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February_2017

Alvaro Porro & Mayo Fuster

Barcelona: Collaborative policies for the collaborative Economy

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Barcelona City Council

Collaborative Economy Action Plan

How can cities support the

commons collaborative economy?

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The policy framework: Solidarity Economy Strategic Plan

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Common Good Economy

Green Economy Green entrepreneurship

Conceptual map of transformatives economies

Cooperative Economy

Social and Solidarity Economy

Social Economy Social

Entrepeneurship Third Sector

Author: Álvaro Porro Grassroots innovations

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Why should Barcelona have a specific policy?

•   Growing phenomenon •   Sharing and DIY culture are interesting

paradigms and practices for our society •   Digital disruption is here to stay •   Window of opportunity for socioeconomic

innovation and economic democratization •   Real impacts already going on •   Different stakeholders are demanding City

Council action •   Media and public debate going on

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Open and explicit conflict with specific economic/professional

sectors and some neighbourhood inhabitants

Challenge!!

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Very active scene of communites, people, projects, action, business…. Internationally awarded and recongnized Opportunity!!

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P2Pvalue Dimmons IN3 - UOC Research 980 initiatives of commons collaborative economy documented

in Barcelona

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First steps: Define an approach to the collaborative

economy

Vision that commons collaborative economy is the

model to support

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How City Council approaches collaborative economies?

1.   Face challenges with determination, looking at other cities’ experiences

2.   Do not look for general regulation model, look into each sector or theme

3.   Share a common approach framework within different city council departments to the phenomenon understanding its potential and diversity

4.   Help Barcelona to become an international reference

5.   Facilitate development of initiatives, projects and companies specially those with a more social and commons orientated perspective

6.   Collaborative economy policy to be collaborative. Build up a framework of co-creation of commons collaborative economy promotion policies in Barcelona.

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What distingues commons collaborative economy?

Open Commons Unicorn

Platform coops

Type of economy

Not-for profit/Foundations Participative governance

Corporations Centralized governance

SME & cooperatives

Participative governance

Type of technology

Free and Open Source Software

Over closed technology

Free and Open Source Software

Type of knowledge

Open data Locked knowledge

Vary

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Gover-

nance

Services

Digital → physical

Direct contact: donations

Membership fees

Public funding

Advertising

Intra-firm

Market

Peer production

Legal Entity

Membership policy

Funding

Value distribution

Co-budgeting

Replicability

Copyleft

Permissive

CopyFair

NonCommercial

NonDerivative

All rights reserved

Licensing Revenue

Models

Modes of

Production

Commons/Open Business Model

framework

data

software

art work

design

documentation

External

Regulatory

Framework

Impact

Assessment co-creation

AUTHOR: WOUTER TEBBENS

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Why the commons model? Strategic lines – procommons production model

The re-appropriation of the economy. Place well-being and life at the centre of the economy. Innovation and economic competitiveness. Boost the competitive advantages of the new technologies, based on open knowledge, fostering collaboration, innovation and capacity of internationalisation of the economy of Barcelona. Sustainability. Promoting a productive model and of consumption based on the reuse of resources and existing infrastructures and renewable energy. More democratic and efficient government institutions. Better public use of resources, open up more channels of participation and activation of the civil society in the resolution of common problems and public needs.

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Second step: Set up a co-creation policy framework

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Policy co-creation framework: Actors structure

Internal municipal areas cross-cutting group

BarCola - Group Council & sector in the city

Procomuns.net - Open encounter & annual event

Decicim.Barcelona - Participative democracy website

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Policies co-creation process

1) First diagnostic - SWOT among experts & sector

2) Online open collaborative writing tool to collect proposals (DemocracyOs)

3) Procomuns event in March 2016

With 400 people discussing proposals

Institutional participation

Declaration of public policies recommendations of 120 proposals

4) PAM - Decidim Barcelona: Online voting

5) Procomuns declaration was sent to European Commission

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Procomuns II will take place on 28-29 June

2017 in Barcelona

Announcement

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Barcelona collaborative economy action plan

Meetings and connections: Tecchnological track at social economy annual meeting, support DIY, Free software, guifi networks, Ouishare fest, etc Match Funding: Goteo crowdfunding Digital Social Innovation funding for neighbourhood-based projects Circular economy - Reuse programme: Reuse of computers and collaborative uses of public administration infrastructure Experimentation: Piloting basic income and local currency Guifinet pilot project: neighbourhood-based project to tackle digital gap La Communificadora: Support training for collaborative economy initiatives

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