Sharing economy vs sharing cultures? Designing for social, economic and environmental good

This paper explores the story behind a crowdfunding service as an example of sharing technology. Research in a small neighborhood of London showed how locally-developed initiatives can differ in tone, scale, ambition and practice to those getting attention in the so-called sharing economy. In local accounts, we see an emphasis on organizing together to create shared spaces for collaborative use of resources and joint ownership of projects and places. Whereas, many global business models feature significant elements of renting, leasing and hiring and focus only on resource management, sometimes at the expense of community growth. The service we discuss is based in the area we studied and has a collective model of sharing, but hopes to be part of the new global movement. We use this hybridity to problematize issues of culture, place and scalability in developing sharing resources and addressing sustainability concerns. We relate this to the motivation, rhetoric and design choices of other local sharing enterprises and other global sharing economy initiatives, arguing, in conclusion, that there is no sharing economy, but a variety of new cultures being fostered

Is Sharing Caring? ‘Energy Sharing’ within Energy Communities under EU Law

The term ‘energy sharing’ was introduced for the first time in EU energy legislation under the Clean Energy for All Europeans package. In particular, energy communi-ties need to be allowed to share energy within the community. while it seems that the term has been deliberately introduced as a new activity, the directives provide little guidance about what it exactly entails. On the basis of a brief literature review on the concept ‘sharing’ and the overall framework and objectives of the directives, this contribution explores what energy sharing could mean and whether and how it could include a ‘caring’ component for an inclusive energy transition

Approaching maker's phenomenon

The rising of maker's movement in recent years has been spoiled by the popularization of open source technologies like 3d printing and many others. The expiration of a set of patents have made possible the emergence of several and different communities that play and tinker with technology. At the same time, these new sociotechnology based collectivities have its origins in other pre-existing ones such as "Do It Yourself" and "Hackers". Our goal in this paper is to perform a comprehensive analysis of all these trends reviewing the existing literature and identifying the main features, values and aspirations. Moreover, we argue some policy recommendations in order to maximize the impact of these spaces into the urban sphere trying to boost its potential in education and social innovation

Utilising sharing economy to address impact-centred approach in design education

To confront the growing uncertainties and challenges on a global scale through design, this paper recommends using the sharing culture as a starting point. It establishes a connection between the sharing economy and impact-centred design by examining the components and scope of the sharing economy in existing literature. Exploring how this framework can be integrated into design education, the paper offers a comprehensive account of a course on impact-centred design, grounded on sharing economy. Throughout four years, this framework was applied to explore design solutions for addressing themes related to crisis response, disaster management, and collaborative consumption. We provide methods and deliverables to illustrate how the sharing economy and design thinking collaborate to uncover systemslevel exchanges and interactions among stakeholders. Our discussions focus on the transformative influence of such design contexts on the role of the designer, the scale of the design's impact and the designer responsibility

Analiza użyteczności metod oceny projektów inwestycyjnych w kontekście zbiórek crowdfudningowych na potrzeby start-upów

