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# From farmers’ direct selling stations to platform cooperativism


"If people have skills and needs, then they have an economic foundation." - Douglas Rushkoff

"Imagine now in 2044, as a member of the Earth who has not yet had the opportunity to immigrate to other planets, you hold a Tesla Phone, call an Uber and Apple self-driving car from your home, and go with four or five people you met on Tinder. When dining at Panda Food's restaurant, these friends have all passed the safety test for exposure to new infectious diseases. 1. You can pay through the online virtual currency financial system. If more than 30 people make reservations, you can also make reservations through Spotify. Community singers are invited to perform live. Now you don’t even have to touch the screen with your fingers. Elon Musk’s Neuralink2 technology has passed a series of pig body tests and has passed policy support. It provides you with mobile phone use and agrees to the service to obtain your data. It can be installed at half price, and China has also launched low-priced neural connection technology mobile phones..."


# How did mobile phones become the mobile device we can’t live without?

Remember your phone’s weekly reminder of your average usage time last week? Including the number of times you picked up your phone and stared at it to unlock it, the number of seconds you stared at the video on social media, and when you decided to give up reading an article, all have been included in the jurisdiction of the data by technology companies, and they will optimize the user experience. , add accessibility to your app.

In today's situation where all social networks, the Internet and personal data are seamlessly integrated, mobile phones have become everyone's second mind and third prosthetic limb. Through the global network connection, Internet of Things (IoT), AI and 5G era, With the coming of the epidemic, the face of the "Fourth World" is becoming more and more clear. The apps of various international companies provide on-demand services such as food delivery, booking B&B suites, case work, and even friendship or love, bidding, and more. While enjoying the convenience of life and technology, people have become more and more flexible digital gig workers, which has also created an increasingly insecure environment.






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Blue Dragon Ball>Red Dragon Ball>Green Dragon Ball
Platform-co-op-platform cooperativism






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# The first question: What does "social media" really affect us?

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2020/10 Antitrust Hearing

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• Watch tech’s billionaires take over the world’s rich list in this animated
Chart shows how high-tech billionaires gradually rise to the world's richest list
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/05/15/watch-techs-billionaires-take-worlds-rich-list-animated-chart/

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• The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
The World’s Most Valuable Resource: Data Value Beyond Oil (2017)
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/05/06/the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-is-no-longer-oil-but-data

# The second question: What is a platform? What is the definition?
It is functional software and application program
It can also be an information exchange space that brings together everyone.
What I’m going to talk about here is a platform that provides services through digital technology

#GIG - The Uberization of Work (Trailer)
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[Video link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ENlgOF5X9Y&feature=emb_title)


# [Delivery rider, trapped in the system](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Mes1RqIOdp48CMw4pXTwXw?fbclid=IwAR0yfih0jSBIZuYqZaGqwNfcZZM_poxKcEbV4Y8Zs0cIBRee2_bmh4WYnSc)

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"Another two minutes disappeared from the system.

Ele.me rider Zhu Dahe clearly remembers that one day in October 2019, when he saw the system delivery time of an order, his hand holding the handlebar became sweaty, "2 kilometers, within 30 minutes." "Delivery" - He has been running takeout in Beijing for two years. Previously, the shortest delivery time for the same distance was 32 minutes, but from that day on, those two minutes disappeared.

At about the same time, Meituan riders also experienced the same "missing time incident." A Meituan rider who specializes in long-distance takeout in Chongqing found that the delivery time for orders within the same distance has been reduced from 50 minutes to 35 minutes; his roommate is also traveling with him, and the longest delivery time within 3 kilometers has been reduced to 30 minutes. .

This is not the first time that time has disappeared from the system.

Jin Zhuangzhuang has been the webmaster of a Meituan delivery station for three years. He clearly remembers that between 2016 and 2019, he received notices of "acceleration" from the Meituan platform three times: In 2016, the longest food delivery distance was 3 kilometers. The long time limit is 1 hour. In 2017, it became 45 minutes. In 2018, it was shortened by 7 minutes and fixed at 38 minutes. According to relevant data, in 2019, the average delivery time of takeout orders in China's entire industry was longer than 3 years. It was reduced by 10 minutes before.

The system has the ability to "eat up" time continuously. For the creators, this is a commendable progress and a reflection of the deep learning capabilities of the AI ​​intelligent algorithm. In Meituan, this "real-time intelligent delivery system" is called "Super Brain", Ele.me named it "Ark". In November 2016, Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan, said in an interview with the media: "Our slogan is 'Meituan takes out everything quickly', and it arrives in an average of 28 minutes." He said, "This is a good The embodiment of technology."

