From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy
Mar 1, 2017
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Funding: COST · March 2017 – March 2021
The terms “Sharing Economy” or “Collaborative Economy” have been commonly used in recent years to refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models and forms of work. The main objective of this action is to develop a European network of actors (including scholars, practitioners, communities and policy makers) focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice-focused approach.
Objectives
- To develop deeper understanding of the collaborative economy phenomenon by studying sociotechnical systems and human practices across local, regional, national and international initiatives
- To discuss and critique current discourse elements on the collaborative economy, proposing richer definitions and characterization
- To formulate a European research agenda for socio-technical aspects, including technological platform design, legal, ethical and financial implications
- To articulate a European research perspective aligned with EU values of social innovation and Europe 2020 strategy objectives for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy
Authors
Professor
Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.