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Trust erodes over time in the online world, Stanford experts say

By Clifton B. Parker Rawpixel/Shutterstock. Uber, Airbnb and consequences of the sharing economy: Research roundup. The leading businesses that are advancing the concept of the “sharing economy” are in many respects no longer insurgents and newcomers.

Uber, Airbnb and consequences of the sharing economy: Research roundup

The size and scale of Uber, Airbnb and several other firms now rival, or even surpass, those of some of the world’s largest businesses in transportation, hospitality and other sectors. As the economic power of these technology-driven firms grows, there continue to be regulatory and policy skirmishes on every possible front, across cities and towns spanning the United States, Europe and beyond. The Economics and Statistics Administration of the U.S. Commerce Department issued a report in June 2016 that attempts to define and map out the contours of this emerging business sector, labeling its participants “digital matching firms.”

How Liability Problems in the Sharing Economy Can Affect You. Source: Thinkstock Given their phenomenal growth over the last couple of years, sharing economy startups have become an important part of the modern economic ecosystem.

How Liability Problems in the Sharing Economy Can Affect You

Their social and economic proposition is attractive: share resources (and earn environmental brownie points in the process) and make friends to expand your social circle. For example, Airbnb, the popular site that is giving hotels a run for their money, enables site users to rent out spare bedrooms. In the process, the site claims to foster friendships and connections in addition to extra income for users. Ride-sharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, are based on a similar model of offering rides to strangers to generate income. Interest is Rising in Cooperative Alternatives to the "Sharing Economy" Trebor Scholz, Sara Horowitz, Nathan Schneider, Saket Soni, Caroline Woolard, Douglas Rushkoff (l-r) at Civic Hall If last week's turnout at Civic Hall is any indication, a lot of people--technologists as well as organizers--are interested in figuring out how the 21st century economy can be built on more cooperative and less exploitative principles than the libertarian "gig economy" exemplified by companies like TaskRabbit and Uber.

Interest is Rising in Cooperative Alternatives to the "Sharing Economy"

Folks came out for a panel discussion called "Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy," which was triggered by a thought-provoking essay in Medium by Trebor Scholz, a professor at The New School. He wrote: ...just for one moment imagine that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism could be cloned and brought back to life under a different ownership model, with fair working conditions, as a humane alternative to the free market model.

La "sharing economy" arriva al mare. Cresce Antlos - Sailbiz. Hoffice, come trasformare il salotto in un coworking. Hooshmand_The-risks-of-being-a-host-in-the-sharing-economy_Plaintiff-magazine.pdf. Is the Sharing Economy Really Helping the Poor? Not Yet. Ben Schiller of Fast Company wrote an article stating that the sharing economy could help the poorest among us and said, according to GetAround data, that more people use GetAround in poorer parts of San Francisco.

Is the Sharing Economy Really Helping the Poor? Not Yet.

Really?? Let's look at what is true here. Most of the so-called traditional "poor" parts of San Francisco are now run by hipsters and techies. So if you're looking at the Mission, Dogpatch or Bayview, chances are it's the techies living there using it and not the original "poorer" community accessing these apps.Second, sharing is a part of life for many poorer communities. Oh, you don't have a car? Book Extract: The rise of sharing economy. FRUGAL INNOVATION: HOW TO DO BETTER WITH LESSAuthor: Navi Radjou and Jaideep PrabhuPublisher: Hachette IndiaPrice: Rs 599ISBN: 9789350099858 In a circular economy, a product undergoes multiple incarnations - with its materials being recycled and reused again and again - thus, sustaining its value over multiple lifetimes.

Book Extract: The rise of sharing economy

During any particular lifetime, however, the product is most likely to be owned and used by just one customer. But what if, during even a single lifetime or incarnation, the same product could be consumed by many users? A Meditation on the Meaning of Collaboration. As some of you will have seen, some time ago I coined the term ‘knotworks’ which I defined as ‘networks with ego’.

