online mentoring for businesses, universities and…  Read more

City Guide: Dublin

Ranking consistently in a leading spot on Forbe’s ‘Best Countries for Business’ list since 2010, Ireland boasts a vibrant digital sector. Its capital city, Dublin, has become a major tech hub over the past decade – serving as the European base for many multinational IT companies (10 of the top 10 global ICT companies and…  Read more

Pioneer Interview with Eric Doriean of Mass Mosaic

Mass Mosaic is a website that helps people exchange anything with their friends, groups and peers. In this interview, co-founder Eric Doriean explains how the platform uses exchange to connect and distribute abundance through community. What inspired you to start Mass Mosaic? Mass Mosaic began 10 years ago when Rob Jameson (co-founder, CEO) read and…  Read more

Collaborative Pioneer: An Inside Interview with GoCar Ireland’s Colm Brady

Colm Brady, Managing Director, has helped grow GoCar Ireland to a 75 vehicle, 3,000 member operation over the past two years. He tells us how providing great customer experiences and word-of-mouth referrals have powered this growth. The easiest way to explain GoCar is … GoCar is an on-demand, pay-by-the-hour vehicle rental service that offers a…  Read more

Let’s see ShareHub’s activities in 2014!

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2014 ShareHub Annual Report for ShareHub Supporter ! See the Sharehub’s movement for the last two years. Let’s see the 2014 ShareHub Annual Report. http://sharehub.kr/2014/en/ The 2014 ShareHub Annual Report is a look at ShareHub’s activities, accomplishments, learnings and network from the year. The report is available in this Web,…  Read more

Brazil Collaborative Consumption Country Guide

Brazil has just the right ingredients for collaborative consumption services: a strong entrepreneurial culture, a young population with high mobile internet usage, and a real thirst from its citizens to find alternative s to traditional systems that don’t work. Along with all this, there is a general mistrust for the traditional institutions that control the country, and…  Read more

New Book: Vivir Mejor Con Menos

Albert Cañigueral, our global curator representing Spain and Latin America has a new book that promises a personal and lighthearted take on collaborative consumption for those who want to learn more about movement. In this interview, he answers a few questions about where he draws his inspiration from and shares with us his favourite excerpt…  Read more

WEEKLY ROUND-UP: COLLCONS MUST-READS-21st November

We scour the internet to find the most interesting news on the collaborative consumption front. Here are our picks for the week: Are tech founders becoming more political? They should Guy Levin, Tech City News Today, TransferWise launched their ‘Stop Hidden Fees’ manifesto and petition for banking transparency. And rather than taking place at some…  Read more

Pioneer Interview: Iseult Ward from FoodCloud

FoodCloud.ie is a community-based social enterprise start-up in Dublin, Ireland, that brings food businesses and charities together, matching those with too much food with those who have too little. Since 2013, FoodCloud has been able to shift an equivalent of 325,000 meals (148 tonnes) of destined food waste to community charities. Co-founder Iseult Ward (left…  Read more