Hurrier is an on-demand delivery service that delivers goods, food, documents and other items within Toronto. Story and How It Works Founder Adam Hasham considers Hurrier a local e-commerce platform. It’s a three-sided marketplace that connects couriers, consumers and partners like local restaurants. The local aspect is especially important for Adam: “while travelling abroad, I… Read more
AskforTask is a Toronto tech startup that provides a competitive, transparent online marketplace for on-the-spot projects and chores. Users can set their task requirements and how much they’re willing to pay, and offers will come in from taskers looking to do the task. Users can then choose who they want to assign the job to,… Read more
Lawrence Alvarez is the Co-Founder of The Toronto Tool Library, a collaborative resource sharing project with two locations in Toronto. Canada Curator Lucy Gao spoke with Lawrence to discuss the growing success of the Tool Library, collaborative consumption in Toronto, and the rise of a new resource-based economy. How does the Tool Library work? Members… Read more
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and one of the most multicultural cities in the world. The city has a thriving sharing economy, enabling residents to share everything from tools to backyards, board games to cars, and everything in between. This list features the companies, organizations and spaces that make Toronto a shareable city…. Read more
April Rinne, Chief Strategy Officer of Collaborative Lab, will discuss how the collaborative economy has the potential to transform how we design products and services, create sustainable and “shareable” cities, re-imagine public services, reduce waste and connect communities.Using a wide array of innovative examples from around the world — from transportation to office space to… Read more
Kevin McLaughlin is the President and Founder of AutoShare, Toronto’s first carsharing network. The easiest way to describe AutoShare is… AutoShare is Toronto’s first – and favourite – carsharing network, 100% Canadian and locally-owned. We’re dedicated to providing greater personal freedom and mobility to people living in Toronto; and to reducing carbon emissions and pollution… Read more
Lucie Stephens, head of co-production at nef (the new economics foundation) in the UK recently spoke in Toronto as part of the MaRS Global Leadership Series. Her lecture, “Growing the core economy: An opportunity for co-production,” highlighted this innovative methodology and its potential to redefine the way we deliver public services. What is co-production? nef… Read more
Have you heard about Toronto’s new library? Unlike most of the city’s community libraries, there is no fear of getting shushed for talking here because instead of lending out books this one offers patrons a massive selection of tools to choose from. Retailing anywhere from $68 to $800, most tools are fairly expensive to own… Read more