Over the last two years, Hong Kong has experienced a large growth in the number of startups focusing on the sharing economy. Due to an increased awareness of environmental concerns in consumption waste, along with a shifting of values towards accepting used goods, barter based sites such as ‘Oh Yes it’s Free’, and ‘TradeDuck’ have gained… Read more
Over the last decade, ‘community’ has become an increasingly important part of the conversation for everyone from start-up brands to Fortune 500 businesses as we recognize the powerful force that they are in driving popularity and uptake of a product or idea, or providing real-time feedback about a company’s performance. For most collaborative consumption companies,… Read more
NESTA’s ‘Collaborative Consumption: Re-imagining public services’ event on 21 October brought together policy makers, public services practitioners, third sector organisations, digital media companies and others to stimulate debate about the rise in collaborative consumption in the UK. Watch the recap video here.
People have probably been giving you this advice your whole life, but now that there’s a whole day dedicated to it, you should probably listen: Sharing is good. So good, in fact, that The People Who Share, a UK-based organisation focused on promoting collaborative consumption services and activities, is launching Global Sharing Day, this Wednesday… Read more
The easiest way to explain The People Who Share is … a one-stop shop for sharing, a champion and home for the Sharing Economy. The idea came from…walking my dog on Brighton seafront after spending 4 hours trying to exchange my stuff, having to register on several sites and still not finding what I was… Read more
Over the past few decades, our houses have gotten bigger, the average family size has gotten smaller and yet we own more stuff than we know what to do with. With over 22 million rentable square feet of storage in Australia and New Zealand, it is estimated that Australians are hoarding more than 120 million… Read more