The call to receive abstracts for the Internet Policy Review: Special Issue on the gender of the platform economy is open now. The aim of this publication is to address how public policies could favor a feminist transition from the Read More …
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Due to the difficult scenario the whole planet is going through, Dimmons research group works from home to continue fostering socioeconomical innovation through action-research. These days we believe it is more important than ever to continue our commitment to disseminating Read More …
The UOC organizes an electoral debate in Barcelona on the platform economy
The candidates agreed that people’s social, labour and digital rights must be respected The main candidates for Barcelona’s municipal elections took part in a debate on digital economy policies on 16 May. At the event held at the Col·legi Read More …
La UOC organitza el primer debat sobre economia de plataforma amb les principals candidatures a Barcelona
Candidats i candidates a les properes eleccions municipals coincideixen en què Barcelona ha de ser una ciutat capdavantera en respectar els drets socials, laborals i digitals de les persones, i citen com a referent la Declaració de Sharing Cities. El Read More …
Cultura de la co-creació i participació digital col·laborativa a Barcelona
La wiki-data-thon del dia 20 d’Octubre amb motiu de la biennal Ciutat Oberta de Barcelona vol ser un exercici per repensar junts i juntes què vol dir la co-creació de la ciutat. En aquest text tractarem d’oferir, primer, una sèrie Read More …
Participation at OpenSym 2018 conference
Last week from Dimmons we had the opportunity to participate at the OpenSym18 conference in Paris, the international symposium dedicated to open collaboration research and practice. We were presenting our work in two different areas related to the collaborative economy. Read More …
Testing new materials and dynamics for co-created projects
Last week was very active for Dimmons with our participation facilitating different workshops, where we had the opportunity to advance in a first version of a platform cooperativism toolkit. Following our collaboration with La Comunificadora, the incubation project of commons Read More …
“Rethinking Research” unconference at Coventry University
This week we participated in the unconference Rethinking Research (Disrupting and Challenging Research Practices) organized by the Center for Research Capability and Development at Coventry University. Inspired by publications such as The Slow Professor (Berg and Seeber, 2016), The Academic Read More …
Toolkit for the co-design of citizen-science experiments (v1.3)
Connected to Dimmons’ research line of activity around methodological experimentation, Enric Senabre has been collaborating for his PhD project with OpenSystems, a team leaded by Josep Perelló from University of Barcelona, in a series of co-design experiences in the context Read More …
Analytical framework of the democratic and procommons qualities of collaborative economy organizations
Text originally published at DECODE blog on 06/10/2017 The collaborative economy (or collaborative platform economy) is used as a “floating signifier” for interactions among distributed groups of people supported by digital platforms. Such platforms can enable people to exchange, share and collaborate on Read More …