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2020-02-07

1,000 True Fans? Try 100

An emerging category of digital platforms is helping people to translate their skills and talents into businesses. But as the creator landscape evolves, the playbook needs updating. More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, New Business Models, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2019-09-26

The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution

Commercial platforms cannot prioritise the ideals of a liberal public sphere, much less the principle of popular sovereignty, over the profit motive. Introduction The information technology sector broadly defined is now at the leading edge of the capitalist system. Material production and distribution, enterprise and professional management, finance, insurance and real estate are all increasingly […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, digital public commons, Institutional Innovation, New Business Models, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-06-02

Do platforms work?

The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom Why do corporations exist? These hierarchical, self-contained assemblies of labour, capital and know-how have been with us for so long that by now they seem almost ‘natural’. But apart from what they make or do or sell, […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Blockchain, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, New Business Models, Platform Collectivism, Platforms, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2017-09-18

Scott Galloway – The Four – What To Do

Galloways’ insights are fundamental and point to a profound tipping point in the economy of the digital environment. The digital environment – is essentially the general purpose platform for costless coordination. In a McLuhanesque phrase – if the digital environment is the medium – the message is social computing – the programmable economy. Worth more than $2.3 […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Complexity, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Infrastructure, New Business Models, Self-Organization, Value, values Leave a Comment

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