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, […]
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.” Good things can happen when a crowd goes to work on trying to figure out a problem in journalism. At the same time, completely crowdsourced news investigations can go […]
Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature
A 62 page Deep Dive hosted by Commons Strategies Group in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and David Graeber. What is “value” and how shall we protect it? It’s a simple question for which we don’t have a satisfactory answer. For conventional economists and politicians, the answer is simple: value is essentially the same […]