A Meditation on the Meaning of Collaboration

My first articles about knotworks related to co-creation and the way in which many networks, projects and organisations eventually collapse due to underlying dynamics relating to ego which people, especially leaders, fail to either recognise or address. The squiggle of Knotworking In this article I would like to now move from co-creation to collaboration, especially as sharing and the sharing economy are becoming ever more hotter topics, which is great, albeit the fact that the current discussion on the whole tends to avoid the tricky, or knotty, issue of ego. Credit: Simon Robinson If we breakdown the word collaboration we find three elements.

The legal issues surrounding the sharing economy. The sharing economy has clearly broadened our options for travel, lodging, legal services and a host of other activities.

The legal issues surrounding the sharing economy

But regulation of these peer-to-peer services is still evolving. And legal issues have arisen. HRTech Europe: are you ready for the network economy? Details. Shared-use mobility — the shared use of a vehicle, bicycle, or other low-speed mode — is an innovative transportation solution that enables users to have short-term access to transportation modes on an as-needed basis.

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Shared-use mobility includes carsharing, bikesharing, scooter sharing, shuttle services, ridesharing, and on-demand ride services. Shared mobility has had a transformative impact on many cities by enhancing transportation accessibility, while reducing ownership of personal automobiles. Vehicles and bicycles are typically unattended, concentrated in a network of locations where the transaction of checking out a vehicle or bicycle is facilitated through Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Digital Marketing and the Sharing Economy. I met Brian Bolton in 2009 at the best digital marketing conference ever, so I wasn’t surprised to hear that he started a new social community and collaboration platform specifically developed for independent digital marketing, design and technology talent to connect with each other and be found by companies looking for their expertise.

Digital Marketing and the Sharing Economy

This week’s #SMChat is about social communities and the “sharing economy.” Brian’s explanation and questions are below: By now everyone has heard about the “sharing” or “collaboration” economy. Welcome to Forbes. Will the sharing economy - the Uber's and Lyft's of the world - strike the right legal balance between empowering and exploiting workers? Il futuro con la sharing economy. The Next Evolution of the Sharing Economy.

By Cary Cole, CEO Speedshare The Oxford Dictionaries added the terms `ridesharing and `the sharing economy’ to its lexicon recently, offering another reminder of the startling changes the Internet has let loose on our economy. When it comes to making predictions, technology proponents rightly get dinged for sometimes letting optimism get the better of their sober sides. But let’s not dismiss the excitement around what’s commonly referred to as the collaborative or sharing economy as yet more ginned-up hype. It ought to be clear that we’re at the dawn of a major social and economic transformation. How large still remains a matter of debate but my hunch is that this is going to be huge. Against Sharing. Kazi drives a Toyota Prius for Uber in Los Angeles.

He hates it. He barely makes minimum wage, and his back hurts after long shifts. But every time a passenger asks what it’s like working for Uber, he lies: “It’s like owning my own business; I love it.” The sharing economy. In the sharing economy, what’s mine is yours. Literally. Cars, bikes, homes, offices, even camera lenses and power tools — people are sharing capital assets in unprecedented numbers. Even less tangible things like skills and knowledge are being shared, not only by private citizens and community groups, but also by prestigious institutions like Harvard University and MIT.

It’s called collaborative consumption and, well, it just kind of happened. A faz da par maker: a two-days event dedicated to the sharing economy. As we all know, all over the world, and in Italy too, things are changing. The daily way in which we spend our money, the way we organize travels, the way we move. That is basically the arising of a new economic approach. The first thing to do is to map all of our “friends” and to support each other when we do something good for our communities, so to create a network of social innovators and supporters of sharing economy.

Few weeks ago, a participant of the Sharing School organized in Matera (of whose LabGov was an official partner) in January, emailed us in order to let us know a very nice initiative we are proud to support. What the Sharing Economy Takes. Sharing is a good thing, we learned in kindergarten, but that wisdom was soon called into question by the grown-up world of getting and spending. Now, New Age capitalism has spun out a wonderful invention: the “sharing economy,” which holds out the promise of using technology to connect disparate individuals in mutually profitable enterprise, or at least in warm feelings.

