The Future of Work and Labour weekly report w. 44.

• Group name: The Future of Work and Labour
• What we have done. We have had two brainstorming sessions. The first one was centred on employment and how that may look like in the future. Our work/labour was summarised in the following picture:
  
  
  The second session focussed on what direction the project should take. We came up with some pillars or assumptions for our future scenario, and some important factors for that scenario. We also came up with a couple of concrete ideas. A main idea was to follow a person going through different phases. The main results of this session can be found in the following picture:
  

• What we will do. We will elaborate on these ideas, possibly try to make them into a single idea. We will do some reading over the weekend and meet again next week and finalise the idea.
• Challenges encountered. It has been a challenge to get the entire group to be at one place at the same time. This is probably partly because this week is the mid-term exam week.
• Changes in the project. We have narrowed our focus.
• Resources. 
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2014/10/16/why-the-collaborative-economy-is-changing-everything/
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsTGB8VrmZM 
  
  

  
  
• Other. 

Is the sharing economy a tool for ecological transition

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This report might be of interest to some groups:

"The sharing economy: make it sustainable" (summary/highlights, pdf of the report)
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Can the sharing economy regulate itself? Should it?

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Economix blog post in New York Times, "Trusting the "sharing economy" to regulate itself?"

"the emerging peer-to-peer, collaborative “sharing economy” will be a significant segment of the country’s future economic activity, stimulating new consumption, raising productivity and catalyzing individual innovation and entrepreneurship. There’s a real danger that today’s misalignment between newer peer-to-peer business models and older regulations will impede economic growth. The solution is to delegate more regulatory responsibility to the marketplaces and platforms"

Perhaps this is a distinctly US perspective?
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Oct 14 free symposium, "Connected - things about future cities and people"

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I just saw an open invitation to the Tuesday Oct 14 (14.30-17.00) symposium "Connected - things about future cities and people" at Färgfabriken in Liljeholmen. I think this might relates quite a lot to the upcoming lecture by Karin Bradley a few days from now.

Here's a link to the symposium and here's a link to the project it is part of.

"We believe that the idea of a self-building city increases connectivity and the social and cultural capital of inhabitants, and its relationship to the region. Contemporary urban planning demands a holistic vision, a strategy to build sustainable communities. Cities are not developed through a strict process where one step inevitably leads to the next. A city is constantly changing, developing and is never finished. On our way towards more sustainable, open and connected communities we need radical solutions on a regional scale."
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Guide to collaborative financing

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Here's part 1 of a guide to "collaborative financing"

"Collaborative Finance is an umbrella term that assembles together various processes of money exchange happening right now that are revolutionising finance.

Recently a lot attention has been given trying to understand how technology is enabling a whole new phenomenon of person-to–person and crowd–driven funding, lending, currency and investment services. These services, according to various experts, promise to decentralize and democratize the access to finance, money and banking. The umbrella term that is being increasingly used to name these operations is collaborative finance."

/Daniel
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Podcast about regulation of sharing economy services

Freakonomics is a podcast from WNYC that usually holds high quality - this episode is about services like Airbnb, Uber and EatWith and what the state can/should do to regulate these services.

http://freakonomics.com/2014/09/04/regulate-this-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

Borrow my doggy?!

I came across this great sharing site on the internet: https://www.borrowmydoggy.com/

I love dogs, and I love walking, but I just do not have time for a dog in my life. This service does not exist in Sweden, but I would love some dog company on my walks from time to time, and still not having the burden of the full time responsibility of these furry friends.

It could also be a great way for somebody to take care of a dog for a week or two during summer while the owner goes on holiday. Perhaps as a little extra holiday-excitement for a family with children without having to go away on an expensive holiday?