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 […]
Following last December’s court ruling, which responded to a consultation by Spain, in which the European Court of Justice stated that the Uber platform was not an intermediary between customers and drivers, but a main provider of the service, a further judicial setback seems to further complicate the legal fit of the application in Europe, […]
The housing access crisis that is taking place in many developed countries is also being felt in Canada, where its cities are taking measures to guarantee this right, and some are related to new regulations and restrictions on tourist rentals through digital platforms such as Airbnb, Booking or HomeAway. So, in Vancouver, where it is […]
In Denmark, the first collective agreement has been signed for the platform’s economy. As we have pointed out in previous posts, the labour impact and the effects on the labour market of digital platforms is one of the most relevant aspects to analyse, insofar as they cannot be a door to fraud. In this regard, […]
As part of the Notodofilmfest short film series (a famous competition in Spain), the short film “¡Hola, buenas noches – Hello, good night!”(directed by Pau Rodilla and starring Carlos Vera) is gaining enormous public impact and encouraging reflection on its main theme, the precariousness and instability of cyclists and digital platform distributors such as Deliveroo, […]
This is the projection made by the study `Platforms of Collaborative Economics: A Global View’ of the Ostelea School of Tourism & Hospitality and written by the researchers Albert Beltran i Cangròs and María del Pilar Leal (IDITUR Institute). The study is available here. Among other conclusions, the study details that between 2013 and 2015, […]
One of the main issues regarding the social impact of digital platforms is their contribution in terms of employment generation and job opportunities. As we have already pointed out in previous posts, several studies, such as the EU report The Social Protection of Workers in the Platform Economy, establish an important inter-relationship between work on […]
One of the most recurrent debates about collaborative economics platforms is the extent to which they allow for interaction between people or are equated with one more classic type of service. In this sense, the two main examples are meetings between people to share transport costs (in applications such as BlaBlaCar or Amovens) and […]
Following the previous post where the situation between the traditional sectors and the new digital platforms of Uber or Cabify type transport services was analyzed, this post will reflect on the situation of the digital platforms of tourist accommodation type Airbnb or HomeAway. In this sense, there are several regulations that regulate tourist dwellings: regional […]
In this recent article published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the General Manager of BlaBlaCar Iberia and Germany, Jaime Santiago, reflects on the situation of the collaborative economy in relation to its disruptive effect. “The socio-economic impact of their innovation is the responsibility of the disruptor,” he says, where the new business model will […]