The most prominent examples of the sharing economy are a taxi-hailing service called Uber and a real-estate-subletting service called Airbnb. How the sharing economy can become a SHARING economy. Details. The New Sharing Economy and Your Taxes [Infographic] A new publication for the startup community. Digital Marketing and the Sharing Economy. ‘Welcome’ to the Sharing Economy — Also Known as the Collapse of the American Dream. 5 Lessons from the Sharing Economy. Collaborative Economy Companies Need To Start Sharing More Value With The People Who Make Them Valuable.

Book review: The Business of Sharing, by Alex Stephany. The case against the Sharing Economy. The Sharing Economy Needs an Immediate Reality... - Solobeta - Commons Governance Consulting. The Next Generation Sharing Economy. How to Create a Circular Economy. Pro & Con: Sharing economy user experience. The New Information Economy. Airbnb Comes to Cuba. Open Value Networks. Can the talent sharing economy plug the IT skills gap?

What to own when sharing designs becomes a commonplace industrial strategy ? How innovative companies such as Storemates and eRated are helping to grow the sharing caring collaborative economy. Watch out, Uber: The sharing-economy boom could deflate. First international workshop on the sharing economy. How the sharing economy must inspire communications professionals? “Sharing lies”: five lies about the Sharing Economy. "Sharing Economy" Jobs Share Same Independent Contractor Issues as "Regular Economy" : Wage & Hour Insights. Peer-to-Peer Perspective - Integratus Integratus. Get your share of the sharing economy. Go Cambio, A New, Alternative Sharing Economy For Backpackers. The sharing economy: Using business as a force for good.

Challenge for the Sharing Economy: Become Better Middlemen. In Maremma nasce il progetto freeHANDlee, la sharing economy una valida risposta alla crisi. Doublespeak in the New Economy. Il futuro con la sharing economy. New Social Messaging Aligns with the Sharing Economy. The sharing economy. How the sharing economy must inspire communications professionals? Consider Tapping Into the Sharing Economy to Save Money - BLINQ Bytes. The sharing economy. Is free working a forlorn hope? 8 Brands Using the Collaborative Economy to Market Themselves.

Airbnb Comes to Cuba. Reflections on the Future of the Sharing Economy. The dark side of the sharing economy – and how to fix it. Ecco la crowd economy, così le persone diventano sistema economico. The Economics of You: A Call to Be Extraordinary. Nonprofits-imagine-a-better-sharing-economy. The Sharing Economy: What It Means For Authors - Author Unlimited - The Sharing Economy and the Future of Cities – What’s Next? "Sharing Economy" Jobs Share Same Independent Contractor Issues as "Regular Economy" KitSplit bring the sharing economy to creative technology. How two lawsuits could destroy Uber and Lyft's business models. Labor pushes for sharing economy regulations. 5 reasons why the sharing economy is here to stay no matter what. The Sharing Economy’s New Middlemen. The Sharing Economy Goes Next-Level. This Is Why Everyone Wins In the Sharing Economy - Testlio. What Will Come First: The Sharing Or Circular Economy?

Ecco la crowd economy, così le persone diventano sistema economico. Jonathan Grossmalerman on the benefits and pitfalls of the sharing economy. The Sharing Economy Needs a Public Option. The changing shape of sharing: digital materiality and moral economies. Is Business Sharing the Way to Achieve a Circular Economy? As Expo 2015 Nears, Milan Embraces the Sharing Economy « URBACT The blog. Go Cambio, A New, Alternative Sharing Economy For Backpackers. 4 ways the sharing economy can change the world. Marco Giuli e Ilaria Maselli. The Sharing Economy and the Future of Cities – What’s Next? Scooterino, la prima app di sharing economy in Italia. TaskRabbit CEO on future of 'sharing economy'

The Sharing Economy Is About Desperation. Welcome to Forbes. A Farewell To Jobs. Uber, Airbnb and consequences of the sharing economy: Research roundup. Stop Saying Uber Is Part Of The Sharing Economy. Publications. Can the sharing economy fix broken cities? Oggi scioperano i mezzi pubblici. E Uber sfida i tassisti con una corsa gratuita.