We've been exploring lots of 'Collaborative Consumption' concepts and enterprises and digging deeper into how public services might embrace the principles of collaborative consumption to rethink models of service delivery. Follow all the latest news and thoughts from our work on Collaborative Consumption here.
Collaborative consumption has been rising in popularity since "What's Mine is Yours" was published last year. Collaborative Consumption businesses use technology to enable trust between strangers, by enabling the sharing, swapping and trading of goods and services. It's increasingly a better option to have access rather than ownership.
07.03.2012How different would your life be if you didn't trust anyone - who could you share a problem with? Who could you ask for advice or help? For some, this can become part of a wider issue of low resilience - an individual's limited ability to deal with things themselves or being more badly affected by a negative incident.
08.11.2011I believe we have not yet understood the potential for sharing and so I'm really pleased to be able to contribute to this thread and help hold some of the collaborative consumption strings together. It is a showcase and stimulator for what's happening and, just as importantly, a signpost for where we could go from here.
26.10.2011A while ago I decided to pin my colours to the collaborative mast, and stop drawing a salary from Crashpadder.com. It was a pretty easy decision at the time; I have faith in the business model, and I wanted to demonstrate that one could make ends meet purely by hosting through the site. In addition, I am at a stage in my life where my costs are pretty low, so there was little excuse not to. What I didn't anticipate, however, was how great an impact this immersion in the collaborative economy
03.10.2011Collaborative consumption in public services depends on creating new kinds of relationships with, and between, citizens with a particular emphasis on trust between strangers acting as the glue that holds the system together. Our event earlier this year explored this notion in more detail. It's worth visiting these presentations, as they contain lots of useful ideas and thinking from across public sector and the entrepreneurial community.
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