Really interesting piece from my friend and collaborator at #GrowGood using mycelium as a lens for thinking about regenerative economics, mutual coordination, and distributed systems beyond extractive platform models.

Worth a read:

https://growgood.org.au/en/blog/growgood-mycelium/

#RegenerativeEconomics #Commons #OpenSource #Mutualism #PlatformCoops #Coordination #ValueFlows

GrowGood Mycelium

GrowGood is a farm management system for a better food future.

What are market opportunities for #PlatformCoops today? Where are platform coops succeeding? Which markets are opening up for them? What ownership and governance innovations are emerging?

Tomorrow afternoon at 5:30pm CET we’re bringing together researchers, founders, coopreneurs & curious minds for our Platform Coops Open Research Forum. A space to exchange ideas and explore real opportunities!

Please join us by signing up here:

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/platform-coops-open-research-forum-understanding-markets-opportunities-tickets-1982957558437?aff=oddtdtcreator

Platform Coops Open Research Forum: Understanding Markets & Opportunities

Dive into the world of Platform Coops and explore markets & business opportunities with us! Special guests: Ali Ercan Özgür, CEO Needs Map

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Join us for our second edition of the #PlatformCoops Open Research Forum on March 24, this time dedicated to exploring market opportunities and business models for platform coops! The team of #NeedsMap in Turkey will share their story.
Sign up here and get in touch with platform coop founders, researchers, students & activists!

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/platform-coops-open-research-forum-understanding-markets-opportunities-tickets-1982957558437

Platform Coops Open Research Forum: Understanding Markets & Opportunities

Dive into the world of Platform Coops and explore markets & business opportunities with us! Special guests: Ali Ercan Özgür, CEO Needs Map

Eventbrite

#TIL about Other Tech Worlds are Possible, a comic about technological empowerment among radical workers in Brazils' MTST (English translation: Homeless Workers Movement);

https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-Possible-Vol.-1-Homeless-Workers-Movement-in-Brazil-English.pdf

#OrganisedLabour #PlatformCoops

Taxi + ride-hailing app services, run as platform co-ops in some places. But maybe councils could supply apps which aggregate rides from a range of vetted services? Including those that specialise in transporting the disabled?

It's akin to the way a competent council can supply public shopping areas, with a range of independently run food places All of which are inspected for anything that might poison you.

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#PlatformCoops #RideHailing

Concluding my week on Friday with an online international event by @cecop_coops on how coop federals can support innovative coop startups. I’ll be talking about @cooperativesuk #Hackathons and our work on #platformcoops via #unfound.

Nächste Woche Samstag feuern wir im Millerntor-Stadion beim FC St. Pauli mit vielen anderen Genossenschaften unseren Lieblingsclub an: die bessere Welt des kooperativen Wirtschaftens

Wir freuen uns riesig auf das #coopfest
https://www.hostsharing.net/genossenschaft/

Kommt vorbei! Infos und Tickets unter https://fcspeg.com/14genossenschaften-bauen-eine-bessere-welt-coop-fest-2025-noch-mehr-ermaessigte-tickets/

#genossenschaft #coop #cloud #platformcoops

 Local, Multi-Stakeholder, Cooperative Food Delivery with Radish. #Coops #PlatformCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnPUPwfxkE

Skip the doordash w/ Mansib Rahman

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There's a lot of interesting stuff in this interview with Mansib Rahman and Dru Oja Jay! Radish is a local, multi-stakeholder food delivery #cooperative in Montreal, Canada that has been exploring supply-chain logistics for restaurants. #PlatformCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnPUPwfxkE

Skip the doordash w/ Mansib Rahman

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The sudden and unexpected shuttering of mtrx.nz and peertube.nz in the last couple of weeks is a stark reminder of how ephemeral community-hosted services can be. In the absence of third options, people are stuck with technical infrastructure offered either by corporations, or by informal group of volunteers. Who have every right to walk away at any time, leaving the people hosted on their servers scrambling for a replacement.

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#cooperatives #TechCoOps #PlatformCoops