Welcome to the Collaborative Economy: this opening keynote from OuiShare Fest briefly presents different aspects of the rising collaborative economy - collaborative consumption, the maker movement & peer production, microentrepreneurship, online trust & digital identity and the city as a place for sharing. 

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Setting the stage with the opening keynote at OuiShare Fest with OuiShare Core members Flore Berlingen, Antonin Léonard, Francesca Pick, Benjamin Tincq, Albert Cañigueral, Simone Cicero! 

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Trust in peer-to-peer marketplaces: my interview on ZU.Daily Magazine about my bachelor thesis

I recently gave an interview to ZU.Daily, an online magazine run by my former school Zeppelin University, about the bachelor thesis I wrote during my studies titled: “Building Trust in P2P Marketplaces: An Emprical Analysis of Trust Systems for the Sharing Economy.”

Check out the fulll interview in German with my insights on collaborative consumption, online trust, identity on the Web as well as the development of online trust systems by clicking on the link above.

The shift towards a “circular economy”

Even though this may not seem like anything new, this is a great video clip explaining collaborative consumption and the concept of access over ownership. What is new about this is that it approaches the topic from an entirely new angle and presents it in a way and with a wording that - in my view- businesses and politicians will understand well.

Instead of speaking about “collaborative consumption”, they speak of a “circular economy.” This is a great term with a lot of potential - let’s hold on to it.

Let’s start the sharing economy: Will Robben at TEDxTilburgUniversity

“We need to click our world’s reset button.”

Great RSA video discussing research on human motivation to be “good” or “bad.” It incorporates a very interesting perspective on the banking industry and how the circumstances under which bankers work lead them to be dishonest. Definitely worth a watch! 

RSA Animate: The Truth About Dishonesty (von theRSAorg)

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Balancing Innovation And Regulation In The Sharing Economy

This is an excellent interview from TechCrunch with Arun Sundararajan, professor at New York University Stern School of Business, discussing how to regulate the sharing economy without blocking further innovation.

Sundararajan makes some great points on how the innovative, untried nature of these emerging online business models also puts them in a head-on collision course with regulators. While many of these disruptive business ideas are shaking up established industries there is still a huge lack of the regulatory framework.

Another aspect I found interesting: many incumbent industries fear that p2p platforms will make them obsolete and substituted their business models. While this is of course in part true, we are also seeing an expansion of existing markets. Brian Chesky made a similar case in his speech at the Travel Innovation Summit in Phoenix by using the example that Airbnb has created a market for things that never had a market before, like treehouses and castles.

“People are starting to rethink and redefine what work means to them”

Have you ever thought about quitting your job and starting your own company? Due to the economic crisis and the opportunities that technology has created, many people seem to be currently asking themselves this question and are increasingly chosing microentrepreneurship as an alternative to employment.

This development was also the topic of a panel at last month’s Social Media Week, a global event with panels and workshops about social media and topics such as collaborative consumption and crowdfunding. At a panel, titled “The way out of the crisis: quit your full time job and found a company?” four speakers discussed why they decided to turn their back on a traditional nine - five worklife to pursue jobs that truly fulfill them.

What were some things that intrigued me? All panelists described the internet as being a key reason they were able to build their business. In comparison to 20 years ago, the startup costs of online based businesses are a lot lower, since require few physical resources. The internet is a crucial elementin enabling people to make the transfer to being self-employed. 

It is not only the low entry costs that are promoting self-employment. Technology is also enabling more flexible and independent work models such as coworking. According to a global coworking survey conducted by Deskmag, the size of the coworking movement has doubled every year since 2006. Their most current research states that the number of coworking spaces has grown from one in 2005 to 1800 coworking spaces worldwide in 2012.

Read my full article about “changing concepts of work in the 21st century” on OuiShare.net

Coworking is becoming increasingly popular. Source: Hyku via Photopin, CC license

Photo Credits: Hyku via Photopin, CC license

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