Interview Pieter van de Glind, co-founder van shareNL, door Seismic. Lees meer...
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Agreement on the Action Plan about Sharing Economy by the Mayor and Executive Board of the Municipality of Amsterdam is giving space to the opportunities that the sharing (or collaborative) economy offers to the city.
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Amsterdam Sharing Cite, actieplan deeleconomie: ruimte voor de kansen van de deeleconomie.
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Een video-verslag van de oratie van Koen Frenken.
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The research about the 'collaborative economy environmental impact and opportunities' explores the environmental impact of the collaborative economy: an emerging and varied phenomenon on which little information is available. The research focuses particularly on goods within the collaborative economy, but also provides a description of the entire collaborative economy landscape and its sustainability impact. The broad conclusion is that the sharing of goods has significant positive environmental impact because under-used capacity is exploited to accommodate consumption needs.
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The report about the innovation in the collaborative economy summarizes research on barriers to investment in innovation and whether opportunities are currently feasible or not in the collaborative economy, and in the area of green growth. For this purpose, multiple roundtable meetings have been organised and interviews have been held with entrepreneurs, academics, legal experts, representatives of companies and government, who are active in the field of the collaborative economy. This summary sets outs the priority aspects of the collaborative economy which require action.he collaborative economy contributes to green growth, but its potential can be utilized better. This can be achieved by looking at the opportunities and barriers, which now exist because the difference between producers and consumers has become more blurred, as well as changing trends of consumers renting or sharing products rather than owning products. As a result new risks and questions arise concerning liability, taxation, and competition. This report suggests a role for the government in four areas: (1) ensuring that current legislation is clear in how it applies to the collaborative economy; (2) providing regulatory flexibility for experiments; (3) monitoring relevant developments and safeguard the public interest; and (4) addressing the barriers that have been identified in this research.
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The sharing economy’s popularity is increasing. The term, and organizations often associated with it, such as Airbnb and Uber, is featured daily in the media. However it is not always clear what does or doesn’t belong to the collaborative economy; and what the collaborative economy looks like from the ‘inside’. Therefore shareNL created the collaborative economy ecosystem.
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De ‘deeleconomie’ geniet een steeds grotere bekendheid. De term en de organisaties die er vaak mee geassocieerd worden zoals Airbnb en Uber, verschijnen bijna dagelijks in de media. Het is echter niet altijd even duidelijk wat wel en wat niet tot de deeleconomie behoort, en hoe de deeleconomie er ‘van binnen’ uitziet. Daarom dit ecosysteem.
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Leenwebsite Peerby is een nieuwe fase ingegaan. Daan Weddepohl over het delen en liften, zijn ontmoeting met Al Gore en de nieuwste loot Peerby Go, waarmee het deelplatform de markt nog verder veroveren. “Iedereen wil delen, door de techniek is het nu mogelijk.” Peerby is een heel bijzonder bedrijf, al zegt Daan Weddenpohl het zelf. Lees hier het hele interview door Marlies Dinjens.
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Six sharing economy trends for 2016 according to shareNL co-founders Pieter van de Glind and Harmen van Sprang.
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De deeleconomie is hot. Overal ter wereld schieten tal van (lokale) initiatieven als paddenstoelen uit de grond. Allemaal met het zelfde doel: delen is het nieuwe hebben. En allemaal met het zelfde speelveld: het internet. Maar wat betekent dit begrip nou precies? En hoe gaat het zich de komende jaren ontwikkelen? Ik vroeg het aan ShareNL oprichter Harmen van Sprang en probeerde zelf drie deelinitiatieven uit. Lees verder...
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Ondernemers uit de deeleconomie ondervinden barrières die de huidige groei vertragen. Zo blijkt uit een inventarisatie door shareNL, in opdracht van het ministerie van Economische Zaken dat vrijdag openbaar is gemaakt. Lees meer...
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De deeleconomie wordt altijd al verbonden aan duurzaamheid. De werkelijke duurzaamheidsimpact is echter nooit onderzocht. Gedurende 2015 is er in samenwerking met diverse deeleconomie-initiatieven en experts op het gebied van duurzaamheid een eerste verkenning gedaan naar de milieu-impact. Hierbij zijn ‘deelgedrag’ en de bijkomende positieve en negatieve effecten in kaart gebracht. Daarnaast wordt er aan de hand van verschillende scenario’s bepaald wat de milieuwinst kan zijn bij een verdere groei van de deeleconomie. Hoewel er onder bepaalde voorwaarden een negatieve milieu-impact kan optreden, heeft de deeleconomie in algemene zin een positieve impact op het milieu. Dit komt omdat bestaande middelen beter benut worden. Lees meer...
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Wil je deel uitmaken van het leukste team van Amsterdam? Dit is je kans! Een uitdagende stage in het hart van de deeleconomie. Lees meer...
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Wil je deel uitmaken van het leukste team van Amsterdam? Dit is je kans! Een uitdagende stage in het hart van de deeleconomie. Lees meer...
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European commission: 'Enabling the balanced development of the collaborative economy'.
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The sharing economy dictionary of commonly used terms - by Rachel Botsman. Terms can become hard to define when they become too big. By too big, I do not mean in terms of impact or scale. It happens when the connections between a broad church of products, services and ideas becomes so loose and diluted that the umbrella term starts to lose meaning. The more inaccurately the term is applied the more its value is questioned, and eventually the flame of meaning behind an important concept burns out. It becomes a passing buzzword. Is this the current state of the so-called ‘sharing economy’?
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Opportunities and challenges for European cities: 'Amsterdam Sharing City'.
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The rise of the collaborative economy offers both significant challenges and opportunities to local governments. The traditional lines between the public and private spheres are blurring. It is increasingly unclear where private activity turns into entrepreneurial activity, as consumers can at the click of a button become hoteliers, sellers, lenders, transporters and producers. This has consequences for many important pillars of our society such as taxation, insurance and regulation. First of all, there are potential advantages, such as a growth of civil participation in the creation and consumption of public goods and services, as well as an assumed positive environmental impact be- cause existing resources are used more efficiently. Secondly, there are risks such as unfair competition between “old” and “new” companies. When peo- ple start to produce, consume and trade more among one another on peer- to-peer marketplaces, there will be an impact on existing industries. Thus the challenge for local governments is to grasp the opportunity and promise of the collaborative economy, while smoothing the transition by safeguarding public interest and different stakes that exist in our society. One of the ways in which local governments can deal with these challenges and grasp the opportunities is by becoming a “sharing city”. Read more...
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