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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

If the Uber and Lyft drivers in a particular city united to develop or purchase their own ride-hailing app, and collectively governed the use of the app and the equitable distribution of resulting revenues, this would be a platform cooperative. But in the end, all of these avenues are quite limited in terms of the capital they can provide.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities. Visiting the Hon.

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