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Barcelona is considered a reference in commons and cooperative economy initiatives and tries to stand up against the digital platform corporations. In this article we will zoom into some cases and political actions by and in the city in the last 5 years...

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Since the conclusion of the DiDIY (Digital Do It Yourself) EU H2020 project in 2017, this website, and the Free Knowledge Institute in general, have been almost completely silent.
The reasons are very simple: first, after the DiDIY project, the FKI has been actively involved in creating various commons-cooperative initiatives related to the issues we all care about, that only in a few cases we found enough time to properly share...

Meet.coop is building an online meeting platform based on multiple ethical values. In this article we explain its origins and how the collective is building this cooperative cloud service.
We’ll sketch the main features of how meet.coop has started to develop an ethical alternative to dominant capitalist online meeting platforms. In the first year over 100 members have joined and contributed to this mission....

The third edition of La Comunificadora is already in full activity. Participating projects belong to a wide range of sectors, care, education, tourism, reuse and exchange of objects, tools and services, makers, textile sector, communication or open community...