Start-ups are now an integral part of modern economies and are shaping a new reality for traditional business models. Technology start-ups are currently contributing to driving the global economy and entrepreneurship. Despite their flexibility and relatively low market entry costs, one of the main challenges facing the development of start-ups is the issue of financing. Start-ups do not fit into the traditional conventions of corporate financing. This is mainly due to the fact that they are relatively uncertain about their future. There is also a large asymmetry of information between the funder and the funded, resulting from the inability to check the effects of similar entities’ market activity. Out of the modern forms of business financing, such as business angel networks, crowdfunding, or initial coin offerings (ICO), crowdfunding fits very well with the concept of start-ups. Crowdfunding is based on internet platforms and serves as a meeting place for funders and funded. Essentially, crowdfunding is divided into four categories: donation-based, reward-based, peer-to-peer lending, and equity-based. In addition, crowdfunding platforms is as a kind of place where start-up investment projects have a chance to test their idea and promote it. The essence of the article was a discussion on whether and how startup creators conduct an investment profitability assessment of their projects when raising funds on crowdfunding platforms and whether they can identify and assess what factors contribute to the success of their project in the context of crowdfunding campaigns. For this purpose, a survey was conducted using the CATI survey technique among one hundred start-up creators and founders with experience in fundraising on crowdfunding platforms. The study examined the use of methods for evaluating the investment profitability of projects in crowdfunding campaigns by start-ups. In addition, the study also identified success factors that influence the success of a crowdfunding campaign. This is important because not all crowdfunding campaigns on platforms end successfully, and success factors are numerous and can be interrelated. According to the survey respondents, the most significant success factors for crowdfunding campaigns are the presentation of an investment profitability assessment of the project and the idea itself. This means that potential investors pay attention to the economic profitability of the project and are guided by investment pragmatism when selecting start-ups on crowdfunding platforms.Start-upy są obecnie nieodłączną częścią nowoczesnych gospodarek i zaczynają kształtować nową rzeczywistość tradycyjnych modeli biznesowych. Technologiczne przedsiębiorstwa typu start-up przyczyniają się do napędzania światowej gospodarki oraz przedsiębiorczości. Pomimo swojej elastyczności oraz relatywnie niskich kosztów wejścia na rynek, jednym z głównych problemów dotyczących rozwoju start-upów jest kwestia finansowania. Start-upy nie wpisują się w tradycyjną konwencję finansowania przedsiębiorstwa głównie dlatego, że są to przedsięwzięcia o względnie dużym poziomie niepewności co do ich przyszłości. Pomiędzy finansującym a finansowanym występuje też duża asymetria informacji, która jest wynikiem braku możliwości sprawdzenie efektów działalności na rynku podobnych podmiotów. Spośród nowoczesnych form finansowania przedsiębiorstw, takich jak sieci aniołów biznesu, finansowanie społecznościowe czy też ICO (initial coin offering), to właśnie crowdfunding (finansowanie społecznościowe) wpisuje się najlepiej w koncepcję start-upów. Crowdfudning bazuje na platformach internetowcyh i funkcjonuje jako miejsce styku finansujących i finansowanych. Zasadniczo crowdfudning dzieli się na cztery grupy: donacyjny, oparty na nagrodach, pożyczkach społecznościowych oraz udziałowy. Platformy crowdfundingowe stanowią również miejsce, gdzie projekty inwestycyjne typu start-up mają szansę na sprawdzenie swojego pomysłu i jego promowanie. Istotą artykułu jest rozprawa nad kwestią czy i w jaki sposób twórcy start-upów przeprowadzają ocenę opłacalności inwestycyjnej swoich projektów podczas pozyskiwania finansowania na platformach crowdfundingowych oraz czy potrafią oni określić i ocenić, co jest czynnikiem sukcesu ich przedsięwzięcia w kontekście zbiórki crowdfundingowej. W tym celu przeprowadzone zostało badanie metodą sondażu, z wykorzystaniem techniki ankietowania CATI w gronie twórców i założycieli start-upów mających doświadczenie w pozyskiwaniu finansowania na platformach crowdfundingowych. W ramach przeprowadzonego badania sprawdzone zostało wykorzystanie metod oceny opłacalności inwestycyjnej projektów w zbiórkach społecznościowych przez założycieli start-upów. Dodatkowo badanie wyłoniło czynniki sukcesu mające wpływ na przeprowadzenie udanej zbiórki crowdfudningowej. Jest to o tyle istotne, gdyż nie wszystkie zbiórki na platformach crowdfundingowych kończą się sukcesem, a czynników sukcesu jest wiele i mogą one być ze sobą powiązane. Zgodnie z odpowiedziami ankietowanych najbardziej istotnymi czynnikami sukcesu zbiórek crowdfundingowych są zaprezentowanie oceny inwestycyjnej danego projektu oraz sam pomysł. Oznacza to, że potencjalni inwestorzy zwracają uwagę na opłacalność ekonomiczną danego przedsięwzięcia oraz kierują się pragmatyzmem inwestycyjnym w kwestii wyboru alokacji swoich środków finansowych

E-Commerce Strategy in Driving Sharing Economy in Culinary Industry

Targeting the Jakarta market, e-commerce catering had emerged to provide practical solutions for routine eating needs. The object in this study was Kulina, which was founded initially as a marketplace in 2015. The initial purpose of its establishment was to drive the sharing economy through co-creation with kitchen and distribution partners to meet the lunch needs of their customers, the employees in Jakarta. The research data was taken by interviews with Digital Marketing Manager and Customer Experience Head and Supervising Delivery. Additionally, observations were conducted on Kulina’s digital marketing communication activities on the @ Kulina.id Instagram account during September 2017-January 2018. Document searches were carried out via the internet on Instagram with the keyword #Kulina and another site containing information about Kulina based on a google search with the keyword Kulina. The study found that customer demand communicated through the website affects complementarity, development of economies of scale, and standard-setting. The information was used to open and develop a sharing economy network and business terms for Partners. Nevertheless, complementarity in Kulina was not only influenced by the meeting of suppliers and demand but also other factors such as traffic jams

The breakdown of the municipality as caring platform: lessons for co-design and co-learning in the age of platform capitalism

If municipalities were the caring platforms of the 19-20th century sharing economy, how does care manifest in civic structures of the current period? We consider how platforms - from the local initiatives of communities transforming neighbourhoods, to the city, in the form of the local authority - are involved, trusted and/or relied on in the design of shared services and amenities for the public good. We use contrasting cases of interaction between local government and civil society organisations in Sweden and the UK to explore trends in public service provision. We look at how care can manifest between state and citizens and at the roles that co-design and co-learning play in developing contextually sensitive opportunities for caring platforms. In this way, we seek to learn from platforms in transition about the importance of co-learning in political and structural contexts and make recommendations for the co-design of (digital) platforms to care with and for civil society