But for delivery people who practice "technological progress", this may be "crazy" and "fatal". "


* Global enterprise
* The rise of the network society
* Silicon Valley’s new unicorn
* gig economy
* Unicorn? Or Zebra?


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# Silicon Valley (TV series)
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"The Californian Ideology" published by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron in "Mute" in 1995 has revealed that when the upstarts in California's Silicon Valley rose, advocates of high-tech ideology mastered the technology and made a lot of money. Next, denying the concept of community and social progress, the article calls on people to re-discuss what kind of hypermedia is suitable for our social vision, and how to create interactive products and online services that we want to use to achieve people's common benefit and common good.
# * Personal Information Storm: Cambridge Analytica Incident The Great Hack (2019)
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# * Intelligent Society The Social Dilemma (2020)
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# Urban platformism - urban policy intervention needs to consider the development of the city itself
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How does the sense of urban space change due to the efficiency required by smart cities? What further impact will there be on residents? According to the description of the Japanese big data website, when entering Society 5.0, all data since Society 4.0 will be processed, converted into new forms of intelligence through artificial intelligence (AI), and spread to various areas of people’s lives. People's lives will be more comfortable and stable since they will have access to products and services at the right time and at the right time.


# **Big Tech 4**




A cooperative is a self-organized group that achieves common economic, social and educational benefits through a shared entrepreneurial spirit. Promoting the development of cooperation means promoting the widespread formation of political-economic democratic organizations, increasing social productivity, and achieving a balance between productivity and production relations. Cooperatives are not charities, not nonprofits, but more equitable economies.
To support the productivity of cooperatives, we should specifically start from laws, education, community autonomy, industrial models, creative economy, shared culture, technological improvement, and the connection between international undertakings and examples.


# Consumer-centered C2B model
Human Cloud/Work from home/Freelance workers must face organizational problems alone/
As Internet users shift from PC to mobile, the boundary between online and offline commerce is becoming a thing of the past. As long as you have a mobile phone, any offline consumption can be converted into online transactions at any time. We have passed the PC era and are passing from the mobile Internet era to the intelligent era of the Internet of Things (IoT).
In the past, consumers took the initiative to shop online/offline, but in the near future, human commercial civilization will truly achieve a "decentralized" consumption model. O2O (Online to Offline, integrating online to offline) new retail in all channels, or new manufacturing with personalized customization, the thinking is: "Wherever you are, there is the center of service or manufacturing." This kind of "decentralized" discontinuous innovation is another great migration of human business activities from B2C to C2B (Consumer to Business).

#digitalcommons
network
Cypherpunk Manifesto: Right to Privacy (1993)
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto. Eric Hughes

Declaration of Independence from Cyberspace John Perry Barlow (1996)
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace-John Perry Barlow

Guerrilla Open Manifesto: Information is Power (2008)
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto,Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy
https://openipub.com/?pub=GuerrillaOpenAccessManifesto.html


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# Michel Bauwens – Four Scenarios of the Collaborative Economy
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#### Data is labor
#### * Winner takes it all
* Ghost work What you don’t know about the online gig economy Ｍturk
* Surveillance capitalism
* Radical Markets - Data as Labor ([Data as Labor](http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/data-as-labor/))
* The practice of virtual currency and fair data
*NO on 22!

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# **How ​​do people truly share what they need? Co-ops as a new way to be retro**

[**Taiwan Cooperative Research**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rpKf6RDjqWAZStPa5f2Ye9JskPKOorquBT-qZRsMe-0/edit?fbclid=IwAR1v_I_AaWf0_KZbnM768Zg81QuYYUWAaKFpe2n_s6B-uwRBY4z1VYHPuSE#heading=h .12p7i72j4ore)


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Society_5.0
https://www.japan.go.jp/abenomics/_userdata/abenomics/pdf/society_5.0.pdf






#Platform Cooperativism—One of the most important global movements in recent years
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cooperatives as a radical
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How do traditional, labor-based organizations that unite to avoid alienation respond to the accelerating progressivism of the digital age today? Can all the technologies used in start-up companies be combined with the spirit of the cooperative economy to create a fairer life for people?

"Through platform cooptism (https://platform.coop), the idea is to use technology to connect workers and service provider users through platforms, and workers organize cooperatives autonomously. How can platform cooperatives contribute to this? Can art institutions Can new urbanist networks be followed and alliances become 'rebel cities'? In the face of mutant fascism, local forms of life can be reimagined beyond blood, soil, state and corporations, into neighbourhoods, publics, spectators?"

