Policy event: Governing Smart Platforms: Policy Directions in the Collaborative Economy
Mark Hartswood
Governing Smart Platforms: Policy Directions in the Collaborative Economy
9.30 – 16.00, December 5th, Scotland House, Rond-Point Schuman 6, Brussels.
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Our institutions are undergoing fundamental change driven by the emergence of platform technologies. These technologies lever mass participation in interlocking institutions to co-produce complex constellations of value. Many of the effects of platform technologies are seen as being positive. Uber is effective in many locations. Airbnb offers unprecedented variety of accommodation around the world. But there are issues: Platforms offer new forms of flexible employment, but does this lead to much more precarious forms of work? Platforms mobilise material resources, but do they distribute the benefits fairly? Platforms become enmeshed deep inside everyday practice, but do platforms exploit the knowledge gained from that to our disadvantage?
This one-day workshop will begin by exploring these issues, then will consider the range of responses to platforms by different stakeholders and finally will consider how this range of responses might articulate to form a coherent riposte to the issues embodied in the rise of the platform society.
Speakers
'The landscape of the Collaborative Economy’ - Helen Goulden
Helen is an Executive Director at Nesta and leader of its Innovation Lab.
'Digital Footprint Project - Crowd work in Europe’ - Aileen Körfer
Aileen is a Policy Officer at UNI Europa responsible for digitalisation, the single market and economic governance.
‘Regulating Platforms in the EU’ – Prabhat Agarwal
Prabhat leads the work on Platform Regulation at DG Connect.
'Personal data platforms and lightweight trust-building solutions' - Lucie Burgess
Lucie is Head of Personal Data and Trust at the UK Digital Catapult
'A Social Charter for Smart Platforms' – Mark Hartswood
Mark is researching Responsible Research and Innovation for platforms at Oxford University.
Paul Timmers will also be speaking. Paul is Director of the Sustainable & Secure Society Directorate in DG CONNECT
This event is being organised by the Smart Society Project
http://www.smart-society-project.eu/ / http://smartplatformcharter.eu