Impact of platform economy and digital trade on economic distribution -Highlights from the WTO Public Forum

The working session on ‘Impact of platform economy and digital trade on economic distribution’, focused on economic distribution and value creation in the context of global platformization. The moderator for the session was Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change, who began by outlining the broad contours of the new digital economy. He noted that much […]

Data, the Sharing Economy and Canadian Federal Regulation

This post originally appeared on Medium on February 12. It has been reposted here with permission. Theory tells us that data is central to digital platform capitalism, so there is growing interest in creating policies that protect consumers and foster innovation given new data-driven business practices. But data is not new to digital capitalism, and […]

Why P2P lending can be the game changer for SMEs- Perspectives from Latin America

By Mercedes Aguirre & Sandra Garcia-Rivadulla When we look into platform economies that are disruptive and hold the potential for deep socio-cultural changes, we feel compelled to look into microfinance, more specifically the notion of Peer to Peer lending (P2PL) (also known as social lending). P2P-based platforms are mostly aimed at those constrained by socio-economic […]