The platform collaboration movement began in 2015 with Trebor Scholz, associate professor of culture and media at the New York New School, and Nathan Schneide, visiting assistant professor of media studies and journalist at the University of Colorado Boulder. The 1st Platform Cooperativism Conference: "Platform Cooperativism - Network. Ownership. Democracy". In addition to being held in New York, the Platform Cooperativism Conference has also been promoted to Berlin, London, Brussels, Barcelona, ​​Tuscany and other cities.

From 2019 to 2020, the platform cooperativism movement has established a participatory design and technology toolbox, allowing more local labor groups to continue to build successful cases and hack through understanding of technological tools and cross-regional cooperation. The future they want is to find public land in the digital space, and this also requires the help of policies, regulations and funds for cooperatives.

Let us build independent nodes and decentralized networks by understanding these cases. Through the investigation of cooperative organizational methods and technical needs in Taiwan in recent years, combined with the methods and cases of international platform cooperativism implementation, we can use information visualization as an understanding Tools, hoping to put forward the best strategies for local practice and rooting by clarifying problems and sharing methods.



# **International platform cooperative case**
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* Spanish food delivery cooperation platform Mensakas: Txiki Blasi, Oriol Alfambra Serrano & Nuria Soto
* Salonie Hiriyur Muralidhara -- SEWA Federation
* Equal Care Co-op
* Fairbnb
* Cataki
* CoopCycle(Edith Darin & Arthur Hay)

* Cataki
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[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRAwev8JT8)

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(What problems did we encounter?)

#HOW?
accelerator
* START COOP
* HIVE
* [UNFOUND](https://unfound.coop/)
* Mondragon School
* Platform Co-ops Now! Online Course

**Platform Cooperation Toolbox**
* Collaborative design
* Tool Box|Tool Kit
* Coopedia

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##### START COOP Accelerator
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Open recruitment for teams that start businesses in a cooperative model, and provide selected candidates with a 16-week virtual accelerator program.
It involves five core elements:

1. Coaching: Receive personalized coaching sessions from our Co-Directors Greg Brodsky and Jessica Mason to help you set and achieve your business growth goals.

2. Courses: Deep dive into powerful learning experiences for entrepreneurs focused on building practical business skills so you can succeed and scale. We employ a world-class community of experts who deliver learning modules ranging from customer research and market validation to finance and governance.

3. Mentorship: Connect with the best minds in large cooperative and startup communities to gain individual strategic guidance and support.

4. Platform services: Select and obtain the best business management tools and services (such as legal, accounting, CRM and marketing tools) at preferential prices, thereby saving a lot of time and money in the critical start-up phase of a business.

5. Investment: We will invest $10,000 in cash into your cooperative and provide over $10,000 in in-kind services. We work closely with you to secure additional financing from individual and institutional investors, cooperative loan schemes and philanthropy. In addition, high-performing graduates will be eligible for follow-on funding of up to $50,000.


#### * Tool Box|Tool Kit
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coopedia.starter.coop



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### Further reading:
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Platform cooperativism: a digital platform that fights capital monopoly and builds a cooperative spirit https://eyesonplace.net/2021/03/29/16650/?fbclid=IwAR1P6nx-nVuCuhvyDzJQE_LxeX61HNa2gQm_dAaiWmfkWFzU0yPO55yxUzs



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# **Yulin Huang** #
Art activists and cross-disciplinary art creators have often communicated with art workers in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia in recent years (Note 1), and further gained an in-depth understanding of the living conditions of art workers and art space operators in various countries. , and gLEAP global/local art practices in various countries.

These art and cultural workers usually have to work part-time in other jobs in order to support their creations and create small economic circles through various alternative solutions under the precariat (precariat) labor status.

With the rise of the Internet platform economy, I have been involved in the research of "platform cooperativism" since 2018, and have learned about the development of domestic cooperatives. I edited the "COOP Handbook - Taiwan, China, Hong Kong" and the "2019 New York International Platform Cooperativism Selection" Collection>, and visit the Brussels arts and cultural cooperative SMart, Spanish food delivery cooperation platform Mensakas, etc.

**Participation over the years**

＝2018 Taiwan-Hong Kong Local Brainstorming Conference, Hong Kong Cooperation Song, and Platform Cooperativism Annual Conference@HK
＝2019 Local Creation Exhibition Hualien Exhibition Area, Cooperation Pine, Platform Cooperativism Annual Conference@NY
＝2020 New York New School X Mondragon Platform Co-ops Now!

Participation in anti-forced evictions, housing rights, and anti-urban renewal movements
The working conditions of Asian art and literary workers

Contact information: yulinhuang.01@gmail.com