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Orsi quoted in In These Times article on ‘platform cooperativism’

April 8, 2016

Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi was quoted in this article looking at the intersection between technology and Co-ops.

From the article:

Advocates hope that the old platforms will be “deleted” as users embrace new, more equitable ones. Janelle Orsi, director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, has a name for the end-goal of this process. Dislodging the corporate giants that control the tech industry at present would be “the opposite of an apocalypse,” she said at a November 2015 conference billed as a “coming out party for the cooperative Internet. It would be a “co-opalypse.”

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