Many sectors and social practices nowadays are being “platformised”, from public health to security, from news to entertainment services. We would like to highlight the shortcomings and the societal implications of such a model, discuss how this global trend can affect local social relations, and alternatives such as platform cooperativism, and how could the Creative Commons movement play a role in addressing the transformational shift that is need for fostering human creativity and individual freedom, access to information and services in the era of concentration of power.
Director of InternetLab, where I do research around human rights and the Internet; Internet regulation; Gender and Tech; Access to knowledge and Copyright.