RIPESS Europe - Solidarity Economy Europe - Cooperative Digital Platform

Social Solidarity Economy and platform cooperativism: how can we work on digital tools to promote economic exchanges based and practiced within SSE, decentralised and federated and enabling local SE circuits?

There are many projects and examples that are being developed recently.

One of these is SmartketPlace

Initiated in Geneva by Après-Ge and Monnaie Léman, with the collaboration of RIPESS Europe (validated during our last General Assembly), the SmartketPlace project was conceived during Hack-Covid19. It had become obvious that the economic crisis caused by the confinement would strengthen the GAFAM*, the mass distribution and online supermarkets, to the detriment of local producers, small distribution, social and solidarity economy. An immediate and concrete response, technologically efficient and easily “replicable”, was needed to respond to the current crisis and lay the foundations for a local economy that could be resilient to the announced crises. It is a question of survival for many of us! The SmartketPlace platform is a generalist, sustainable, social and solidarity market, aimed at local communities and reproducible “everywhere on the planet”. It is centered on the person and the respect of their data. It allows short circuits for our goods, our services, and creates a “commons” with the personal data that everyone wants to make available, in a careful and conscious way!