R. Trebor Scholz

We are pleased to announce the 2026–2027 ICDE Fellows, a cohort advancing research on cooperative digital infrastructure across governance, finance, labor, food systems, and AI, representing 10 countries across 4 continents. platform.coop/blog/icdefel...

Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.

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Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI (SSIR) How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems.

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Is a co-op model emerging in platform logistics? Evidence from Spain R. Trebor Scholz, founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, reports on a success story from Spain

Spain offers real evidence that platform logistics can be cooperative: Givit, a worker-owned platform co-op in delivery, now has 900+ members and €12m+ in revenue. www.thenews.coop/is-a-co-op-m...

And here the reflections after the event platform.coop/blog/when-wo...

Tired of the AI hype, backlash, and “AI for Good” events? Join us in Istanbul for Cooperative AI—4 days linking tech to real movements. 30+ countries, scholars, data labelers, union organizers, co-op leaders. Join the network reimagining AI beyond Big Tech. platform.coop/events/coope...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

Trump officials will limit intl. students to 4 years (median to finish PhD: 5.7 years). The justification? DHS claims to protect national security it hopes a threat files an extension after 4 years so USCIS reviews their application. @mclem.org @erikbryn.bsky.social‬
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What if the digital economy worked for communities, not corporations? A/Prof Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social shares real-world alternatives from over 60 countries in this presentation. Listen now on the ADM+S Podcast bit.ly/4fBkbzT
#DigitalCoops #PlatformCooperativism #DigitalEconomy

The syllabus of my online course 'AI Without Bosses'
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Enrollment is now open to everyone (15 weeks, free with registration, starts on Aug 28th)
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Image credit: Clarote & AI4Media / Better Images of AI

Join us Sept 11 for "Beyond Democracy Theater" w/ Dan McQuillan, Emily Tseng, Joan Kinyua, Anna Iovine, Dorleta Urrutia-Oñate, Linda Huber & Trebor Scholz—on worker power + AI alternatives.

Register newschool.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #coops #ai #platformcoops

Details:
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Givit, Europe’s largest platform cooperative for delivery, grew 60% in 2024, reaching €9 million in revenue and 837 worker-owners. [article in Spanish]

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Great report by Mosa Tsay on Groupmuse

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Next Tuesday at Columbia U

Glad to share our new piece in Harvard Business Review hbr.org/2025/06/5-wa...

A few years of work in this report. Worth the read! platform.coop/blog/new-pcc...

Coming up:
Trebor Scholz — From Vibe to Viability: A Methodology for Building Transformative Alternatives in the Digital Economy

Friday 16 May
5:30pm – 7:00pm
RMIT Storey Hall
336 Swanston Street, Melbourne

I’m excited to share the publication of my book Own This! —now not only in Italian, but also in Mandarin, and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House.

Less than a week left to submit an abstract for the conference 'Countervailing Platform Power', Florence, June 26-27.

"the president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”

Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.**

"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

Ramadan Mubarak from all of us at Signalise! 🌙

Excited to speak at Rutgers’ Childhood Studies Center this morning

Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section; Shipley to leave In an email and social media post, Jeff Bezos outlined dramatic changes to The Washington Post’s opinions section, and announced that opinions editor David Shipley has resigned.

Unsubscribe. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Only two days left to apply.

delivering a university lecture at Rutgers on Thursday. DM me if you want to join.

Just spoke with South African truckers about their new unionized platform co-op—exciting stuff! They are unstoppable.

The early ’90s in E Germany didn’t feel like the present moment, though there are parallels—twenty-year-olds shutting down factories they deemed unfit to survive. But for a faint moment then at least, it felt like the possibility of something better.
@nilsgilman.bsky.social

YouTube video by fritz51238 Joseph Beuys - Sonne statt Reagan 1982

“Sonne statt Reagan,
Sonne statt Regen,
Lasst die Sonne scheinen
In die Herzen hinein!”
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“Brazil’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet Branco, indicted Mr. Bolsonaro and 33 other people for a series of crimes against Brazil’s democracy. “

In the words of Molly Ivins: “It sounded better in the original German”