OpenDoors MED Sharing project is finishing and its the moment to writte some conclusions. As we have analyzed and seen during this project, the Sharing and collaborative economy is an excellent opportunity for Mediterranean regions to deliver services in a more decentralized, sustainable and cost-effective way based on trust and citizen-producer confidence. Always, of course, […]
This European innovation project, openDOORS MED Sharing, within the INTERREG-Mediterranean programme, is coming to an end. During the last two years, the consortium of universities that is the owner of the project has been analyzing, writing and developing different initiatives, with the aim of creating a network of collaborative entities and with the writing of several […]
Uber Technologies has reached an agreement with the Grab platform, its main competitor in Asia, to sell its division in that continent. This, in turn, means that Uber is withdrawing permanently from Asia, since in 2016 and 2017 it already reversed its operations in China (where it merged with the Didi platform) and Russia. Grab […]
One of the main tourist cities in Europe, Palma de Mallorca, has decided to ban short term rentals in residential buildings. The aim of this measure is to combat the increase in the number of unregistered tourist dwellings and the increase in the price of housing, as well as to improve social coexistence in neighbourhoods […]
In one of the main countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region, Spain, traditional trade unions such as CCOO and UGT have asked public administrations to adopt measures to regulate the so-called sharing economy, as is happening in app’s such as Deliveroo or Glovo. In this sense, they argue that many of the interactions and hiring that […]
We have been analyzing the situation of the Sharing and Collaborative economy in multiple posts of this Open Doors MED Sharing project, from the base of European and US reports. But another country where the development of new technologies and the digital economy is advanced is Canada, where it is interesting to have a look […]
In Spain has been created a platform, Datahippo, whose aim is to “offer data from different tourist rental platforms”, such as Airbnb or HomeAway, which the platform itself obtains and collects in databases, through web-scrapping techniques, and whose function is to “share them with the community, with the aim of facilitating analysis and debate on […]
As we have pointed out in other previous Open Doors posts, one of the points of reflection and conflict in relation to the collaborative economy and digital platforms is that related to compliance with regulations, since digitalization allows or can easily favor non-compliance with tax or labor obligations. Thus, collaborative economy platforms cannot support exchanges […]
Spain is one of the countries in Europe where, as we know, the conflict between the traditional taxi sector and digital platforms such as Uber or Cabify, which operate legally through driver’s licenses, VTC licenses, as the courts have already declared, and even the Supreme Court, on multiple occasions, is having more relevance. At least […]
The universities and institutions that are part of the research consortium of the OpenDoors project – Mediterranean Network for Sharing and Collaborative Economy, have travelled to Rome to participate on 18 and 19 April 2018 in the European meeting “MADE IN MED” organized by Interreg Meditarrean. This event brings together approximately 800 researchers from from […]