Last November, the Platform Cooperativism conference — a coming out party for the cooperative Internet — took place in New York City, initiated by Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz.

http://www.shareable.net/blog/platform-cooperativism- a-global- movement-on- the-rise

Rising Voices, the outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking endangered or indigenous languages to the global conversation by providing training, resources, microgrant funding, and mentoring to local underrepresented communities that want to tell their own digital story using participatory media tools.

https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2016/03/22/what-are- we-building- communities-or- networks/

“I hate networking.” We hear this all the time from executives, other professionals, and MBA students. They tell us that networking makes them feel uncomfortable and phony—even dirty.

https://hbr.org/2016/05/learn-to- love-networking

People all over the world are trying to work together in more collaborative ways in order to change things for the better – within their organizations, within their communities, and beyond. Through our consulting practice, IISC works with organizations, communities, networks, and others to build their capacity for more effective, equitable, and inclusive social change.

http://interactioninstitute.org/deepening-network- inquiry-for- social-change- who-what- how/

Back in 2007 the five major mobile-phone manufacturers—Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and LG—collectively controlled 90% of the industry’s global profits. That year, Apple’s iPhone burst onto the scene and began gobbling up market share.

https://hbr.org/2016/04/pipelines-platforms- and-the- new-rules- of-strategy

Did you know that close to 9000 pictures are shared on Snapchat every second? Or that it would take you over 10 years to view all the photos shared on Snapchat the last hour?

http://www.innomag.no/just-snap- it/